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"Pocono Mountains":{
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"definitions":{
"mountains in eastern Pennsylvania northwest of Kittatinny Mountain with a highest point of about 1600 feet (488 meters)":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"\u02c8p\u014d-k\u0259-\u02ccn\u014d"
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"island in the eastern Caroline Islands that is part of Federated States of Micronesia":[]
},
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"\u02c8p\u014dn-\u02ccp\u0101"
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": a native or inhabitant of Pohnpei":[]
},
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"1836, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccp\u014dn-\u02c8p\u0101-\u0259n"
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"type":[
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"Point Pelee National Park":{
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"definitions":{
"reservation in southeastern Ontario, Canada, on":[
"Point Pelee , a cape that projects into Lake Erie and ends in the southernmost point of mainland Canada"
]
},
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"p\u022fint-\u02c8p\u0113-l\u0113"
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"Pointe-Noire":{
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"definitions":{
"city and port on the Atlantic Ocean in the southwestern part of the Republic of the Congo population 576,206; formerly capital of Middle Congo":[]
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"\u02ccpwant-\u02c8nw\u00e4r"
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"Pol":{
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"Noun",
"Many of the city's residents have criticized local pols for their decision to close the public library.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Last week, just hours after BTS visited the White House to discuss anti-Asian discrimination and Asian inclusion and representation with President Joe Biden, Fox News commenter Tucker Carlson snidely mocked the K-pop- pol summit. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
"His two advisers seemed almost to personify the voices arguing in his head: the results-minded Israeli pol and the Palestinian ideologue. \u2014 Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker , 25 Oct. 2021",
"By now, the route was well-established: an aspiring pol would get involved with his local ward, make a name for himself, and run for the Common Council. \u2014 Neal Thompson, Town & Country , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Longtime Democratic pol Gerry Scheub blamed partisan politics for the current political climate and called it the most serious challenge to the constitution. \u2014 Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com , 5 Jan. 2022",
"But why not cast a Black woman in the original role of a crafty pol , instead of as another wide-eyed underdog who grows into an action figure? \u2014 Julian Lucas, The New Yorker , 1 Nov. 2021",
"In November, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, became the latest pol to find the big yellow target irresistible. \u2014 James Poniewozik, New York Times , 12 Dec. 2021",
"America saw Joe Biden as a moderate liberal who, as his party went left, and its center went left, also went left, as a practical pol would. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Plenty is at stake: no corner of the city will be spared from climate challenges, including the stomping grounds of those vying to be the city\u2019s top pol . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 27 Aug. 2021"
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"circa 1942, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4l"
],
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": a member of a Slavic people formerly dwelling in the basin of the Elbe and on the Baltic coast of Germany":[],
": the extinct West Slavic language of the Polabians":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1866, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Polab , ultimately from Polabian po on + L\u00e5b\u00ed , the Elbe River":""
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"-\u02c8l\u0101-",
"p\u014d-\u02c8l\u00e4-b\u0113-\u0259n"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"German polabisch , from polabisch , adjective, being Polabian, from polab- Polabian (of Slavic origin; akin to Polish po on and to Polish \u0141aba Elbe) + -isch -ish (from Old High German -isc )":""
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"p\u014d\u02c8l\u00e4bish"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115911",
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"noun"
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"Pollux":{
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"definitions":{
": a first-magnitude star in the constellation Gemini":[],
": one of the Dioscuri":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, modification of Greek Polydeuk\u0113s":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4-l\u0259ks"
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": a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything":[]
},
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"I'm no Pollyanna , but I do think some good will come out of this."
],
"first_known_use":{
"1921, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Pollyanna , heroine of the novel Pollyanna (1913) by Eleanor Porter \u20201920 American fiction writer":""
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": a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything":[]
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"1921, in the meaning defined above":""
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": the overly optimistic and benevolently cheerful state of mind and point of view of a Pollyanna":[]
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": a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything":[]
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"Polypedatidae":{
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"definitions":{
": a family of Old World tree frogs (suborder Diplasiocoela)":[]
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"New Latin, from Polypedates , type genus + -idae":""
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"island in the eastern Caroline Islands that is part of Federated States of Micronesia":[]
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"from Ponape , one of the Caroline islands + English -an":""
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"definitions":{
": a Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in northeastern Nebraska":[],
": a dialect of Dhegiha spoken by the Ponca people":[],
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"Ponzi scheme":{
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"definitions":{
": an investment swindle in which some early investors are paid off with money put up by later ones in order to encourage more and bigger risks":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1920, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Charles Ponzi \u20201949 American (Italian-born) swindler":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4n-z\u0113-",
"\u02c8p\u00e4n-z\u0113-\u02ccsk\u0113m"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175120",
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"Poole":{
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"definitions":{
"town in Dorset, southern England, on the English Channel population 155,000":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00fcl"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023459",
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"Poop\u00f3, Lake":{
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"definitions":{
"lake 60 miles (96 kilometers) long in west central Bolivia south of Lake Titicaca at an altitude of 12,000 feet (3658 meters)":[]
},
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"\u02ccp\u014d-\u014d-\u02c8p\u014d",
"(\u02cc)p\u014d-\u02c8p\u014d"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162257",
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"Poor Clare":{
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"definitions":{
": a member of an austere order of nuns founded by St. Clare under the direction of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, in 1212":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1608, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8kler"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030857",
"type":[
"noun"
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"Poor Robin's plantain":{
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"definitions":{
": rattlesnake weed sense 1":[],
": robin's plantain":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"poor entry 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163739",
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"Port Egmont hen":{
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"definitions":{
": a large skua ( Catharacta skua antarctica ) of the southern hemisphere":[]
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"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from Port Egmont , Falkland islands":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065136",
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"Port Elizabeth":{
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"definitions":{
"city and port on Algoa Bay in the municipality of Nelson Mandela Bay in Eastern Cape province, Republic of South Africa population 237,503":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8li-z\u0259-b\u0259th"
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"Port Louis":{
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"definitions":{
"city, port on the Indian Ocean, and capital of Mauritius population 146,876":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u00fc-\u0259s",
"\u02c8l\u00fc-\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234044",
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"Port Macquarie pine":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an Australian sandarac tree ( Callitris macleayana )":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Port Macquarie , New South Wales, Australia":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185736",
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"noun"
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"Port Moody":{
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"definitions":{
"city east of Vancouver at the head of Burrard Inlet in southern British Columbia, Canada population 32,975":[]
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"\u02c8m\u00fc-d\u0113"
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"Port Moody?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=m&file=moody001":{
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"definitions":{
"city east of Vancouver at the head of Burrard Inlet in southern British Columbia, Canada population 32,975":[]
},
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"Port Phillip Bay":{
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"definitions":{
"inlet of Bass Strait in Victoria, southeastern Australia, that is the harbor of Melbourne":[]
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"first_known_use":{},
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fi-l\u0259p"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104143",
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"Portmore":{
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"definitions":{
"town in southeastern Jamaica that is located across Kingston Harbor from the city of Kingston population 182,000":[]
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"pronounciation":[
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"Potemkin":{
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"definitions":{
"Grigory Aleksandrovich 1739\u20131791 Russian field marshal and statesman":[]
},
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"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8ty\u022fm(p)-k\u0259n",
"p\u014d-\u02c8tem(p)-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"Potemkin village":{
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"definitions":{
": an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Grigori Pot\u00ebmkin , who supposedly built impressive fake villages along a route Catherine the Great was to travel":""
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"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8tem(p)-k\u0259n-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195813",
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"Potemkin village?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=p&file=potemk01":{
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"definitions":{
": an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Grigori Pot\u00ebmkin , who supposedly built impressive fake villages along a route Catherine the Great was to travel":""
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"p\u0259-\u02c8tem(p)-k\u0259n-"
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"type":[
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"Potter":{
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"definitions":{
": one that makes pottery":[],
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"Beatrix 1866\u20131943 British writer and illustrator":[],
"Paul or Paulus 1625\u20131654 Dutch painter":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Lizzy\u2019s dad, Bill (Judd Hirsch), is a sculptor too \u2014 a potter who found enough success to rub shoulders with the art world. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 27 May 2022",
"Now the museum exhibits all of this iconic art (by everyone from Frida Kahlo to Native master potter Maria Martinez). \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 12 May 2022",
"Traces of the potter \u2019s hand can be seen at the uncoated bottom of a kintsugi tea bowl. \u2014 Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022",
"Inspiration, the alchemy by which an idea makes it from the mind to the page (or canvas or potter \u2019s wheel or dress form), is often inarticulable or somehow unsatisfying. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Williams grew up in Chicago, the eldest child of a white mother, a potter , and a Black father, a factory worker who later became a teacher. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"For Bettina Chow, a potter turning her one-time hobby into an expanding career, a studio stuck in the dark garage had gone from convenience to hindrance. \u2014 J.s. Marcus, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The potter pulls the clay against the rotation of the wheel. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Feb. 2022",
"While these nails created by L.A.-based artist Sojin Oh were inspired by Japanese potter Takuro Kuwata, the glowing bulbous shapes bring to mind glossy ornaments. \u2014 Michella Or\u00e9, Glamour , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Can the simple, tactile pleasure of pottering in the dirt or watching seedlings sprout comfort us at a time of loss and bewilderment? \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2020",
"Ammons, who could control the rate of his unrolling tape by slowing down his writing, liked to potter around. \u2014 Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker , 6 Jan. 2020",
"Which brings us to Streep\u2019s Mary Louise, a folksy enigma in greige cardigans and ferrety prosthetic teeth, who potters around Monterey making all her rudest inner observations out loud. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 7 June 2019",
"As a young journalist, Ms. Lawson often ended up pottering around the kitchen when copy was due, to help focus her thoughts. \u2014 Eleanore Park, WSJ , 12 Apr. 2018",
"These theories often involve high-end sports cars, swimming pools or pottering around the expensive parts of the Monopoly board, enjoying fine food and donning overpriced designer clothing. \u2014 SI.com , 16 Feb. 2018",
"A place to potter and fix and, dare it be said, a temporary respite from the stresses and strains of modern life. \u2014 John Sinnott, CNN , 16 May 2017"
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"1829, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably frequentative of English dialect pote to poke":"Verb"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4-t\u0259r"
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"biographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
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},
"Potteries, the":{
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"definitions":{
"district centered on Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, west central England, that is noted for its production of china and earthenware":[]
},
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"Poussin":{
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"definitions":{
"Nicolas 1594\u20131665 French painter":[]
},
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"pronounciation":[
"p\u00fc-\u02c8sa\u207f"
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"Pouteria":{
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"definitions":{
": a large genus of chiefly tropical American timber trees (family Sapotaceae) with flower clusters borne in the leaf axils and usually edible fruit":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin":""
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"pronounciation":[
"p\u00fc\u02c8t-",
"pau\u0307\u02c8tir\u0113\u0259"
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"noun"
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"Adam Clayton 1908\u20131972 American clergyman and politician":[],
"Anthony 1905\u20132000 English writer":[],
"Cecil Frank 1903\u20131969 British physicist":[],
"Colin (Luther) 1937\u20132021 American general; U.S. Secretary of State (2001\u201305)":[],
"John Wesley 1834\u20131902 American geologist and explorer":[],
"Lewis Franklin 1907\u20131998 American jurist":[],
"Michael Latham 1905\u20131990 British filmmaker":[]
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"\u02c8pau\u0307(-\u0259)l",
"\u02c8p\u014d-\u0259l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170935",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
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"po-faced":{
"antonyms":[
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"humorous",
"jesting",
"jocular",
"joking",
"kittenish",
"ludic",
"playful"
],
"definitions":{
": having an assumed solemn, serious, or earnest expression or manner : piously or hypocritically solemn":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps from po chamber pot, toilet, from French pot pot":""
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"\u02c8p\u014d-\u02ccf\u0101st"
],
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"earnest",
"grave",
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"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"staid",
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"unsmiling",
"weighty"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054137",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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": to appropriate (something) as one's own":[],
": to attract (someone, such as an employee or customer) away from a competitor":[],
": to cook in simmering liquid":[],
": to encroach upon especially for the purpose of taking something":[],
": to take (game or fish) by illegal methods":[],
": to trespass on":[
"a field poached too frequently by the amateur",
"\u2014 The Times Literary Supplement (London)"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"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",
"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",
"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",
"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",
"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",
"Animal traders poach their horns for commercial and medical purposes, often for use in traditional Chinese medicine. \u2014 NBC News , 31 Mar. 2022",
"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",
"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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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1611, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
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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",
"Middle French pocher , of Germanic origin; akin to Middle English poken to poke":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8p\u014dch"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072518",
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to mark with or as if with pocks : pit":[]
},
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"Noun",
"noticed strange pocks on his torso",
"Verb",
"one of the many craters that pock the moon's surface",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"His time at the county has been tumultuous -- pock -marked by criminal convictions and non-prosecution agreements among top-level staff, and tragedy at the county jail, where eight inmates died in the span of a year. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 21 Nov. 2021",
"Philip wore the handkerchiefs folded into squares and tucked into the breast pock of his suits. \u2014 Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire , 18 Apr. 2021",
"One particular bummer is that the textures applied to human faces originally split the difference between realistic and exaggerated, particularly in pock -marking the cheeks and jawlines of those who live in the game's corporate-run dystopia. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 4 June 2020",
"But don\u2019t get carried away and string together too many loud, aggressive, irregular clucks and pocks that can drown out a turkey\u2019s gobble. \u2014 Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life , 20 Apr. 2020",
"The field of Alzheimer\u2019s research has been pock -marked with failures after failure of clinical trials\u2014in part, researchers now believe, because the models weren\u2019t telling them the full story. \u2014 Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Leading the night\u2019s awards categories was Post Malone, who earned the most nods with seven nominations, including artist of the year, collaboration of the year and favorite male artist \u2013 pop/ pock . \u2014 Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com , 24 Nov. 2019",
"Sporting a bushy beard, a corncob pipe, and a face riddled with pocks and crags, Wake looks like a cross between Captain Birdseye and Trotsky and sounds like a cartoon pirate. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 18 Oct. 2019",
"The door opposite the apartment was pock -marked with bullet holes. \u2014 Bianca Padr\u00f3 Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com , 13 June 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Defenders Black strafe marks pock a prop plane that sits on the runway of Mykolaiv\u2019s small international airport. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"More than 100 lakes pock the dense woods of Itasca. \u2014 Ashlea Halpern, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 6 July 2021",
"Scientists estimate ages on the Moon and the rocky planets from the number of craters that pock their surfaces. \u2014 Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS , 19 Nov. 2020",
"The Grant and Harding administrations were pocked with cronyism, corruption, and scandal. \u2014 Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books , 15 May 2020",
"The lake\u2019s receding water left behind a crazy plain of sprawling cocklebur fields pocked with silty potholes. \u2014 T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream , 10 Mar. 2020",
"In mid-November, the moms moved into the Magnolia Street house and got help from volunteers to repair the sagging interior, stock the kitchen, and drape a tarp over the roof, pocked with holes. \u2014 E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books , 9 Mar. 2020",
"That began an illustrious college career pocked with triple-doubles. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY , 25 Feb. 2020",
"From the start, the new taxes were pocked with loopholes. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Dec. 2019"
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"1841, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"Middle English pokke , from Old English pocc ; akin to Middle Low German & Middle Dutch pocke pock":"Noun"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4k"
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"boil",
"fester",
"hickey",
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"pimple",
"pustule",
"whelk",
"zit"
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": in one's control or possession":[],
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": to put up with : accept":[],
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"a pocket park"
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": carried in or paid from one's own pocket":[]
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"\u02c8p\u00e4-k\u0259t",
"\u02c8p\u00e4k-\u0259t"
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"bankroll",
"coffers",
"exchequer",
"finances",
"fund",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
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"choke (back)",
"hold back",
"repress",
"sink",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"submerge",
"suppress",
"swallow"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"He keeps his gloves in his coat pocket .",
"She was standing there with her hands in her pockets .",
"I have a hole in my pocket .",
"Her pocket was full of change.",
"There are pockets on the back of each car seat.",
"The tickets are in the zippered pocket on the front of the suitcase.",
"Verb",
"The chairman was fired for pocketing funds.",
"The saleswoman had overcharged them and pocketed the difference.",
"a professional golfer who pocketed more than four million dollars in winnings",
"I had to pocket my pride and ask for some help.",
"Adjective",
"his pocket involvement in the company was minimal",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Yet overwhelmingly doulas are paid out-of- pocket \u2014typically between $500 and $2,500\u2014which has kept doulas a privilege. \u2014 Annalisa Merelli, Quartz , 27 June 2022",
"Depending on timing, the out-of- pocket cost ranges from $500 to $1,200, the latter expense nearly equal to an entire month\u2019s income. \u2014 Liz Farmer, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"But, Patrik Jonsson, Eli Lilly's president of immunology, told STAT that the company is dedicated to making sure out-of- pocket costs for the drug are as little as $5 a month for insured individuals and $25 for those who are uninsured. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"Fixing child identity theft takes longer than fraud against adults, according to Javelin, and costs the average U.S. family $372 out-of- pocket on top of any fraudulent charges. \u2014 Tatum Hunter, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"Although Ecuador is relatively financially stable, many Ecuadorians lack access to adequate medical care and the country has some of the highest out-of- pocket health spending in South America. \u2014 Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American , 10 June 2022",
"Ford offers no reimbursement to these vehicle owners and lessees for out-of- pocket expenses, loss of use, and loss of value, the lawsuit says. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 8 June 2022",
"Right now, semaglutide is costing about $1,600 a month, which is a lot for somebody to pay, obviously out-of- pocket . \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
"Just over half of patients paid for the procedure out-of- pocket in 2014 despite nearly three-quarters having health insurance, according to the Guttmacher Institute. \u2014 Kara Dapena, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Tour gardens offer a variety of vistas from formal gardens to pocket gardens, historic farms, shade and vegetable gardens, unique patios and outdoor spaces. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 24 June 2022",
"There's been lots of worries that really the fossil fuel companies, the oil companies, filling stations will pocket the benefit. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"The Senate version would allow the team to pocket that revenue. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Warren said companies could pocket as much as 40% of their payments as profit. \u2014 Fortune , 6 June 2022",
"So sell it yourself, and pocket the profit on the difference before buying something else. \u2014 Cristina Lourosa-ricardo, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"This season has a similar vibe so far, with the Giants continuing to pocket victories at will against Colorado, taking Tuesday\u2019s game 10-7 at Coors Field. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 May 2022",
"Blue Flame Medical LLC\u2019s co-founder how to negotiate an advance payment and discouraged him from disclosing how much the company would pocket from the deal, Melody Gutierrez reports. \u2014 Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
"Short sellers borrow shares and sell them, with a plan to repurchase them at lower prices and pocket the difference. \u2014 Joseph De Avila, WSJ , 9 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"On its e-commerce site this June, Banana Republic launched the BR Vintage collection: 225 items from the company\u2019s safari-style past, including khaki shirts, lengthy suede jackets and multi- pocket photojournalist vests. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 7 Sep. 2021",
"My favorite and most-used is the Patagonia Baggies Brimmer ($50), which looks like a safari hat and should probably be matched with one of those tan, multi- pocket vests. \u2014 Jakob Schiller, Outside Online , 1 June 2021",
"The women\u2019s ready-to-wear blends utilitarian and sporty aesthetics, with multi- pocket skirts, gym sets and transformable jackets all dripping in the new logo. \u2014 Isabel Lord, Forbes , 13 May 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English poket , from Anglo-French poket, pochete , diminutive of poke, pouche bag \u2014 more at pouch":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
"1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143124"
},
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"big",
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"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
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"husky",
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"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
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": of a size convenient for carrying in the pocket":[],
": small":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1797, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4-k\u0259t-\u02ccs\u012bz"
],
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"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023955",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"big",
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"considerable",
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"grand",
"great",
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"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
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": small":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1797, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4-k\u0259t-\u02ccs\u012bz"
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"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
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"undersized",
"undersize"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170738",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pockmark":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to cover with or as if with pockmarks : pit":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The bullets left pockmarks in the wall.",
"the explosion left little pockmarks all over the face of the adjacent building",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Taylor did fumble on his final carry, a pockmark on an otherwise solid day, but Indianapolis stuck to the run despite the early struggles, and eventually overpowered a hapless Houston front. \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Worthy\u2019s fumble was the lone pockmark on an otherwise pristine day. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 13 Oct. 2021",
"The Patriots released kicker Justin Rohrwasser this past week, leaving another pockmark on Bill Belichick\u2019s draft record. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 27 Mar. 2021",
"Smaller collisions occur more often, so the pattern of pockmarks on Ryugu could have been produced in just nine million years. \u2014 Kenneth Chang, New York Times , 23 Mar. 2020",
"One-time pollution episodes left further pockmarks in the nation\u2019s mussel beds. \u2014 Marion Renault, Wired , 18 Apr. 2020",
"The pop-up camera gave you a front camera without any screen blemishes at all, and now OnePlus has downgraded with a pockmark in the top-left corner of the phone. \u2014 Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica , 14 Apr. 2020",
"Last year, a New York Times investigation showed the disconnect between Europe\u2019s green image and its farm policy, which has caused lasting environmental damage and left visible pockmarks across Europe. \u2014 Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times , 9 Mar. 2020",
"Jimmy Tobias reports for High Country News on the National Park Service's push to work with AT&T and other telecom giants to pockmark protected lands with cell towers. \u2014 Mark Olalde, USA TODAY , 20 Mar. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Poles flocked to try McDonald\u2019s cheeseburgers, kebabs and Vietnamese food, while milk bars came to be seen as a grim reminder of a past pockmarked with scarcity and oppression. \u2014 Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times , 21 Apr. 2020",
"Holding up a map of the Trump plan in a UN Security Council meeting, Abbas said the land allocated for Palestinians looked like Swiss cheese due to the settlements that pockmark the West Bank. \u2014 David Wainer, Bloomberg.com , 10 May 2020",
"Their legacy has been pockmarked by lawsuits, all hurled by Love\u2014for songwriting credits in 1993, against Jardine using the Beach Boys name on tour in 2003, and over a free CD included with Brian\u2019s solo album Smile in 2005. \u2014 Morgan Enos, Fortune , 3 Mar. 2020",
"The craters which pockmark the moon are formed by asteroid impacts millions of years ago. \u2014 Fox News , 16 Mar. 2020",
"Others had decamped to settlements along the Turkish border, where blue and white tents pockmark rocky hillsides and olive groves. \u2014 Mike Ives, New York Times , 9 Mar. 2020",
"Not far from the temple in Prey Chhor lies a rice field pockmarked with the remnants of mass graves. \u2014 Andrew Nachemson, Los Angeles Times , 26 Feb. 2020",
"The result is frustrated drivers swerving haphazardly around gouged and pockmarked roads. \u2014 Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis Star , 22 Jan. 2020",
"The makeup has come off, their hair is now gray and balding, their six-pack has turned into a beer gut, and their face is pockmarked with pimples. \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 14 Jan. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1756, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"circa 1646, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4k-\u02ccm\u00e4rk"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"blemish",
"blight",
"blotch",
"defect",
"deformity",
"disfigurement",
"excrescence",
"excrescency",
"fault",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"mar",
"mark",
"scar"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223840",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pocky":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": covered with pocks":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4-k\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131436",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"poco":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to a slight degree : somewhat":[
"\u2014 used to qualify a direction in music poco allegro"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1724, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, little, from Latin paucus \u2014 more at few":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u014d-(\u02cc)k\u014d",
"\u02c8p\u022f-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-181211",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": little by little : gradually":[
"\u2014 used as a direction in music"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1854, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u014d-k\u014d-(\u02cc)\u00e4-\u02c8p\u014d-(\u02cc)k\u014d",
"\u02c8p\u022f-k\u014d-(\u02cc)\u00e4-\u02c8p\u022f-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202530",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"concerned",
"interested"
],
"definitions":{
": indifferent , nonchalant":[]
},
"examples":[
"she has put up a strangely pococurante front throughout this whole ordeal"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1815, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian poco curante caring little":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-ku\u0307-",
"\u02c8p\u014d-k\u014d-kyu\u0307-\u02c8ran-t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"apathetic",
"casual",
"complacent",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"indifferent",
"insensible",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"perfunctory",
"unconcerned",
"uncurious",
"uninterested"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090738",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pocosin":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an upland swamp of the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S.":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1634, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from Virginia or North Carolina Algonquian":""
},
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"p\u0259-\u02c8k\u014d-s\u1d4an"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010258",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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"\u2014 Kelly Vaughan",
"You can \u2026 share a beer tent you built in your backyard with your pandemic pod or even have a neighborhood street party with everyone in their own front yards.",
"\u2014 PR Newswire",
"\u2026 oversaw the engineering of new processes \u2026 with \u2026 employees working in pods so if someone became ill, only that group was affected.",
"\u2014 Joanna Pachner",
"For example, students are broken up into pods throughout the day and in classrooms so if there is a COVID-19 case, it's easier for the school to contact trace and know who to keep home.",
"\u2014 Ryan Nickerson",
"Pods \u2014a homeschooling option that puts students together in small groups as a way to share remote learning supervision and child care duties between their respective families\u2014have caught on across the U.S. as school districts move classes online amid the COVID-19 pandemic.",
"\u2014 Erin Udell"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4d"
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"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
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": pudgy":[]
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"a podgy little bookseller with a shop in Notting Hill",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There are approximately 83 species of cactuses in Arizona, from podgy pin-cushion barrels to the rare senitas beckoning the sun with long arms to the majestic saguaros, the mascot of Arizona. \u2014 Jill Cassidy, The Arizona Republic , 23 Nov. 2021"
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"gross",
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"obese",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Joaquin Giraldo-Laguna and Kayla Vodehnal, alumni co-presidents for the Class of 2020, took a selfie from the podium , capturing the large gathering in the background. \u2014 Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"Many area athletes got a great view to take it all in from the podium . \u2014 Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun , 27 May 2022",
"After her final question, Psaki gathered her binder from the podium and waved goodbye to the press. \u2014 Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
"His message is delivered from a podium or distributed via state media. \u2014 Alen Bubich, Fortune , 19 Apr. 2022",
"No Bulls\u2014 Rule, embodied by a large, laminated sign hanging from the podium : a line slashed through the figure of a defecating bull. \u2014 Michael Datcher, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"From the podium , Anderson remained the personable voice of the Crimson Tide defense. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Stromae pays tribute to the deceased woman from a podium as the ceremonial event takes place. \u2014 Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone , 8 Mar. 2022",
"That wasn\u2019t even the biggest whopper Manfred attempted from the podium in Jupiter, FL, yesterday. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 2 Mar. 2022"
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"1743, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"\u2014 H. J. Laski"
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"He wrote a poem about his parents.",
"your assignment is to write two poems about springtime",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The minute readers try to grasp onto traditional notions of subject matter, the poem swerves linguistically, forcing us to find meaning in the substance of sound, of movement. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Gosling played an inebriated narrator of The Night Before Christmas poem , while Mendes played his wife, asleep in bed. \u2014 Jolene Latimer, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Meticulously detailed endnotes supply every poem \u2019s bibliographical history and track Auden\u2019s obsessive tinkerings and revisions. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"The poem ended with a powerfully ironic line that may resonate with those now arguing for stronger action on climate change: The world is busy with other news. \u2014 Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 June 2022",
"By the third stanza the poem veers into a lament for the glory that was Greece and a contempt of its modern decadence under foreign tyranny. \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"Th poem is written on her gravestone in its entirety, her father said. \u2014 Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"The poem spread rapidly, virally among Allied soldiers and staff, then worldwide after its first publication that December. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022",
"After seeing a photo of Robb Elementary School students\u2019 backpacks lined up in a row in Uvalde, Texas \u2014 never to be picked up again by the 19 students who were killed in another mass shooting \u2014 the 15-year-old penned this poem . \u2014 Mariam Azeez, Hartford Courant , 27 May 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8p\u014d-\u0259m",
"-im",
"\u02c8p\u014dm",
"\u02c8p\u014d-\u02ccem",
"also \u02c8p\u022f(-)im"
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"lyric",
"rune",
"song",
"verse"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051604",
"type":[
"noun"
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"mildness",
"softness"
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": poignancy":[]
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"there's a mean-spirited poignance to the novel's satiric portrait of Hollywood",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But there\u2019s a poignance \u2014 and maybe a special dilemma \u2014 to that. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 27 May 2022",
"Spielberg revives \u201880s slapstick era Tom Hanks, adding the poignance of an immigration tale and a splash of international politics. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The resulting images are unique tintypes, giving Sternbach\u2019s contemporary subjects, in their wetsuits and bikinis, the poignance and presence of figures unmoored in time. \u2014 Vince Aletti, The New Yorker , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The gripping flashbacks, the adrenaline-pumping action and the heart-piercing poignance show Mr. Ide at his best. \u2014 Tom Nolan, WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Antique daguerreotypes and evocations of the journeys of Odysseus and Telemachus add poignance to a heart-twisting story of love strong enough to outlast life itself. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 10 Dec. 2021",
"This year, in the shadow of the pandemic, Samhain carries extra poignance , with more socially distant observances and references to COVID-19. \u2014 Deena Yellin, USA TODAY , 29 Oct. 2021",
"The book stands out for its raw power, poignance , and moments of grace. \u2014 Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 Sep. 2021",
"The production, which featured an all-Black cast, was heavy but not without moments of joy and poignance . \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 28 Sep. 2021"
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"circa 1683, in the meaning defined above":""
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"sometimes \u02c8p\u022fi(g)-n\u0259n(t)s",
"\u02c8p\u022fi-ny\u0259n(t)s"
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"acridness",
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"bite",
"bitterness",
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"harshness",
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"tartness"
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"there was a poignancy to his wit that often left his targets smarting",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Slate, Fleischer-Camp\u2019s chief collaborator, brings a touch of poignancy to the smallest moments in her cracked, slightly croaky delivery, which fluctuates between heartwarming and heartbreaking. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Anchorage Daily News , 6 May 2022",
"Plus Schwartz imbued his character with a relatable anguish that gave this series a smidgen of poignancy . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"Slate, Fleischer-Camp\u2019s chief collaborator, brings a touch of poignancy to the smallest moments in her cracked, slightly croaky delivery, which fluctuates between heartwarming and heartbreaking. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Anchorage Daily News , 6 May 2022",
"Slate, Fleischer-Camp\u2019s chief collaborator, brings a touch of poignancy to the smallest moments in her cracked, slightly croaky delivery, which fluctuates between heartwarming and heartbreaking. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Anchorage Daily News , 6 May 2022",
"Slate, Fleischer-Camp\u2019s chief collaborator, brings a touch of poignancy to the smallest moments in her cracked, slightly croaky delivery, which fluctuates between heartwarming and heartbreaking. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Anchorage Daily News , 6 May 2022",
"Slate, Fleischer-Camp\u2019s chief collaborator, brings a touch of poignancy to the smallest moments in her cracked, slightly croaky delivery, which fluctuates between heartwarming and heartbreaking. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"This incontrovertible fact lends a sense of urgency and poignancy to firsthand accounts of how survivors managed to endure and to move on. \u2014 Alissa Simon, Variety , 2 May 2022",
"Praised for both its humor and poignancy , the show was an instant success, its December premiere having drawn over 7 million viewers across all platforms (including Hulu) in the first month. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Apr. 2022"
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"1680, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"sometimes \u02c8p\u022fi(g)-n\u0259n(t)-s\u0113",
"\u02c8p\u022fi-ny\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
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"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
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"acrimony",
"acuteness",
"asperity",
"bite",
"bitterness",
"edge",
"harshness",
"keenness",
"poignance",
"pungency",
"roughness",
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"unaffecting",
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"a poignant perfume"
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},
"examples":[
"\u2026 this movie isn't a soft-pedaled, poignant tale of addiction and recovery\u2014it's just about the addiction. \u2014 David Crowley , Vibe , June 2001",
"In a poignant attempt to split the difference between the two camps, Justices Breyer and David Souter tried to prevent the Court from destroying itself. \u2014 Jeffrey Rosen , New Republic , 25 Dec. 2000",
"I've witnessed the poignant efforts of young whites striving to conform to the vague tenets of the mainstream, taking crushingly dull jobs, settling down with the least challenging of spouses \u2026 \u2014 Jake Lamar , UTNE Reader , May/June 1992",
"\u2026 a new and sharper and most poignant sense of loss for that broken musical instrument which had once been my leg. \u2014 Oliver Sacks , A Leg to Stand On , 1984",
"The photograph was a poignant reminder of her childhood.",
"a poignant story of a love affair that ends in tragedy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the one year anniversary, Meghan Markle and the Queen observed a poignant moment of silence. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 14 June 2022",
"For Golden State Coach Steve Kerr, Monday was the 25th anniversary of a poignant moment from his playing career. \u2014 Scott Cacciola, New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Inspired by that poignant moment, Munch painted The Scream the following year. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 June 2022",
"Mauceri remembers a particularly poignant moment with Ben-Hur composer Mikl\u00f3s R\u00f3zsa before his death in 1995. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 June 2022",
"Perhaps the most poignant moment of the event came when Johnson was asked about his brother, who was jailed days before the April 5 election. \u2014 Isaac Yu, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 June 2022",
"The match experience is where fans get to sing the Mexican national anthem full throat \u2014 always a poignant moment especially given the ever-present political climate \u2014 and get loud for El Tri. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 M. Romero, The Arizona Republic , 1 June 2022",
"This led to a very poignant moment for McKinnon who stood on the makeshift spaceship and allowed her character and herself to say goodbye. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 22 May 2022",
"In one particularly poignant moment in the book, Ailey and her classmates at a historically Black college are brought to a part of campus where enslaved people were once sold. \u2014 Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 May 2022"
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"Middle English poynaunt , from Anglo-French poinant, poignant , present participle of poindre to prick, sting, from Latin pungere \u2014 more at pungent":""
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"\u2014 see poecil-":[]
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": of, relating to, or consisting of a structural pattern in igneous rocks in which a crystal of one mineral encloses smaller unoriented grains of another mineral so that a lustrous mottling effect is produced":[]
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},
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},
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"\u02c8p\u022fik\u0259l\u014d\u02ccb-",
"p\u022fi\u02c8kil\u0259\u02ccblast"
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": an organism (such as a frog) with a variable body temperature that tends to fluctuate with and is similar to or slightly higher than the temperature of its environment : a cold-blooded organism":[]
},
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"1920, in the meaning defined above":""
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"(\u02cc)p\u022fi-\u02c8kil-\u0259-",
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"noun"
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],
": an exact moment":[
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],
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": arrowhead":[],
": cogency":[],
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": irrelevant":[],
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": one of the 32 equidistant spots of a compass card for indicating direction":[],
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],
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"\u2014 Richard Morin"
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": the head of the bow of a stringed instrument":[],
": the most important essential in a discussion or matter":[
"missed the whole point of the joke"
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": the rigidly intent attitude of a hunting dog marking game for a gunner":[],
": the terminal usually sharp or narrowly rounded part of something : tip":[],
": the tip of a projecting body part":[],
": tine sense 2":[],
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"point a gun",
"pointed the boat upstream"
],
": to direct attention":[
"can point with pride to their own traditions"
],
": to direct someone's attention to":[
"point the way to new knowledge",
"\u2014 Elizabeth Hall",
"\u2014 usually used with out or up point out a mistake points up the difference"
],
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": to extend (a leg) and arch (the foot) in executing a point in dancing":[],
": to furnish with a point : sharpen":[
"pointing a pencil with a knife"
],
": to give added force, emphasis, or piquancy to":[
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],
": to indicate the fact or probability of something specified":[
"everything points to a bright future"
],
": to indicate the position or direction of especially by extending a finger":[
"point the way home"
],
": to indicate the position or direction of something especially by extending a finger":[
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],
": to indicate the presence and place of (game) by stiffening into a fixed position with head and gaze directed toward the animal hunted":[],
": to lie extended, aimed, or turned in a particular direction":[
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],
": to mark (words, such as Hebrew words) with diacritics (such as vowel points )":[],
": to mark the pauses or grammatical divisions in : punctuate":[],
": to point game":[
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],
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": to scratch out the old mortar from the joints of (something, such as a brick wall) and fill in with new material":[],
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"There's no use in arguing the point .",
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"Let me make one final point .",
"That's the point I've been trying to make.",
"\u201cWhat's your point ?\u201d \u201cActually, I have two points .\u201d",
"My point is simply that we must do something to help the homeless.",
"\u201cIf we leave now, we won't make it back in time.\u201d \u201cThat's a good point .\u201d",
"There are two critical points that I would like to discuss.",
"Verb",
"\u201cIt's not polite to point ,\u201d she said.",
"When I asked the child where his mother was, he pointed in the direction of the house.",
"Pointing with his cane, the old man asked, \u201cWhose dog is that?\u201d.",
"She pointed her finger at the door.",
"They pointed their microphones in my direction.",
"We can leave when the minute hand points to 12.",
"Stand with your arms at your sides and your hands pointing downward.",
"The ship was pointing into the wind.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The point is, a player launching himself into this territory this early is not unique to Curry. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"What is the typical point of viability today compared to 1973? \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"The point is that there's such deeply entrenched hate. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
"The point of the show is to expose viewers to the arduous and degrading experiences that doctors in the U.K. go through on their paths toward seniority. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"Wednesday the council explained its decision, with the primary point being the matter needed more time for discussion, and suggested the topic be added to the agenda for the area meetings that start in September. \u2014 Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel , 22 June 2022",
"One recent point of interest is in youth detention centers. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 21 June 2022",
"The major point Lopez is keen to spotlight during her Super Bowl set is the horrific cage-like conditions for child immigrants on the United States border. \u2014 Holly Thomas, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"What's the point of living without some friends, right? \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 19 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"One used both hands to point a speed gun at oncoming traffic. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 15 June 2022",
"Here are the implications these questions point at. \u2014 Ronen Korman, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"As both men talked about the crash, the ice cream truck driver pulled a gun out of his pants and began to wave it around, using the gun to point at the damage before placing it back into his pants. \u2014 Hannah Brock, The Indianapolis Star , 10 June 2022",
"Johnson and members of his group were also advised not to point weapons at any officers during the protests, LMPD officials said previously. \u2014 Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal , 29 May 2022",
"The White House and Democrats in Congress should think twice about undoing the corporate tax reform and partisan economic pundits should point their criticisms at something else. \u2014 Tyler Goodspeed, WSJ , 8 May 2022",
"How to digitize text using an Android phone Open your Camera app and point the phone at a document. \u2014 Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY , 8 May 2022",
"Although Spain has refused to point a finger at Morocco, the dates the phones of S\u00e1nchez and Robles were hacked last year match up with a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. \u2014 Joseph Wilson, ajc , 5 May 2022",
"Others point the finger at the European Union for not giving Poland more emergency funding to respond to the crisis. \u2014 Lauren Egan, NBC News , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English, partly from Anglo-French, prick, dot, moment, from Latin punctum , from neuter of punctus , past participle of pungere to prick; partly from Anglo-French pointe sharp end, from Vulgar Latin *puncta , from Latin, feminine of punctus , past participle \u2014 more at pungent":"Noun"
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"I can point to several past accomplishments that show that I can perform the job well."
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"Her symptoms point to diabetes."
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For this case, the model\u2019s point estimate of eventual cumulative U.S. deaths from Covid-19 was close to 1.1 million. \u2014 Hersh Shefrin, Forbes , 24 May 2021",
"The uncertainty around a point estimate can be small or large. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Mar. 2021",
"One vaccine may have a higher point estimate than another, but their confidence intervals may overlap. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Mar. 2021",
"This is because simply selecting a few point estimates and plugging them into the Drake Equation misrepresents the state of our knowledge. \u2014 Liv Boeree, Vox , 3 July 2018",
"Moreover, at that point estimates were only down slightly from the start of the quarter, showing far less erosion than typically occurs. \u2014 Justin Lahart, WSJ , 3 Oct. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For Olsson, the point estimation was more like tying her shoes or putting on a jacket before stepping outside. \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 12 Jan. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Spurs on Wednesday traded the All-Star point guard to Atlanta in exchange for three future first-round picks, a future first-round pick swap opportunity and Danilo Gallinari, league sources said. \u2014 Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News , 29 June 2022",
"The San Antonio Spurs are trading the 26-year-old All-Star point guard to the Atlanta Hawks for Danilo Gallinari and multiple first-round picks, USA TODAY Sports has confirmed. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
"The Brooklyn Nets won their contract stare-down with the mercurial point guard . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"The five-foot-11 point guard averaged 18 points, 5.1 assists, 4.5 rebounds and two steals per game in her first two seasons at UConn. \u2014 Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant , 28 June 2022",
"In part because the former Detroit Pistons point guard had played against Walker\u2019s father, Samaki Walker, an NBA player for 10 seasons. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
"Also, the only other point guard in the NBA\u2019s top 10 is Magic Johnson, who also had zero All-Defensive honors. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"The 6-foot point guard from Arlington High School in Arlington, Washington averaged 23.8 points per game, 6.4 rebounds per game, 2.6 assists per game and 1.4 steals per game as a senior, all of which led his team. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 24 June 2022",
"The Suns All-Star point guard hit two home runs in winning game MVP and leading the Black team to a 20-6 victory before 3,500 fans. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In 1902, the Globe ran a recipe for the club sandwich in the Housekeepers\u2019 Department, alongside instructions for tatting point lace . \u2014 Devra First, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2018",
"The gown consisted of 50 yards of fabric and was accented with an heirloom rose point lace veil. \u2014 Alexandra Macon, Vogue , 12 Sep. 2017"
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"He's the President's point man on national defense.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As the White House\u2019s point man in the investigation, Dean received regular updates early on from Henry E. Petersen, who was leading the investigation for the Justice Department, and acting FBI director and Nixon loyalist L. Patrick Gray III. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"The launch also followed a visit to Seoul by the U.S. point man on North Korean affairs, U.S. Special Representative Sung Kim, who departed on Saturday. \u2014 Fox News , 5 June 2022",
"Nick Krall, bless him, should not be the point man for this discussion. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Since the start of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Johnson has positioned himself as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s point man in the West, encouraging allies to tighten sanctions on Russia while pumping more weapons into Ukraine. \u2014 Max Colchester, WSJ , 3 May 2022",
"Envy of None, which also includes guitarist/keyboardist Alfio Annibalini -- with guest drummers David Quinton Steinberg and Tim Oxford -- recorded the 11-track album remotely, with Curran acting as point man . \u2014 Gary Graff, cleveland , 4 Apr. 2022",
"This dates back at least to when Joe Biden was the Obama administration\u2019s point man for dealing with, coincidentally enough, China and Ukraine. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Kuroda was well-known from his 1999-2003 stint as Ministry of Finance\u2019s point man for international affairs. \u2014 William Pesek, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Liu, the economic czar, was the point man in China's tumultuous trade negotiations with former President Donald Trump. \u2014 Fortune , 19 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If a point mutation makes the virus less likely to survive, that variant gradually dies off. \u2014 Vivek Ramaswamy, WSJ , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Antigenic drift is a gradual, varying process: A single- point mutation alters one peptide, or building block, of a larger protein. \u2014 Vivek Ramaswamy, WSJ , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Funding provided by the bike-a-thon has been put toward the development of 41 cancer drugs and the discovery of new medical techniques that can pin- point mutations that cause cancer, as well as other research efforts by the cancer center. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 Oct. 2019",
"But preliminary research by Navin and collaborators suggests that point mutations \u2014 changes to individual DNA letters \u2014 accumulate more slowly. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 13 Nov. 2013",
"This flaw is especially problematic because tens of thousands of genetic diseases are results of such point mutations . \u2014 The Economist , 26 Oct. 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
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"she's become known as the point person for the state department's Middle East policy",
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"Vice President Kamala Harris, appointed as the administration's point person on immigration, traveled to Central America last year, but the efforts have not led to major action or progress. \u2014 Joey Garrison, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"In so many companies, clients build a relationship with a single point person . \u2014 David Cristello, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"Morgan is serving as a point person for several Ukrainian families resettling in the U.S. \u2014 Mary Pflum, NBC News , 21 May 2022",
"Harris would be a natural point person for the administration to vocally raise the issue on the midterm campaign trail if the Supreme Court adopts the draft. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
"John Wang, 40, founded the market in 2015 and is still the main point person for the seasonal event. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Martin was a key point person for the CNP in Trump\u2019s reelection campaign. \u2014 Anne Nelson, The New Republic , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Listen to what people have to say \u2014 one venue could be great but expensive or with a difficult point person . \u2014 Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone , 8 June 2022",
"Until December, Saathoff had been the foreign office\u2019s point person on Russia. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The company uses point source capture technology to extract CO2 from the atmosphere, and then creates carbon nanotubes that can be used in many ways, rather than having to dispose of the CO2 deep underground by CCS. \u2014 Ian Palmer, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"Shouting Down Midnight understands this, and perhaps that\u2019s why Stoeltje\u2019s informative film uses Davis\u2019 historic filibuster as a point source \u2014 an electrifying moment that activated more Texan women to organize. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Capturing carbon where it's produced involves filtering out CO2 from a point source of emissions, such as a fertilizer plant, power station or gas field. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Through the Clean Water Act, point source pollution, which generally comes from an identifiable place such as a discharge pipe, can be regulated. \u2014 Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com , 20 Dec. 2021",
"Also, the fact that the kill occurred over a long stretch of the lakeshore indicates a single- point source of pollution was not the cause. \u2014 Peter Krouse, cleveland , 11 Sep. 2021",
"Now, because of the impaired waters listing, these point source polluters are facing a new wave of expensive pollution control upgrades that may do little to keep Green Bay's fish from suffocating in their own water. \u2014 jsonline.com , 2 Sep. 2021",
"All sounds are point source , and immersion is now de facto standard. \u2014 Bobby Owsinski, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2021",
"Hubble's optical resolution is not high enough to actually 'see' the planet as a dot of light separate from its star, so instead, the telescope receives light from both objects that mix into a single point source . \u2014 Devin Powell, Scientific American , 11 July 2013"
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"As of Monday morning, over two-thirds of all bets and nearly three-fourths of the money wagered against the four- point spread are on the home team to cover. \u2014 Alex Kay, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"A day after winning pole vault, Angove captured triple jump to help Bandon amass 56 points and a seven- point spread over the runner-up Wolves. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 May 2022",
"The Bulldogs failed to cover the point spread thus far in the tournament and were tested mightily before emerging with an 82-78 victory over Memphis. \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"For example, a player could wager $300 on any NBA Playoffs matchup point spread , moneyline or total. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Take a look at the odds for NBA Playoffs games, including the point spread , money line and over/under. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Unlike the point spread , the total on the 2022 NFC Championship Game has seen some movement since first going up on the board at 46.5 points. \u2014 Alex Kay, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Miami had little issues covering the five- point spread in the Eastern Conference Finals opener after erasing a 62-54 halftime deficit, going off for 39 points while holding its foe to just 14 points in the third quarter. \u2014 Alex Kay, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"As of this writing, the consensus point spread had moved from Cal minus-12 to Cal minus-9. \u2014 Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic , 7 Nov. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Several brands made the case for a cozier look; see Brock Collection\u2019s creamy pointelle cardigan and skirt and Chanel\u2019s fluffy white mini. \u2014 Emily Farra, Vogue , 11 Apr. 2019"
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"Let me give you a few pointers on managing a successful business.",
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"This may be a pointer to a very serious problem.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rather than storing an image or video file directly, an NFT in most cases simply stores the metadata on the blockchain, with a pointer to a traditional server where the file is actually held. \u2014 Shen Lu And Karen Hao, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"Tyrese Proctor opened up the scoring, getting the World Team on the board first with a big three pointer . \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Apr. 2022",
"This promo offers a 20-1 odds boost on any team in the NCAA Tournament to make a three- pointer . \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Rutgers responded with a three- pointer before Notre Dame drove the court to tie the game and send it to a second overtime. \u2014 Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al , 16 Mar. 2022",
"This epic late run started for Virginia Tech with Darius Maddox's buzzer-beating three- pointer to sink Clemson in overtime Wednesday and then another upset vs. Notre Dame in the ACC tourney quarters before toppling UNC on Friday. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Chucky Hepburn gave Wisconsin a share of the Big Ten title with a dramatic three- pointer with 1.5 seconds left to beat Purdue. \u2014 Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The final straw was seeing guard Reggie Jackson make a corner three- pointer to push the Clippers\u2019 lead over the Dallas Mavericks to 24, then strut back into the arms of a gleeful, whooping bench. \u2014 Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times , 30 May 2021",
"Recounting the conversation, Diamondbacks right-hander Merrill Kelly held his pointer finger and thumb about an inch apart. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 6 May 2022"
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": the theory or practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they blend together":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the four corners of the ceiling, sunlight streams through windows of Russian blue glass painted by the local Aboriginal artist Sharron Ohlsen, who also employs pointillism in her work. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Seldom is this a problem when landing at an airport, since the trees, telephone poles, and air traffic control towers create a concrete referential pointillism easily processed by the eye. \u2014 Eric Lindner, Popular Mechanics , 22 July 2021",
"Quantum is like pointillism \u2014a world made up of little dots. \u2014 Time , 25 May 2021",
"His art evolved around that time, not toward despair or sadness but experiments in pointillism and swirls of color inspired by chemical reactions. \u2014 Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune , 13 May 2021",
"With his development of pointillism , Seurat painted tiny juxtaposed dots in varying colors to further disintegrate images beyond those of the impressionists. \u2014 John Zotos, Dallas News , 7 May 2021",
"Cox\u2019s style might be described as dynamic pointillism , with breathy instrumental noises giving way to mournfully wailing glissandi, and then to a climactic stampede of frantic figuration. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Her signature sound, in which ethereal vocal pointillism details the upper limits of sensual songs driven by bouncing beats, expresses Twigs\u2019s embrace of embodiment as well as her penchant for the abstract. \u2014 Emily J. Lordi Photographs By Liz Johnson Artur, New York Times , 19 Oct. 2020",
"The Singer Laren's collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism , expressionism and cubism. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 8 May 2020"
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"1897, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With his pointillistic vision of microhistory, of an overwhelming profusion of details, Jancs\u00f3 radically decontextualized historical events and turned them into abstract symbols. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 13 Jan. 2022",
"His meta-narrative is not a pointillistic patchwork but a seamless tapestry. \u2014 Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times , 28 Sep. 2021",
"The piece then breaks into a pointillistic texture, with pluckings all around. \u2014 Tim Diovanni, Dallas News , 27 Apr. 2021",
"Use a power drill with varying sizes of bits to create an elegantly pointillistic design on your pumpkin\u2026. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 15 Oct. 2020",
"Printed on the front of certain legitimate N95 masks is a logo of sorts: a figure surrounded by a cloud of air particles, represented by tiny, pointillistic dots. \u2014 Anna Russell, The New Yorker , 7 May 2020",
"Webber takes pointillistic dabs and flickers, volleys between trombone and piano, say, and conjures a solid rhythmic and melodic substance out of what at first sounds totally slippery and liquid. \u2014 John Adamian, courant.com , 17 Nov. 2019",
"Her approach, with a major policy released seemingly every other day, is pointillistic ; her various plans\u2014from breaking up big tech to re-energizing domestic manufacturing\u2014creating a cutting critique of the status quo. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 10 June 2019",
"Her pieces were pointillistic and dizzying, defining odd meters and adding and subtracting notes to make the patterns endlessly flex and realign. \u2014 Jon Pareles, New York Times , 21 May 2018"
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"\u02ccp\u022fin-t\u0259-\u02c8li-stik",
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]
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"It would be pointless for us to continue the investigation.",
"a pointless remark that left everyone scratching their heads in confusion",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hanas has been in a mini-slump, pointless in his last 3 games. \u2014 Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive , 8 May 2022",
"As companies mandate people back to the office, workers across the nation are finding the switch to be messy, inconvenient and in some cases even pointless . \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Apparently spoilers are pointless this time around because Clayton still doesn't know what's going to happen and neither does host Jesse Palmer. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Why go back to the elements of normal life which were in themselves completely pointless ? \u2014 Molly Jong-fast, Vogue , 4 June 2021",
"By the way, using names as identifiers for the purposes of due diligence seems pretty pointless anyway. \u2014 David G.w. Birch, Forbes , 10 May 2021",
"There are exceptions to every rule, but more often than not viral TikTok trends are pretty pointless and silly. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 2 May 2021",
"On Friday, Trump - still the de facto leader of the Republican Party - joined other Republican officials in delivering a defiant response to the Uvalde massacre at an NRA annual meeting in Houston, arguing that new gun restrictions were pointless . \u2014 Ashley Parker And Michael Scherer, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022",
"On Friday, Trump \u2014 still the de facto leader of the Republican Party \u2014 joined other Republican officials in delivering a defiant response to the Uvalde massacre at an NRA annual meeting in Houston, arguing that new gun restrictions were pointless . \u2014 Michael Scherer, Washington Post , 28 May 2022"
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"wears high heels with very pointy toes even though they kill her feet",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Both tips are pointy and crispy, while the first bite yields a chewy and seriously sour mouthfeel. \u2014 Sylvie Bigar, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
"In turn, riding on very small rocks has now gone from folksy to fancy, and the pointy end of the sport can be just as expensive as road riding ever was. \u2014 Eben Weiss, Outside Online , 2 June 2022",
"Cosmetic reshaping treats individual teeth that may be pointy , too long or have jagged/chipped edges and can be done in 1-2 visits. \u2014 Brooklyn White, Essence , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Each of the Dolomites\u2019 natural skyscrapers was pointy or sloping in its own way. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Making the manicure even more noticeable is the vibrant hot pink covering the rest of the nails, which serves as a base for the pointy black lashes. \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 28 Apr. 2022",
"American Idol has reached the pointy end of the season, when just 10 competitors stay in the game. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Those of us who strap into every car to extract the best performance numbers often remark that the cars at the very pointy end of the performance spectrum tend to require the least driver skill to achieve the blistering straight-line times. \u2014 Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Women are wearing high heels with pointy toe boxes far less. \u2014 Dr. Ray Mcclanahan, Outside Online , 22 Oct. 2020"
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"1644, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8p\u022fin-t\u0113"
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"first_known_use":{
"1968, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a grayish to moderate yellow green that is yellower and darker than mytho green and yellower and very slightly lighter than gage green":[]
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"pois from French, pea, from Latin pisum ; intended as partial translation of French pois vert , literally, green pea":""
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": a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity equal to the viscosity of a fluid that would require a shearing force of one dyne to impart to a one-square-centimeter area of an arbitrary layer of the fluid a velocity of one centimeter per second relative to another layer separated from the first by a distance of one centimeter":[],
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"\u2014 Louis Bromfield"
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"the disgraced business executive poised herself for the difficult press conference"
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"1649, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1913, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"French, from Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille \u20201869 French physician and anatomist":"Noun",
"Middle English poyse weight, heaviness, from Anglo-French peis, pois , from Latin pensum , from neuter of pensus , past participle of pendere to weigh \u2014 more at pendant":"Noun",
"Middle English, to weigh, ponder, from Anglo-French peiser, poiser , from Latin pensare \u2014 more at pensive":"Verb"
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": the paisa of Bangladesh":[]
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"Bengali poisa , probably from Hindi pais\u0101":""
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": a coin representing one poiska":[],
": a monetary unit of Bangladesh equal to \u00b9/\u2081\u2080\u2080 taka":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1974, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": an object of aversion or abhorrence":[],
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],
": something destructive or harmful":[],
": to exert a baneful influence on : corrupt":[
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],
": to inhibit the activity, course, or occurrence of":[
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"\u2014 Charles Dickens"
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": to injure or kill with poison":[],
": to treat, taint, or impregnate with or as if with poison":[]
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"Noun",
"a jar of rat poison",
"The killer gave her victims food laced with poison .",
"suck poison from a snake bite",
"The villain in the play dies by drinking a vial of poison .",
"Poverty is a poison to society.",
"Verb",
"How did the murderer poison the victim?",
"Hundreds were poisoned from drinking the contaminated water.",
"He was poisoned with cyanide.",
"The factory poisoned the air with its fumes.",
"Illegal dumping of waste is poisoning the stream and killing fish.",
"He poisoned their minds with hatred for her.",
"His angry outburst poisoned the atmosphere of the party.",
"Adjective",
"the witch gave Snow White a poison apple",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Richardson then went on to study the diffusion of gases through the atmosphere; his work was used to study the diffusion patterns of poison gases. \u2014 Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker , 7 June 2022",
"In Miramar, for example, 5,878 traps and 6,607 poison stations have been laid across the peninsula\u2019s three square miles. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"In early December, the FBI received a complaint that Jones had manufactured the deadly poison and intended to use it to kill his former partner. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 10 May 2022",
"These insects\u2019 poison provides a backup in case they do get noticed. \u2014 Kate Golembiewski, Scientific American , 3 June 2022",
"Much of that heartache is dispensed by the popular musician Ivor Novello (a smoldering, viperous Jeremy Irvine), who sings his witty ditties at the piano and dispenses little nuggets of verbal poison everywhere else. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"What is important is pulling out that poison arrow, and tending to the wound. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"One of Frankenberg\u2019s offshoot projects is an attempt to edit the DNA of native animals to develop resistance to cane toad poison . \u2014 Frances Vinall, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"While the debate heats up, Africans continue to snare, shoot, and poison all manner of wildlife to feed their families and protect themselves, livestock, and crops from leopards, buffalo, lions, elephants, and other animals. \u2014 Chris Dorsey, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"And although the younger man would ultimately prove correct (more or less, but the question is complex), this fundamental disagreement would poison the remainder of each explorer\u2019s life. \u2014 Gary Krist, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"Local politicians and scientists are warning that climate change and rapid population growth are shrinking the lake, creating a bowl of toxic dust that could poison the air around Salt Lake City. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Tucker and similar proponents of this evil ideology continue to poison the minds of millions. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
"The statement of the film is really that power tends to poison people\u2019s decisions in life. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 25 May 2022",
"Instead, Luca got a counterfeit pill containing enough fentanyl to fatally poison him. \u2014 Alexandra Rockey Fleming, PEOPLE.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"This is why social media is such a tempting tool for psychological warfare: It can be used to poison a society, perhaps with the help of a bot army. \u2014 Jaron Lanier, The Atlantic , 26 May 2022",
"Stealing his idol and then voting him out would have been practically begging him to poison the jury well. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 12 May 2022",
"But his increasingly controversial foreign policy also played a big role in his ouster by helping to poison his relationship with Pakistan\u2019s military brass. \u2014 Ian Bremmer, Time , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Behavior and reproduction Most frogs are nocturnal, but not poison frogs. \u2014 National Geographic , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Some farmers even intentionally poison cranes to stop them from foraging in their crops. \u2014 National Geographic , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Field biologist Andrius Pa\u0161ukonis, who researches poison frog homing behavior in the wild and was not involved in this study, is excited about the results and hopes to see more work done on these and other species. \u2014 Geetha Iyer, National Geographic , 25 July 2019",
"Ken said, battling through the foliage before realizing most of it was poison ivy. \u2014 Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com , 10 June 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The title of most poisonous animal on Earth is typically given to the beautiful and deadly golden poison dart frog of Columbia\u2014the one-inch-long frog is sometimes drenched in enough poison to kill ten grown men. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Apr. 2020",
"That may be why blue poison dart frog dads are so devoted to them\u2014although their version of TLC may strike us as eww. \u2014 National Geographic , 14 June 2019",
"Blue poison dart frog males go to lengths to keep their offspring alive. \u2014 National Geographic , 14 June 2019",
"The same cannot be said of the deadliest of South America\u2019s colorful poison dart frogs , which are full of batrachotoxin but don\u2019t actually produce it. \u2014 Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine , 25 Sep. 2018",
"The striking bright blues, yellows, and oranges of poison dart frogs are a classic example of warning coloration, sending a message to predators to stay away. \u2014 Michael Allen, Science | AAAS , 13 June 2018",
"In addition to poison dart frogs and venomous snakes, visitors will see exhibits on Snow White, and dangerous creatures in the Aquarium (lionfish, scorpionfish, stonefish, rabbitfish and more). \u2014 Sarah Maiellano, USA TODAY , 4 June 2018",
"Check out his poison dart frog series \u2014 some are in the Smithsonian\u2019s permanent collection \u2014 and other vibrantly colored pieces. \u2014 Harriot Manley, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 Mar. 2018",
"The strawberry poison dart frog is my all-time favorite. \u2014 National Geographic , 5 May 2016"
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"He was poisoned with cyanide.",
"The factory poisoned the air with its fumes.",
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"He poisoned their minds with hatred for her.",
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"the witch gave Snow White a poison apple",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Richardson then went on to study the diffusion of gases through the atmosphere; his work was used to study the diffusion patterns of poison gases. \u2014 Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker , 7 June 2022",
"In Miramar, for example, 5,878 traps and 6,607 poison stations have been laid across the peninsula\u2019s three square miles. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"In early December, the FBI received a complaint that Jones had manufactured the deadly poison and intended to use it to kill his former partner. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 10 May 2022",
"These insects\u2019 poison provides a backup in case they do get noticed. \u2014 Kate Golembiewski, Scientific American , 3 June 2022",
"Much of that heartache is dispensed by the popular musician Ivor Novello (a smoldering, viperous Jeremy Irvine), who sings his witty ditties at the piano and dispenses little nuggets of verbal poison everywhere else. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"What is important is pulling out that poison arrow, and tending to the wound. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"One of Frankenberg\u2019s offshoot projects is an attempt to edit the DNA of native animals to develop resistance to cane toad poison . \u2014 Frances Vinall, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"While the debate heats up, Africans continue to snare, shoot, and poison all manner of wildlife to feed their families and protect themselves, livestock, and crops from leopards, buffalo, lions, elephants, and other animals. \u2014 Chris Dorsey, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"And although the younger man would ultimately prove correct (more or less, but the question is complex), this fundamental disagreement would poison the remainder of each explorer\u2019s life. \u2014 Gary Krist, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"Local politicians and scientists are warning that climate change and rapid population growth are shrinking the lake, creating a bowl of toxic dust that could poison the air around Salt Lake City. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Tucker and similar proponents of this evil ideology continue to poison the minds of millions. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
"The statement of the film is really that power tends to poison people\u2019s decisions in life. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 25 May 2022",
"Instead, Luca got a counterfeit pill containing enough fentanyl to fatally poison him. \u2014 Alexandra Rockey Fleming, PEOPLE.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"This is why social media is such a tempting tool for psychological warfare: It can be used to poison a society, perhaps with the help of a bot army. \u2014 Jaron Lanier, The Atlantic , 26 May 2022",
"Stealing his idol and then voting him out would have been practically begging him to poison the jury well. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 12 May 2022",
"But his increasingly controversial foreign policy also played a big role in his ouster by helping to poison his relationship with Pakistan\u2019s military brass. \u2014 Ian Bremmer, Time , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Behavior and reproduction Most frogs are nocturnal, but not poison frogs. \u2014 National Geographic , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Some farmers even intentionally poison cranes to stop them from foraging in their crops. \u2014 National Geographic , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Field biologist Andrius Pa\u0161ukonis, who researches poison frog homing behavior in the wild and was not involved in this study, is excited about the results and hopes to see more work done on these and other species. \u2014 Geetha Iyer, National Geographic , 25 July 2019",
"Ken said, battling through the foliage before realizing most of it was poison ivy. \u2014 Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com , 10 June 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The idea that objectivity might be poisonous seems to open the way to a kind of brain-melting relativism, the end of the possibility of knowledge itself. \u2014 Hari Kunzru, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Be careful though with these pretty plants are also poisonous if accidentally ingested, so parents and pet owners be wary! \u2014 Jada Jackson, House Beautiful , 29 May 2022",
"But online the disparity in the public support for the two was especially obvious and largely poisonous towards Heard, who has vowed to appeal the verdict. \u2014 Maria Puente, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
"Most alarming, the air surrounding Salt Lake City would occasionally turn poisonous . \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"While some poisonous insects, such as ladybugs and monarch butterflies, use these vivid hues to advise birds to back off, such colors also stand out more. \u2014 Kate Golembiewski, Scientific American , 3 June 2022",
"Craven struggles to recall all of the cases she's had a hand in, but a few come to mind, like a criminal case involving a New Boston, Texas, woman who sent letters laced with poisonous ricin to the U.S. president and others. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 31 May 2022",
"Brown and wart-covered, four poisonous individuals stared out of their tank with a torpidity that belied the havoc their species has wrought. \u2014 Frances Vinall, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"This juxtaposition was a poisonous recipe for cynicism and anger. \u2014 al , 26 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In either case, Twitter didn\u2019t get the joke and Dan got a day in the Twitter pokey \u2014 the same punishment HIPAA expert Greene received for spreading false vaccine conspiracies (though MTG was later banned for good). \u2014 Daniel Novack, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Former Uber self-driving boss Anthony Levandowski could find himself in the pokey for a spell. \u2014 Adam Lashinsky, Fortune , 30 July 2020",
"But another shoe is yet to drop: next week, a different judge will sentence him on two conspiracy counts, charges that each carry a maximum of five years, which could potentially add years to his time in the pokey . \u2014 Lynn Yaeger, Vogue , 10 Mar. 2019",
"In November 1983, Lewis called assistant U.S. attorney Jeremy Margolis, who had helped to put him in the pokey . \u2014 Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader , 2 Feb. 2018",
"Thirty-five at the time, the Russian immigrant went to the pokey for three years, having pleaded guilty to wire fraud, mail fraud and making threats on the phone. \u2014 David Segal, New York Times , 24 Mar. 2017"
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"One New Hampshire tester brushed its 75-denier polyester face through poky young evergreens, shouldered an ax, and sawed branches while doing trail work on Mount Moosilauke. \u2014 Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Most of these studies have varied widely in their methodologies, producing a broad range of possible maximum running speeds for T. Rex, from a poky 10-15 mph (16-24 km/hour) to about 45 mph (72 km/h). \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Noonan picked up the cafeti\u00e8re from her desk and brought it into the station\u2019s poky little kitchen. \u2014 Colin Barrett, The New Yorker , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Newsom and the Legislature should agree on a plan this summer \u2014 something more like the State Water Project than the poky bullet train. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2021",
"On the poky Murano streets that snake with canals, dozens of glassmaking houses are still active, and each operates with a staunch dedication to the craft. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 27 Mar. 2021",
"The spot was miles from anywhere, on the side of a hill whose poky desert plants scrape anyone who walks by, and over which wild horses keep watch. \u2014 Sarah Scoles, Popular Science , 5 Jan. 2021",
"The partners\u2019 goal was making underwriting, the poky part in the middle, fully electronic. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 2 Sep. 2020",
"The 53-year-old lives alone in a modest apartment, cycles to his poky office in The Hague and takes time off from running the country to teach social studies at a local school. \u2014 The Economist , 11 July 2020"
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"Throwing pencils is not allowed because someone's eye could get poked out."
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"One New Hampshire tester brushed its 75-denier polyester face through poky young evergreens, shouldered an ax, and sawed branches while doing trail work on Mount Moosilauke. \u2014 Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Most of these studies have varied widely in their methodologies, producing a broad range of possible maximum running speeds for T. Rex, from a poky 10-15 mph (16-24 km/hour) to about 45 mph (72 km/h). \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Noonan picked up the cafeti\u00e8re from her desk and brought it into the station\u2019s poky little kitchen. \u2014 Colin Barrett, The New Yorker , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Newsom and the Legislature should agree on a plan this summer \u2014 something more like the State Water Project than the poky bullet train. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2021",
"On the poky Murano streets that snake with canals, dozens of glassmaking houses are still active, and each operates with a staunch dedication to the craft. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 27 Mar. 2021",
"The spot was miles from anywhere, on the side of a hill whose poky desert plants scrape anyone who walks by, and over which wild horses keep watch. \u2014 Sarah Scoles, Popular Science , 5 Jan. 2021",
"The partners\u2019 goal was making underwriting, the poky part in the middle, fully electronic. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 2 Sep. 2020",
"The 53-year-old lives alone in a modest apartment, cycles to his poky office in The Hague and takes time off from running the country to teach social studies at a local school. \u2014 The Economist , 11 July 2020"
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"Last week, just hours after BTS visited the White House to discuss anti-Asian discrimination and Asian inclusion and representation with President Joe Biden, Fox News commenter Tucker Carlson snidely mocked the K-pop- pol summit. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
"His two advisers seemed almost to personify the voices arguing in his head: the results-minded Israeli pol and the Palestinian ideologue. \u2014 Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker , 25 Oct. 2021",
"By now, the route was well-established: an aspiring pol would get involved with his local ward, make a name for himself, and run for the Common Council. \u2014 Neal Thompson, Town & Country , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Longtime Democratic pol Gerry Scheub blamed partisan politics for the current political climate and called it the most serious challenge to the constitution. \u2014 Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com , 5 Jan. 2022",
"But why not cast a Black woman in the original role of a crafty pol , instead of as another wide-eyed underdog who grows into an action figure? \u2014 Julian Lucas, The New Yorker , 1 Nov. 2021",
"In November, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, became the latest pol to find the big yellow target irresistible. \u2014 James Poniewozik, New York Times , 12 Dec. 2021",
"America saw Joe Biden as a moderate liberal who, as his party went left, and its center went left, also went left, as a practical pol would. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Plenty is at stake: no corner of the city will be spared from climate challenges, including the stomping grounds of those vying to be the city\u2019s top pol . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 27 Aug. 2021"
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"Subsequently, the rise in greenhouse gases over time has resulted in changes in our oceans, melting polar ice caps and ozone depletion, ultimately destabilizing and threatening civilizations and ecosystems. \u2014 Anila Siraj, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"While global temperature changes may be fueling the melting of the polar ice caps, there is something worth celebrating in the arctic. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 15 June 2022",
"The adults on the planet are leaving our children melting polar ice caps. \u2014 Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
"The thick polar ice caps may have even once been visible from Earth. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 27 May 2022",
"In fact, during the heat wave, the ice sheet experienced its fourth wettest day in over four decades, according to the Mod\u00e8le Atmosph\u00e9rique R\u00e9gionale (MAR), a regional climate model that studies the melting of the polar ice caps. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Perennial polar caps have historically granted Russia a natural protective barrier along its northern coastline, but the receding ice has created new geopolitical concerns for council members. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 9 Mar. 2022",
"From Texas to Florida, which has the longest coastline of any state, the entire U.S. Gulf coast is under serious threat from rising seas as the planet's polar ice caps melt, the U.N. report says. \u2014 Rebecca Santana And Curt Anderson, Chron , 3 Mar. 2022",
"In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, Costner\u2019s reluctant mariner fights starvation and outlaws smokers while helping a woman and a young girl try to find dry land. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 18 Jan. 2022",
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"And by the late 1970s, polar -orbiting satellites began gathering data as well. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Dec. 2021",
"The median life expectancy for a polar in human care is 23.4 years, according to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. \u2014 Theresa Waldrop, CNN , 25 Sep. 2021",
"But her relentlessly pragmatic approach to politics is the polar opposite of, say, the Bernie Sanders approach. \u2014 Michelle Goldberg, New York Times , 5 May 2020",
"The rainforest environment is all the more remarkable, the researchers said, considering that the region annually experiences a four-month polar night when there is no sunlight to nurture plant life. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Even millions of years ago, the South Pole endured what's known as a four-month polar night when no sunlight can be seen. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 1 Apr. 2020",
"Herschel Island is home to moose, musk oxen and caribou; the site is one of the few places where black, polar and grizzly bears share the same habitat, per Smithsonian magazine. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Mar. 2020",
"At-home polar plunges do come at a far cheaper cost, though; depending on the area, entering a cryotherapy chamber could cost you about $75 a pop. \u2014 Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science , 17 Jan. 2019",
"His polar opposite, meanwhile, was the pair of bluestockings to his left. \u2014 Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review , 21 Mar. 2020"
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"The war has polarized the nation.",
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"Both those goods have a darker side, with social media allowing dangerous conspiracies to be spread and harsh political beliefs to polarize a nation. \u2014 WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"When circumstances are already heated, there\u2019s no need to further polarize the obvious. \u2014 Abiola Salami, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Tom Hanks, for instance, gives a performance that may polarize audiences. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"Tuesday\u2019s primaries confirmed that angry and highly energized factions are increasingly defining both parties; as a result, America\u2019s politics continues to polarize . \u2014 Karl Rove, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"Disinformation campaigns have helped polarize and politicize the issues, dividing people and preventing the potential to work together to make changes, Guterres writes. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 5 Apr. 2022",
"When stuff like this is happening, society begins to polarize , which is absolutely natural. \u2014 Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic , 25 Mar. 2022",
"That includes every possible position on gun ownership and regulation as the issue continues to polarize the nation. \u2014 Carol Kim Community Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Mar. 2022",
"With skill and care, Russian operatives tested and retested how best to polarize audiences. \u2014 Tom Southern, Wired , 10 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Directed by singer, dancer, and actress Teyana Taylor, the clip intercuts a pole dancing routine with footage of Ne-Yo performing the sultry tune. \u2014 Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2022",
"This is how Cami \u00c1rboles took her pole dancing and yoga skills and built a global business around it. \u2014 Kristin Stoller, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"One solution: pole dancing , which Mottley started doing more than a year ago. \u2014 Dorany Pinedastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"And the pole dancing lessons were a workout in themselves! \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The decision to be open about her previous career pole dancing was two-fold, Hunt said in an interview earlier this year. \u2014 Thomas Phippen, Fox News , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Since then, pole dancing has become an essential part of her life. \u2014 Yara Sim\u00f3n, refinery29.com , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Adele topped off the night by providing a demonstration of her own pole dancing skills. \u2014 Hannah Dailey, Billboard , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The concept came from Brown seeing a clip of music video's director Violett Beane, who takes pole dancing classes, practicing. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 28 Jan. 2022"
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"Her book is a fierce polemic against the inequalities in our society.",
"They managed to discuss the issues without resorting to polemics .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Evans\u2019s work sidesteps both polemic and propaganda. \u2014 Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Win at All Costs is, in effect, a 350-page polemic which argues that the NOP\u2019s transgressions are consistent with a ruthless Nike ethos where the ends always justify the means. \u2014 Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online , 2 Oct. 2020",
"Such falsehoods aside, the most interesting aspect of Lavrov's polemic relates to his throwaway comments about Zelensky. \u2014 Anthony D. Kauders, CNN , 5 May 2022",
"In her barnstorming environmental polemic Silent Spring, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, Rachel Carson fired a broadside against the unfettered use of chemicals by agricultural giants. \u2014 Shely Aronov, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"His polemic appeared in the pan-African magazine Bingo, during preparations for the 1966 World Festival of Black Arts, in Dakar\u2014a cultural d\u00e9but pageant for the continent\u2019s newly independent nations. \u2014 Julian Lucas, The New Yorker , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Many years ago, Jonathan Chait wrote a polemic in The New Republic arguing that Delaware was the worst state, for, among other things, its friendliness to corporate interest and its extremely loose regulatory standards. \u2014 The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Madonna is Susan, a scrappy downtown hustler who has gotten herself embroiled in a vague scandal involving the Atlantic City mob (a subplot treated with such indifference that the film practically becomes a polemic about narrative priorities). \u2014 Alison Willmore, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021",
"So his propaganda during this crisis shouldn\u2019t shock his devoted, polemic -accustomed audience. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2022"
],
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"1626, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"examples":[
"during the Middle Ages even theologians could be surprisingly polemical in their writings",
"an unnecessarily polemical look at the supposed incompatibility between science and religion",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But where Kramer was polemical , Holleran was poetic \u2014 more quietly political, Kushner said, but political nevertheless as a pioneer in literature for a post-Stonewall age. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"Eucalyptus can be a polemical aspect in California wines \u2014 many dislike its cooling green flavors \u2014 but Thackrey was never one to interfere with its expression. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 May 2022",
"Next month, Reed will publish a book that is, in the context of his polemical writing, unusual. \u2014 Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Rutllant\u2019s journey of self-discovery leads her to unearth details of the life and work of her great grandfather, a polemical astrophysicist who attempted to build the largest telescope in Chile\u2019s southern hemisphere during the Cold War. \u2014 Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety , 17 May 2022",
"The path his company chose, Boreing told me, is to avoid making polemical films. \u2014 Andy Meek, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Maybe more muscular and polemical , rather than empathetic? \u2014 Clare Malone, The New Yorker , 18 Feb. 2022",
"No matter how polemical their purposes, such works employ inventive, elegant designs that are ever more striking as their occasions recede in time. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Many of them have not mastered the polemical ease with which to speak and convince. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Apr. 2022"
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"under the polestar of progress, urban renewal programs gutted the historic districts of many cities",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His Guiding Principles became the central narrative of the GSA and a kind of polestar for US architects. \u2014 Adam Rogers, Wired , 6 Feb. 2020",
"Time is told by the rising up and rolling down of the sunlight on the cliffs, by the glimpse of Cassiopeia in the narrows turning around the polestar through the stardust of perfect clear September nights. \u2014 Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine , 24 June 2019",
"This lush, rangy pocket of the country is finally being recognized as a culinary polestar , with chefs such Ms. Cooper, Tennessee\u2019s Sean Brock and Virginia\u2019s Travis Milton championing of Appalachian foodways to national acclaim. \u2014 Louisa Shafia, WSJ , 27 Sep. 2018",
"The Crying of Lot 49 as polestars \u2014but that doesn\u2019t really capture the affecting humanity of the five episodes that have aired (episode six airs on September 10). \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 7 Sep. 2018",
"Copenhagen today is a city transformed, a polestar across creative fields from art to architecture, design to dining. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Suits that\u2019s three in federal court and one in Cuyahoga county, common police court . \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Complaints were sworn to yesterday for 171 alleged violators of the traffic laws, who will be brought into police court this morning and punished if they are found guilty. \u2014 Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Aug. 2021",
"Vicente Cirildo Guerra, 43, was arraigned Wednesday in Deschutes County Circuit Court in connection with the Jan. 20 shooting that occurred feet from where the suspect worked as a barber, according to police court records. \u2014 oregonlive , 30 Jan. 2020",
"Alexander Mullowney, a police court judge in Washington, DC, urged women to protect themselves on the streets and promised them impunity in his courtroom. \u2014 Longreads , 10 Jan. 2018",
"Godwin, who has a police court record, was sentenced to five months on the chain gang by Recorder Ivey this morning. \u2014 The Root , 3 Nov. 2017"
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"there were police officers directing traffic around the scene of the accident",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Formal charges have been filed against the man and woman who led a Homewood police officer on a chase that ended with the officer being seriously injured. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 29 June 2022",
"Noor was believed to be the first police officer to be convicted of murder in Minnesota in recent memory -- but the second came only a few years later with Derek Chauvin's murder conviction in the killing of George Floyd. \u2014 Omar Jimenez And Eric Levenson, CNN , 27 June 2022",
"Noor, who is Somali-American, was believed to be the first Minnesota police officer convicted of murder for an on-duty shooting, according to CBS News. \u2014 Essence , 27 June 2022",
"Constable James Quinn becomes the first Chicago police officer to be killed in the line of duty, but this recognition would not be honored until March 2, 2010. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"The retired police officer remembers tracking the deadly storms on her husband\u2019s fire department radio scanner. \u2014 Chadd Scott, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The shooting happened during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man whose death prompted global protests against police violence. \u2014 Jesus Jim\u00e9nez, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
"The subsequent shooting left two adult victims and the police officer with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, police said. \u2014 Bill Hutchinson, ABC News , 20 June 2022",
"After speaking with Amara, the dean went back to the police officer . \u2014 Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica , 19 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In this episode of the long-running police procedural , investigators Horatio Caine (Caruso) and Eric Delko (Rodriguez) travel to California to clear a colleague. \u2014 Kristina Garcia, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"More recently, Waterman starred as Gerry Standing in Nigel McCrery and Roy Mitchell\u2019s police procedural New Tricks. \u2014 Trilby Beresford, Billboard , 9 May 2022",
"Crafted with stunning visuals and a richly layered narrative, Park\u2019s sensual police procedural earned him the Best Director prize at the festival. \u2014 Jihane Bousfiha, ELLE , 2 June 2022",
"More recently, Waterman starred as Gerry Standing in Nigel McCrery and Roy Mitchell\u2019s police procedural New Tricks. \u2014 Trilby Beresford, Billboard , 9 May 2022",
"More recently, Waterman starred as Gerry Standing in Nigel McCrery and Roy Mitchell\u2019s police procedural New Tricks. \u2014 Trilby Beresford, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 May 2022",
"Of course, recent episodes have proved that the popular police procedural doesn\u2019t shy away from letting other famous celebrities from the \u201880s and \u201890s in on the fun. \u2014 Rebecca Norris, Country Living , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The police procedural and legal drama is returning to NBC on Feb. 24 with both new and former cast members. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The result is a high octane thriller that spins the police procedural genre and devotes its attention to the emotional consequences that hit its characters with the violence of shrapnel. \u2014 Emiliano Granada, Variety , 20 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Coburn, started as a police reporter in 1966 after graduating with a degree from Eastern Illinois University in Downstate Charleston. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"The Miami Herald paid to connect the property to a phone line so that her father, Henry Olaf Reno, a police reporter for the paper, could call police departments every morning, hunting for a scoop. \u2014 Patricia Mazzei, New York Times , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Within five years of studying Japanese, Adelstein took the Yomiuri Shimbun exam to become a police reporter . \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Harbsmeier became a police reporter , working the crime beat for about two decades. \u2014 Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal , 5 Dec. 2021",
"In 1990 the senior police reporter at the Contra Costa Times sold me his Honda 400 motorcycle. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Sep. 2021",
"The most glaring and long-running issue in my view as a former Chicago police reporter may be the city\u2019s low clearance rate, meaning crimes that have led to at least one arrest. \u2014 Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Barnhart taught elementary school for a short time but was attracted to journalism and in 1970 began working as a police reporter for the old City News Bureau of Chicago wire service. \u2014 Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com , 12 July 2021",
"The author and former Los Angeles Times police reporter has just started work on a spinoff that will premiere at an unannounced date on Amazon\u2019s free streaming service, IMDb TV. \u2014 Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times , 25 June 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite that unusual premise, there\u2019s so much that feels deeply present about Yuknavitch\u2019s latest novel: the ever-expanding police state , lower Manhattan under water, and a woman on a mission to rescue other vulnerable women. \u2014 V\u00e9ronique Hyland, ELLE , 18 May 2022",
"Take her statement issued after the July 11-12, 2021, uprising against the police state . \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 12 June 2022",
"The author's taut depiction of life under a police state feels timely and gripping. \u2014 Hanif Abdurraqib, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Criticizing the leader of a police state in a public poll during a war would be quite stupid, and the Russian people aren\u2019t stupid. \u2014 WSJ , 17 Apr. 2022",
"His visa for Belarus expired 12 days ago, leaving him at the mercy of a repressive police state . \u2014 New York Times , 16 Nov. 2021",
"The Cuban pharmaceutical business is particularly sensitive because the regime hopes to use its lab research to raise hard currency and advance its image as a benevolent police state . \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 10 Oct. 2021",
"The protests exceeded frustrations of food lines and power scarcities, venturing into a challenge to the police state itself. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 July 2021",
"In his two-bedroom Moscow apartment, 35-year-old start-up wizard Pavel Telitchenko spent years mulling a move from Russia, fearing the gradual rise of a police state . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 May 2022"
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"Set in 1901, an ambitious portrait of Alexey Alchevsky, founder of Russia\u2019s first mortgage bank and Ukrainian Donbas patriot, framed through a procedural narrative of a young policeman investigating his mysterious death. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 26 May 2022",
"One policeman was injured in the operation to retake control of the prison. \u2014 CNN , 9 May 2022",
"Schlossberg first made his reputation when four men attempted to steal guns from a Williamsburg shop and ended up killing a policeman and getting penned in by the NYPD. \u2014 Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
"Two years ago, Croydon\u2019s three selectmen (including Ian Underwood) made a surprise motion to fire the town\u2019s only policeman and dissolve the department. \u2014 Peter Greene, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"McBride creates a chaotic and colorful world of characters: There are Italian mobsters and an Irish policeman who falls in love with a virtuous church lady. \u2014 The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
"In the video, a policeman kicked her old wooden door multiple times, eventually breaking through and taking the woman to quarantine. \u2014 Wenxin Fan, WSJ , 2 May 2022",
"But there\u2019s a catch: Their passengers include Cam and a rookie policeman (Jackson White) who was shot during the robbery. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English policie, pollecye \"art or practice of government, system of government, commonwealth, organization or conduct of affairs, practical skill, prudence,\" borrowed from Anglo-French policie, pollecie \"governance, system of government\" (Middle French also, \"a political organization, the state, conduct, behavior\"), borrowed from Late Latin pol\u012bt\u012ba \"citizenship, political organization, government\" \u2014 more at police entry 1":"Noun",
"earlier police, pollecy (in the phrase police/pollecy of assurance, after French pollice d'assurance ), borrowed from Middle French police, pollice \"certificate, written proof,\" probably borrowed from Italian polizza, pollizza \"receipt, promissory note,\" alteration of apodissa, appodissa (by absorption of initial a- by the definite article and shift of -d- to a lateral), borrowed from Medieval Latin apodixa, apodissa \"receipt,\" borrowed from Middle Greek ap\u00f3deixis, going back to Greek, \"making known, proof,\" from apodeik-, stem of apode\u00edknymi, apodeikn\u00fdnai \"to point out, make known, prove\" + -sis -sis \u2014 more at apodictic":"Noun"
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"you'll need to polish your shoes with a clean rag before the performance",
"Noun (1)",
"I need more shoe polish .",
"Did you use a wax polish on the table or an oil-based one?",
"The movie has the polish we've come to expect from that director.",
"He's rude and lacks polish .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In response, Sissi\u2019s administration has tried to take some steps to polish its image. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 May 2022",
"In order to polish his image before the election, Jansa has distanced himself from Orban and adopted a tough stance toward Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Ali Zerdin, ajc , 24 Apr. 2022",
"In 2018, Round House commissioned Lord to polish the play. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022",
"For smooth, supple skin, exfoliate head-to-toe with Frank Body's Original Coffee Scrub \u2014 an exfoliator that, as the name suggests, uses coffee granules to polish skin. \u2014 Sarah Han, Allure , 8 Apr. 2022",
"As Trump\u2019s chief of staff, Mulvaney spent his time trying to polish Trump policies. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The same is true for anyone wanting to polish their profile. \u2014 Robin Ryan, Forbes , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Stores should seize the opportunity to polish their online shopping experience and increase their chances of having happy, satisfied and loyal customers returning for more. \u2014 Bagrat Safaryan, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"How generous of him to polish our terror into a fine shine and spoon out fatalism like sherbet, sweet and cold and fleeting. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This classic set offers loungewear coziness and wear-to-work polish in equal measure thanks to its oversized fit. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 24 June 2022",
"Nothing says summer quite like a vibrant nail polish . \u2014 Essence , 23 June 2022",
"To improve shine and help remove scratches, use a high-quality metal polish specifically intended for jewelry. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 June 2022",
"Shah\u2019s clients set the bar for effortless polish on the red carpet and beyond. \u2014 Sara Klausing, Men's Health , 9 June 2022",
"The runway from shoot to polish to air has to get shorter because people just move on. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 5 June 2022",
"That language puts a Zuckerbergian techno-utopian polish on a change Meta is making out of pure competitive necessity. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"Wings equipment manger Paul Boyer combated the problem with Maximum Edge, a metal polish applied to the bottom of a blade to reduce friction. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 1 June 2022",
"Lime-green and black leopard spots were painted over a teal polish on her pinky nail. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 31 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"David Frazier made his small NYC apartment living room feel formal and polished , despite the limited space. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 24 June 2022",
"These pale separates are oversized yet still polished , and the full set hits for under $250. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 24 June 2022",
"Imagine stones rolling downstream in a river, colliding with each other and getting polished in the process. \u2014 Ariel Katz, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The bride wore a custom white mini-dress with a theatrically-long veil while the groom looked polished in a classic black suit. \u2014 Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
"But this time the looks seemed especially coordinated, in both color and cut, creating an overall look that felt decidedly polished . \u2014 Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 Apr. 2022",
"With two locations in Houston and a third slated to open soon in the Woodlands, this wildly popular and polished bar is exactly that: a bar, not an ice house. \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 8 June 2022",
"Halle, Jonathan, and Drew included modern yet cozy finishes in the final project, surprising Yvonne with a stunning and polished overhaul to her kitchen, dining room and sitting room. \u2014 Caitlin Scott, House Beautiful , 8 June 2022",
"My unit's black finish has a polished but not overly glossy look, and the uncomplicated design doesn't look out of place in either casual or formal settings. \u2014 Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"It was polite of him to hold the door for them.",
"Please be polite to the guests.",
"It isn't polite to interrupt people when they're talking.",
"She received some polite applause despite the mistakes in her performance.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Be polite in your refusals, but don't waste your time. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"That brings us to Craig Kimbrel, who has been, to be polite , ineffective as a closer lately. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Some families said the Taliban fighters who searched their homes were polite and did not inflict any damage. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Job seekers should have their antennas up to detect if the interviewers are self-aware, empathetic and polite . \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"At an appearance with Ophuls in 2009, Jean-Luc Godard, in an unusually polite mood, paid him high praise for The Sorrow and the Pity, which explores the German occupation of France through a portrait of one city, Clermont-Ferrand. \u2014 Rachel Kushner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"In a very polite exchange, Horton and Rachel spoke with two bank employees. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 20 May 2022",
"Congressman Cawthorn was very polite , very congenial, offered his support in absolutely any way to help me defeat [Democratic Buncombe County Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara]. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 19 May 2022",
"And incursion sounds like an unnecessarily polite term to describe a multiversal war that Kang wanted to prevent in the first place. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 16 May 2022"
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": showing or characterized by correct social usage":[]
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"It was polite of him to hold the door for them.",
"Please be polite to the guests.",
"It isn't polite to interrupt people when they're talking.",
"She received some polite applause despite the mistakes in her performance.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Be polite in your refusals, but don't waste your time. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"That brings us to Craig Kimbrel, who has been, to be polite , ineffective as a closer lately. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Some families said the Taliban fighters who searched their homes were polite and did not inflict any damage. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Job seekers should have their antennas up to detect if the interviewers are self-aware, empathetic and polite . \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"At an appearance with Ophuls in 2009, Jean-Luc Godard, in an unusually polite mood, paid him high praise for The Sorrow and the Pity, which explores the German occupation of France through a portrait of one city, Clermont-Ferrand. \u2014 Rachel Kushner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"In a very polite exchange, Horton and Rachel spoke with two bank employees. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 20 May 2022",
"Congressman Cawthorn was very polite , very congenial, offered his support in absolutely any way to help me defeat [Democratic Buncombe County Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara]. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 19 May 2022",
"And incursion sounds like an unnecessarily polite term to describe a multiversal war that Kang wanted to prevent in the first place. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 16 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The avatars onscreen were often just rectangles or blobs, and the concepts had to stay within the bounds of dinner-table politesse . \u2014 Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker , 22 Sep. 2021",
"The politesse recommended by Attlee, Bevin, and others had gained the American Jews almost nothing. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 2 Nov. 2020",
"But Peck is just as much the keeper of the flame of the precision postmodernists like William H. Gass, another Midwesterner who had a way with metaphor and a burning fury against politesse . \u2014 Mark Athitakis, Washington Post , 6 Nov. 2019",
"With flattery and French politesse , President Emmanuel Macron delicately maneuvered around Trump, partly by playing to the President\u2019s ego. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 27 Aug. 2019",
"The responses are eye-opening, but do not necessarily represent the gold standard of politesse . \u2014 Ajc Homepage, ajc , 24 Nov. 2017",
"The Trump Administration has the right idea, even if the President\u2019s words lack the usual diplomatic politesse . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 9 Aug. 2017",
"Apparently, the T & T squad didn\u2019t want to burn some of that politesse and reciprocity with the Sounders. \u2014 Geoff Baker, The Seattle Times , 27 Aug. 2017",
"Black demonstrators protesting the murder of teen-agers are met with tanks and riot gear; white demonstrators protesting the unpopularity of Nazi and Confederate ideology are met with politesse . \u2014 Longreads , 15 Aug. 2017"
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"1683, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccp\u00e4-li-\u02c8tes",
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"It would not be politic to ignore them.",
"the actor is politic in discussing the aborted film project, being content to say that there were \u201ccreative differences\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For his part, M\u00e1rki-Zay didn\u2019t give the most politic concession speech. \u2014 John Fund, National Review , 5 Apr. 2022",
"But some of those friends were decidedly less politic when contacted by a reporter. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Meanwhile, as the early promise of a coronavirus-free summer has given way to new mask mandates and other restrictions, public hostility toward vaccine holdouts has spurred accusations of politic grandstanding, ignorance and selfishness. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 July 2021",
"Even the ever- politic Hough couldn't come to the animal rescue for the second week. \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 29 Sep. 2020",
"These actions would be politic as well as morally correct, insuring that the Democratic Party\u2019s most reliable base will be able to vote unimpeded in the 2022 midterms. \u2014 Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker , 28 Sep. 2020",
"The mass stoppage wasn't due to the coronavirus, but outrage over another pandemic, that of racial injustice, politic brutality, and the disregard for Black lives. \u2014 Claire Zillman, Fortune , 27 Aug. 2020",
"Included with the politic petition were cellphone photos of Cole giving the Nazi salute and standing in front of the Auschwitz death camp in Germany. \u2014 Phil Helsel, NBC News , 19 Oct. 2019",
"That included Erniece Winfield, who tried to politic for her son, Antoine Jr., to be drafted onto the Red Bulls. \u2014 Andy Greder, Twin Cities , 4 Oct. 2019"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English politik, pollitique \"of spiritual or secular governance, political, sagacious, prudent,\" borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French politique \"of the state, political, of the regulation of social behavior,\" borrowed from Latin pol\u012bticus \"of civil government, political\" (Medieval Latin, \"judicious, prudent\"), borrowed from Greek pol\u012btik\u00f3s \"of citizens, civic, made up of citizens, of a statesman, of a state, political, public,\" from pol\u012b\u0301t\u0113s \"citizen, freeman\" + -ikos -ic entry 1 \u2014 more at police entry 1":""
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for politic expedient , politic , advisable mean dictated by practical or prudent motives. expedient usually implies what is immediately advantageous without regard for ethics or consistent principles. a politically expedient decision politic stresses judiciousness and tactical value but usually implies some lack of candor or sincerity. a politic show of interest advisable applies to what is practical, prudent, or advantageous but lacks the derogatory implication of expedient and politic . sometimes it's advisable to say nothing suave , urbane , diplomatic , bland , smooth , politic mean pleasantly tactful and well-mannered. suave suggests a specific ability to deal with others easily and without friction. a suave public relations coordinator urbane implies high cultivation and poise coming from wide social experience. an urbane traveler diplomatic stresses an ability to deal with ticklish situations tactfully. a diplomatic negotiator bland emphasizes mildness of manner and absence of irritating qualities. a bland master of ceremonies smooth suggests often a deliberately assumed suavity. a smooth salesman politic implies shrewd as well as tactful and suave handling of people. a cunningly politic manager",
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"Noun",
"The magazine conducted a poll to find out the favorite 100 movies of all time.",
"A recent poll shows a decrease in the number of teenagers who smoke.",
"The polls are open until 8:00 tonight.",
"Verb",
"About half of the people polled had tried smoking.",
"The conservative candidate polled more than 10,000 votes in the last election.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The poll did not include former Prince George\u2019s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, who suspended his campaign last month. \u2014 Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
"There are also no women on Rolling Stone\u2019s readers\u2019 poll of the best grunge albums of all time. \u2014 Peter Rubin, Longreads , 1 July 2022",
"About half of Americans believe former President Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, a new poll shows. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"The share of adults in a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll who said Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. \u2014 Mark Murray, NBC News , 1 July 2022",
"The majority of the country\u201460% of Americans\u2014disapprove of Biden\u2019s leadership, according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll , the results of which were released Wednesday. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"Most of the interviewing for the poll was conducted as the legislation was being considered and before it was passed. \u2014 CBS News , 30 June 2022",
"Forty-eight percent of Americans now say Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in Jan. 6, a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds, while 31 percent said he shouldn't be charged. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 30 June 2022",
"Of a couple dozen comments on a Facebook thread \u2014 a very serious poll \u2014 the vast majority said they are known as lightning bugs in the Hoosier state. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Washington only cares about long-term problems that poll well. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 27 June 2022",
"These policies do not poll particularly well among Asian Americans nationally. \u2014 Claire Wang, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Cisco will then scour data and poll employees to see which approach worked better. \u2014 Matthew Boyle, Fortune , 5 May 2022",
"In a joint statement, US Quidditch and Major League Quidditch revealed plans to poll members and choose a new title for their earthbound sport. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Art & Science Group didn\u2019t poll the parents of the students. \u2014 Emma Whitford, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Each version of the bill consisted of policies that moderates were largely happy to get behind, and BBB tended to poll well, even as President Biden faltered. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"South Carolina looks to go wire-to-wire after being ranked No. 1 in the USA TODAY Sports women's basketball coaches poll all season long, against a Louisville program hungry for its first-ever title (7 p.m. ET, ESPN). \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Woorion maintains a robust database, which allows his group to poll members and use data to evolve and curate the information their community needs the most. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Apr. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"\u02c8p\u014dl"
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"noggin",
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"\u2014 H. L. Mencken"
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": a tax of a fixed amount per person levied on adults and often linked to the right to vote":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Florida, Tennessee, and Arkansas were among the first states to take action, passing requirements like the poll tax between 1889 and 1892. \u2014 Nick Tabor, The New Republic , 4 Feb. 2022",
"But now the House has passed a ruthless attack on democracy, a poll tax in disguise, an attack on college students, the elderly, minorities, and the poor. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 7 Dec. 2021",
"The American Civil Liberties Union and its Georgia chapter filed a lawsuit in April 2020 saying that Georgia\u2019s postage requirement for absentee ballots and ballot applications effectively imposes a poll tax and is therefore unconstitutional. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 30 Aug. 2021",
"British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher\u2019s disastrous poll tax of 1990. \u2014 Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News , 15 Sep. 2021",
"Hidalgo calmly replied that the bill\u2014which would limit voting hours, forbid drive-through voting, and embolden partisan poll watchers\u2014was no different from a literacy test or a poll tax . \u2014 Stephania Taladri, The New Yorker , 28 June 2021",
"Mississippi passed laws that required a poll tax and mandated literacy tests. \u2014 Javonte Anderson, USA TODAY , 5 Mar. 2021",
"Alabama did strike back with its literacy test, poll tax and requirement that voters own property. \u2014 Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al , 21 May 2021",
"But Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law requiring them to first pay off all court fees and fines, which some critics have compared to a poll tax . \u2014 Adam Brewster, CBS News , 5 May 2021"
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"1692, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a person assigned (as by a political party or candidate) to observe activities at a polling place to guard against illegal voting, fraudulent counting of ballots, and other violations of election laws":[]
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"As a noun, a pollard is a tree so barbered, or an animal, such as a goat or sheep, that no longer has its horns. \u2014 John E. Mcintyre, baltimoresun.com , 2 Apr. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There was a large Japanese maple at the edge of the back garden area that had been pollarded at about 9 feet on five or six major branches. \u2014 OregonLive.com , 6 June 2018",
"The shoots formed after topping (or pollarding for that matter) are tenuously connected to the rest of the tree\u2019s structure. \u2014 Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal , 6 Apr. 2018"
],
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"1611, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"\u02c8p\u014dl-st\u0259r"
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"canvaser",
"interviewer",
"poller"
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"interviewee",
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"respondent"
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"examples":[
"he wouldn't tell the exit pollster whom he'd voted for",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Johnson's disapproval rating has soared to 68 percent, according to the pollster YouGov, having been as low as 26 percent in early 2020. \u2014 Alexander Smith, NBC News , 6 June 2022",
"The survey, conducted by the pollster James Johnson, showed Labour holding a lead of 20 percentage points over the Conservatives. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"That\u2019s the explanation given by the pollster whose very small survey found that about 40 percent of Gen Z respondents were LGBTQ. \u2014 Laurie Marhoefer, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 June 2022",
"Lake, the pollster , said the impending ruling could help Biden and Democrats in another way: serving as a glaring reminder of the legacy of former President Trump. \u2014 Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
"Assuming the report is legitimate, the pollster seems to have offered useful analysis that Mr. Biden ignored. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 2 May 2022",
"That\u2019s the first time that number has dipped below 50% since Ipsos started asking the question in August 2021, the pollster noted, and is down from 50% in March and 67% when Covid-19 cases were surging in January. \u2014 Alison Durkee, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"As for the worry that inflated responses about minorities are driven by fear and bigotry, this is belied by the pollster examining answers submitted by members of certain minority groups about their own group. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 18 Mar. 2022",
"That is, a person should be able to respond to a question honestly, while preventing the pollster from knowing whether the answer is that person\u2019s actual opinion. \u2014 Dennis Shasha, Scientific American , 9 Mar. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1939, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143132"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-180501",
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": a colorless transparent mineral (Cs,Na) 2 Al 2 Si 4 O 12 .H 2 O of the zeolite family consisting of hydrous cesium aluminum silicate and occurring massive or crystallizing in cubes":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin Polluc-, Pollux Pollux + English -ite (after German pollux pollucite)":""
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"p\u0259\u02c8l\u00fc\u02ccs\u012bt",
"\u02c8p\u00e4ly\u0259\u02cc-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063118",
"type":[
"noun"
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"pollutant":{
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": something that pollutes":[]
},
"examples":[
"filtered the pollutants out of the water",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This case concerns a legal challenge to the EPA\u2019s authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"On Wednesday, the Navy told state officials the source of pollutant in the Red Hill Shaft was identified as jet fuel, health department spokesperson Kaitlyn Arita-Chang told CNN. \u2014 Tina Burnside And Kelly Mccleary, CNN , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Such systems cannot remove nitrogen, the main pollutant of concern. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 May 2022",
"In some cases, their equipment measured this small particulate pollutant at nearly twice the levels picked up by the corresponding EPA system. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Yet industry watchdogs like Marcie Keever at environmental advocacy group Friends of the Earth caution that LNG is merely a distraction and yet another significant pollutant . \u2014 CNN , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Air quality in the West barely meets the EPA\u2019s standard for one type of air pollutant . \u2014 NBC News , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Other speakers said the county should install methane capture systems at landfills, noting that reducing methane, a short-term but potent climate pollutant , can have immediate benefits in slowing climate change. \u2014 Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Ozone is not an equal opportunity pollutant \u2014some plants are highly susceptible to the toxic gas and others less so. \u2014 Jim Robbins, Wired , 16 Oct. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1892, in the meaning defined above":""
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"p\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fc-t\u1d4ant",
"p\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fct-\u1d4ant"
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"contamination",
"defilement",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062932",
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"using language to deceive or mislead pollutes language",
"\u2014 Linda C. Lederman"
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": to make ceremonially or morally impure : defile":[],
": to make physically impure or unclean : befoul , dirty":[]
},
"examples":[
"Miles of beaches were polluted by the oil spill.",
"Car exhaust pollutes the air.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But not all automakers are on board with a plan to pollute the planet for as long as possible. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Trade laws should be used as one negotiating tactic to get China and other countries to pollute less. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"People argue that to allow facets of your work-self to permeate your family-self is to pollute precious family time. \u2014 Bob Bennett, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"Both waste rock and tailings can contain toxic substances that threaten to pollute groundwater and surface waters if not properly mitigated. \u2014 Becki Robins, The Atlantic , 30 Jan. 2022",
"The Biden administration on Thursday proposed undoing a Trump-era rule that limited the power of states and Native American tribes to block energy projects like natural gas pipelines based on their potential to pollute rivers and streams. \u2014 Michael Phillis, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"Through its carbon conversion technology, Air Company removes the impurities often found in alcohol by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that would otherwise pollute Earth. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 23 May 2022",
"Recirculating tanks require huge amounts of energy to move and filter millions of gallons of water daily, and that water still holds waste that can pollute nearby rivers and estuaries. \u2014 Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"Caps are also set well above the levels at which industries currently pollute , providing an incentive to continue with status quo (or even slightly higher) emissions. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 27 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"Middle English, from Latin pollutus , past participle of polluere , from por- (akin to Latin per through) + -luere (akin to Latin lutum mud, Greek lyma dirt, defilement) \u2014 more at for":""
},
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pollute contaminate , taint , pollute , defile mean to make impure or unclean. contaminate implies intrusion of or contact with dirt or foulness from an outside source. water contaminated by industrial wastes taint stresses the loss of purity or cleanliness that follows contamination. tainted meat a politician's tainted reputation pollute , sometimes interchangeable with contaminate , distinctively may imply that the process which begins with contamination is complete and that what was pure or clean has been made foul, poisoned, or filthy. the polluted waters of the river defile implies befouling of what could or should have been kept clean and pure or held sacred and commonly suggests violation or desecration. defile a hero's memory with slanderous innuendo",
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"using language to deceive or mislead pollutes language",
"\u2014 Linda C. Lederman"
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": to make physically impure or unclean : befoul , dirty":[]
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"Miles of beaches were polluted by the oil spill.",
"Car exhaust pollutes the air.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But not all automakers are on board with a plan to pollute the planet for as long as possible. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Trade laws should be used as one negotiating tactic to get China and other countries to pollute less. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"People argue that to allow facets of your work-self to permeate your family-self is to pollute precious family time. \u2014 Bob Bennett, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"Both waste rock and tailings can contain toxic substances that threaten to pollute groundwater and surface waters if not properly mitigated. \u2014 Becki Robins, The Atlantic , 30 Jan. 2022",
"The Biden administration on Thursday proposed undoing a Trump-era rule that limited the power of states and Native American tribes to block energy projects like natural gas pipelines based on their potential to pollute rivers and streams. \u2014 Michael Phillis, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"Through its carbon conversion technology, Air Company removes the impurities often found in alcohol by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that would otherwise pollute Earth. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 23 May 2022",
"Recirculating tanks require huge amounts of energy to move and filter millions of gallons of water daily, and that water still holds waste that can pollute nearby rivers and estuaries. \u2014 Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"Caps are also set well above the levels at which industries currently pollute , providing an incentive to continue with status quo (or even slightly higher) emissions. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 27 May 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"Middle English, from Latin pollutus , past participle of polluere , from por- (akin to Latin per through) + -luere (akin to Latin lutum mud, Greek lyma dirt, defilement) \u2014 more at for":""
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pollute contaminate , taint , pollute , defile mean to make impure or unclean. contaminate implies intrusion of or contact with dirt or foulness from an outside source. water contaminated by industrial wastes taint stresses the loss of purity or cleanliness that follows contamination. tainted meat a politician's tainted reputation pollute , sometimes interchangeable with contaminate , distinctively may imply that the process which begins with contamination is complete and that what was pure or clean has been made foul, poisoned, or filthy. the polluted waters of the river defile implies befouling of what could or should have been kept clean and pure or held sacred and commonly suggests violation or desecration. defile a hero's memory with slanderous innuendo",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Polly , alteration of Molly , nickname for Mary":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-175109",
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"definitions":{
": basil thyme":[]
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": to sidestep an issue especially by equivocation or evasion":[]
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"origin unknown":""
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]
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"definitions":{
": a noisy usually mischievous ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises (such as rappings)":[]
},
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"we thought a poltergeist was knocking dishes off the shelves, but it turned out to just be vibrations from passing trains",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Parker Posey has joined the ensemble cast of The Parenting, a poltergeist comedy from New Line and HBO Max. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Mar. 2022",
"There was something about Reitman\u2019s film and approach that was just lightning in a bottle \u2014 or a poltergeist in a ghost trap. \u2014 James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Some poltergeist action worked its way into the mix. \u2014 Nicholas Quah, Vulture , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Could this energy, the kind that is projected, perceived, and exchanged, yet purportedly impossible to measure, have somehow spun the monitor\u2019s compass, like a poltergeist or a solar flare? \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 1 Nov. 2021",
"In this horror-comedy, a dead couple haunting their country residence enlist the help of a poltergeist named Beetlejuice to rid their home of the Deetz family. \u2014 Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com , 30 Aug. 2021",
"There's also Bridgewater Triangle, an area in southeastern Massachusetts that's has allegedly been the site of UFO, Big Foot, giant snake, and poltergeist sightings. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 29 Aug. 2021",
"Ed acquiesces, until the church calls them overseas to England to look into the Enfield poltergeist of 1977. \u2014 Lillian Brown, Vulture , 3 June 2021",
"In nineteen-thirties London, the Hungarian parapsychologist Nandor Fodor began studying Alma Fielding, a housewife who claimed to be tormented by a poltergeist . \u2014 The New Yorker , 31 May 2021"
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"1848, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"German, from poltern to knock + Geist spirit":""
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"\u02c8p\u014dl-t\u0259r-\u02ccg\u012bst"
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"apparition",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"familiar spirit",
"ghost",
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"haunt",
"materialization",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"shade",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"sprite",
"vision",
"visitant",
"wraith"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"chicken",
"chicken-livered",
"chickenhearted",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"pusillanimous",
"recreant",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow"
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": characterized by complete cowardice":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"those poltroons in the state legislature who have caved in to bigotry on this important issue of basic civil rights",
"Adjective",
"a military commander who was so poltroon that he surrendered without having fired so much as a single shot",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And there\u2019s the awkward fact of Giuliani\u2019s having failed, in spite of his most abject scheming, to manage to overturn the presidential election that Donald Trump lost to a wobbly poltroon on the edge of 80. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 15 Jan. 2021"
],
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"1645, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"circa 1529, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"Middle French poultron , from Old Italian poltrone , probably akin to poltro colt, ultimately from Latin pullus young of an animal \u2014 more at foal":"Noun"
},
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"p\u00e4l-\u02c8tr\u00fcn"
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"chicken",
"coward",
"craven",
"cur",
"dastard",
"funk",
"recreant",
"sissy"
],
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"type":[
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"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"nerve",
"stoutness",
"valiance",
"valor",
"virtue"
],
"definitions":{
": mean pusillanimity : cowardice":[]
},
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"decried the poltroonery of those politicians who caved into pressure from the special interests"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1590, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00e4l-\u02c8tr\u00fc-n\u0259-r\u0113",
"-\u02c8tr\u00fcn-r\u0113"
],
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"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"gutlessness",
"pusillanimity",
"spinelessness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214020",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"colorless"
],
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": being or relating to radiation that is composed of more than one wavelength":[],
": showing a variety or a change of colors : multicolored":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The exhibition\u2019s candy-colored archway, made from nine different slabs of polychromatic onyx, became one of the most Instagrammed items of the week. \u2014 Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor , 14 June 2022",
"The new fascia has a perfectly symmetrical design, centered on a circular power on/off sphere which uses the company\u2019s familiar polychromatic indicator lighting, offering a clear and simple indication of the amplifier\u2019s status. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"If daylight isn't readily available, researchers said polychromatic white light enriched in short wavelengths\u2014a cool, white LED light at about 6500K, based on current lighting options\u2014is the next best option. \u2014 Ashley Abramson, Health.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The Speed Twin Breitling Limited Edition has a polychromatic blue color scheme that matches the dial of the latest Top Time, along with a custom instrument panel, engine detail and premium leather seat that all bear the Breitling name or logo. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Locks, studs and clasps connect the 20 pieces that make up the mostly polychromatic line, which is structured around four themes: Le Multipin, Le Magn\u00e9tisme, La Mini Malle and Cocktail Rings. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The treatment is capped off with polychromatic LED light therapy. \u2014 Lesleymck, Variety , 13 Oct. 2021",
"The amplifier is designed, engineered and built in the UK and has the unmistakable polychromatic spherical controls which are used to select the power and gain controls. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 21 Sep. 2021",
"While requisite health protocols, including a ban on spectators, have sapped the Games of both color and human connection, the stores have become a substitute arena of polychromatic cultural discovery for some. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Aug. 2021"
],
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"circa 1841, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Greek polychr\u014dmatos , from poly- + chr\u014dmat-, chr\u014dma color \u2014 more at chromatic":""
},
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"-kr\u014d-\u02c8mat-ik",
"\u02ccp\u00e4-l\u0113-kr\u014d-\u02c8ma-tik"
],
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"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated",
"various"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084308",
"type":[
"adjective"
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},
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"antonyms":[
"colorless"
],
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": relating to, made with, or decorated in several colors":[
"polychrome pottery"
]
},
"examples":[
"polychrome pottery featuring designs from the American Southwest",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The idea, which was dropped, was that the sculpture would be polychrome , and the study shows the Woofus with a blue tail, a pink body, a striped red-and-yellow sash, and a white neck and face covered in small blue dots. \u2014 Mark Lamster, Dallas News , 30 Sep. 2021",
"The Avery-Bennett clock has a polychrome red case with bronze moldings, as well as a black dial face and bronze sunburst behind its hands. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2021",
"Various offerings had been deposited in front of her: ceramic vessels with polychrome decorations and metal weapons. \u2014 National Geographic , 24 Nov. 2020",
"This week, workers finished installing glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly; red translucent spears, rippled purple windowpanes and swirled polychrome spheres are emerging from pools and waterfalls. \u2014 Eve M. Kahn, New York Times , 20 Apr. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1837, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Greek polychr\u014dmos , from poly- + chr\u014dma":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4-l\u0113-\u02cckr\u014dm"
],
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"colored",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
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"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated",
"various"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb"
]
},
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"definitions":{
": a molecular chain of amino acids":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But Mounjaro targets a second hormone, the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide , as well. \u2014 Matthew Herper, STAT , 14 May 2022",
"There are also polypeptide chains that are the sides of the ladder, connecting the rungs vertically. \u2014 Kirbie Johnson, Allure , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Vitamin C derivative of choice is an ascorbic acid polypeptide . \u2014 Adam Hurly, Robb Report , 26 Aug. 2021",
"The researchers found success using soy protein isolate\u2014which has an entirely different molecular composition from spider silk\u2014due to the fact that all proteins are comprised of polypeptide chains. \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 14 June 2021",
"It is synthesized as part of two much longer polypeptides, the product of the initial long open reading frame (orf1a), and from the orf1b, the orf1ab polypeptide . \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 4 June 2021",
"Aviptadil is a synthetic form of human vasoactive intestinal polypeptide , which is highly concentrated in the lungs. \u2014 Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2020",
"That is seven more years those polypeptides would receive if they were approved under the rules for regular small-molecule drugs, such as pills. \u2014 Jeff Stein, Washington Post , 20 Dec. 2019",
"In 2015, Krishnamurthy, Hud and their collaborators showed that trying to understand the origins of polypeptide synthesis by focusing only on amino acids, the building blocks of peptides, might be the wrong tack. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 Sep. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1903, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u00e4-l\u0113-\u02c8pep-\u02cct\u012bd",
"\u02ccp\u00e4l-i-\u02c8pep-\u02cct\u012bd"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193815",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"polypetal":{
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": polypetalous":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin polypetalus":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-203009",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"polyribosome":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a cluster of ribosomes linked together by a molecule of messenger RNA and forming the site of protein synthesis":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1962, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u00e4-l\u0113-\u02c8r\u012b-b\u0259-\u02ccs\u014dm",
"-\u02c8r\u012b-b\u0259-\u02ccs\u014dm"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085459",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This serum from Allies of Skin utilizes multiple forms of hyaluronicacid (low molecular weight, high molecular weight, and botanical polysaccharide ) to deliver concentrated moisture deep into fine lines wrinkles. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 29 June 2022",
"The food science writer Harold McGee says that, like onions, shallots contain the fructose polymer inulin, a polysaccharide that breaks down into multiple simple sugars when heated, increasing the overall sweetness. \u2014 New York Times , 23 May 2022",
"All crustaceans have chitosan, a polysaccharide that is the second most abundant organic compound in the world next to cellulose. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 26 July 2021",
"Similarly, to trigger more robust protection in the elderly, a shot of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is boosted by one that contains a pneumococcal polysaccharide . \u2014 Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS , 12 Feb. 2021",
"The scales of chitin (a polysaccharide common to insects) are arranged like roof tiles. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 11 Sep. 2020",
"Risk for the coronavirus was reduced in those who had a pneumococcal polysaccharide or influenza vaccine, or were on melatonin, paroxetine, or carvedilol, according to Clinic research. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 16 June 2020",
"The risk calculator study found that patients who received the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) and flu vaccine were less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than those who didn\u2019t receive the vaccinations. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 16 June 2020",
"They are generally made of long strings of those simple sugars, called polysaccharides (i.e. many sugars). \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 23 May 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1892, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u00e4-l\u0113-\u02c8sa-k\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bd",
"-\u02c8sak-\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bd"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082421",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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": polysaccharide":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"poly- + saccharose":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084922",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a polysaprobic individual":[]
},
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"International Scientific Vocabulary poly- + saprobe":""
},
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"\"+"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114614",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": living in a medium that is rich in decomposable organic matter and nearly free from dissolved oxygen":[
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},
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},
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"\"+"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085307",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": polyschematist":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Greek polysch\u0113mat os (from Greek poly- + sch\u0113mat-, sch\u0113ma form, shape, scheme) + English -ic":""
},
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"\"+"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104356",
"type":[
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]
},
"polyurethane":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of various polymers that contain NHCOO linkages and are used especially in flexible and rigid foams, elastomers, and resins (as for coatings)":[]
},
"examples":[
"The floor will need two coats of polyurethane .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Standing at just over 33 inches, the Panton 2.0 is made from from rigid polyurethane foam that\u2019s topped with glossy lacquer. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 22 June 2022",
"Today they\u2019re composed of a variety of buoyant materials, including polyurethane foam, fiberglass, graphite and carbon fiber. \u2014 Chris Meehan, Popular Mechanics , 12 June 2022",
"The rise of vegan leather, which is typically made from polyurethane , a type of plastic that has a more favorable Higg rating, has brought unintended consequences, industry officials say. \u2014 New York Times , 12 June 2022",
"While indoor air quality certifications like the ones listed above are great to look out for to ensure low VOCs, some of these still use polyurethane foam and are totally separate from organic manufacturing. \u2014 Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"Apply polyurethane to both dowels, then glue and screw the shorter dowel to the longer one. \u2014 Roy Berendsohn And Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 28 Nov. 2020",
"The soft, quick-drying, removable footbed comes with a gel insert and a dual-density anatomical polyurethane construction, which works with the high-rebound EVA midsole for solid comfort. \u2014 Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure , 31 May 2022",
"One of the commenters said that a cheap thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) case yellowing over time shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 25 May 2022",
"Times art critic Christopher Knight checks out an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Kevin Beasley, who works wonders with polyurethane resin. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 21 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1939, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
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},
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"\u02ccp\u00e4-l\u0113-\u02c8yu\u0307r-\u0259-\u02ccth\u0101n"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104724",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"polyuria":{
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"definitions":{
": excessive secretion of urine":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Patients with nocturnal polyuria produce more than 33% of their daily urine output at night, the report says. \u2014 Maggie O'neill, Health.com , 12 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1823, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin":""
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"\u02ccp\u00e4l-\u0113-\u02c8yu\u0307r-\u0113-\u0259",
"\u02ccp\u00e4-l\u0113-\u02c8yu\u0307r-\u0113-\u0259"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105132",
"type":[
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]
},
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": either of a pair of removable rounded or U-shaped handles used on the top of a pommel horse":[],
": pummel":[],
": the knob on the hilt of a sword or saber":[],
": the protuberance at the front and top of a saddle":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"the elderly woman pommeled the would-be thief with her handbag until he begged for mercy",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Researchers detected the elaborate geometric designs on the sword\u2019s upper and lower guards, as well as its pommel . \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Dec. 2021",
"And a specialized stainless-steel pommel works great for hammering on tent stakes, but can be used to tenderize cuts of wild game, as well. \u2014 Outdoor Life , 23 Feb. 2021",
"One thing to look for in a camping hatchet is a solid, flat pommel --that\u2019s the part of the hatchet head on the other end from the cutting edge. \u2014 Outdoor Life , 23 Feb. 2021",
"The most important feature is its pommel , which acts as a spear and can pierce plexiglass or helicopter windows with ease. \u2014 Matt Fratus, Field & Stream , 19 Aug. 2020",
"Depending on the make and model, your knife may have a pommel that comes to a point for precise impact (like smashing glass or skulls). \u2014 Popular Science , 15 June 2020",
"Other lavish artifacts laid to rest with the man include a nearly eight-inch copper dagger adorned with a whale bone pommel , or rounded knob at the end of its handle, and a wrist guard made of rare green stone. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2020",
"Pound the slices on a clean rock with the pommel of your knife to tenderize the meat and flatten it to a consistent thickness. \u2014 T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream , 9 Jan. 2017",
"Depending on the make and model, your knife may have a pommel that comes to a point for precise impact (like smashing glass or skulls). \u2014 Popular Science , 15 June 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There are pommel horses, vertical bars and all the other equipment that populates a gymnastics school. \u2014 Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com , 28 June 2021",
"It\u2019s the first alpine ski area at Hatcher Pass \u2014 long a destination for cross country skiers \u2014 since the 1970s, when there was a rope tow and pommel lift at Independence Mine. \u2014 Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Dec. 2020",
"Not surprisingly, the five fastest serves ever recorded were pommeled by players 6-foot-4 or bigger. \u2014 Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED , 12 July 2019",
"The President\u2019s $17 million home on the island of St. Martin, Le Chateau des Palmiers, was pommeled by Irma days earlier as the then-Category 5 storm wreaked havoc on several Caribbean islands. \u2014 Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com , 12 Sep. 2017"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1530, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English pomel , from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *pomellum ball, knob, from diminutive of Latin pomum fruit":"Noun and Verb"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4-",
"\u02c8p\u0259-m\u0259l"
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"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053825",
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"verb"
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},
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"antonyms":[
"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness"
],
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": a pompous gesture, habit, or act":[],
": pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior":[]
},
"examples":[
"restaurant reviews that are written with a pomposity that will leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth",
"his over-the-top trophy mansion should give you some idea of his pomposity",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His calling card was a no-nonsense political sensibility, infused with audience-pleasing humor that punctured the dominant character trait of many an officeholder: pomposity . \u2014 Clyde Haberman, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"Gilbert, for instance, enjoyed sending up the polysyllabic pomposity of the English oratory of his day. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"But there are times, especially in the record\u2019s first half, when the band\u2019s societal broadsides veer into pomposity . \u2014 Mark Richardson, WSJ , 2 May 2022",
"Amy Schumer, Regina Hall, and Wanda Sykes kicked off the 2022 Oscars \u2014 the first time three women have ever had that job \u2014 with hilarious jabs at Hollywood pomposity and the culture wars. \u2014 Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The cavalier pomposity and condescension of that gesture still shock me. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 17 July 2021",
"Part of his schtick is elevating the unseen everyday to deluxe status, poking fun at the pomposity of the fashion beast. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Swaggering pomposity becomes embarrassed self-deprecation. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"But Thalberg didn\u2019t grasp what had actually worked: the expensive style of the production, pitting the Marxes against the pomposity of opera, and placing Keaton against a full-scale location shoot in New York City. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 24 Jan. 2022"
],
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"1572, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"p\u00e4m-\u02c8p\u00e4-s\u0259-t\u0113"
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"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"consequence",
"haughtiness",
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"high horse",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
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"lordliness",
"masterfulness",
"peremptoriness",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
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"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
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"type":[
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": pompously , imposingly":[
"\u2014 used as a direction in music"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, from Late Latin pomposus":""
},
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"p\u00e4m\u02c8p\u014d(\u02cc)s\u014d"
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"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
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": excessively elevated or ornate":[
"pompous rhetoric"
],
": having or exhibiting self-importance : arrogant":[
"a pompous politician"
],
": relating to or suggestive of pomp or splendor : magnificent":[]
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"So as the pictures of flooded shanties flicker by on cable news, uptight neatnik Midwestern Lutherans and sensitive northeastern urban sophisticates and pompous media grandees on both coasts express shock at the unexpected squalor of the poverty and bafflement over the slovenly corruption of the civic institutions. \u2014 Rob Long , National Review , 26 Sept. 2005",
"President Warren Harding was an orator, but his bloviations were an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea. \u2014 Harold Evans , New York Times Book Review , 11 Nov. 2001",
"She never allowed her spirit to become, as, say, Henry Adams did, curdled by long exposure to Washington's tawdry and pompous aspects. \u2014 George F. Will , Newsweek , 24 May 1999",
"She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous .",
"the pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That sounded a little bit pompous but there was a bit of competition. \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"The whole manuscript is written in a pompous , defensive stance, laced with aphorisms about the wonder of free markets. \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Instead, The Gilded Age offers Nathan Lane using a Colonel Sanders accent as the pompous McAllister. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Each of them delivers a pompous speech diagnosing Pinocchio\u2019s ailment, and each diagnosis differs from the others. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Constance is a pompous British aristocrat from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. \u2014 Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Genet\u2019s face stared out from the cover, once old and pompous , now young and troubled. \u2014 Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Young is morphed into a rather pompous George Washington and Mani into pro-slavery Founding Father Charles Pinckney. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The result is that Parallel Mothers is Almod\u00f3var\u2019s most pompous and unconvincingly political film. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 19 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see pomp":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259s"
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"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
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"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
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"overweening",
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"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
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"noun"
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"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
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": excessively elevated or ornate":[
"pompous rhetoric"
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": having or exhibiting self-importance : arrogant":[
"a pompous politician"
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": relating to or suggestive of pomp or splendor : magnificent":[]
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"examples":[
"So as the pictures of flooded shanties flicker by on cable news, uptight neatnik Midwestern Lutherans and sensitive northeastern urban sophisticates and pompous media grandees on both coasts express shock at the unexpected squalor of the poverty and bafflement over the slovenly corruption of the civic institutions. \u2014 Rob Long , National Review , 26 Sept. 2005",
"President Warren Harding was an orator, but his bloviations were an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea. \u2014 Harold Evans , New York Times Book Review , 11 Nov. 2001",
"She never allowed her spirit to become, as, say, Henry Adams did, curdled by long exposure to Washington's tawdry and pompous aspects. \u2014 George F. Will , Newsweek , 24 May 1999",
"She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous .",
"the pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That sounded a little bit pompous but there was a bit of competition. \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"The whole manuscript is written in a pompous , defensive stance, laced with aphorisms about the wonder of free markets. \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Instead, The Gilded Age offers Nathan Lane using a Colonel Sanders accent as the pompous McAllister. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Each of them delivers a pompous speech diagnosing Pinocchio\u2019s ailment, and each diagnosis differs from the others. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Constance is a pompous British aristocrat from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. \u2014 Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Genet\u2019s face stared out from the cover, once old and pompous , now young and troubled. \u2014 Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Young is morphed into a rather pompous George Washington and Mani into pro-slavery Founding Father Charles Pinckney. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The result is that Parallel Mothers is Almod\u00f3var\u2019s most pompous and unconvincingly political film. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 19 Jan. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see pomp":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259s"
],
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"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
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"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
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": excessively elevated or ornate":[
"pompous rhetoric"
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": having or exhibiting self-importance : arrogant":[
"a pompous politician"
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": relating to or suggestive of pomp or splendor : magnificent":[]
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"examples":[
"So as the pictures of flooded shanties flicker by on cable news, uptight neatnik Midwestern Lutherans and sensitive northeastern urban sophisticates and pompous media grandees on both coasts express shock at the unexpected squalor of the poverty and bafflement over the slovenly corruption of the civic institutions. \u2014 Rob Long , National Review , 26 Sept. 2005",
"President Warren Harding was an orator, but his bloviations were an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea. \u2014 Harold Evans , New York Times Book Review , 11 Nov. 2001",
"She never allowed her spirit to become, as, say, Henry Adams did, curdled by long exposure to Washington's tawdry and pompous aspects. \u2014 George F. Will , Newsweek , 24 May 1999",
"She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous .",
"the pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That sounded a little bit pompous but there was a bit of competition. \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"The whole manuscript is written in a pompous , defensive stance, laced with aphorisms about the wonder of free markets. \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Instead, The Gilded Age offers Nathan Lane using a Colonel Sanders accent as the pompous McAllister. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Each of them delivers a pompous speech diagnosing Pinocchio\u2019s ailment, and each diagnosis differs from the others. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Constance is a pompous British aristocrat from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. \u2014 Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Genet\u2019s face stared out from the cover, once old and pompous , now young and troubled. \u2014 Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Young is morphed into a rather pompous George Washington and Mani into pro-slavery Founding Father Charles Pinckney. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The result is that Parallel Mothers is Almod\u00f3var\u2019s most pompous and unconvincingly political film. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 19 Jan. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see pomp":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259s"
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"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
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": to treat illness without having sufficient knowledge or skill in medicine":[]
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"probably of Cornish origin":""
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"-m(p)st-",
"\u02c8p\u00e4mzt\u0259(r)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212736",
"type":[
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"definitions":{
": upon":[],
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"(\u00a6)p\u0259n",
"(\u00a6)p\u00e4n"
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"He pondered the question before he answered.",
"The team pondered their chances of success.",
"We pondered whether we could afford the trip.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then, China will ponder its options and actions, costs and benefits. \u2014 Rich Karlgaard, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Last Week: Several great actors and also young Ben Affleck ponder The Sum of All Fears. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"There are many variables to ponder here, however, including how awful your cousins really are, and how tolerant the bride, groom and his family are willing or able to be. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
"There are many variables to ponder here, however, including how awful your cousins really are, and how tolerant the bride, groom, and his family are willing or able to be. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 8 June 2022",
"There are many variables to ponder here, however, including how awful your cousins really are, and how tolerant the bride, groom, and his family are willing or able to be. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 8 June 2022",
"There are many variables to ponder here, however, including how awful your cousins really are, and how tolerant the bride, groom, and his family are willing or able to be. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"On their late-April Zoom call, Neil, Dern and Goldblum were eager to catch up, engage in some light teasing and ponder how their lasting chemistry as a trio has proved as potent a selling point as all those special effects. \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
"After deciding who is best equipped to guide the listening session, the next question to ponder is what the ultimate objective of the session is. \u2014 Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes , 20 May 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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"Middle English, from Middle French ponderer , from Latin ponderare to weigh, ponder, from ponder-, pondus weight \u2014 more at pendant":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4n-d\u0259r"
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"debate",
"deliberate",
"entertain",
"eye",
"kick around",
"meditate",
"mull (over)",
"perpend",
"pore (over)",
"question",
"revolve",
"ruminate",
"study",
"think (about ",
"turn",
"weigh",
"wrestle (with)"
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"type":[
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"ponderable":{
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"definitions":{
": significant enough to be worth considering : appreciable":[]
},
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"1813, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Late Latin ponderabilis , from ponderare":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4n-d(\u0259-)r\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for ponderable perceptible , sensible , palpable , tangible , appreciable , ponderable mean apprehensible as real or existent. perceptible applies to what can be discerned by the senses often to a minimal extent. a perceptible difference in sound to a careful listener sensible applies to whatever is clearly apprehended through the senses or impresses itself strongly on the mind. an abrupt, sensible drop in temperature palpable applies either to what has physical substance or to what is obvious and unmistakable. the tension in the air was almost palpable tangible suggests what is capable of being handled or grasped both physically and mentally. no tangible evidence of UFOs appreciable applies to what is distinctly discernible by the senses or definitely measurable. an appreciable increase in income ponderable suggests having definitely measurable weight or importance. exerted a ponderable influence on world events",
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"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
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": of very great weight":[],
": oppressively or unpleasantly dull : lifeless":[
"ponderous prose"
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": unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size":[]
},
"examples":[
"students struggling to stay awake during a ponderous lecture",
"fell asleep during the ponderous speech",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite the music\u2019s harmonic richness, Weilerstein eschewed the temptation of ponderous tempos and the Phoenix playing was polished and articulate throughout. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 22 May 2022",
"The dialogue is reduced to ponderous proverbs and telegram-like declarations. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022",
"The ponderous massed-choir pieties of the Victorian era later yielded to the lighter, swifter mood of period-instrument versions and the semi-operatic stagings of directors such as Jonathan Miller and Peter Sellars. \u2014 Boyd Tonkin, WSJ , 14 Apr. 2022",
"This is realism with all the ponderous weight but little of the visual payoff. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The sentiment serves as the thesis for this anthology series from creator Aaron Cooley and director Susanne Bier, a well-meaning but ponderous effort that wastes a trio of extraordinary actresses with its dull and cursory storytelling. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Sussmann\u2019s trial is scheduled for May, but the case has already whipped Washington into a frenzy with allegations of political spying, counterclaims of a political witch-hunt, and now, the return of the ponderous Hillary herself. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 19 Feb. 2022",
"To deal with a narrow waterway and stiff winds, the captain of the sidewheeler intended to use the connection to swing the ponderous vessel onto the correct course. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Mar. 2022",
"The game\u2019s ponderous , precise combat was poorly suited to demos; Miyazaki recalls players shrugging and walking away. \u2014 Simon Parkin, The New Yorker , 25 Feb. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French ponderus , from Latin ponderosus , from ponder-, pondus weight":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4n-d\u0259-r\u0259s",
"\u02c8p\u00e4n-d(\u0259-)r\u0259s"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for ponderous heavy , weighty , ponderous , cumbrous , cumbersome mean having great weight. heavy implies that something has greater density or thickness than the average of its kind or class. a heavy child for his age weighty suggests having actual and not just relative weight. a load of weighty boxes ponderous implies having great weight because of size and massiveness with resulting great inertia. ponderous elephants in a circus parade cumbrous and cumbersome imply heaviness and bulkiness that make for difficulty in grasping, moving, carrying, or manipulating. wrestled with the cumbrous furniture early cameras were cumbersome and inconvenient",
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"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a steep-sided sinkhole":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Serbo-Croatian":""
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"\u02c8p\u014d\u02ccn\u022f(\u0259)r"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193433",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pons":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a broad mass of chiefly transverse nerve fibers in the mammalian brain stem lying ventral to the cerebellum at the anterior end of the medulla oblongata \u2014 see brain illustration":[],
"Lily 1904\u20131976 American (French-born) soprano":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Damage to the pons can short-circuit its ability to paralyze the sleeping body. \u2014 Jen Rose Smith, CNN , 10 May 2022",
"Damage done to the pons by neurological disorders can also affect the brain's ability to paralyze the body during sleep. \u2014 Jen Rose Smith, CNN , 10 May 2022",
"That structure, called the pons , is located on the brainstem. \u2014 Jen Rose Smith, CNN , 10 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1671, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, short for pons Varolii":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4nz",
"\u02c8p\u014d\u207fs"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192439",
"type":[
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a change in register in the voice (as of a boy at puberty) : break":[],
": the bridge of a bowed stringed musical instrument":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, diminutive of ponte bridge, from Latin pont-, pons":""
},
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"\u02ccp\u00e4nt\u0259\u02c8che(\u02cc)l\u014d"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130502",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ponticulus":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a bridge of transverse nerve fibers between the pyramids of the medulla and the pons":[],
": a slight ridge":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, diminutive of pont-, pons bridge":""
},
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"p\u00e4n\u2027\u02c8tiky\u0259l\u0259s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184018",
"type":[
"noun"
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"pontifex":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of the council of priests in ancient Rome":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1579, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin pontific-, pontifex , from pont-, pons bridge + facere to make \u2014 more at find , do":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4n-t\u0259-\u02ccfeks"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pontiff recently told a group of Catholic journalists that Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine isn\u2019t like fairy tales. \u2014 Francis X. Rocca, WSJ , 23 June 2022",
"Catholic pontiff can still perform his papal duties as long as his mind is clear. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"The pontiff is scheduled to personally apologize to Indigenous peoples in Canada for abuses at residential schools. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"The pontiff has also joked about an alternative method of dealing with the pain. \u2014 Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"Hitler \u2014 among many other things, a superb judge of character \u2014 rushed to congratulate the new pontiff . \u2014 David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"Francis has said it\u2019s not the role of a pontiff to call out a head of state. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"Francis has said it\u2019s not the role of a pontiff to call out a head of state. \u2014 Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"In Latin America, many have seen their plight worsen during the coronavirus pandemic, aggravating social problems stemming from corruption, violence and drug trafficking, the pontiff said. \u2014 Time , 17 Apr. 2022"
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"1552, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"French pontif , from Latin pontific-, pontifex":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4n-t\u0259f"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Because of its original purpose, however, the building also has its peculiarities: the pontifical horses lived in grand style on two levels of soaring stalls, connected by a monumental, gently sloping ramp of travertine bricks. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books , 20 Aug. 2020",
"The prevailing view of Wordsworth\u2014 pontifical , orthodox, austere\u2014was entrenched by the Victorians, who praised him for the very qualities the Younger Romantics had mocked. \u2014 Matthew Bevis, Harper's Magazine , 23 June 2020",
"Lifting the rule of pontifical secrecy does not clarify church official\u2019s obligations to comply with such requests. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2020",
"The Vatican had previously argued that the imposition of pontifical secrecy was necessary to protect both victim and accused. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 Dec. 2019",
"Critics said the pontifical secret was used to keep the scandal hidden, prevent police from acquiring internal documentation and silence victims. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Dec. 2019",
"Critics said the pontifical secret was used to keep the scandal hidden, prevent police from acquiring internal documentation and silence victims. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Dec. 2019",
"Critics said the pontifical secret was used to keep the scandal hidden, prevent police from acquiring internal documentation and silence victims. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Dec. 2019",
"Critics said the pontifical secret was used to keep the scandal hidden, prevent police from acquiring internal documentation and silence victims. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Dec. 2019"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin pontificalis , from pontific-, pontifex":"Adjective",
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"p\u00e4n-\u02c8ti-fi-k\u0259l"
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"Medieval Latin, from neuter plural of Latin pontificalis of a pontiff":""
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"plural noun"
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": a bridge that floats on the water and is held up by large hollow containers filled with air (called pontoons)":[]
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": a portable standard of adjustable height used as a support (as for a pipe)":[]
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"repudiate"
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": to pay (money) especially in settlement of an account":[]
},
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"despite having good credit, the couple still had to pony up a large down payment for the house",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The citizens of Cincinnati, with no-frills Paul Brown Stadium (65,515), will soon have to decide whether to pony up the cash for something a bit more glitzy. \u2014 Steven F. Sundich, The Enquirer , 17 June 2022",
"Elon Musk has assembled a group of investors including a Saudi prince, Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison and a bitcoin exchange to pony up more than $7 billion to back his $44 billion deal for Twitter. \u2014 Francesca Fontana, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"In an interview last week, port authority Executive Director Jack Hedge said once Suburban Land Reserve opened the property to bid, other buyers were willing to pony up more than SLGW and its parent company, Patriot Rail. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"When a human rather than a random number generator sets the cost, knowing a consumer\u2019s WTP in advance allows the seller to personalize prices\u2014and to charge more to those whom the seller knows will be willing to pony up . \u2014 Ethan Wilk, Scientific American , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Were Tesla's stock to drop by 40%, Musk would have to pony up the cash to pay back the loan, according to regulatory filings. \u2014 Will Daniel, Fortune , 26 Apr. 2022",
"People with limited means shouldn\u2019t feel any pressure to pony up . \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Its future owner will have to pony up cash equaling the cost of 189 highest-end Steinways. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Other major networks were interested, but most were unwilling to pony up the money backers desired to make an epic with a strong female focus. \u2014 Diane Garrett, Variety , 24 Mar. 2022"
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"1824, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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"origin unknown":""
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"ante (up)",
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"clear",
"discharge",
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"liquidate",
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"pay off",
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"settle",
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"verb"
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": a hairstyle in which the hair is pulled together and banded usually at the back of the head so as to resemble a pony's tail":[]
},
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"She usually wears her hair pulled back in a ponytail .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For Kimmel, Gomez styled her hair in an elegant low ponytail and accessorized the off-the-shoulder gown with simple black peep-toe heels. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 15 June 2022",
"At one point, a man with a ponytail \u2014 later identified as Glover \u2014 walked by. \u2014 Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Her hair was left curly and natural, tied back into a loose ponytail with a giant black organza ribbon to keep it in place. \u2014 Alex Kessler, Vogue , 27 May 2022",
"Grande had her hair styled in a ponytail with a black ribbon. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 12 May 2022",
"Stewart's blonde hair was pulled up in a high ponytail with face-framing strands left out in loose waves. \u2014 Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour , 6 May 2022",
"Dua\u2019s long wavy hair was pulled back into a sleek half-up, half-down ponytail , and the outfit was completed with rosy lipstick and in-ear monitors draped around her neck. \u2014 Hannah Oh, Seventeen , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The long-sleeve, glittering black and blue ensemble hugged every curve, and Stewart completed the look with a half-up styled ponytail and black Christian Louboutin pumps. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Her dirty-blonde hair is pulled back into a high ponytail with the wavy tendrils flowing behind her. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 15 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1916, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u014d-n\u0113-\u02cct\u0101l"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181141",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"ponzu":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a tangy sauce made with citrus juice, rice wine vinegar, and soy sauce and used especially on seafood":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lime juice \u2014 which balances out the spice nicely \u2014 plus ocean clam juice, worcestershire sauce and ponzu . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Red bream is plated under a white truffle ponzu jelly; Scottish langoustine is dusted under English Bergamot. \u2014 Brad Japhe, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"For the salsa, toss the fruit(s), tomato, cucumber, and jalapeno together, then stir in the ponzu sauce. \u2014 Dana Mcmahan, The Courier-Journal , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Starters include seared tenderloin with ginger, garlic ponzu and microgreens; wild caught blue crab cakes with a red pepper remoulade; roasted bone marrow with oxtail jam and more. \u2014 Chelsea Davis, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
"There\u2019s also a raw bar featuring a Bigeye Tuna Crudo ($15) made with a Cuban coffee ponzu . \u2014 Arlene Borenstein-zuluaga, sun-sentinel.com , 3 Dec. 2020",
"The pantry possibilities are, in theory, endless: oyster sauce, Worcestershire sauce, or even ponzu for a light citrus twist. \u2014 Patricia Kelly Yeo, Bon App\u00e9tit , 9 Sep. 2020",
"Here, a light sauce reminiscent of ponzu is made with soy sauce, citrus and a little rice vinegar. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Sep. 2020",
"Other items include a katsu chicken sandwich that fuses Japanese and Korean flavors and ponzu glazed salmon with bok choy and cilantro. \u2014 Shaena Montanari, azcentral , 16 June 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1966, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Japanese ponsu, ponzu juice squeezed from sour oranges, from Dutch pons , literally, punch, from English punch entry 4":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4n-(\u02cc)z\u00fc"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183134",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"poo":{
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": defecate":[
"An Australian couple found themselves upstaged during their own wedding by their 3-year-old son, who interrupted the ceremony to announce: \"I have to poo .\"",
"\u2014 Ben Hooper",
"When proper citizens of Rome were lowering their bottoms onto indoor toilet seats, my ancestors were using the woods to do their business. I suspect they just squatted and pooed without the benefit of a hole.",
"\u2014 Jim Jones"
],
": feces":[
"It will please me no end to read about someone booked for leaving his dog's poo on a pavement or in some other public place.",
"\u2014 Alan John",
"Cameron Diaz writes in The Body Book about inspecting your poo to monitor your health.",
"\u2014 Lisa Freedman"
],
": the act of defecating":[
"Kate has a giant Great Dane she brings everywhere. It takes a poo on Carly's floor.",
"\u2014 Ty Burr"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1975, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"circa 1960, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"baby talk":"Noun",
"derivative of poo entry 1":"Verb",
"origin unknown":"Suffix"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u00fc",
"\u02c8p\u00fc"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193912",
"type":[
"noun",
"suffix",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"shrimp",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
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": a person holding many public or private offices":[],
": a person in high position or of great influence":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Pooh-Bah , character in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Mikado (1885) bearing the title Lord-High-Everything-Else":""
},
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"-\u02ccb\u022f",
"\u02c8p\u00fc-\u02ccb\u00e4"
],
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"big",
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"big leaguer",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"big-timer",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"heavy",
"heavy hitter",
"heavyweight",
"high-muck-a-muck",
"high-muckety-muck",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"kingfish",
"kingpin",
"major leaguer",
"muckety-muck",
"muck-a-muck",
"mucky-muck",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"nibs",
"nob",
"wheel"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101514",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pooch":{
"antonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pouch",
"pout",
"project",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell"
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"a cute pooch",
"Before the abusive letters pour in \u2026, may I state that I am very fond of dogs. Loyal, obedient, housetrained pooches are a pleasure to rub noses with.",
"\u2014 Romany Bain"
],
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"He's a little cocky, but he's not about to screw the pooch .",
"\u2014 Douglas M. Bailey",
"Such is life. Sometimes you score big, and sometimes you screw the pooch .",
"\u2014 Greg Jerrett"
]
},
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"Noun",
"What a cute little pooch !",
"walking down the street with several pooches on leashes",
"Verb",
"his lower lip pooched out in disappointment",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For Parker herself, the past is behind her, and the pooch is now focused on healing. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
"Burbage \u2014 whose role at the hospital has recently expanded to include dog handler responsibilities \u2014 visited the Orlando center to find the perfect pooch to join the staff. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Jan. 2022",
"This pooch is another breed that is perfect for warmer climates and will love the hot months. \u2014 Mattie Schuler, Outside Online , 1 May 2013",
"The floating pooch raft measures 60 x 45 x 9 inches and supports up to 220 pounds. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 26 May 2022",
"On the ride home from the Harford shelter, the 42-pound pooch sat on the back seat, behind the driver, Antonio, and rested her head on his shoulder. \u2014 Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun , 20 May 2022",
"Will your breasts droop and your stomach pooch permanently or will everything eventually go back to its proper place? \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"The employee experience means operating under the influence of personal circumstances\u2014right down to the visibly overwhelmed individual speaking to you over Zoom as a pooch yaps, children cajole and a laundry buzzer sounds off in the background. \u2014 Rob Catalano, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"Those who arrive with pets in tow usually find their way to Dog Beach, a serene place to stroll with your pooch . \u2014 Alexander Lobrano, WSJ , 11 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1908, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1923, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
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"alteration of pouch entry 1":"Verb",
"origin unknown":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00fcch"
],
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"canine",
"dog",
"doggy",
"doggie",
"hound",
"tyke",
"tike"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174710",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"shrimp",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
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": a person holding many public or private offices":[],
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},
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"1886, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Pooh-Bah , character in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Mikado (1885) bearing the title Lord-High-Everything-Else":""
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"\u02c8p\u00fc-\u02ccb\u00e4",
"-\u02ccb\u022f"
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"big cheese",
"big gun",
"big leaguer",
"big shot",
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"big-timer",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"heavy",
"heavy hitter",
"heavyweight",
"high-muck-a-muck",
"high-muckety-muck",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"kingfish",
"kingpin",
"major leaguer",
"muckety-muck",
"muck-a-muck",
"mucky-muck",
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"nawab",
"nibs",
"nob",
"wheel"
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"\u02c8p\u00fck",
"\""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124839",
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"transitive verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mischievous or malignant goblin or specter held in Irish folklore to appear in the form of a horse and to haunt bogs and marshes":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Irish Gaelic p\u016bca , perhaps from Old English, puck":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171657",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"definitions":{
": a small fishing boat usually with one mast, equipped with oars as well as sails, and often lateen-rigged":[]
},
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"type":[
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]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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"Definition of pookoo variant spelling of puku"
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": a body product (such as blood) collected from many donors and stored for later use":[],
": a continuous area of porous sedimentary rock that yields petroleum or gas":[],
": a game played on an English billiard table in which each of the players stakes a sum and the winner takes all":[],
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"first_known_use":{
"1626, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1708, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"\u02c8p\u00fcl"
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"\u2014 Scott Kramer",
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And the poop deck , where passengers crowded as the ship sank, folded under itself. \u2014 Fox News , 1 July 2021",
"And the poop deck , where passengers crowded as the ship sank, folded under itself. \u2014 Fox News , 1 July 2021",
"And the poop deck , where passengers crowded as the ship sank, folded under itself. \u2014 Fox News , 1 July 2021",
"And the poop deck , where passengers crowded as the ship sank, folded under itself. \u2014 Fox News , 1 July 2021",
"And the poop deck , where passengers crowded as the ship sank, folded under itself. \u2014 Fox News , 1 July 2021",
"And the poop deck , where passengers crowded as the ship sank, folded under itself. \u2014 Fox News , 1 July 2021",
"And the poop deck , where passengers crowded as the ship sank, folded under itself. \u2014 Fox News , 1 July 2021",
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"I'm all pooped out ."
],
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": a device used for picking up the excrement of a pet (such as a dog) for disposal":[]
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"1976, in the meaning defined above":""
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"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
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"\u2014 used of land"
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"We were too poor to buy new clothes.",
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"It was a poor attempt at a joke.",
"He is in poor condition.",
"She couldn't read the sign because her vision was too poor .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Mancini has certainly recognised that, making countless changes to his squad and even searching in unlikely places for players that can improve those poor results. \u2014 Adam Digby, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"People who live in the South and the Midwest, poor people, people of color, immigrants, and refugees will be forced to carry pregnancies against their will. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 13 June 2022",
"In the Asia Pacific region, those pressures threaten hundreds of millions of poor people who spend a high percentage of their incomes on basic commodities like rice and wheat. \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"Compare that with Bass, whose proposals on public safety and homelessness are less extreme, but are far more realistic, sophisticated and considerate of poor people of color. \u2014 Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"Food prices are going to go up, and this is one more thing that affects poor people more quickly than wealthy people. \u2014 Saleen Martin, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022",
"Studies have shown how the levels of DDT in our bodies track inequalities in human society; for instance, there are higher DDT levels in Black people than in whites and higher levels in poor people than in rich ones. \u2014 Scott W. Stern, The New Republic , 31 May 2022",
"His passion for using politics to help poor people was formed early, watching the old ward bosses of his youth, like the legendary Martin Lomasney. \u2014 Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"Finance depends on trust, but very poor people do not have a credit history. \u2014 Jaron Lanier, The Atlantic , 26 May 2022"
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"The suit also states that \u2014 due to the poor box office results \u2014 Village Roadshow cannot make its contractually obligated payment to Warner Bros., putting the company at risk of losing its rights to the film. \u2014 Gene Maddaus, Variety , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Like Ben Affleck in Last Duel, whose take on a libertine count in Ridley Scott's medieval drama was marred by poor box office and unfortunate boy-band hair. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Although some industry watchers have interpreted Heights\u2018 and West Side Story\u2019s poor box -office returns as auguring poorly for future Latin-centric films, the actresses reject the premise. \u2014 Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The poor box office performance came in spite of the fact that the movie drew strong reviews and is an early frontrunner in the Oscars' Best Picture race. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 12 Dec. 2021",
"Simply put, the poor box office for King Richard, Belfast and West Side Story will impact those films\u2019 awards season narratives while the streaming biggies (Tick... \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 12 Dec. 2021",
"The Beginning was finally released to poor box office returns in 2004. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 26 July 2021",
"Chinese state media partly attributed the poor box office results to community lockdowns in the hugely populous Guangdong region, imposed to control a coronavirus outbreak that started last month. \u2014 Ben Westcott, CNN , 16 June 2021",
"Greenlee said that after three weeks in release, during which F.B.I. agents hounded exhibitors to pull the film, UA withdrew it from circulation, citing poor box office grosses. \u2014 J. Hoberman, New York Times , 18 Sep. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His own father had grown up in Newburgh\u2019s poorhouse . \u2014 Zach Helfand, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Her career lasted only a decade, but Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) painted more than 500 canvases, including moody landscapes, wry self-portraits and careful studies of children, old people and the residents of a local poorhouse . \u2014 Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Your bottom dollar puts you in the poorhouse , but a pretty penny buys you a mansion. \u2014 Casey Cep, The New Yorker , 28 July 2021",
"Laguna Honda, as the poorhouse became known, was a place for city residents who were old, impoverished, mentally ill, and disabled. \u2014 Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker , 4 Jan. 2021",
"In 1866, the fledgling city of San Francisco decided to build a four-story poorhouse for unlucky gold rushers. \u2014 Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker , 4 Jan. 2021",
"People who were forced by debt to live in the poorhouse had to subsist on six and half pounds a year, paid from parish taxes. \u2014 Louis Menand, The New Yorker , 28 Sep. 2020",
"On the other hand, a medical emergency could put you in the poorhouse . \u2014 Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com , 15 Feb. 2020",
"Don\u2019t evacuate the penthouse and condemn its residents to the poorhouse . \u2014 Deroy Murdock, National Review , 24 Jan. 2020"
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"unsound",
"unwell"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"How these tiny, shrimplike creatures form and maintain massive clusters is poorly understood. \u2014 Andrew Chapman, Scientific American , 21 June 2022",
"But imply that the industry is doing poorly under Biden, and that is a complete denial of reality. \u2014 Robert Rapier, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"And why not just focus in the areas that are doing poorly ? \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 18 May 2022",
"The floor would be the team doing so poorly that the players would take up music as a career. \u2014 Daniel Kohn, SPIN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Biden has been doing especially poorly among working-class and Hispanic voters. \u2014 Ruy Teixeira, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s especially so in light of the solicitude the regents recently showed to their cadre of half-million-dollar campus chancellors, supposedly doing so poorly in relation to their public university peers. \u2014 Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Advisers and others familiar with the discussions said Biden has wondered aloud why majorities of Americans say the economy is doing poorly when the numbers show otherwise. \u2014 Kevin Liptak, CNN , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Defining an enigma While researchers are making strides in understanding what has become a common condition, Long COVID is still poorly understood, and definitions vary. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 29 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Story will be a free agent and at this stage why would an accomplished player stay with the poorly run Rockies? \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 27 Mar. 2021"
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"unacceptably",
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"flush",
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"monied",
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"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
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"We were too poor to buy new clothes.",
"The organization helps poor families.",
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"He is in poor condition.",
"She couldn't read the sign because her vision was too poor .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Mancini has certainly recognised that, making countless changes to his squad and even searching in unlikely places for players that can improve those poor results. \u2014 Adam Digby, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"People who live in the South and the Midwest, poor people, people of color, immigrants, and refugees will be forced to carry pregnancies against their will. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 13 June 2022",
"In the Asia Pacific region, those pressures threaten hundreds of millions of poor people who spend a high percentage of their incomes on basic commodities like rice and wheat. \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"Compare that with Bass, whose proposals on public safety and homelessness are less extreme, but are far more realistic, sophisticated and considerate of poor people of color. \u2014 Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"Food prices are going to go up, and this is one more thing that affects poor people more quickly than wealthy people. \u2014 Saleen Martin, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022",
"Studies have shown how the levels of DDT in our bodies track inequalities in human society; for instance, there are higher DDT levels in Black people than in whites and higher levels in poor people than in rich ones. \u2014 Scott W. Stern, The New Republic , 31 May 2022",
"His passion for using politics to help poor people was formed early, watching the old ward bosses of his youth, like the legendary Martin Lomasney. \u2014 Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"Finance depends on trust, but very poor people do not have a credit history. \u2014 Jaron Lanier, The Atlantic , 26 May 2022"
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"\u2014 John Kessler"
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"\u2014 Slaton L. White"
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"We heard the sound of corks popping as the celebration began.",
"One of the buttons popped off my sweater.",
"Guns were popping in the distance.",
"We popped some popcorn in the microwave.",
"The popcorn is done popping .",
"I didn't mean to say that\u2014it just popped out.",
"Her shoulder popped out of its socket.",
"He opened the box, and out popped a mouse.",
"If you are busy, I can pop back in later.",
"My neighbor popped in for a visit.",
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"\u02c8p\u00e4p"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082243",
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": empty talk or writing : nonsense":[]
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"That's a lot of poppycock !",
"starting with the cherry tree, much of what was written by Washington's early biographers was pure poppycock",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Skeptics pounced on the proclamation as pure poppycock \u2014and for understandable reasons. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 13 May 2022",
"Others dismiss the idea of such a romance as poppycock . \u2014 Colleen A. Sheehan, WSJ , 25 Nov. 2021",
"But simply passing off early losses as games that are not as important as later in the season is pure poppycock . \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 21 Aug. 2021",
"None of the poppycock from Texas politicians is of any help to the scores of Texans who spent long hours and days freezing in their homes. \u2014 Star Tribune , 22 Feb. 2021",
"Even if that proves to be poppycock , Republicans must use one hand to keep Trump voters engaged in politics and the other hand to block Trump from remaining in control of the GOP. \u2014 Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News , 25 Jan. 2021",
"Nor is such dangerous poppycock confined to western Europe. \u2014 The Economist , 12 Dec. 2020",
"Despite all the poppycock , the animosity, the headlines, the impeachment without a trial. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Dec. 2019",
"But the legend lives on, and that\u2019s not just plain poppycock . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 July 2019"
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"1852, in the meaning defined above":""
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"The populace has suffered greatly.",
"high officials awkwardly mingling with the general populace",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Often, more affordable brands followed, making similar but lower-cost versions of those items for the general populace . \u2014 Jacey Duprie, The Week , 7 June 2022",
"Kim\u2019s pressure campaign hasn\u2019t been slowed by a COVID-19 outbreak spreading across his largely unvaccinated populace of 26 million amid a lack of public health tools. \u2014 Kim Tong-hyung, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"To look at this phenomenon in purely capitalistic terms, this affects the health of the economy along with the general populace . \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"But the sentiment Caruso is trying to convey \u2014 that the city is in dire straits, with a populace plagued by fear \u2014 is central to his insurgent campaign for mayor. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The allegations, analysts say, have cut through the typical scandal-of-the-moment furor that normally fades with the next day\u2019s headlines, resonating with a British populace that still vividly remembers the pandemic sacrifices it was asked to make. \u2014 Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"With a thrifty populace living in such a temperate climate, box fans rigged to blow over ice and nighttime breezes off Puget Sound were enough to keep the peak of summer at bay. \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2021",
"City officials estimate 2,500 to 5,000 residents have returned each day, even as Russian Grad rockets continue to terrorize the populace . \u2014 Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"The picture of the world these professional vaccine agitators paint \u2014 full of conspiracies and cover-ups, with a dangerous medicine being forced on the populace \u2014 could be seen as a form of advertising. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022"
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"1572, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle French, from Italian popolaccio rabble, augmentative of popolo the people, from Latin populus":""
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"They have names that were popular a century ago.",
"He is a popular guy in school.",
"Spicy foods have become increasingly popular .",
"That is a very popular misconception.",
"The word \u201cgroovy\u201d was popular in the 1960s but it's outdated now.",
"Her theories are popular among social scientists.",
"a popular history of physics",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The special laws allotted to the sports and the classical music and arts industries for mandatory military service must be extended to popular culture as well. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 22 June 2022",
"The show ended six years ago but continues to make its mark on popular culture. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"Crypto had permeated much of popular culture before its recent tumble, with many Super Bowl ads touting the digital assets and celebrities and YouTube personalities routinely promoting it on social media. \u2014 Haleluya Hadero And Kelvin Chan, Chron , 18 June 2022",
"From the first season onward, the show made a significant impact on popular culture. \u2014 Karen Idelson, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"As a popular character, Kamala has participated in most of the major company crossovers since her creation in 2013. \u2014 Joe George, Men's Health , 14 June 2022",
"Even as the blackface minstrelsy industry faded from popular American culture in the 1890s, Soelberg said, Latter-day Saints kept the tradition alive well into the 1950s through performances put on by congregations and youth groups. \u2014 Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"The aim is to transform a popular culture that has always typecast or ignored people from lower castes. \u2014 Niha Masih, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, popular culture writes and rewrites religion\u2019s obituary. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Latin popularis , from populus the people, a people":""
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"\u2014 Gregory D. Boothe et al., Musical Quarterly , Vol. 74 No. 3 , 1990"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Critics such as Jonathan Rauch insist that a surfeit of popular sovereignty has tipped the delicate balance of self-governance in the direction of strongman ethnic nationalism. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Critics such as Jonathan Rauch insist that a surfeit of popular sovereignty has tipped the delicate balance of self-governance in the direction of strongman ethnic nationalism. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Critics such as Jonathan Rauch insist that a surfeit of popular sovereignty has tipped the delicate balance of self-governance in the direction of strongman ethnic nationalism. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Critics such as Jonathan Rauch insist that a surfeit of popular sovereignty has tipped the delicate balance of self-governance in the direction of strongman ethnic nationalism. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Critics such as Jonathan Rauch insist that a surfeit of popular sovereignty has tipped the delicate balance of self-governance in the direction of strongman ethnic nationalism. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Critics such as Jonathan Rauch insist that a surfeit of popular sovereignty has tipped the delicate balance of self-governance in the direction of strongman ethnic nationalism. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Critics such as Jonathan Rauch insist that a surfeit of popular sovereignty has tipped the delicate balance of self-governance in the direction of strongman ethnic nationalism. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Critics such as Jonathan Rauch insist that a surfeit of popular sovereignty has tipped the delicate balance of self-governance in the direction of strongman ethnic nationalism. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2021"
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"the increasing popularity of cell phones",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But wealth doesn\u2019t always correlate with popularity on the platform. \u2014 Richard J. Chang, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"The announcement follows a years-long investigation into whether the brand may have helped fuel vaping's popularity among underage users. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Ziwe, age 30 and Nigerian American, is part of a recent wave of young comedians of color to acquire popularity first through social media and then leverage that newfound fame to land broadcasting deals. \u2014 Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 June 2022",
"European leaders are battling internal political turmoil, and some have seen their popularity dip and governing coalitions collapse amid economic concerns and fallout from the invasion. \u2014 Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times , 24 June 2022",
"There are also the reactions to the news \u2014 videos whose popularity rests less on their ability to inform or persuade than on their capacity to reflect raw emotion. \u2014 Reyhan Harmanci, New York Times , 23 June 2022",
"As cryptocurrency\u2019s popularity has grown, it has increasingly been targeted by criminals. \u2014 Taylor Telford, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
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"Jean Evans, a former chair of the Missouri Republican Party who is now a political consultant, attributes Greitens' popularity to a passionate slice of the base. \u2014 Will Mcduffie, ABC News , 22 June 2022"
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"Jefferson Avenue was within walking distance of War Memorial Stadium, the former home of the Buffalo Bills NFL team, and pioneering establishments like Wings N' Things, one of America's first chicken wing shops that helped popularize Buffalo wings. \u2014 Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"His exacting vision has helped popularize the rise of neo-Westerns \u2014 stories that take the conventions of the Western genre and place them in the present. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Smith helped popularize the Spanish Colonial Revival style in the region in private homes and public buildings that are now National Historic Landmarks. \u2014 Lauren Beale, Forbes , 10 Apr. 2022",
"The song helped popularize the lingo that truck drivers used over their citizens band radios. \u2014 The Washington Post, Arkansas Online , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The song helped popularize the lingo that truck drivers used over their citizens band, or CB, radios and is almost incomprehensible without a glossary of CB terms. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The national restaurant chain Chipotle helped to popularize this style of burrito across the country. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 9 Feb. 2022",
"The scholarship, dedicated to the late reporter who helped popularize lacrosse in Massachusetts, is open to MIAA seniors who have played on at least one varsity team the past two years. \u2014 Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022"
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"Jefferson Avenue was within walking distance of War Memorial Stadium, the former home of the Buffalo Bills NFL team, and pioneering establishments like Wings N' Things, one of America's first chicken wing shops that helped popularize Buffalo wings. \u2014 Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"His exacting vision has helped popularize the rise of neo-Westerns \u2014 stories that take the conventions of the Western genre and place them in the present. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 21 Apr. 2022",
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"Not the actuality of it, but the people in it, the people who populate it. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But unlike the many debunkers, explainers, and self-promotional plastic surgeons who populate the platform, Flanary\u2019s primary concern is with making people laugh. \u2014 Damian Garde, STAT , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Google\u2019s YouTube is folding its effort to create original programming and focusing on the millions of creators who populate the video platform with content. \u2014 Tripp Mickle, WSJ , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Many companies resorted to using multiple job boards like LinkedIn, Indeed, Handshake, and more to populate the top of their recruiting funnel. \u2014 Frederick Daso, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"The launch of the 2022 Alder Lake CPUs also coincides with the unveiling of three new Intel chipsets to populate lower-cost LGA1700 motherboards. \u2014 Chris Stobing, PCMAG , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Many of the big fish and mammals that used to populate the ocean simply aren\u2019t there anymore. \u2014 Matt Reynolds, Wired , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Park officials also trap bison at the northern border, sending some to the slaughter while transferring others to populate new areas, including Native American lands, under the Bison Conservation Transfer Program. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 7 Apr. 2022"
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"The 6th District primary was set in motion by Democratic mapmakers after Illinois\u2019 stagnant population cost the state a congressional seat. \u2014 John Keilman, Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"In Illinois, Democratic Representative Sean Casten beat progressive Representative Marie Newman for a seat in suburban Chicago after a declining population cost the state a House seat. \u2014 Will Weissert, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"The city\u2019s population peaked at around 25,000 people within 20 years but has dwindled ever since. \u2014 Fox News , 29 June 2022",
"Other tribes sued, alleging they were shortchanged because the Treasury Department relied on inaccurate population data for tribes. \u2014 Fatima Hussein, ajc , 29 June 2022",
"The study excluded six counties where the Black population numbered fewer than 100 residents: Alpine, Sierra, Glenn, Mono, Trinity and Amador. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 29 June 2022",
"The demands of the workforce are changing, with the younger generations forming the majority of the working population . \u2014 Anand Inamdar, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"But when incomes in D.C. soared, the Black population fell. \u2014 Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"Developers, brokers and other industry experts say there is room in the market for more space, particularly in areas where the population is growing rapidly, including Texas, Arizona and Florida. \u2014 Liz Young, WSJ , 29 June 2022"
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"a collection of porny postcards of the type that American servicemen once brought back from Europe",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some of the entries were so porny -sounding that the Empress had to dab repeatedly at her tiara \u2014 even when the story turned out to be about slipping a Visa into the card-reading machine. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Oct. 2019",
"Watching other races required going down one of three avenues: expensive pay-TV packages; a VPN that didn\u2019t always work; or dodgy pirate streams, littered with porny pop-up ads and, likely viruses. \u2014 Joe Lindsey, Outside Online , 4 May 2018"
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"The country has a porous border.",
"a cleaner that should not be used on porous surfaces",
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"According to Roldin, environmentalists are suggesting the use of porous materials for the project's construction that allows for rainwater to seep into the ground and aquifer below. \u2014 Dan Carson, Chron , 9 June 2022",
"Remember containers or pots made of terra cotta, coco fiber, or other porous materials dry out fast, while those made of plaster, metal or other less permeable materials dry out more slowly. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living , 26 May 2022",
"The threat of terrorism due to our porous southern border grows every day. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 25 May 2022",
"Because we were forced to build the upper floors with porous construction materials, clouds outside of those floors pass right through the building. \u2014 David Guzman, The New Yorker , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Some pizza stones are glazed or coated to protect the porous materials below. \u2014 Kristina Mcguirk, Better Homes & Gardens , 12 Sep. 2021",
"The threat of terrorism due to our porous southern border grows every day. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 25 May 2022",
"The threat of terrorism due to our porous southern border grows every day. \u2014 al , 24 May 2022",
"Lack of immigration enforcement and a porous southern border have led to suffering from gangs like MS 13 who terrorize our District, opioid and fentanyl deaths, and increased human trafficking. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022"
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": a reddish-purple superficial hemangioma of the skin commonly occurring as a birthmark":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pairing was to be achieved alphabetically, as if a third of the class wasn\u2019t coloured and Walter Ulbricht didn\u2019t have a port-wine stain eating half of his face. \u2014 Madeleine Kearns, National Review , 26 Sep. 2019",
"The woman was middle-aged, with a port-wine stain occupying the left side of her face and a full face of makeup concealing it. \u2014 Joel Barhamand, Allure , 31 Mar. 2018"
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"Portable devices such as MP3 players are becoming increasingly popular.",
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"SinKeu\u2019s portable charger is marked by its incredible versatility. \u2014 Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 June 2022",
"In the year 2020, that mantra quickly turned into phone, wallet, keys, face mask, hand sanitizer, portable charger, air pods. \u2014 Katie Dupere And Vanessa Powell, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"The device is portable enough to go anywhere, enabling meetings to be held in almost any space in a matter of seconds. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"The size of the weapons ranges widely: Some are portable enough to be carried in backpacks, while others are 13 feet long and launched like a missile. \u2014 Roque Ruiz And Brian Mcgill, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"This Goal Zero power bank has enough juice for two full phone charges and is portable enough to throw in any daypack \u2014 just be sure to bring a cord with you. \u2014 Hannah Singleton, SELF , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Massachusetts startup Sparkcharge has developed a portable electric vehicle charger that fits inside the trunk of a car and can give a full charge. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The items missing included a laptop, iPad, iPhone, jacket and a black suitcase containing various clothing and a portable charger. \u2014 cleveland , 16 Dec. 2021",
"In 1991, Sony commercialized the first rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which was small and portable enough to power its handheld video cameras. \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Apple touts its new notebooks as delivering the power of high-powered PC desktops in a portable . \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 26 Oct. 2021",
"While there appeared to be strict COVID-19 rules inside the classroom, both students said that there appeared to be no rules inside the small portable , where a masked staff member was present. \u2014 Fox News , 28 Sep. 2021",
"It\u2019s an upscale portable oven that\u2019s about a fourth the size of a standard wall oven. \u2014 Scott Kramer, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2021",
"But in the reveal of the new product there was a lot of detail, and one of these referred to the company\u2019s previous portable , the Sonos Move. \u2014 David Phelan, Forbes , 9 Mar. 2021",
"And a device that portable is easy to lose, giving ne\u2019er-do-wells free reign over your information. \u2014 Whitson Gordon, Wired , 20 Aug. 2020",
"Since then, Sony's PSP and Vita portables stand out for using expensive and cumbersome proprietary memory card formats. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 16 Mar. 2020",
"Bose SoundLink Color II portable Bluetooth speaker for $99 at Amazon and B&H (normally $129). \u2014 Ars Staff, Ars Technica , 7 May 2020",
"Bose SoundLink Color II portable Bluetooth speaker for $99 at Amazon and B&H (normally $129). \u2014 Ars Staff, Ars Technica , 28 Apr. 2020"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1708, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin portabilis , from Latin portare to carry \u2014 more at fare":"Adjective"
},
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"\u02c8p\u022fr-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"mobile",
"movable",
"moveable"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082058",
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"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"portal":{
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": of or relating to the transverse fissure on the underside of the liver where most of the vessels enter":[],
": of, relating to, or being a portal vein or a portal system":[
"portal circulation"
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": the whole architectural composition surrounding and including the doorways and porches of a church":[],
"Charles Frederick Algernon 1893\u20131971 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford British air marshal":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a Web portal for baseball fans",
"the main portal to the estate is an elaborate wrought iron gate on the side facing the road",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Papitto Opportunity Connection, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people of color, also gave a three-year grant to support building and developing the Creative Survival learning portal . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"Devil's Throat is known locally as a portal to the underworld: the Trigradska River rushes through the cave, but no object that floats in ever seems to float back out. \u2014 Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure , 18 June 2022",
"Florida health department spokesman Jeremy Redfern said the Florida online portal for ordering vaccines from the federal government, Florida SHOTS, has always been available to hospitals, clinics and small doctor's offices. \u2014 CBS News , 17 June 2022",
"Brolin plays Royal Abbott, a ranching family patriarch who discovers a shimmering black void on his Wyoming property that seemingly functions as a portal through time. \u2014 Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"How Utahns can prepare Utah residents can assess their personalized wildfire risk through the state\u2019s assessment portal , which will generate a report based on location. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"In his feverish search for ecstatic truths, Herzog has given readers a portal into human folly, self-discipline and domination \u2014 surely his life\u2019s work. \u2014 Kristen Millares Young, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"In this way, an ostensible portal to ecological salvation contains a different implication\u2014in which Earth is, Eurydice-like, glimpsed only to be lost and abandoned. \u2014 Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic , 14 June 2022",
"Homeowners can apply online through the state's application portal at the Wisconsin Help for Homeowners website at homeownerhelp.wi.gov or by calling 1-855-246-6394. \u2014 Vanessa Swales, Journal Sentinel , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Outfielder Anthony Hall, who hit .333 with 14 home runs and 56 RBIs in 2022, entered the transfer portal on Friday, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 July 2022",
"Tchikou entered the transfer portal in March after playing only six minutes for the Tide last season. \u2014 Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al , 26 June 2022",
"Bowman, a source confirmed, entered the transfer portal Friday and will now seek his third college. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"O'Neal originally entered the transfer portal in March but also entered the NBA draft pool. \u2014 Nick Gray, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
"The 6-foot-6 lefty entered the transfer portal this spring and visited Michigan State, which is 80 miles east and which just lost its top two wings. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 May 2022",
"CBS Sports reported that more than 2,000 players entered the transfer portal this academic year. \u2014 Drew Schott, The Arizona Republic , 4 May 2022",
"The sophomore quarterback entered the transfer portal a month after Riley left Oklahoma, only to join Riley at USC a month after that. \u2014 Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Now, after two years at LSU, Shareef has entered the transfer portal and is on the move yet again. \u2014 Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com , 26 Apr. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1754, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin portale city gate, porch, from neuter of portalis of a gate, from Latin porta gate \u2014 more at port":"Noun",
"New Latin porta transverse fissure of the liver, from Latin, gate":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u022frt-\u1d4al",
"\u02c8p\u022fr-t\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"door",
"gate",
"hatch"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043407",
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name",
"noun"
]
},
"porte-monnaie":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a small pocketbook or purse":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from porter to carry + monnaie coined money, from Middle French moneie":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u014drt\u02ccm\u0259n\u0113",
"\u00a6p\u014drtm\u0259\u00a6n\u0101"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025826",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"portefeuille":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": portfolio":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from porter to carry + feuille leaf, sheet":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6p\u014drt\u0259\u00a6f\u0259r(\u2027)"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135455",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"portend":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": indicate , signify":[],
": to give an omen or anticipatory sign of":[]
},
"examples":[
"The distant thunder portended a storm.",
"If you're superstitious, a black cat portends trouble.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The nosedive, along with a drop in soybean oil and similar commodities, could portend cheaper household items such as chocolate, margarine and shampoo. \u2014 Michael Hirtzer, Fortune , 27 June 2022",
"Europe\u2019s regulations could portend changes in the United States, where the Food and Drug Administration has some oversight of inks and pigments. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"Its latest warning could portend a promotional bloodbath among retailers this summer. \u2014 Jinjoo Lee, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
"But does the war portend the end of the post-Cold War era of heightened globalization? \u2014 Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Several recent rulings portend legal showdowns that could go against the FTC and other federal agencies in the Biden administration. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"Russia's limited gains in Donbas and the Ukrainian goal of reclaiming the entire territory portend a long battle in eastern Ukraine. \u2014 WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"What do all these developments portend for fans of Claire DeWitt? \u2014 Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Last week\u2019s decision to restrict Medicare coverage for Alzheimer\u2019s drugs that are fast-tracked through the Food and Drug Administration doesn\u2019t portend changes in other disease areas, a top government official said. \u2014 John Tozzi, Bloomberg.com , 12 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin portendere , from por- forward (akin to per through) + tendere to stretch \u2014 more at for , thin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u022fr-\u02c8tend"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190704",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"portent":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": marvel , prodigy":[],
": prophetic indication or significance":[],
": something that foreshadows a coming event : omen , sign":[]
},
"examples":[
"a red sky in the morning can be a portent of a coming storm",
"a scout was sent to have a look at this teenage pitcher who was supposed to be the latest portent of the baseball world",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Whether delivered via text, WhatsApp, email or \u2014 shudder \u2014 Slack, these three words appear in front of you like a portent of terrible things to come. \u2014 Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com , 29 Mar. 2022",
"From the vantage of 2021, the novel is a double portent : a dystopian fantasy and an early spark in the tinderbox of the curriculum wars. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 26 Dec. 2021",
"That need has come into sharp focus in recent days, with separatist forces shelling dozens of Ukrainian military positions and civilian targets along the front \u2013 a possible portent of wider Russian aggression against Ukraine. \u2014 Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The astonishing night two skate propelled him to fifth overall -- off the medal stand but a portent of things to come. \u2014 Mark Osborne, ABC News , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Yet Maserati promises that the MC20 isn't an abstract halo car but a portent for the more attainable models as well. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Gregory of Tours interpreted the ball lightning as a portent of the death of King Chilperic's son. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 5 Feb. 2022",
"After Astroworld, many noted that the rampant gate-crashing could have been seen as a portent of what was to come. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Pointing out similar legislation that has already been passed in California, New York, New Jersey, and Nevada, MacArthur sees Canada as a portent of trends already manifesting in the United States. \u2014 Jon Brown, Fox News , 17 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1562, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin portentum , from neuter of portentus , past participle of portendere":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u022fr-\u02cctent"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"augury",
"auspice",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"foreshadowing",
"omen",
"prefiguring",
"presage"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000035",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"portentive":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": portentous":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin portentus + English -ive":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095027",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"portentous":{
"antonyms":[
"unthreatening"
],
"definitions":{
": being a grave or serious matter":[
"portentous decisions"
],
": eliciting amazement or wonder : prodigious":[],
": of, relating to, or constituting a portent":[
"suspense, portentous foreshadowing, hints of sinister and violent mysteries",
"\u2014 Francine Prose"
],
": ponderously excessive":[
"that discipline's overwrought, portentous phrases",
"\u2014 R. M. Coles"
],
": self-consciously solemn or important : pompous":[
"portentous declamation unsalted by the least trace of humor",
"\u2014 W. H. Pritchard"
]
},
"examples":[
"an eerie and portentous stillness hung over the camp the night before the battle",
"in 1969 people regarded the first landing on the moon as a truly portentous event",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first sentence sounds the alarm in a portentous poetic rhythm (The fight is here). \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"Recent public declarations from Garland, whose spokespeople did not respond to multiple requests for interviews with him or his top aides, regarding where the investigation is headed have been portentous , but also ambiguous. \u2014 Mark Hosenball, The New Republic , 13 June 2022",
"Occasionally, a voice-over will intone portentous , poetic, and obscure observations. \u2014 Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"One episode, complete with portentous flashbacks, is partly dedicated to her difficult relationship with her fraudster father, the traumatic loss of her brother to cancer, and her fears of abandonment. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The president will sign the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act \u2014 which speeds up the process of sending aid to Ukraine \u2014 on Monday, the anniversary of Nazi Germany\u2019s defeat, and a day of portentous significance in Russia. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 May 2022",
"There are mysteries that are obvious or boring, so many portentous clues about characters' futures. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 11 May 2022",
"It was first published in 1966, the year of my birth, which struck me as terribly portentous . \u2014 Design Art B., Longreads , 7 Apr. 2022",
"By all means, fully embrace Christopher Nolan's triumvirate of lengthy, portentous treatises from the aughts, starring Christian Bale. \u2014 Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online , 4 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"p\u022fr-\u02c8ten-t\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for portentous ominous , portentous , fateful mean having a menacing or threatening aspect. ominous implies having a menacing, alarming character foreshadowing evil or disaster. ominous rumblings from the volcano portentous suggests being frighteningly big or impressive but now seldom definitely connotes forewarning of calamity. an eerie and portentous stillness fateful suggests being of momentous or decisive importance. the fateful conference that led to war",
"synonyms":[
"baleful",
"dire",
"direful",
"doomy",
"foreboding",
"ill",
"ill-boding",
"inauspicious",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"ominous",
"sinister",
"threatening"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022509",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"porter":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a heavy dark brown ale typically brewed from browned or charred malt":[],
": a parlor-car or sleeping-car attendant who waits on passengers and makes up berths":[],
": a person stationed at a door or gate to admit or assist those entering":[],
": a person who does routine cleaning (as in a hospital or office)":[],
": to act as a porter":[],
": to transport or carry as or as if by a porter":[],
"American short-story writer":[
"O. Henry \\ (\u02c8)\u014d-\u200b\u02c8hen-\u200br\u0113 \\"
],
"Cole Albert 1891\u20131964 American songwriter":[],
"David 1780\u20131843 and his son David Dixon 1813\u20131891 American naval officers":[],
"Eliot Furness 1901\u20131990 American photographer":[],
"Gene 1868\u20131924 n\u00e9e Stratton American novelist":[],
"Katherine Anne 1890\u20131980 American writer":[],
"Noah 1811\u20131892 American philosopher and lexicographer":[],
"William Sydney 1862\u20131910 pseudonym":[
"O. Henry \\ (\u02c8)\u014d-\u200b\u02c8hen-\u200br\u0113 \\"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1609, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English portour , from Anglo-French porteour , from Late Latin portator , from Latin portare to carry \u2014 more at fare":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin portarius , from Latin porta gate \u2014 more at port":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u022fr-t\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131145",
"type":[
"biographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"portia tree":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a tropical tree ( Thespesia populnea ) that is closely related to the majaguas, has rounded cordate leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers, yields a valuable pinkish to dark red close-textured wood resistant to warping and an oil from its seeds, and is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Tamil pura\u015bu":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u014drsh\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-204012",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"portion":{
"antonyms":[
"administer",
"allocate",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"dole out",
"hand out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"prorate"
],
"definitions":{
": a share received by gift or inheritance":[],
": an individual's lot, fate, or fortune : one's share of good and evil":[],
": an individual's part or share of something: such as":[],
": an often limited part of a whole":[],
": dowry":[],
": enough food especially of one kind to serve one person at one meal":[],
": to allot a dowry to : dower":[],
": to divide into portions : distribute":[
"portioned out the food equally"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"A portion of the donations will be given to the orphanage.",
"Portions of land were used for farming.",
"A considerable portion of the city was flooded.",
"The restaurant gives large portions .",
"She divided the pie into six equal portions .",
"Verb",
"The work was portioned to each member of the staff.",
"portioned out the medical supplies equally",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The tribute \u2014 a designation for a portion of State Road A1A backed by state legislators and city commissioners \u2014 will honor a man who dedicated more than two decades of his life to the community. \u2014 Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"The American Kennel Club says dogs should generally be fed twice a day, with a portion size based on your dog\u2019s breed, size, age and health condition. \u2014 Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"The service received top scores for portion sizes and satiety of meals too. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"This portion of the footage was not included in the edited video released to The Arizona Republic. \u2014 Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2022",
"But, a lot of guys tend to skip out on this portion of their health care routine, which leaves them susceptible to premature aging and more serious consequences like skin cancer. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"This portion and Blackness or Brown skin thriving a placing is center stage in that joy. \u2014 Osahon Akpata, Essence , 26 May 2022",
"Tuesday's big primary day brought some resolutions to the key questions looming over this first portion of the primary calendar. \u2014 Ben Kamisar, NBC News , 25 May 2022",
"Austria and Switzerland are about as welcoming to speeders as the Commonwealth of Virginia is, and this portion of our journey was perhaps more representative of US cruising speeds. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 24 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Using a 1 3/4-inch (No. 40) cookie scoop or 2 tablespoons, portion the dough and roll into balls. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The results are hearty, easy to portion and extremely versatile. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Sometimes that\u2019s the best, or only way, to portion out a large slab pie or pizza. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Sep. 2021",
"Use a spoon to portion some half-moons of perfectly ripe avocado on top. \u2014 Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon App\u00e9tit , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Workers portion them out precisely, measuring the stiff salmon into boxes, then boating them to other communities in the region. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Sep. 2021",
"If your gluttonous best friend plows through food too fast, a slow-feed option can portion out the meal over 15 minutes. \u2014 Sal Vaglica, WSJ , 21 July 2021",
"At the table, portion out souffl\u00e9 into individual bowls. \u2014 Odette Williams, WSJ , 18 June 2021",
"Mix up a batch of brownie batter, portion it into a muffin tin, and bake as directed. \u2014 Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living , 21 May 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English porcioun , from Anglo-French, from Latin portion-, portio ; akin to Latin part-, pars part":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u022fr-sh\u0259n",
"\u02c8p\u014dr-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for portion Noun part , portion , piece , member , division , section , segment , fragment mean something less than the whole. part is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required. they ran only part of the way portion implies an assigned or allotted part. cut the pie into six portions piece applies to a separate or detached part of a whole. a puzzle with 500 pieces member suggests one of the functional units composing a body. a structural member division applies to a large or diversified part. the manufacturing division of the company section applies to a relatively small or uniform part. the entertainment section of the newspaper segment applies to a part separated or marked out by or as if by natural lines of cleavage. the retired segment of the population fragment applies to a part produced by or as if by breaking off. only a fragment of the play still exists fate , destiny , lot , portion , doom mean a predetermined state or end. fate implies an inevitable and usually an adverse outcome. the fate of the submarine is unknown destiny implies something foreordained and often suggests a great or noble course or end. the country's destiny to be a model of liberty to the world lot and portion imply a distribution by fate or destiny, lot suggesting blind chance it was her lot to die childless , portion implying the apportioning of good and evil. remorse was his daily portion doom distinctly implies a grim or calamitous fate. if the rebellion fails, his doom is certain",
"synonyms":[
"circumstance",
"destiny",
"doom",
"fate",
"fortune",
"kismet",
"lot"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091441",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"portlight":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a glass-paned porthole that admits light but cannot be opened : deadlight":[],
": the glass pane in a ship's porthole":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"port entry 3 + light":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140123",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"portliness":{
"antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
],
"definitions":{
": dignified , stately":[],
": heavy or rotund of body : stout":[]
},
"examples":[
"a portly gentleman who clearly didn't get enough exercise",
"walked with the portly grace of the grande dame that she was",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Facebook groups dedicated to Texas barbecue fandom, a recently popular meme shows a portly man dancing on a stripper pole. \u2014 Elizabeth Findell, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Made of steel, the watch had in its dial a sketch of a portly man, his face framed by round glasses and his broad shoulders clad in a wide-lapelled jacket. \u2014 Sonia Paul, Wired , 1 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s when the portly orphan, who was riding in the van with her, slices off her face to wear it as his own. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 18 Feb. 2022",
"One day, Lem held forth about H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to a portly man who turned out to run a publishing house. \u2014 Caleb Crain, The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Boyega had suggested a portly version of the young Sidney Poitier crossed with the facile charisma of the young Denzel Washington. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 18 Aug. 2021",
"He was locked away to serve several life sentences, aging into a portly man with a thick white beard. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2021",
"One of my favorite shots is of a portly man in a business suit, rubbing his hands together over and over, in an age-old gesture of distress. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 14 Dec. 2020",
"Henry himself, looking more like the portly statesman of Hans Holbein\u2019s famous portrait than a swashbuckling Renaissance man, rides in a procession at the bottom left. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 June 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"port entry 3":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u022frt-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004852",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"portly":{
"antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
],
"definitions":{
": dignified , stately":[],
": heavy or rotund of body : stout":[]
},
"examples":[
"a portly gentleman who clearly didn't get enough exercise",
"walked with the portly grace of the grande dame that she was",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Facebook groups dedicated to Texas barbecue fandom, a recently popular meme shows a portly man dancing on a stripper pole. \u2014 Elizabeth Findell, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Made of steel, the watch had in its dial a sketch of a portly man, his face framed by round glasses and his broad shoulders clad in a wide-lapelled jacket. \u2014 Sonia Paul, Wired , 1 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s when the portly orphan, who was riding in the van with her, slices off her face to wear it as his own. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 18 Feb. 2022",
"One day, Lem held forth about H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to a portly man who turned out to run a publishing house. \u2014 Caleb Crain, The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Boyega had suggested a portly version of the young Sidney Poitier crossed with the facile charisma of the young Denzel Washington. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 18 Aug. 2021",
"He was locked away to serve several life sentences, aging into a portly man with a thick white beard. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2021",
"One of my favorite shots is of a portly man in a business suit, rubbing his hands together over and over, in an age-old gesture of distress. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 14 Dec. 2020",
"Henry himself, looking more like the portly statesman of Hans Holbein\u2019s famous portrait than a swashbuckling Renaissance man, rides in a procession at the bottom left. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 June 2020"
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"The winery was the first to use the word Meritage \u2014 a portmanteau of merit and heritage \u2014 on its Bordeaux-style red wines. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"The term is a portmanteau of oligarch and siloviki, a Russian word for the country\u2019s military and security elite. \u2014 John Hyatt, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"In between public displays of French kissing and a multitude of designer fittings, Fox even christened herself and Ye with their very own portmanteau . \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Peneloise \u2014 Bridgerton viewers' favorite platonic portmanteau \u2014 is seemingly no more. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Only the Puerto Rican superstar himself could get away with naming his farewell full-length with a portmanteau as cocksure as Legendaddy, a title fittingly in line with his perception of himself (with respect to Don Omar) as the King of Reggaeton. \u2014 Gary Suarez, Rolling Stone , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The name is a portmanteau of its main ingredients: bananas and toffee pudding. \u2014 Casey Barber, CNN , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Its name is a portmanteau of the world Element \u2014 the brand's four fragrances are Heaven, Earth, Fire, Water \u2014 and Korea. \u2014 Alaina Demopoulos, Allure , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In its original use, phygital\u2014a portmanteau of physical and digital\u2014meant something in-part live and in-part virtual. \u2014 Steff Yotka, Vogue , 17 Dec. 2021",
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"So many of the words created our dozens of neologism contests over the decades are portmanteau words, the combination of two words. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 July 2019",
"So many of the words created our dozens of neologism contests over the decades are portmanteau words, the combination of two words. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 July 2019"
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"The hat is the brainchild of Dali; Jean Schlumberger creates cherub pins that will be immortalized in a Picasso portrait . \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 1 July 2022",
"Find the menu slipped inside an old manga, then scan the room filled with tchotchkes, including Rescue Rangers figurines and a portrait of the samurai film legend Toshiro Mifune. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 July 2022",
"The handover Two Royal Navy sailors remove a portrait of Britain\u2019s Queen Elizabeth II ahead of Hong Kong\u2019s handover on July 1, 1997. \u2014 Molpasorn Shoowong, NBC News , 1 July 2022",
"Slowly a portrait of those who were inside the tractor trail is coming together. \u2014 Arelis R. Hern\u00e1ndez, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Keane thanked him by painting a portrait of his wife, complete with big eyes. \u2014 Steve Marbleobituaries Editor, Los Angeles Times , 29 June 2022",
"The result is a colorful cast over a more standard Polaroid portrait . \u2014 Aemilia Madden, refinery29.com , 29 June 2022",
"Consisting of one long run-on sentence, the story offers a brief but illuminating portrait of its young subject\u2019s life. \u2014 Erin Overbey, The New Yorker , 26 June 2022",
"This bizarre example of Italian Baroque still-life painting, which can be interpreted as a portrait , is also shown for the first time by Trinity Fine Art of London. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The small park behind Tahrir Square has been divided by tents, one of which has become a steadily expanding portrait gallery with photographs of those who have been killed by the security forces. \u2014 Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times , 3 Feb. 2020",
"Yet for all the darkness, there\u2019s a welcome and important dose of levity too, from a hilarious video of a beauty products fair by Mar\u00eda Luisa Bemberg to Regina Vater\u2019s playful, costumed self- portrait photographs. \u2014 New York Times , 4 July 2018",
"Arneson sets the tone through a ceramic self- portrait head from 1973, wall-mounted near the entry. \u2014 Leah Ollman, latimes.com , 3 July 2018",
"In portrait orientation, the left side of the bottom bar only has space for about three to four app icons. \u2014 Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica , 23 June 2018",
"And even though the demand for photographers in traditional media has declined, there\u2019s still a high-demand for commercial and portrait photographers. \u2014 Jenny Knizner, USA TODAY , 4 June 2018",
"Dorothea Tanning\u2019s self- portrait Birthday (1942) shows her bare-breasted, standing with a small winged monster with her back to a house full of open doors. \u2014 Thomas Hine, Philly.com , 12 Apr. 2018",
"The heads presage a self- portrait print from 1990, displayed nearby, as well as the soft fabric figurative sculptures that Bourgeois took up in the late \u201990s. \u2014 Roberta Smith, New York Times , 27 Sep. 2017",
"Portrait sessions for families whose memories were stolen by the wind. \u2014 Southern Living , 1 May 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One of the roles of portraiture is to anchor you in history. \u2014 Fran\u00e7oise Mouly, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"The work in this book, in particular, is very much in dialogue with painting and art historical conventions surrounding both portraiture and still life images. \u2014 Rica Cerbarano, Vogue , 29 Mar. 2022",
"His work comprises photojournalism, portraiture , and sports photography, as well as advertising and corporate projects. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Special exhibitions are going up around the country, too, including two at Sotheby\u2019s London, as Smithsonian magazine\u2019s Sarah Kuta reports\u2014a tiara exhibition and an exhibition of British female monarch portraiture . \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 June 2022",
"In eighteenth-century portraiture , leopard pelt or print was a marker of wealth and luxury, though artists also drew upon its connotations in classical mythology to suggest the individual characters of their sitters. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Then there\u2019s the work of photojournalist Jed Fielding, who specializes in spontaneous street portraiture in places like Naples and Mexico City. \u2014 Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Mar. 2022",
"The book is elegantly written, in a brisk style that plays to Ms. Goldstone\u2019s strengths in portraiture and the theatrical set-piece. \u2014 A. Wess Mitchell, WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
"German photographer Thomas Peschak adopted an unconventional approach to photographing the curious animals, using techniques normally employed in human portraiture . \u2014 NBC News , 1 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Presenting narratives in the YA category that accurately portray the struggles and joy of queerness let young LGBTQ+ people feel seen, and feel empowered in their identity. \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 24 June 2022",
"Some portray the artist\u2019s longtime muse, the coyote \u2014 a character in many Native American myths. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Trump\u2019s post-election interaction with top DOJ officials portray a president pressing for specific investigations that could potentially help him keep his grip on power. \u2014 Alexander Mallin, ABC News , 22 June 2022",
"Most surf films portray riding waves in a purely positive light. \u2014 Andrew S. Lewis, Outside Online , 10 June 2022",
"These ads portray a vote in favor of impeaching former President Donald Trump for inciting the 2021 attack on the Capitol as a negative. \u2014 Ben Kamisar, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Some of the most poignant scenes portray the unlikely friendship that develops between Issam and Frank (Mark Camacho), the family\u2019s initially gruff sponsor. \u2014 Vanessa H. Larson, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"Oftentimes, stereotypes portray outdoor adventurers to look a certain way or have a specific background. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 June 2022",
"Few gambling movies portray gambling less as a talent and more as a coping mechanism, like Paul Schrader\u2019s 2021 crime drama The Card Counter. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The actor was twice nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of an action-hero who struggles to uphold his family\u2019s noble values in a brutal world. \u2014 James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"Dustin Hoffman won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Raymond Babbitt, an autistic savant brought on a cross country road trip during his brother\u2019s bid to grab a piece of their father\u2019s fortune. \u2014 cleveland , 11 June 2022",
"Phoenix won a best actor Academy Award for his portrayal of the title character, and Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir won an Oscar for best original score for the film. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"For his portrayal of the titular role, Phoenix won the Oscar for Best Actor, and Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir won for Best Original Score. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 8 June 2022",
"Kotsur earned his historic Oscar for his portrayal of Frank, the Deaf fisherman and father of a hearing daughter, Ruby (Emilia Jones) who desires to be a singer in the 2021 best picture winner directed by Sian Heder. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
"One of the best performances, however, has always been that of John Roberts, who was nominated for a 2015 Emmy for his portrayal of Bob\u2019s wife, Linda. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
"Based on the tragic true story of Brandon Teena, who was raped and later murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, Hillary Swank won Best Actress for her portrayal of Brandon. \u2014 Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR , 5 May 2022",
"Fanning, who will probably get an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Carter, works hard and the scripts attempt to contextualize the teen, if not humanize her. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"Noun",
"The photographs show the models in both clothed and nude poses .",
"Hold that pose . It will make a great photograph.",
"His disapproval of the war looks good to voters, but I bet it's just a pose .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Facing down the threats that the two men pose to democracy has become the defining challenge of Biden\u2019s Presidency. \u2014 Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker , 30 June 2022",
"In another snap, Ryder and Traina pose together, Ryder showing off his new tattoo. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Here is how to talk to your family about the threat opioids pose . \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"Digital rights groups have warned of the risks this online footprint may now pose to people seeking or providing abortions in states where the procedure is criminalized. \u2014 Brian Fung And Clare Duffy, CNN , 28 June 2022",
"Metro is not doing enough to keep defective rail cars that pose a safety hazard separated from the rest of its fleet, the transit system\u2019s safety regulator said Tuesday. \u2014 Justin George, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Lightning strikes and wayward firework sparks pose less of a risk -- though not zero, Singer warned. \u2014 Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic , 28 June 2022",
"Unsecured fuel tanks are in danger of sustaining undercarriage damage that could cause fuel leakage and pose a fire risk, the NHTSA report says. \u2014 Sasha Richie, Car and Driver , 22 June 2022",
"All soft objects, including pillows, quilts, pillowlike toys, comforters, and even blankets pose a risk of SIDS, suffocation, entrapment or strangulation, the guidelines note. \u2014 Dan Hurley, Anchorage Daily News , 22 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In this undated photo provided by Karen Caballero, her son Alejandro Miguel Andino Caballero and his girlfriend Margie Tamara Paz Grajeda pose for a photo at an undisclosed location in Honduras. \u2014 CBS News , 30 June 2022",
"The mother-son duo pose side-by-side as Hudson rests her arm on Bing's head. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"Yo-Yo Ma and Lecolion Washington pose for a picture with students, faculty, and staff at the Community Music Center of Boston. \u2014 Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Yet the Democrats are striking a Frank Drebin pose : Nothing to see here, folks. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 9 June 2022",
"The five friends, all graduates of Santa Barbara High School, took the first photo in the now-familiar pose in their late teens with an automatic camera timer in 1982. \u2014 Paul Vercammen, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"She was ultimately captured in an unusual pose : bending backward. \u2014 Sarah Bahr, New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"To the left of the time subdial is the sculpture of Balmat in a climbing pose between 9 o\u2019clock and 10 o\u2019clock, and to the right of the time subdial, between 1 o\u2019clock and 3 o\u2019clock, the dragon-like wyvern breathes fire. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 8 June 2022",
"In the first photo, she is seen lifting her arms in a dancer-like pose and looking straight at the camera. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 6 May 2022"
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"They live in a posh neighborhood.",
"The family is very posh .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The next week, thieves stuck up a few guests at gunpoint outside a posh downtown hotel and made off with $100,000 of jewelry. \u2014 Allysia Finley, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"Moving through the lobby of a posh Santa Monica hotel one May afternoon, Jerrod Carmichael is not so much walking as strutting. \u2014 Dan Hyman, Rolling Stone , 17 May 2022",
"Tanned people in sharp suits and stylish dresses stride inside, past rows of TV cameras and stage lights and into the posh hotel\u2019s ballroom. \u2014 Chase Peterson-withorn, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"When a struggle broke out for control of Madhya Pradesh in 2020, the BJP locked its lawmakers in a posh hotel near the Delhi airport, while the Congress party packed its assembly members off to the tourist city of Jaipur. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Newsom would also have to be careful to avoid past mistakes, such as his visit to a posh Napa Valley restaurant during the pandemic\u2018s first year that muddied his reputation. \u2014 Taryn Lunastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"The neighborhood also includes the posh villas of U.S.-allied former warlords who have fled the country or gone into hiding. \u2014 Time , 16 Aug. 2021",
"The neighborhood also includes the posh villas of U.S.-allied former warlords who have fled the country or gone into hiding. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 Aug. 2021",
"From basketball courts, private pools and tee time on the 18-hole golf course, a stay in one of 74 perfectly posh villas at The Tryall Club ticks all the boxes. \u2014 Melanie Reffes, USA TODAY , 14 Nov. 2020"
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"The researchers also posit that a similar process could have been active on Mars in the past, too. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 12 May 2022",
"Many posit that those who visit Antarctica become ambassadors for a place that has no indigenous population to speak on its behalf. \u2014 Mary Holland, Robb Report , 1 May 2022",
"Contemporary Black dramas often posit that Black lives are either secondary (best friends, drug dealers, therapists) or extraordinary (healers, fighters, heroes), when life is rarely one or the other. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
"If what the scientists posit turns out to be true, future expeditions on the planet could prove more about Mars\u2019 violent history. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 2 May 2022",
"In this new paper, though, scientists posit that this symmetry doesn\u2019t just pertain to the actions that take place in the universe. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Per National Geographic, some researchers posit that members of the species were uninterested in, or incapable of, symbolic thinking or creativity. \u2014 Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine , 7 July 2021",
"Judging by its size and complexity, experts posit that the mosaic once decorated the floor of a triclinium, or formal Roman dining room. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Mar. 2022",
"In other words, these mid-20th-century market liberals did not posit that markets solved all problems, let alone insist that economic liberty and economic growth were absolutes. \u2014 Samuel Gregg, National Review , 13 Mar. 2022"
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"1647, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Noun",
"From this position , you can see all of New York City's skyline.",
"Actors, please assume your positions . The show is about to begin.",
"The child fell asleep in a sitting position .",
"I was in an uncomfortable position and had to move.",
"I was uncomfortable, so I shifted position .",
"Return your seat to an upright position for landing.",
"Verb",
"He positioned the chairs around the table.",
"The company is positioning itself to take advantage of a new market.",
"The shortstop was positioned well to make the play.",
"She positioned herself by the door.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Democratic convention being held at the Indiana Convention Center is expected to be a straightforward event, with the party backing only one candidate for each position . \u2014 Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star , 15 June 2022",
"Many golfers at this point will waggle themselves into alignment\u2014matching the programmed swing shape with the proper ball position . \u2014 Paul Christianson, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"Shah said the district is interviewing candidates for the Lake Bluff Elementary School principal position and expects to hire a new principal by July. \u2014 Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"The company will conduct an executive search to fill the position permanently. \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 15 June 2022",
"Biden was joined at the ceremony by Vice President Kamala Harris, the first person of Indian descent to be elected to the position . \u2014 Darlene Superville, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"Before President Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate for the 2020 election, Lance Bottoms was considered to be among the top contenders for the position . \u2014 Nancy Cordes, CBS News , 14 June 2022",
"With Season 4 continuing in the No. 1 position , Season 2 followed as No. 2 with 51. 4 million hours viewed while Season 1 took third place with 50.3 million hours viewed and Season 3 came in fourth place with 47.6 million hours viewed. \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 14 June 2022",
"The search team received about 10 applications and interviewed six candidates for the interim position , according to its memo. \u2014 John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But she is often criticized by activists as being pro-police and has sought to position herself as an ally to local cops, with mixed results. \u2014 Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"That could change if China takes advantage of Russian weakness to position itself as a reliable national security, economic and political partner \u2013 a core feature of its Belt and Road Initiative. \u2014 Terrence Guay, The Conversation , 7 June 2022",
"In other words, unlimited vacation can allow employers to position themselves as caring and thoughtful, while reducing their own financial investment in it. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Like Musk, Bolsonaro has sought to position himself as a champion of free speech and opposed the deplatforming of individuals including his ally, former U.S. President Donald Trump. \u2014 Diane Jeantet, ajc , 20 May 2022",
"Like Musk, Bolsonaro has sought to position himself as a champion of free speech and opposed the deplatforming of individuals including his ally, former U.S. President Donald Trump. \u2014 CBS News , 20 May 2022",
"In London, Travers said, Byford has been able to position himself as a kind of honest broker between Khan and the national government whenever differences have flared. \u2014 Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"Industry analysts saw this as a move to better position Microsoft with Google GOOG -5% and Facebook in capturing digital media dollars. \u2014 Brad Adgate, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"That included DeVonta Smith, Najee Harris, and Alex Leatherwood sticking around to better position themselves for the NFL, but also end their college careers on a higher note than an appearance in the Citrus Bowl after a two-loss 2019 season. \u2014 Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al , 17 Nov. 2021"
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"Middle English posycion , from Anglo-French posicioun , from Latin position-, positio , from ponere to lay down, put, place, from Old Latin *posinere , from po- away (akin to Old Church Slavonic po- , perfective prefix, Greek apo away) + Latin sinere to leave \u2014 more at of":"Noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In a position paper published online on Friday, the group proposed abandoning the existing names for monkeypox virus clades \u2014 West Africa and Congo Basin \u2014 and replacing them with numbers, saying the current names are discriminatory. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 13 June 2022",
"One group\u2019s executive director will soon release a position paper advising departments throughout the state not to follow Dekmar\u2019s lead. \u2014 Jamie Thompson, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Oct. 2021",
"One group\u2019s executive director will soon release a position paper advising departments throughout the state not to follow Dekmar\u2019s lead. \u2014 Jamie Thompson, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Oct. 2021",
"One group\u2019s executive director will soon release a position paper advising departments throughout the state not to follow Dekmar\u2019s lead. \u2014 Jamie Thompson, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Oct. 2021",
"One group\u2019s executive director will soon release a position paper advising departments throughout the state not to follow Dekmar\u2019s lead. \u2014 Jamie Thompson, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Oct. 2021",
"One group\u2019s executive director will soon release a position paper advising departments throughout the state not to follow Dekmar\u2019s lead. \u2014 Jamie Thompson, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Oct. 2021",
"One group\u2019s executive director will soon release a position paper advising departments throughout the state not to follow Dekmar\u2019s lead. \u2014 Jamie Thompson, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Oct. 2021",
"One group\u2019s executive director will soon release a position paper advising departments throughout the state not to follow Dekmar\u2019s lead. \u2014 Jamie Thompson, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Oct. 2021"
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"Adjective",
"The book had a positive influence on me.",
"He has been a positive role model for his brother.",
"Nothing positive came out of that experience.",
"What are some of the positive things about your job?",
"The low unemployment rate is a positive sign for the economy.",
"The company took positive steps to create a safer workplace.",
"You've got to have a positive attitude to do well in life.",
"You should try to be more positive about the whole situation.",
"On the positive side , you will be making more money.",
"To end on a positive note , we are seeing an increase in sales this month.",
"Noun",
"The positives of living in the city include access to public transportation and many interesting restaurants.",
"The test showed a positive .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Only a handful of stock-fund managers have managed to stay in positive territory (see Winners\u2019 Circle). \u2014 William Power, WSJ , 4 July 2022",
"The Dodgers still viewed this weekend as a positive , as well. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 3 July 2022",
"Independence Day should be storm free, which is always a positive given all the outdoor plans. \u2014 Ian Livingston, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"Drilling down into stock sectors, just one of the 11 S&P 500 sectors are in positive territory for 2022. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 1 July 2022",
"Everybody working on it is really appreciating it in a different way \u2013 that\u2019s a real positive and will give it a real energy for the next 10 years at least. \u2014 Mark Sutherland, Variety , 30 June 2022",
"Alternatively, Biden could argue that wide-scale student loan cancellation will be a net positive to the economy. \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Despite the bitter end of Tina, Haynes is trying to focus on the positive . \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 29 June 2022",
"What was most important was his gift of liking people, treating everyone fairly, seeing the positive in any situation, and being profoundly flexible. \u2014 Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"He was urged to take a test and wound up popping a positive . \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 26 May 2022",
"Russia may be run by a despot whose needless military adventurism will result in the death of thousands of Ukranians, but Chelsea\u2019s recent run of success is a net positive . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The only substantial positive is turnover numbers have stayed down. \u2014 Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Dawson described the past few weeks as something of an emotional pendulum, as one test would come back negative, then the next positive . \u2014 Tom Schad, USA TODAY , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Health officials in Hong Kong are now investigating this as a possible case of animal-to-human transmission because two more human infections, one confirmed and one preliminary positive , were linked to the pet store. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Ten of the brochures never mention that a false positive can happen. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Jan. 2022",
"Players undergo more testing after an initial positive . \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Honerkamp also noted that focusing on the positive can have powerful benefits. \u2014 SELF , 5 Nov. 2021"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4z-tiv",
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"The book had a positive influence on me.",
"He has been a positive role model for his brother.",
"Nothing positive came out of that experience.",
"What are some of the positive things about your job?",
"The low unemployment rate is a positive sign for the economy.",
"The company took positive steps to create a safer workplace.",
"You've got to have a positive attitude to do well in life.",
"You should try to be more positive about the whole situation.",
"On the positive side , you will be making more money.",
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"Noun",
"The positives of living in the city include access to public transportation and many interesting restaurants.",
"The test showed a positive .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Only a handful of stock-fund managers have managed to stay in positive territory (see Winners\u2019 Circle). \u2014 William Power, WSJ , 4 July 2022",
"The Dodgers still viewed this weekend as a positive , as well. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 3 July 2022",
"Independence Day should be storm free, which is always a positive given all the outdoor plans. \u2014 Ian Livingston, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"Drilling down into stock sectors, just one of the 11 S&P 500 sectors are in positive territory for 2022. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 1 July 2022",
"Everybody working on it is really appreciating it in a different way \u2013 that\u2019s a real positive and will give it a real energy for the next 10 years at least. \u2014 Mark Sutherland, Variety , 30 June 2022",
"Alternatively, Biden could argue that wide-scale student loan cancellation will be a net positive to the economy. \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Despite the bitter end of Tina, Haynes is trying to focus on the positive . \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 29 June 2022",
"What was most important was his gift of liking people, treating everyone fairly, seeing the positive in any situation, and being profoundly flexible. \u2014 Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"He was urged to take a test and wound up popping a positive . \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 26 May 2022",
"Russia may be run by a despot whose needless military adventurism will result in the death of thousands of Ukranians, but Chelsea\u2019s recent run of success is a net positive . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The only substantial positive is turnover numbers have stayed down. \u2014 Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Dawson described the past few weeks as something of an emotional pendulum, as one test would come back negative, then the next positive . \u2014 Tom Schad, USA TODAY , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Health officials in Hong Kong are now investigating this as a possible case of animal-to-human transmission because two more human infections, one confirmed and one preliminary positive , were linked to the pet store. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Ten of the brochures never mention that a false positive can happen. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Jan. 2022",
"Players undergo more testing after an initial positive . \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Honerkamp also noted that focusing on the positive can have powerful benefits. \u2014 SELF , 5 Nov. 2021"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4z-tiv",
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for positive Adjective sure , certain , positive , cocksure mean having no doubt or uncertainty. sure usually stresses the subjective or intuitive feeling of assurance. felt sure that I had forgotten something certain may apply to a basing of a conclusion or conviction on definite grounds or indubitable evidence. police are certain about the cause of the fire positive intensifies sureness or certainty and may imply opinionated conviction or forceful expression of it. I'm positive that's the person I saw cocksure implies presumptuous or careless positiveness. you're always so cocksure about everything",
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"The sheriff and his posse rode out to look for the bandits.",
"I went to the game with my posse .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Atlanta hip-hop artist (and part of J.Cole\u2019s Dreamville Records posse ) bought something of a master class in rap history on Sunday. \u2014 David Browne, Rolling Stone , 13 June 2022",
"Various search and rescue efforts have been launched since Friday, including YCSO Backcountry Search and Rescue, search dogs, the Sheriff's Volunteer OHV Unit, a Jeep posse , along with a Department of Public Safety Ranger helicopter. \u2014 Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic , 15 May 2022",
"And the crowd of stunned pedestrians formed into a posse , dozens of them giving chase. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Adding insult to injury, Will's condescending posse sabotages the burgeoning relationship between Noah's best pal, Howie (Bowen Yang), and their doctor friend, Charlie (James Scully), by jetting in Charlie's ex to crash their beach getaway. \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 3 June 2022",
"Officials also seized a large diamond and a gold Short North posse medallion necklace from Smith. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 11 May 2022",
"This posse , angry over the construction of shelters and homeless housing in the district, has tried and failed to recall him multiple times. \u2014 Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
"The posse spent almost a decade chasing down leads. \u2014 Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Syd was originally the engineer for the rascally rap posse Odd Future, and recorded most of the group\u2019s early work in her parents\u2019 home in the Mid-City neighborhood of Los Angeles. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 14 Apr. 2022"
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"1645, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"Medieval Latin posse comitatus , literally, power or authority of the county":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4-s\u0113"
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"cortege",
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": to bring or cause to fall under the influence, domination, or control of some emotional or intellectual response or reaction":[
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"What would possess seemingly sane people to treat concrete walls like trampolines? \u2014 Alice Park , Time , 16 Apr. 2007",
"People who experience specific colors when looking at particular letters, such as seeing sky blue when shown an R, possess an unusual abundance of connections in brain areas involved in word and color perception, a new brain-imaging investigation finds. \u2014 Bruce Bower , Science News , 26 May 2007",
"What does matter is that we come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious, indeed; and, moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint. \u2014 Tom Robbins , Harper's , September 2004",
"nations that possess nuclear weapons",
"The defendant was charged with possessing cocaine.",
"The ruby was once possessed by an ancient queen.",
"He dreams of someday possessing great wealth.",
"He possesses a keen wit.",
"The drug possesses the potential to suppress tumors.",
"Do dolphins possess the ability to use language?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The requirements for a license to carry a gun sit atop the many state rules restricting who can possess a firearm. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"In the past few decades, hot pants have been associated with women like Kate Moss, who possess strong personal style and impressive body confidence. \u2014 Nancy Macdonell, WSJ , 22 June 2022",
"Detroit Police Chief James White, alongside Mayor Mike Duggan and Dawn Ison, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, announced a collaboration to prosecute felons who illegally possess firearms quickly and under federal law. \u2014 Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press , 6 June 2022",
"Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Ben Stiller play the Tenenbaum kids, who all possess quirks that can only be described as extremely Wes Anderson. \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
"Under the bill, those who possess the weapons when the law is passed would be grandfathered in, subject to registration of their firearms. \u2014 Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com , 25 May 2022",
"Leaders who possess customer-centric qualities can easily adapt to clients\u2019 needs. \u2014 Karen Greenbaum, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"But in many states that haven\u2019t decriminalized the strips, people who possess the papers aren\u2019t being prosecuted. \u2014 Andy Miller, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"The legislation also would increase the accessibility of naloxone and test strips while steering people who possess fentanyl into education and treatment programs. \u2014 Geoff Mulvihill, ajc , 3 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English, from Middle French possesser to have possession of, take possession of, from Latin possessus , past participle of possid\u0113re , from potis able, having the power + sed\u0113re to sit \u2014 more at potent , sit":""
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"a horror movie about a possessed child",
"remarkably poised and possessed in the midst of all the turmoil",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The bright red color was soon muted by a generous dollop of Smetana, which would melt in the hot soup, sending its white streaks all around, like a possessed octopus. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Then the idea of playing the three, there is a kind of possessed -ness, so that did require a different body shape or different vocal inflections. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Etruscans saved the furcula of chickens, setting them in the sun to dry out, according to Panati, believing the birds were sacred and possessed power. \u2014 Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Players assume the role of a possessed lamb and build a flock of deceptively cute woodland creatures to become the biggest, baddest satanic cult around. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Aug. 2021",
"Blair famously played the possessed child Regan MacNeil in William Friedkin's original 1973 film. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 27 July 2021",
"The front-seat passenger, the mother of a 1-year-old in the back seat, possessed needles and a methamphetamine pipe, according to police. \u2014 Bruce Geiselman, cleveland , 8 Nov. 2020",
"Her most common move is scuttling toward the camera on all fours, like a possessed toddler. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 16 Sep. 2020",
"At the outset of this horror flick, the third installment in the possessed doll series, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) lock the Annabelle doll in a sacred glass case in their home\u2019s artifacts room. \u2014 Sara Aridi, New York Times , 5 Mar. 2020"
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"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
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"also -\u02c8sest",
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"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"cool",
"coolheaded",
"equal",
"level",
"limpid",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"recollected",
"sedate",
"self-composed",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"smooth",
"together",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"unruffled",
"unshaken",
"untroubled",
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"The city can take possession of the abandoned buildings.",
"She came into possession of a rare silver coin.",
"The family lost all of its possessions in the fire.",
"This ring was my mother's most precious possession .",
"The defendant was charged with heroin possession .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Griner has remained in Russian custody since February after she was arrested at a Moscow airport and suspected of cannabis possession . \u2014 Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic , 1 July 2022",
"American basketball star Brittney Griner appeared in a Moscow-area court for trial Friday, about 4 1/2 months after she was arrested on cannabis possession charges at an airport while traveling to play for a Russian team. \u2014 Jim Heintz, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 July 2022",
"The other man pleaded guilty in 2020 to two counts of drug possession and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. \u2014 Adam Ferrise, cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"As Rittenhouse's case went to the jury in November, Judge Bruce Schroeder threw out the possession charge. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"The change of legal guardian came years after June was arrested and charged with felony drug possession . \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 30 June 2022",
"Brittney Griner was seen in a Russian court and ordered to stand trial Friday near Moscow on cannabis possession charges, about 4 1/2 months after her arrest at an airport. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 27 June 2022",
"Shackled and looking wary, WNBA star Brittney Griner was ordered to stand trial Friday by a court near Moscow on cannabis possession charges, about 4\u00bd months after her arrest at an airport while returning to play for a Russian team. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Shackled and looking wary, WNBA player Brittney Griner was ordered to stand trial Friday by a court near Moscow on cannabis- possession charges, about 4\u00bd months after her arrest at an airport while returning to play for a Russian team. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 27 June 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"also -\u02c8se-",
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],
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"control",
"enjoyment",
"hands",
"keeping"
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"-\u1d4al\u02cciz\u0259m",
"-\u0259\u02ccli-"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"-sh\u0259\u02ccner\u0113"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"antonyms":[],
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": having possessions or endowments":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Medieval Latin possessionatus from Latin possession-, possessio possession + -atus -ate":""
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"-sh\u0259n\u0259\u0307t"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": having possessions":[]
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"-sh\u0259nd"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104712",
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"adjective"
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": one appointed to renew boundary landmarks in the southern U.S.":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English possessiouner , from possessioun possession + -er":""
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"-sh(\u0259)n\u0259(r)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042515",
"type":[
"noun"
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": a believer in possession by spirits":[]
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"-sh(\u0259)n\u0259\u0307st"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193809",
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"Adjective",
"If you marry him, he is only going to become even more jealous and possessive than he is now.",
"The possessive form of \u201cdog\u201d is \u201cdog's.\u201d",
"\u201cHis\u201d and \u201cher\u201d are possessive pronouns .",
"Noun",
"\u201cYour\u201d and \u201cyours\u201d are possessives .",
"The possessive of \u201cit\u201d is \u201cits.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Covarrubias was possessive and kept her and Angel on a short leash, according to Erika Gonzalez. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"But what no one has ever located is what makes so many people feel possessive not just of the stories, but also of their connection to the writer. \u2014 Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
"In this case, even when given oxytocin, the first lion to get the food typically became possessive and prevented its companions from approaching too closely\u2014typically by growling and snarling. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Mar. 2022",
"That possessive nationalist rhetoric clashes, however, with increasing numbers of Chinese athletes who consider themselves members of a global sporting community. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Women, too, get the stubby end of the stick in a film that paints an unflattering picture of possessive masculine entitlement, but doesn\u2019t afford Isadora \u2014 despite Lvovsky\u2019s game, ribald performance \u2014 much in the way of a point of view. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Angela could be highly possessive and extremely volatile if any of the Daddy\u2019s Girls failed to live up to her requirements, Chae says. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Jacob is being very possessive about the baby, whose name is Renesmee(!). \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 27 Aug. 2021",
"In addition to Roberts and Mulroney, standout supporting players include Brian Sacca as a surprisingly indulgent police officer and RZA as a not-so-surprisingly possessive pimp. \u2014 Joe Leydon, Variety , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The possessive in the title of Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League says it all. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 15 Mar. 2021",
"That titular possessive really is doing a lot of work. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 15 Mar. 2021",
"Devon and Birmingham unilaterally disposed of the possessive in in all street and road signs in 2009, though the Devon council backtracked shortly after. \u2014 Roslyn Petelin, Quartz , 10 Dec. 2019",
"Wisconsin linebacker Chris Orr stood on the field at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday \u2014 the spot where Minnesota beat the Badgers 37-15 last November \u2014 and attached a possessive to a coveted item. \u2014 Andy Greder, Twin Cities , 24 Nov. 2019",
"But with great power comes great responsibility: 8 breeds workaholics, and on a bad day, can become excessively controlling and possessive . \u2014 Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure , 16 July 2018",
"Luckily, Salander is a more compelling, surprising, and complex character than Blomkvist, in his possessive and protective desire, can see. \u2014 Alice Bolin, Longreads , 26 June 2018",
"Tully is endlessly open and nurturing without seeming possessive , helpful without seeming controlling. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 4 May 2018",
"That\u2019s next-level possessive and a product of unchecked toxic masculinity. \u2014 Jill Gutowitz, Glamour , 9 Feb. 2018"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"also -\u02c8se-",
"p\u0259-\u02c8ze-siv"
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"jealous"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084339",
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a pronominal adjective expressing possession":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Suddenly, pronouns and possessive adjectives are on everyone\u2019s minds. \u2014 Christopher O. Blum, National Review , 12 Sep. 2019",
"That\u2019s true despite the possessive adjective in the title, or the fact that the director, an artist, plays an artist, Ellie. \u2014 Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times , 11 Jan. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1870, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061144",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062005",
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": to bring or cause to fall under the influence, domination, or control of some emotional or intellectual response or reaction":[
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": to enter into and control firmly : dominate":[
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": to have as an attribute , knowledge, or skill":[],
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"examples":[
"What would possess seemingly sane people to treat concrete walls like trampolines? \u2014 Alice Park , Time , 16 Apr. 2007",
"People who experience specific colors when looking at particular letters, such as seeing sky blue when shown an R, possess an unusual abundance of connections in brain areas involved in word and color perception, a new brain-imaging investigation finds. \u2014 Bruce Bower , Science News , 26 May 2007",
"What does matter is that we come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious, indeed; and, moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint. \u2014 Tom Robbins , Harper's , September 2004",
"nations that possess nuclear weapons",
"The defendant was charged with possessing cocaine.",
"The ruby was once possessed by an ancient queen.",
"He dreams of someday possessing great wealth.",
"He possesses a keen wit.",
"The drug possesses the potential to suppress tumors.",
"Do dolphins possess the ability to use language?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The requirements for a license to carry a gun sit atop the many state rules restricting who can possess a firearm. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"In the past few decades, hot pants have been associated with women like Kate Moss, who possess strong personal style and impressive body confidence. \u2014 Nancy Macdonell, WSJ , 22 June 2022",
"Detroit Police Chief James White, alongside Mayor Mike Duggan and Dawn Ison, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, announced a collaboration to prosecute felons who illegally possess firearms quickly and under federal law. \u2014 Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press , 6 June 2022",
"Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Ben Stiller play the Tenenbaum kids, who all possess quirks that can only be described as extremely Wes Anderson. \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
"Under the bill, those who possess the weapons when the law is passed would be grandfathered in, subject to registration of their firearms. \u2014 Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com , 25 May 2022",
"Leaders who possess customer-centric qualities can easily adapt to clients\u2019 needs. \u2014 Karen Greenbaum, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"But in many states that haven\u2019t decriminalized the strips, people who possess the papers aren\u2019t being prosecuted. \u2014 Andy Miller, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"The legislation also would increase the accessibility of naloxone and test strips while steering people who possess fentanyl into education and treatment programs. \u2014 Geoff Mulvihill, ajc , 3 Apr. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"Middle English, from Middle French possesser to have possession of, take possession of, from Latin possessus , past participle of possid\u0113re , from potis able, having the power + sed\u0113re to sit \u2014 more at potent , sit":""
},
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"p\u0259-\u02c8zes",
"also -\u02c8ses"
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"command",
"enjoy",
"have",
"hold",
"own",
"retain"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090336",
"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
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": the quality or state of being possessory":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259\u02c8zes\u0259r\u0113n\u0259\u0307s",
"p\u014d\u02c8-",
"-\u02c8ses-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134947",
"type":[
"noun"
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"possibility":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one's utmost power, capacity, or ability":[],
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"\u2014 usually used in plural the house had great possibilities"
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": the condition or fact of being possible":[]
},
"examples":[
"There is a strong possibility that I will not be chosen for the job.",
"Have you considered the possibility that you may be wrong?",
"My first two ideas didn't work, but I thought of a third possibility .",
"The future holds untold possibilities .",
"His degree and job experience give him a wide range of possibilities for a career.",
"a man of undetermined possibilities",
"The old house might not look like much now, but it has possibilities .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Reports that President Xi will be in Hong Kong this Friday appear to be confirmed, opening the possibility for more financial reform announcements for the city. \u2014 Brendan Ahern, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Federal immigration officials routinely run safety campaigns warning migrants against traveling in tractor-trailers because of the possibility of overheating. \u2014 Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ , 28 June 2022",
"This sequel has been a long time coming, with the stars and fans alike have discussing the possibility for years. \u2014 Morayo Ogunbayo, ajc , 28 June 2022",
"Another central theme at the NATO summit will be the possibility for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Fox News , 27 June 2022",
"The panel has yet to hear directly from either Trump or former vice president Mike Pence, although lawmakers have left open the possibility of calling either. \u2014 Luke Broadwater, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"But Cele said forensic samples were being sent to an advanced toxicology laboratory in Cape Town, indicating that police were looking at the possibility that poison or a toxin was involved. \u2014 Gerald Imray, Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
"Charles now faces the possibility of an investigation by The Charity Commission \u2014 the governing body of the charity world in Britain. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"The Avalanche beat the Lightning before attrition could take too much of a toll and before the scary possibility of facing elimination in Game 7 against Vasilevskiy. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 27 June 2022"
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"Advances in medicine have made it possible for people to live longer.",
"It is possible that she decided not to join us.",
"We tried to spend as little money as possible .",
"It is not physically possible to do everything you have planned in one day.",
"The weather report warned of possible thunderstorms tonight.",
"Thunderstorms are possible but not probable tonight.",
"The highest possible score is 100.",
"What possible good can it do to argue?",
"He is in the worst possible situation.",
"It is possible that life exists on other planets.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These countries wanted to get out of a security gray zone as fast as possible , and with NATO membership, locked in their success as Western style democracies and prevented a kind of a backsliding into a security and political no man's land. \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022",
"Winning more renewal sales begins with an agreement on the problems worth solving\u2014ensure your teams know the importance of gathering as much information as possible before recommending any solution, the importance of which I\u2019ve written on before. \u2014 Julie Thomas, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The objective is clear: to develop new solutions for local customers on a continuous basis and to expand by taking them to multiple markets as fast as possible . \u2014 Allison Bailey, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"In the short term, then, our efforts to prevent nuclear disaster must focus on maintaining as much control of the situation as possible . \u2014 J. Peter Scoblic And David R. Mandel, CNN , 28 June 2022",
"Since then, supporters, including coaches and players from the WNBA and NBA, including the Mercury and Suns, have advocated for the U.S. to bring her home as soon as possible . \u2014 Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic , 28 June 2022",
"Stevenson has called for warding off the ugly effects of inflation by being as conservative as possible with county spending. \u2014 Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"One hack is to sign up for as many of these services as possible through a third party on Apple\u2019s App Store or Apple TV platform, Google Play or Amazon\u2019s Prime video (not all are available). \u2014 Heather Kelly, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"We're told that as much work as possible will be done internally, with the RB17's gearbox set to be made on site. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 28 June 2022"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin possibilis , from posse to be able, from potis, pote able + esse to be \u2014 more at potent , is":""
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"\u2014 G. B. Shaw"
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"he may possibly recover after such a serious mistake, but it doesn't seem likely",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s down from recent readings but still elevated, and is possibly a sign that the market is nearing a bottom. \u2014 Simon Constable, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Prince, 1983, Von Braun Civic Center March 1, 1983 was possibly the most awesome Friday night ever in Huntsville. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 27 June 2022",
"McDonald's is delaying their McPlant, possibly because it's been a McFlop in initial test markets. \u2014 Paul Kita, Men's Health , 27 June 2022",
"In what's possibly the most bad-ass action scene of the series thus far, Homelander and Soldier Boy face off. \u2014 Alex Raiman, EW.com , 24 June 2022",
"When asked what could possibly be the reason to have doors like that, McCraw seemed befuddled. \u2014 Safia Samee Ali, NBC News , 22 June 2022",
"What better name for June 19 could there possibly be? \u2014 James Brown, CBS News , 20 June 2022",
"But the path to this year\u2019s win was possibly the unlikeliest in its history. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 17 June 2022",
"If this hearing wasn\u2019t newsworthy on a strictly empirical basis, what could possibly be? \u2014 Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post , 10 June 2022"
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"1507, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Noun",
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"1549, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
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"1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
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"Middle English, from Latin, from post ; akin to Lithuanian pas at, Greek apo away from \u2014 more at of":"Prefix",
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"Middle French poste , from Old Italian posto , from past participle of porre to place":"Noun",
"Middle French poste relay station, courier, from Old Italian posta relay station, from feminine of posto , past participle of porre to place, from Latin ponere \u2014 more at position":"Noun"
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"\u2014 abbreviation PTSD"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Garner, who has dementia and sensory aphasia, a condition that impairs her ability to communicate or fully understand speech, now has post-traumatic stress disorder . \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"Clinical psychologist Dawn Hughes defended her conclusion that Heard has post-traumatic stress disorder after Depp's legal team attempted to undermine her examinations. \u2014 Saba Hamedy, NBC News , 4 May 2022",
"One of them, Jason Knight, had asked the court for compassion, saying Staveley had post-traumatic stress disorder that could be triggered by incarceration, WJAR reported. \u2014 Brittany Williams, Arkansas Online , 11 Oct. 2021",
"The severity of survivors' post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms is related to their proximity to the mass shooting. \u2014 Rinad S. Beidas, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"On his right arm is a semicolon, a common suicide awareness tattoo in the color teal for post-traumatic stress disorder awareness. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Many years ago, Catch a Lift gave Rudder her first barbell, which started her back on the path to fitness, after more than a decade of chronic pain, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder issues and substance abuse. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Aug. 2021",
"For example, people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder exhibit heightened activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, known as the brain\u2019s internal critic, when performing under pressure. \u2014 Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online , 7 Oct. 2020",
"After narrowly escaping the shooting on the YouTube campus in 2018, Vivekanandan developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). \u2014 Soulaima Gourani, Forbes , 19 May 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1980, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"We sent the company a postdated check for next month's payment.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Both of them postdate a report in the New York Times in April 2020 that Chris Cuomo had provided advice to Andrew Cuomo\u2019s staff. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Coralie Mills of Dendrochronicle found that the samples of timbers retrieved from the riverbed were native oak, a wood rarely found at Scottish sites that postdate 1450. \u2014 Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Oct. 2020",
"Four of the ten Indian Ocean Dipoles that have occurred since 1240 postdate 1960. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine , 23 June 2020",
"Mel Dacus left Casa in 1975, so most of Brent Dacus\u2019 work and all of Reynold\u2019s work at the theater postdate their father and grandfather there. \u2014 Punch Shaw, star-telegram , 10 May 2018",
"A pane of glass reveals a bright office space inside: a lounge, rows of workstations, people who mostly postdate 1980. \u2014 Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker , 2 Apr. 2007",
"The Times had been investigating whether Ms. Coico\u2019s expenses were accurately recorded, or whether some had been postdated . \u2014 David W. Chen, New York Times , 7 Oct. 2016"
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"\u02ccp\u014ds(t)-\u02c8d\u0101t",
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},
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"1768, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114135",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"\u2014 Jeff Swiatek"
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"\u2014 Nancy Kapitanoff",
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"\u2014 The Baffler"
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": a male poster child":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Two decades ago Enron became the poster boy for how not to run a 401(k) plan when it was revealed that 60% of its employees\u2019 nest eggs were in its worthless stock. \u2014 Spencer Jakab, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"The ordeal has made Better.com the poster boy for poor layoff conduct in a primarily remote world. \u2014 Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 2 June 2022",
"Since his 2012 debut album Pluto, Future has undoubtedly solidified his role as the poster boy for drug binges, toxic entanglements, and exorbitant spending for the last decade. \u2014 Carl Lamarre, Billboard , 29 Apr. 2022",
"After starting the Amazon Labor Union, Smalls became the poster boy for the opposition against Amazon. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The poster boy for the power outage was, of course, slugger Juan Gonzalez, acquired in a blockbuster offseason trade. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 15 May 2022",
"Automotive, poster boy of the deflating bubble, finished down 21% following news that Ford Motor F 0.20% sold a chunk of its stake. \u2014 Stephen Wilmot, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
"Kupp has become the poster boy for third-round draft picks. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In the nineteenth century, German strongman Eugen Sandow was the bodybuilding poster boy . \u2014 Derek Beres, Rolling Stone , 19 Apr. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"She was a stirring speaker and activist and soon became the poster child of the antiwar movement.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The region has been a poster child for drought conservation. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Phoenix \u2022 Mary Francis had no qualms about being a poster child for COVID-19 vaccinations on the Navajo Nation, once a virus hot spot. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 May 2022",
"Insulin, used by patients with diabetes to help control their blood sugar, has long been a poster child for skyrocketing U.S. drug costs. \u2014 Katie Jennings, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Moffett, who made her debut in the outfield last season for Oswego and hit .284 to earn all-conference honors, was a poster child for that approach Monday. \u2014 Rick Armstrong, chicagotribune.com , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The poster child for this is the insurance companies benefiting from the mandatory enrollment in ObamaCare for all residents. \u2014 Simon Constable, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"The most \u2014 the poster child for that is Mariupol, obviously, a city of 450,000 people in the south of the country, southeast of the country. \u2014 Jacob Rosen, CBS News , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The poster child was Hamilton County, a Democratic county that the map split into three Republican districts. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 14 Jan. 2022",
"SpaceX, the poster child of the commercial space era, has been anxious to get a full-scale version of its Starship rocket launched on its first orbital test flight. \u2014 Jackie Wattles, CNN , 10 Jan. 2022"
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": an opaque watercolor paint with a gum- or glue-size binder sold usually in jars":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As the longtime poster girl for a healthy glow, Jennifer Aniston\u2019s beauty routine is a subject of great interest to the general public\u2014team Vogue included. \u2014 Hannah Coates, Vogue , 6 May 2022",
"Affleck famously proposed to the Versace poster girl with a pink six-carat Harry Winston diamond ring in 2002, before the pair called off their engagement. \u2014 Hayley Maitland, Vogue , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Few people were better at it than top SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau, who, at 40, was blond, vivacious, and literally the poster girl for the marine park in Orlando, Florida, appearing on billboards around the city. \u2014 Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online , 30 July 2010",
"The Vogue cover star, who this year reinvented herself as the poster girl for emerging talent thanks to her stylist Lorenzo Posocco\u2019s eye for the next big thing, called upon Maximilian Davis to create her a custom look for the industry celebration. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Juggling on-set glamour and motherhood at home, Jolene is a poster girl for the industry; respected, aspirational, happy. \u2014 William Earl, Variety , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Whatever that word is, Thomasin McKenzie\u2019s character in Edgar Wright\u2019s half-brilliant thriller Last Night in Soho\u2014playing out of competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival\u2014is the poster girl for it. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 4 Sep. 2021",
"Elsewhere, Barbie Ferreira and Dua Lipa were spotted wearing colorful eye shadow in shades of mellow green and frosted lilac, while Bella Hadid has become the Y2K poster girl with her thin brows and spiky updos. \u2014 Kristen Bateman, Vogue , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Taking it all in her stride Being the poster girl for Black swimming while also studying towards a master's degree in social media and political communications might be overwhelming for some, but Dearing takes it all in her stride. \u2014 Sammy Mngqosini, CNN , 17 Dec. 2020"
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"the posterior part of the brain",
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"Noun",
"The man squeezed his large posterior into the chair.",
"the baseball players were always slapping one another on the posterior",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The deadlift remains the king of all back exercises, as the movement incorporates lat and core stabilization along with engaging your entire posterior chain. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 30 June 2022",
"Your calf muscles help make up your posterior chain, the group of muscles that run along the back of your body, including those along your spine, your hamstrings, and your glutes. \u2014 Melissa Matthews, SELF , 23 June 2022",
"Another all-star starter, Freddy Peralta, has begun throwing again after suffering a right posterior shoulder strain on May 22. \u2014 Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Ablation of the posterior nasal nerves is a new treatment for vasomotor rhinitis, which is characterized by a runny nose after eating or with changes in temperature. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 3 June 2022",
"The injury occurred the same day the Brewers found out that starting pitcher Freddy Peralta would miss a significant amount of time this year with a right posterior shoulder strain, though he is expected to return sometime in 2022. \u2014 Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 May 2022",
"One day hit legs, the next chest, and the final was focused on the posterior chain. \u2014 Brett Williams, Men's Health , 24 May 2022",
"Once formed, the gametes can detach and swim freely, and the posterior ends can regenerate. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Hinge your hips then scoop up to get a stretch through the posterior chain on the straight leg side. \u2014 Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health , 3 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Brown shook Grayson Allen so thoroughly on an 18-foot jumper in the first quarter that Allen staggered and his posterior ended up on the parquet. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 4 May 2022",
"If that set of bones is well controlled, the tibialis posterior can work eccentrically to smoothly lower your foot to the ground. \u2014 Jay Dicharry, Outside Online , 13 Mar. 2019",
"The deltoid muscles consist of three parts: the anterior (front) deltoid, lateral (medial) deltoid, and posterior (back) deltoid. \u2014 Tyler Hatfield, Men's Health , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The whitish larvae are C-shaped with a bulbous posterior . \u2014 Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Apr. 2022",
"This compromises the tibialis posterior and its tendon. \u2014 Jay Dicharry, Outside Online , 13 Mar. 2019",
"Philip English imagines a stuffy British bureaucrat parking his posterior on that seat and arguing that humans could never have descended from apes. \u2014 Mary Carole Mccauley, baltimoresun.com , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Somewhere along the way, many of us have lost touch with our intuitive gait and developed inefficient patterns, letting the front of our bodies do the work instead of our powerhouse posterior chain. \u2014 Esther Smith, Outside Online , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Madonna's posterior has apparently been a point of controversy in recent years. \u2014 Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 Sep. 2021"
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"p\u00e4-\u02c8stir-\u0113-\u0259r, p\u014d-",
"p\u014d-\u02c8stir-\u0113-\u0259r",
"p\u014d-",
"p\u00e4-\u02c8stir-\u0113-\u0259r",
"p\u014d-\u02c8stir-\u0113-\u0259r, p\u00e4-",
"p\u00e4-"
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"back",
"hind",
"hinder",
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Linebacker Drew White has continued to play despite tearing a posterior cruciate ligament during practice last week. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 13 Nov. 2021",
"Wilson sprained the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a 54-13 loss at New England last Sunday. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 30 Oct. 2021",
"Wilson suffered an injury to the posterior cruciate ligament of his right knee. \u2014 J.p. Pelzman, Forbes , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Rios Ayala required foot surgery and injured both the posterior cruciate ligament and anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee. \u2014 John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times , 12 Mar. 2021",
"Surgery to repair the posterior cruciate ligament in his left knee has given him new life, and there\u2019s enough uncertainty for the A\u2019s at second base that the position could be there for the taking. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Texas A&M committed quarterback Eli Stowers is fully cleared after tearing the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in his left knee during the Wildcats' first drive of the 2019 state championship and is expected to start Friday. \u2014 Tess Demeyer, Dallas News , 22 Sep. 2020",
"Stanton played just his 10th game this year and first since straining the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee June 25. \u2014 Jake Seiner, courant.com , 19 Sep. 2019",
"Stanton played just his 10th game this year and first since straining the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee June 25. \u2014 Jake Seiner, courant.com , 19 Sep. 2019"
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"1981, in the meaning defined above":""
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": the quality or state of being later or subsequent":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For all intensive porpoises, the very pineapple of creative word play and hexagon of humor, his work will live on for posteriority . \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Nov. 2020"
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"-\u02c8\u00e4r-",
"(\u02cc)p\u00e4-",
"(\u02cc)p\u014d-\u02ccstir-\u0113-\u02c8\u022fr-\u0259-t\u0113"
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"poster entry 2 + -ist":""
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"\u02c8p\u014dst\u0259r\u0259\u0307st"
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"Her broad aim is to reconcile the image of Johnson\u2014the clubbable man, loved by posterity as well as by his contemporaries\u2014and the man racked by disease and tormented by his fear of madness. \u2014 Frank Kermode , New York Review of Books , 22 June 2006",
"Posterity looks for hooks to hang old reputations on \u2026 \u2014 John Updike , New York Review of Books , 15 July 2004",
"The restructuring of the New York Yankees began five days after that broken-bat bloop by Luis Gonzalez parachuted to posterity behind second base, clinching the World Series for the Arizona Diamondbacks and breaking the Yankees' run of three titles. \u2014 Tom Verducci , Sports Illustrated , 24-31 Dec. 2001",
"It was puzzling to own trees\u2014they were not owned the way a business is owned or even a house is owned. If anything, they were held in trust. In trust. Yes, for all of posterity , beginning with Merry and her kids. \u2014 Philip Roth , American Pastoral , 1997",
"Posterity will remember her as a woman of courage and integrity.",
"A record of the events was preserved for posterity .",
"The truth about what happened will be known to posterity .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And jotting everything down for posterity is a writer (Makis Papadimitriou) who\u2019s having a hard time concentrating on the task at hand, what with his intense acid reflux and some highly gaseous medical issues\u2026. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022",
"Radio reporter Les Grobstein saved the tape for posterity , and every year Cubs fans relive the memory of the rant heard around the world. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"Fans broke out their cellphones to record the moment for posterity . \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"The English diarist Samuel Pepys was a passenger on the royal yacht sailing alongside the Gloucester in the royal fleet and recorded the harrowing experience of the sinking for posterity in a letter to a friend. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 10 June 2022",
"White\u2019s team had yet another device capturing the show for posterity : a digital recorder. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"Researchers are working quickly to digitize and map the cave and its artwork to both preserve it for posterity and create the virtual replica, which is accurate to within millimeters. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 June 2022",
"At the other end of the emotional scale, many jokers were moved to ask posterity if their local sports team had won anything yet. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Parfit scolded economists for undervaluing posterity . \u2014 Hari Kunzru, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English posterite , from Anglo-French pusterit\u00e9 , from Latin posteritat-, posteritas , from posterus coming after":""
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"p\u00e4-\u02c8ster-\u0259-t\u0113"
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": the act or action of posterizing an opponent":[
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"\u2014 Jody Genessy"
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"\u2014 Tony Hoffman"
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"1950, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"poster entry 2 + -ize":""
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"\u02ccp\u014d-st\u0259-r\u0259-\u02c8z\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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"noun"
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": to make (an image) into a poster":[
"You could freeze nearly any shot of this film, go to one of those websites that posterize any image and have a piece of art suitable for framing.",
"\u2014 Richard Roeper"
],
": to print or display (an image, such as a photograph) with a limited number of tones or colors in a way suggesting or appropriate to a poster":[
"You can also go wild with the Equalizer's advanced modes\u2014 posterize the picture, change it to negative, make it black and white \u2026",
"\u2014 Popular Photography"
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"first_known_use":{
"1943, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02c8p\u014d-st\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz"
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"definitions":{
": a back door or gate":[],
": a private or side entrance or way":[]
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English posterne , from Anglo-French, alteration of Old French posterle , from Late Latin posterula , diminutive of postera back door, from Latin, feminine of posterus":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4-",
"\u02c8p\u014d-st\u0259rn"
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"noun"
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],
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"postero lateral"
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"\u00a6p\u00e4st\u0259r\u014d+"
],
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": of or relating to the posterior part of the back":[]
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"\"+"
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": posterior and lateral in position or direction":[]
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"1836, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"poster ior + -o- + lateral":""
},
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"\u02ccp\u00e4-st\u0259-r\u014d-\u02c8la-t(\u0259-)r\u0259l",
"\u02ccp\u00e4s-t\u0259-r\u014d-\u02c8lat-\u0259-r\u0259l, -\u02c8la-tr\u0259l"
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"adverb"
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"slow",
"slowly"
],
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"requires your \u2026 posthaste appearance",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
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},
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"Adverb",
"ran posthaste for the doctor"
],
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"1545, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1594, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"post entry 3":"Noun"
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"\u02c8p\u014dst-\u02c8h\u0101st"
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"apace",
"briskly",
"chop-chop",
"double-quick",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"hastily",
"hell-for-leather",
"hot",
"lickety-split",
"presto",
"pronto",
"quick",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"snappily",
"soon",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025623",
"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the posterior lobe of the pituitary body":[]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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"Latin posticus , adjective, that is behind, from post after, behind + -icus -ic, -ical":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4st\u0259\u0307k\u0259l"
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"first_known_use":{
"1867, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Spanish postizo":""
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"p\u022f-\u02c8st\u0113sh"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"p\u00e4\u02c8st\u012bk\u0259s"
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"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": a portico behind an ancient Greek or Roman temple":[]
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"Latin, rear of a building, back door, from neuter of posticus back, posterior":""
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"p\u00e4\u02c8st\u012bk\u0259m"
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"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": letter carrier":[]
},
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"the sort of small Cornish village in which the local postie knows everyone's business"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1611, in the meaning defined above":""
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"by shortening & alteration from postman":""
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"\u02c8p\u014d-st\u0113"
],
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"mail carrier",
"mailman",
"postman"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012548",
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"noun"
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"Middle English postilen , from Middle French postiller , from Medieval Latin postillare , from postilla":"Transitive verb",
"Middle English postille , from Middle French, from Medieval Latin postilla , probably from post illa ( verba textus ) after those words of the text, from Latin post after + illa , neuter accusative plural of ille that":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4st\u0259\u0307l",
"\""
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": one who rides as a guide on the near horse of one of the pairs attached to a coach or post chaise especially without a coachman":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1640, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Middle French postillon mail carrier using post-horses, from Italian postiglione , from posta post \u2014 more at post entry 3":""
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"p\u0259-",
"p\u014d-\u02c8stil-y\u0259n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044015",
"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": following an impact":[
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"a postimpact fire",
"postimpact debris"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1955, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccp\u014dst-\u02c8im-\u02ccpakt"
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"adjective"
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": following an impact":[
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"postimpact debris"
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"first_known_use":{
"1955, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccp\u014dst-\u02c8im-\u02ccpakt"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185501",
"type":[
"adjective"
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},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or occurring in the period following the dissolution of an empire":[
"postimperial Britain",
"Although the postwar system of international relations was not static, it is right to call it postimperial .",
"\u2014 Robert Skidelsky"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Against this harsh reality, the submarine deal appears to reflect a declining superpower, riven by internal discord and imperiled by democratic collapse, leading a diminished postimperial power down a cul-de-sac of geopolitical irrelevance. \u2014 Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books , 13 Oct. 2021"
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"The event is led by Bob Lundy and Elizabeth Yahn Williams with preludes and postludes of pianist Andrew Wong and assisted by artist Marion Wong, illustrator of the HA\u00cfKU for an Artist series. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 July 2019",
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"The 14 songs that made up Wednesday\u2019s program were grouped in three sets, with an introduction and postlude , collectively exploring mortal interaction with the gods, the Orestes myth and the deities themselves. \u2014 John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com , 7 Sep. 2017",
"Perhaps the best thing to do with GWTW is to ask anyone who shows the film to put together a prelude or postlude \u2014 or maybe a little presentation for the intermission that is usually provided \u2014 that interrogates the film\u2019s presentation of history. \u2014 Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer , 30 Aug. 2017",
"The six postlude concerts next season will be played by Peter Richard Conte. \u2014 Peter Dobrin, Philly.com , 7 Aug. 2017",
"The postlude concerts were studded with some wonderful surprises. \u2014 Peter Dobrin, Philly.com , 1 May 2017"
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"The Rural Route Collection is an extensive body of photographs by local Harrison County, Kentucky postman , and photographer Mark Bradford. \u2014 Pat Mcdonogh, The Courier-Journal , 12 May 2022",
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"Once a postman and now a flying wing-back, Thomas Meunier was sold for 200,000 euros to Club Brugge in 2011. \u2014 Samindra Kunti, Forbes , 23 Sep. 2021",
"The postman demanded a handsome tip from my father, considering the delivery of this letter such an auspicious occasion. \u2014 Cressida Leysho, The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
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"The postmark was August 29, 2017, which worked out to be a day late. \u2014 Peter J Reilly, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Its wrapping bears a postmark of May 11, 1965, and the sender and addressee are the same: Lewis Reed. \u2014 New York Times , 6 June 2022",
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"The bill prohibits the use of a U.S. Postal Service postmark as a way to verify when a ballot was mailed. \u2014 David Pitt, Star Tribune , 24 Feb. 2021",
"The thick envelope bearing a Spanish postmark immediately struck Bishop as odd. \u2014 Matt Reynolds, Wired , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Mail ballots that arrived three days late would be valid, even without a postmark . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 24 Oct. 2021",
"Every December, post office workers in the small Wood County village (population 433) hand stamp 10,000 cards with a special Christmas postmark that features Rudolph and is designed by local schoolchildren. \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 Dec. 2021",
"The mailers carry the postmark and approval from the Ohio Democratic Party, which gets a discount on bulk mailing. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 28 Oct. 2021",
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"Six Democrats, 16 Republicans, two libertarians and 24 unaligned or independent candidates are smushed together on the same single-page ballot, which Alaskans need to postmark by Saturday. \u2014 Dan Zak, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"For voters who are eligible to vote under the Uniformed and Overseas Absentee Voting Act, May 24 is the last day to postmark an absentee ballot. \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Also, voters who are eligible to vote pursuant to the Uniformed and Overseas Absentee Voting Act will have until May 24 to postmark an absentee ballot. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 21 Apr. 2022",
"So far, turnout has been anemic, but that could change because voters have until election day to postmark their ballots. \u2014 Gillian Flaccus, ajc , 13 May 2022",
"Officials said voters who wait until the last day should use a ballot dropbox \u2014 available at select locations \u2014 or walk into a post office and ask the postmaster to hand- postmark their ballot. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Mar. 2022",
"However, a Postal Service spokesperson said there\u2019s been a longstanding policy to postmark election mail, regardless of the type of postage on it, specifically because so many election laws rely on them. \u2014 Jeremy Hsieh, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Deadline to postmark a letter for the program is Friday, Dec. 10. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Those who wish to object must postmark their letters by July 28, 2021. \u2014 al , 27 Apr. 2021"
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"Another area ripe for new technology is postmortem facial reconstruction, used for identification purposes, which has traditionally been carried out by putting clay on skulls in a process known as forensic art. \u2014 Rachel Pannett, WSJ , 30 Sep. 2020",
"Beer and his colleagues analyzed postmortem brain tissue from 56 patients in southeastern Germany\u2019s state of Bavaria between 1999 and 2019. \u2014 Tanya Lewis, Scientific American , 8 Jan. 2020",
"Although treatments for these disorders remain elusive, postmortem brain tissue offers a key resource for unlocking possible solutions. \u2014 Emily Toomey, Smithsonian , 21 Aug. 2019",
"In addition to studying postmortem tissue, imaging methods like MRIs offer alternative tools for investigating neurological conditions. \u2014 Emily Toomey, Smithsonian , 21 Aug. 2019",
"Nearby, the researchers also found skulls apparently stuck together with mortar\u2014remnants of one of the towers flanking the tzompantli, where most skulls once exhibited on its posts ended their postmortem journey. \u2014 Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS , 21 June 2018",
"Last year, Jeff Iliff, a neuroscientist at Oregon Health & Science University, and several colleagues examined postmortem tissue from 79 human brains. \u2014 The Washington Post, The Denver Post , 21 May 2017",
"Last year, Jeff Iliff, a neuroscientist at Oregon Health & Science University, and several colleagues examined postmortem tissue from 79 human brains. \u2014 David Kohn, Washington Post , 21 May 2017",
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"The stand-up hour is likely a first in the world of comedy \u2014 a postmortem last joke and testament from a comic who relished defying contention. \u2014 James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 May 2022",
"After taking audiences through the steps of how such a postmortem is conducted, Mathieu stands up at a press conference and pulls a Colin Powell: His premature conclusions let the airline off the hook. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 5 May 2022",
"She had been stabbed to death and a train had run over her body postmortem , the release said. \u2014 Melissa Alonso, CNN , 28 Apr. 2022",
"In these postmortem portraits, Gunn achieves a highly effective balance between heartbreaking details and the soothing consolations of form and rhyme. \u2014 Mark Ford, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022",
"These are being discussed in the postmortem over Terra\u2019s collapse. \u2014 Telis Demos, WSJ , 12 May 2022",
"The postmortem offered by a veteran Alaska campaign consultant was brief and blunt. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In a study published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US CDC partnered with the CDC China for a postmortem on the deadly spike. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 8 Apr. 2022",
"So: prearrange, predeath, pretax, as well as postdate, postmortem , but pre-election, pre-eminent, pre-Columbian. \u2014 WSJ , 5 Apr. 2022"
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"During a postmortem examination , the coroner concluded that Kathleen had died from injuries that were consistent with blunt force trauma, not an accidental fall. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 4 June 2022",
"Dunikoski showed Donoghue a series of photos taken during the postmortem examination and asked the medical examiner to give a detailed description of each. \u2014 Bill Hutchinson, ABC News , 16 Nov. 2021",
"The postmortem examination was performed Monday, and the subsequent report with more details about the findings was expected to be completed by mid- to late November, Hess said. \u2014 Mike Cruz, The Arizona Republic , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Upon postmortem examination , these birds, including the black and white water bird species western grebes, were found to have domoic acid poisoning. \u2014 Jennifer Clare Ball, Wired , 16 Aug. 2021",
"The two types of CJD can only be distinguished through a postmortem examination of brain tissue. \u2014 Barbara Casassus, Science | AAAS , 28 July 2021",
"The puppy was brought to the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, run by the university, for a postmortem examination after its unexpected death. \u2014 Amanda Blanco, courant.com , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Schwarz\u2019s body was taken to the medical examiner\u2019s office of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery for a postmortem examination . \u2014 John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al , 24 Oct. 2020",
"Todd was there for the postmortem examination and accompanied the president's body to the White House, the letter said. \u2014 Christina Zdanowicz, CNN , 14 Sep. 2020"
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"Also on Friday, a federal judge agreed to postpone a trial in July for members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group charged with conspiring to forcefully halt the peaceful transfer of power after President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 7 May 2022",
"Francis also confirmed that the two clerics had agreed to postpone a face-to-face meeting in Jerusalem that had been scheduled for June. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 4 May 2022",
"Prosecutors and Buck\u2019s attorneys agreed to postpone a hearing to determine the amount that Buck must pay in restitution while his lawyers gather records of his finances. \u2014 Matthew Ormsethstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Potential disruptions of the aviation system were averted after wireless companies agreed to postpone switching on broadcasts near runways and to lower power levels and the FAA began tests to determine the extent of potential problems. \u2014 Alan Levin, Bloomberg.com , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Some analysts even speculate Putin agreed to postpone a Ukraine invasion until after the Winter Olympics as a favor to China President Xi Jinping. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Last week, Cahill agreed to postpone that trial again to allow the federal case to precede at the request of both defense attorneys and prosecutors. \u2014 N'dea Yancey-bragg, USA TODAY , 20 Jan. 2022",
"The Texas Attorney General's Office and SAISD lawyers agreed to postpone for six to eight months a trial that had been set for Wednesday on the state\u2019s effort to kill the vaccine mandate. \u2014 Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Common Pleas Court judges agreed Monday to postpone jury trials until the beginning of next month. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 4 Jan. 2022"
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"So there is no reason to postulate on a Pat Riley-LeBron James reunion, because there has been no indication of that as a possibility. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 13 June 2022",
"Others postulate that a multiple-choice protocol or a binary encoding might be a means to prevent the AI from deviously fooling a human guard. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"The theory, which is laid out in Steele\u2019s 1988 paper, goes on to postulate that people are motivated to maintain views of themselves as morally good and competent. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Some astronomers, Hailey and his co-authors among them, postulate that the distinction can be made by carefully monitoring the timing of an x-ray binary\u2019s outbursts. \u2014 Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Scientists postulate that the bacillus originated in some lower animal and jumped to humans. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Experts postulate that the housing bubble burst in tandem with economic hardships of the Great Recession pushed many people of home-buying age to the cities. \u2014 al , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Although cooler than the rest of the sun\u2019s surface, some scientists postulate that sunspots have an overall warming effect on the sun. \u2014 Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 10 Apr. 2021",
"Some scholars postulate that the severe injury reminded him of his time in World War I, when his first concussion took place. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 Apr. 2021",
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"Modern philosophers such as Nick Bostrom postulate that our cosmos is probably a simulation, a virtual reality created by the alien equivalent of a bored teenage hacker. \u2014 John Horgan, Scientific American , 14 June 2022",
"Taleb goes a step further, offering a mathematical postulate . \u2014 Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"That\u2019s the main postulate of the supremely interesting and information-filled 2021 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER), released earlier this week by Startup Genome with the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN). \u2014 Dane Stangler, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Belief in this postulate is evident at universities across the country, with many adopting protocols to ensure a safe, on-campus experience this fall. \u2014 Blake D. Morant, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
"But this isn\u2019t necessarily so, and it\u2019s the fifth postulate \u2019s fault. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 5 Mar. 2021",
"If Euclid\u2019s fifth postulate were true, then any two lines of longitude could never intersect. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 5 Mar. 2021",
"At the heart of this particular puzzle lies a conflict between three fundamental postulates beloved by many physicists. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine , 21 Dec. 2012",
"Starting from these two postulates , Einstein showed that space and time are intertwined in ways that scientists had never previously realized. \u2014 NBC News , 13 Apr. 2018"
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"Our new religious posture is this: Don\u2019t mess with us. \u2014 Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"As the organization Global Zero has made clear in its alternative nuclear posture review, the United States can dissuade any nation from attacking it with nuclear weapons with a substantially smaller nuclear arsenal. \u2014 William Hartung, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"But Popov went on to accuse the West of threatening Russia with its comments about wanting to see the country weakened, though the U.S.'s posture has been in the context of getting Putin to stop the war on Ukraine. \u2014 Amy Kellogg, Fox News , 5 May 2022",
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"The United States\u2019 posture on land mines is that anti-vehicle and anti-personnel mines serve complementary functions, and are most effective when used together. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
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"However, if their swaggering posture was uncertain, their fashion sense was exuberantly their own. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The posture of the Biden administration by all appearances is one of wishful thinking: that while the United States and the world have rightly taken a side in this conflict, the fighting is going to stay in Ukraine. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 11 Mar. 2022",
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"While the Bears may posture about the importance of winning games in 2022, their behavior since the arrival of General Manager Ryan Poles telegraphs his plan to build a new team around quarterback Justin Fields, essentially from the ground up. \u2014 Phil Rogers, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"All the while, one got the nagging sense that Cherry\u2014unlike more modern populists who posture as spokespeople for some silent majority because doing so is politically expedient\u2014wasn\u2019t faking it. \u2014 John Semley, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Crude prices, which have run up recently, extended their gains early Wednesday before drooping in the afternoon, as traders continued to posture themselves ahead of higher demand stemming from the global economic recovery and summertime travel. \u2014 Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ , 16 June 2021",
"This was the pre-Covid posture the Trump administration quickly adopted, turning almost anything connected to China into a political punching bag. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 4 June 2021",
"While both sides had to posture for domestic audiences, particularly the rising nationalist fervor of Xi Jinping, China's increasingly authoritarian leader, the grievances at the heart of the dispute are longstanding. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 19 Mar. 2021",
"Gale was not an overtly menacing physical presence onstage, in the way many metal frontmen try to posture . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2021",
"Help your back and posture by raising your computer screen up to eye level. \u2014 Medea Giordano, Wired , 19 Sep. 2020",
"The latter will be put to a jury, which means that both sides can be expected to posture when explaining Hollywood economics to regular citizens. \u2014 Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Aug. 2020"
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"In postwar Oxford, the four philosophers at the heart of this absorbing history\u2014Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch\u2014came together to give new life to moral philosophy. \u2014 The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
"Indeed, Germany\u2019s postwar reckoning following the Nazi era was about reeducation and transition out of fascism, and beset by guilt around the country\u2019s role in the Holocaust and the deaths of more than 20 million Soviet people. \u2014 Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
"Germany\u2019s postwar embrace of freedom is equaled only by its horror of war. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"In postwar London, three women work at a bookstore visited by the great literary figures of the age. \u2014 The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"Some analysts, industry officials and lawmakers say Naftogaz will need to produce more natural gas from Ukraine\u2019s domestic reserves to survive in a postwar future. \u2014 Jenny Strasburg, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"The explosive postwar growth of suburban Chicago did not come without costs that included deeper racial segregation and economic divides as more affluent white residents left the city behind. \u2014 Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"He had been stationed at frontier posts in Montana, California and Arizona during his postwar career. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 11 June 2022",
"Eyeing the postwar suburban boom in the 1950s, area political leaders planned a highway - Route 33 - connecting downtown Buffalo to a new airport built in the White suburbs. \u2014 Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022"
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"At the close of the event, the Queen received a posy of flowers that were part of her coronation bouquet, such as lily of the valley. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Cruachan IV has attracted attention in previous years for attempting to eat the Queen\u2019s posy of flowers in 2017 and also for trying to nibble Prince Harry\u2019s hand in 2018. \u2014 Victoria Murphy, Town & Country , 9 Aug. 2021",
"All that weeding and planting, mulching and mowing leaves one too exhausted for any but the most enthralling books \u2014 such as those in this springtime posy of favorite recent titles. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2021",
"During such uncertain times, there is something particularly joyful about bringing nature into our lives through art, even if that means enjoying a posy of Forget-me-Nots hand-painted onto wafer-thin gold, online, at the end of a long Zoom day. \u2014 Kate Matthams, Forbes , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Cliff came back into the living room holding three glasses of milk, balancing them by pressing them together like a squat white posy . \u2014 Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine , 18 Aug. 2020",
"Then make a posy , because flowers are beautiful and bring joy. \u2014 Isabella Kwai, New York Times , 28 Apr. 2020",
"Bluebonnet Trail in Plano Patches of posies are scattered along this trail that runs east to west across Plano, just north of West Spring Creek Parkway. \u2014 Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Near the Luce Foundation Center on the third floor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum at 7th and F Streets, muralist Kelsey Montague created a cheeky panda bearing posies and perfectly poised for Instagram poseurs. \u2014 Beth Py-lieberman, Smithsonian , 10 Aug. 2019"
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"Noun",
"hid the potables in the back hall closet",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Quickly forget any bottle outside of this narrow range\u2014anything cheaper is non- potable swill; anything more expensive, and the wine is too nice ever to drink. \u2014 Nate Odenkirk, The New Yorker , 6 May 2022",
"Other ingredients were less potable : camphor and quicklime, varnish and vinegar. \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 10 Oct. 2021",
"Kessler, who heads up the Coachella Valley Golf and Water Task Force, said much of the water used to irrigate golf courses is non- potable . \u2014 Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 9 Oct. 2021",
"At the Sweet Water Foundation in Washington Park-Englewood, I\u00f1igo Manglano-Ovalle has built a highly functional take on minimalist sculpture: an elegant hydrant to deliver free and potable water for the organization\u2019s farm plots. \u2014 Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Wastewater or sewage has been recycled for decades for irrigation and other non- potable uses. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Secondary water is a water source that\u2019s not treated and non- potable . \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 July 2021",
"Or it may instead be used for non- potable purposes, like for agriculture or industrial processes. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 7 July 2021",
"City spokeswoman Michelle Atoa said the city provided over 26,500 bottles of water and around 7,000 gallons of non- potable water. \u2014 Sarah Haselhorst, USA TODAY , 9 Mar. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In late June and early July, the Iron Riders faced extreme heat and a lack of potable water in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 14 June 2022",
"The house survived while about 50 neighboring homes burned along with the tanks that feed the municipal water system, leaving no local supply of potable water without truck deliveries. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 12 June 2022",
"The threesome stand in front of an atmospheric water generator, a truck-size example of industrial sorcery that extracts potable water from the air. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"When Skeet Jones was sworn in as judge in 2007, most of the caliche roads were rutted like washboards and residents still had to line up to get potable water dispensed from a community tank. \u2014 Susan Carroll, NBC News , 21 May 2022",
"In many buildings, the clanking of steam radiators often distract students from their studies, learning spaces are devoid of natural sunlight and fresh air, and water fountains lack potable water. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
"The goal would be for the plant to convert about 107 million gallons a day of seawater into about 50 million gallons a day of potable water. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
"Phase one, including a sewage purification plant in western Miramar, will produce 34 million gallons per day of potable drinking water. \u2014 David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 May 2022",
"The idea is that the stillsuit collects waste water [perspiration and urine] and recycles it like a distillery to make potable water. \u2014 Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The GLO Science formula includes hydrogen peroxide to whiten the teeth and remove stains, while potassium nitrate prevents sensitivity. \u2014 ELLE , 14 May 2022",
"Use toothpaste and mouth rinse with hydroxyapatite or fluoride; potassium nitrate is also good for sensitivity and found in pastes like Sensodyne. \u2014 Adam Hurly, Robb Report , 10 Dec. 2021",
"But the sulfur and potassium nitrate used in the 14th and 15th centuries would have been more contaminated. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 29 Sep. 2021",
"For ages, the main ingredients of gunpowder have consisted of sulfur, carbon and potassium nitrate , commonly known as saltpeter. \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 10 Oct. 2021",
"Gunpowder makers in the 14th and 15th centuries used black powder brought to Europe from China, then mixed its three ingredients together one by one: saltpeter (also known as potassium nitrate ), charcoal, and sulfur. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Stumps of larger vines can be killed by drilling holes and filling with molasses or saltpeter ( potassium nitrate ). \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 16 Aug. 2021",
"Homemade smoke bombs are usually made with gunpowder or potassium nitrate , an ingredient in fertilizer. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Apr. 2021",
"Homemade smoke bombs are usually made with gunpowder or potassium nitrate , an ingredient in fertilizer. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Meriden Turner Society will hold its annual potato pancake social at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 5, at Turner Hall, 800 Old Colony Road. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Whether flubbing the flip of a potato pancake , dropping ingredients on the floor, or rescuing a recipe that had gone sideways, Child was unafraid of making mistakes, and fans loved her for it. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Extra crunchy pickle spears come on the side for free, while a hulking fried potato pancake can be added for a measly $1. \u2014 Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Fried or baked cod ($15) or fried shrimp ($17) is served with potato pancake , french fries, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, marble rye and dessert. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The sandwich has smoked turkey and gravy, cornbread stuffing, fried potato pancake and cranberry aioli on ciabatta. \u2014 Audrey Eads, Dallas News , 14 Dec. 2020",
"At the New Glarus Hotel Restaurant, chef Mike Nevil offers a traditional menu of sauerbraten, rosti ( potato pancake ), raclette, and schnitzels. \u2014 Raphael Kadushin, National Geographic , 7 Aug. 2020",
"Just down the block at Schubert\u2019s Diner and Bakery, the long bar is closed during the pandemic but the caf\u00e9 is still serving its signature Norwegian meatballs and lefse, a thin potato pancake . \u2014 Raphael Kadushin, National Geographic , 7 Aug. 2020",
"Pair your libation of choice with one of the boxty entr\u00e9es that feature a potato pancake with companions like chicken in a white wine cream sauce, corned beef and cabbage or steak bathed in Guinness gravy. \u2014 Georgann Yara, azcentral , 28 Feb. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ethel Rae Stewart Smith, who taught two dozen black children in that schoolhouse, had run out of coal for the potbelly stove. \u2014 Hannah Natanson, Washington Post , 23 Feb. 2020",
"Every room in the original house had a potbelly stove, so every room has a chimney. \u2014 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 21 Nov. 2019",
"Bale also lost weight \u2014 and won an Academy Award \u2014 for his role as a heroin addict in 2010\u2019s The Fighter, before adding a potbelly for 2013\u2019s American Hustle. \u2014 Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com , 8 Nov. 2019",
"That can also mean taking in and caring for a potbelly pig or small farm animal. \u2014 Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal , 18 Oct. 2019",
"Related Stories Not all of the potbellies are magnetized. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 6 Aug. 2019",
"There are many questions about the Monte Alto people, including what their potbelly statues represent. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 6 Aug. 2019",
"Because of that emphasis, the study rests on examining the magnetism of 11 potbellies currently located in La Democracia, Guatemala. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 6 Aug. 2019",
"All three potbellies worked as therapy pigs, traveling around to provide emotional support to people in need, according to Howell. \u2014 Htv National Desk, Houston Chronicle , 8 June 2019"
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"But the combination of marquee names, auteur production, and potboiler plotting has proved irresistible. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 5 May 2022",
"But then Tina Brown, the writer making the comment in her new royal potboiler , is not, in that sense, nice. \u2014 Anna Mundow, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
"As a young man, Bourgoin resembled a character out of a potboiler . \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Based on a Nora Roberts potboiler , the movie follows Grace (Milano), a successful mystery novelist whose sister, Kathleen (Emilie Ullerup), is killed. \u2014 Tina Horn, Rolling Stone , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Unlike that wife, Hitler at least gets some grudging respect and decent dialogue in this potboiler about the diplomatic efforts to stop Germany. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Get ready to simmer in the latest potboiler from prolific creator Taylor Sheridan. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Before slipping off to Berlin, Crowley leaves a fake suicide note with Pessoa, who not only tries to milk it for publicity but drafts a potboiler novel, The Mouth of Hell, about the events. \u2014 Damion Searls, The New Republic , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Published in 1987, Mahmoody\u2019s pulp memoir had all the makings of a potboiler . \u2014 Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic , 25 Aug. 2021"
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"The potency of her words changed many minds in the audience that night.",
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"And even when the songs are not four-on-the-floor rockers, there's a certain dark potency watching over the proceedings. \u2014 Tim Moffatt, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"Delta 8 has a lower psychotropic potency than delta-nine and produces more clearheaded effects. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Fentanyl, for instance, has been shown to have a far greater potency than heroin. \u2014 Kaylee Remington, cleveland , 4 May 2022",
"The drug, called ensovibep, is an antiviral medicine designed specifically to inactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, with extremely high potency and no known off-target effects. \u2014 News Service Of Florida, orlandosentinel.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"That a new generation could find the song and catapult it to new heights shows the potency of both Bush's music and Stranger Things. \u2014 Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR , 1 June 2022",
"The Origins brand was created out of the desire to bring a new type of skincare to life by combining the potency of science with the power of nature. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Shots are being administered to different people at different intervals, in different combinations, against different variants; successes and failures against the virus are now much harder to tie directly to the potency of the injections themselves. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 23 May 2022",
"Dahle, however, said the potency of that message has waned. \u2014 Phil Willonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022"
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"Charles inherited the position of potentate of the Holy Roman Empire from his grandfather, as well that of king of Spain from his father.",
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"By no means does Roberts dismiss altogether the severity of Stalin\u2019s crimes, but there appears to be a vocational affinity nevertheless between the respectable English scholar and the murderous Soviet potentate . \u2014 Algis Valiunas, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"General Douglas MacArthur, the hero of the Pacific theatre and the American potentate of Japanese reconstruction, exuded far more gravitas than the President\u2014and everyone knew it. \u2014 Beverly Gage, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
"But like any self-respecting potentate , King Tucker manifested no mercy. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Another Muslim potentate , the Aga Khan, is among the largest thoroughbred breeders and owners in France, where racing remains super populaire. \u2014 William Finnegan, The New Yorker , 15 May 2021",
"That 1988 film cast Murphy as Prince Akeem, the wealthy potentate of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, who travels incognito to New York with his faithful attendant, Semmi (Arsenio Hall), in search of a woman who will love him for himself. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Feb. 2021",
"If not a foreign potentate , then the guy in charge of delivering the mail. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 18 Aug. 2020",
"So her grandson, Glynn Praesel, took the idea to Marty Bartlett, potentate of Alzafar Shriners, and from there, a man\u2019s wish to make his grandmother smile for her birthday evolved. \u2014 Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com , 26 Apr. 2020",
"As with the region\u2019s other long-serving potentates , stability has been a cornerstone of Mr. Rohman\u2019s political image. \u2014 Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times , 2 Apr. 2020"
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"Doctors are excited about the new drug's potential benefits.",
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"He is a potential candidate for president.",
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"Noun",
"Scientists are exploring the potentials of the new drug.",
"The new technology has the potential to transform the industry.",
"There is potential in the new technology, but it will be a long time before it can actually be used.",
"The company has a lot of potential for future growth.",
"He has the potential to be one of the team's best players.",
"He shows enormous potential as an athlete.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Here, 15 members of Forbes Agency Council explore different ways for fast-growing companies to maintain continuity in all communications and remain recognizable to (and trusted by) current and potential customers alike. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Flaks also said that there could be potential for the Consulate and Hartford HealthCare to work to help train more nurses, due to the staffing crisis that exists in certain nursing and other medical services. \u2014 Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant , 28 June 2022",
"Athletic footwear and apparel giant Nike fell 7% after giving investors a cautious update on the potential hit to revenue because of lockdowns in China. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"Athletic footwear and apparel giant Nike fell 5.2% after giving investors a cautious update on the potential hit to revenue because of lockdowns in China. \u2014 CBS News , 28 June 2022",
"Tribal citizens will otherwise have to follow existing ODFW regulations, with any violations passed to the Coquille tribal court for potential prosecution. \u2014 Chris Aadland, oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
"Murray is a potential plus defender with a smooth shooting stroke. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
"His poems always sounded to me like the city feels at its best \u2014 cosmopolitan, wry, romantic, full of potential , gimlet-eyed without being mean. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Taking 10th overall out of the Maryland, the 6-10 hardly played a rookie, showed flashes of potential his second NBA season, but Phoenix traded him to Indiana right before the trade deadline to bring back Torrey Craig. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 21 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The market potential in Florida and Texas is large and growing. \u2014 Bruce Japsen, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The genetic potential of athletic excellence was there for Vestavia Hills\u2019 Angelica Vines. \u2014 Dennis Victory, al , 27 June 2022",
"The potential for growth is considerable, said Diaz, who has more than 25 years of experience in I.T. and engineering, including as the former senior director of I.T. for Life-Sciences at Thermo Fisher. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"The storms may produce damaging straight-line winds, and the potential for severe weather is between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 17 June 2022",
"The potential for common ground is more robust than partisans on either side might believe. \u2014 Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 June 2022",
"But the general potential for spread via smaller, long-range aerosols is more speculative and theoretical. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 10 June 2022",
"The Saudi plan\u2019s potential for success is far from clear. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"The potential for the movie is so exciting, as are the diversity of the voices behind it. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 7 June 2022"
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"p\u0259-\u02c8ten(t)-sh\u0259l",
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"1892, in the meaning defined above":""
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": the energy that a piece of matter has because of its position or nature or because of the arrangement of parts":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s a lot of potential energy waiting to be tapped. \u2014 Outside Online , 14 Oct. 2016",
"America\u2019s latest shortage is of disposable cups, a potential energy crisis for an up-and-at-\u2019em nation accustomed to caffeine on the go. \u2014 Heather Haddon And Stephen Council, WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Riders in the sledding events reach their fast speeds because of the conversion of gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy. \u2014 John Eric Goff, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The potential energy projects Hunter Biden discussed with CEFC never came to fruition. \u2014 Matt Viser, Tom Hamburger, Craig Timberg, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Gravitational potential energy is how a hydroelectric dam generates electricity. \u2014 James Conca, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Gravitational potential energy depends on the distance between the object and the Earth. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 21 Jan. 2022",
"The Energy Vault is based on the science that most of us learned in Middle School \u2013 potential energy versus kinetic energy. \u2014 James Conca, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"This means that increasing an object\u2019s altitude increases the gravitational potential energy . \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 21 Jan. 2022"
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"would like to see a colony on the moon as an actuality and not merely a potentiality",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What looks like emptiness is actually potentiality . \u2014 Max Norman, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022",
"This legislation established the federal drug classification schedule, which categorized certain drugs within five total groups based on their medical use and potentiality for abuse. \u2014 David Cannady, sun-sentinel.com , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Possibly, but entwined with this theme of curiosity is the potentiality that these tales are begging readers to also consider the importance of obedience and trust. \u2014 Sarah Schutte, National Review , 12 Sep. 2021",
"Despite watching Cunningham\u2019s performance in the final minutes, Boynton stopped short of likening Cunningham to Mariano Rivera when asked about that potentiality postgame. \u2014 Jordan Guskey, The Indianapolis Star , 20 Mar. 2021",
"Historically Black Colleges and Universities are both incubators and accelerators of their students\u2019 talent, intelligence and potentiality in a daily immersion in their heritage and investment in their future. \u2014 Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Feb. 2021",
"The cartoon landscape is a model of the marvelous that\u2019s an alibi for something much more malign: a world where infinite potentiality is experienced as terror. \u2014 Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books , 3 Aug. 2020",
"There was no discussion of what use, if any, to make of my new potentiality . \u2014 Joseph O\u2019neill, The New Yorker , 4 Nov. 2019",
"That first potentiality doesn\u2019t look like a problem. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 19 Mar. 2020"
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"visitors to the theme park will have a potful of fun",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His parents flew to visit and make potfuls of soup. \u2014 Pedro Moura, latimes.com , 24 July 2017",
"Yerba and her colleagues melted gummies by the potful , dribbling the goo into glass cases to create color gradients and splotchy patterns. \u2014 Margaret Rhodes, WIRED , 27 Apr. 2015"
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},
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"Noun",
"always in a pother over the state of her garden",
"the pother of city traffic that commuters face every day",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Back to business after a month of neglecting the words of the week while addressing one pother after another. \u2014 John E. Mcintyre, baltimoresun.com , 19 June 2017"
],
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"The festival was a musical potpourri \u2014performances included folk, jazz, blues, and rap music.",
"a potpourri of hit songs from the last 10 years",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Ukrainians also need systems that can operate together and at scale, not merely a potpourri of whatever is available in Western stocks. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The street has always been a cultural potpourri , historians said, and immigrant groups have cycled through since Chicago\u2019s West Ridge went from empty garlic fields to a dense urban center. \u2014 Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News , 28 May 2022",
"The 25th annual Clairemont Outdoor Living & Garden Tour will feature a potpourri of garden elements ranging from fruit trees to native California plants in 13 gardens in Clairemont, Bay Ho and Bay Park. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Lagos\u2019s fashionable residents and global guests went all out with an excellent potpourri of festive \u2019fits. \u2014 Vogue , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Cruising bars ensues as does the potpourri of a severed head in a hatbox, a bitter ex-girlfriend, a mystery briefcase and an evil senator. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Each invited a potpourri of unique talent to put unique spins on both Mitchell\u2019s biggest hits and deep cuts, zigzagging between genres, feelings and the decades. \u2014 Rob Ledonne, Billboard , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Sanditon's Season 2 is a potpourri of Jane Austen's stories\u2014with a slight zest of Charlotte Bronte's\u2014with a little less social commentary. \u2014 Sheena Scott, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022",
"This potpourri of guidance gives a feel for the breadth of subject matter all engaged in this field have to consider. \u2014 David Hessekiel, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021"
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"1749, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccp\u014d-pu\u0307-\u02c8r\u0113"
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"jumble",
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"m\u00e9lange",
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"ended the show with an extended rant in which he potshot an array of personages on the right",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 1993, a jokester did the same thing, although there was no Cash silhouette to take a potshot at back then. \u2014 Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
"Aleksandar Trajkovski barrelled into the Italian defense and took a speculative potshot from 20 yards, only to find the bottom corner of the Italian goal. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2022",
"But there\u2019s also a deep rabbit hole of older Orson depictions out there, most delivered in playful, potshot fashion. \u2014 Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times , 6 Jan. 2021",
"Jon Voight's Christmas card list thanks to an endorsement of Joe Biden that included a potshot at his costar. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 3 Nov. 2020",
"Koepka\u2019s potshot at Johnson broke every gentleman\u2019s rule in golf. \u2014 Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com , 9 Aug. 2020",
"On the flip side is Trevor Bauer, who embraces radical training methods and loves to take verbal potshots at everyone \u2014 fellow players and the commissioner included \u2014 without regard to the consequences. \u2014 Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com , 17 Mar. 2020",
"Relocating D\u00fcrrenmatt\u2019s tragicomic fable from middle Europe to a dying factory town in upstate New York in the mid-1950s has allowed him to take uncharacteristically crude potshots at all-American consumerism. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 13 Feb. 2020",
"But drained of family drama, Marc\u2019s theory on positive reinforcement seems less a potshot than one more desperate response to an epidemic without cure. \u2014 S.l. Price, SI.com , 9 May 2017"
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"\u2014 The Times Literary Supplement (London)"
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"The book gives a potted history of the Industrial Revolution in the first chapter.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Visitors to the Studio Tour will be able to step into the greenhouse and stop to pull out a potted Mandrake as part of an interactive display. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 21 June 2022",
"Not only does the potted mint present a unique decor element, but guests can interact with it by adding it to their drinks and food while giving your home a refreshing smell. \u2014 Brittney Oliver, Essence , 9 June 2022",
"The cactus/succulent mix also works well for potted bromeliads, as does a mixture of half potting soil and half orchid bark. \u2014 Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The attractive stand holds three potted plants, and will work on porches, decks, patios, and in gardens. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 22 June 2022",
"The interiors are decorated with vintage furniture, potted plants and shelves of lamps with macram\u00e9 shades. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"ISU Extension said the worms, which have been infiltrating U.S. soil since the late 1800s, likely arrived in North America in potted plants, nursery stock or soil. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"This one will do the trick, with side planters attached to the arched arbor, perfect for potted plants or to line with wood to create true planters for perennials. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 24 May 2022",
"The potted eyeliner was a little bit on the thicker side, but the stiff brush tip helped apply it in one stroke. \u2014 Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping , 26 May 2022"
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": a plastic clay suitable for making pottery":[]
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": a public burial place for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals":[]
},
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"criminals and unidentified people are sometimes buried in a potter's field",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"City officials announced last April that a potter's field for the poor and unclaimed on Hart Island would be used to bury victims of the virus. \u2014 Mirna Alsharif And Ray Sanchez, CNN , 7 May 2021",
"Dina Maniotis, a deputy commissioner with the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, told a city council committee on Wednesday that many of the bodies held at the 39th Street Pier could end up buried in the city's potter's field on Hart Island. \u2014 CBS News , 7 May 2021",
"In 2012, the city spent $120,000 to help preserve the historic Cementerio Lindo, a potter's field near 15th and Durango avenues, which dates from the 1890s and covers 10 times more area than Sotelo-Heard. \u2014 John D'anna, azcentral , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Music Hall was built over a potter's field , a place where immigrants and the poor who had died without identification were buried. \u2014 Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com , 17 Oct. 2019",
"Bolden was buried in Holt Cemetery, a potter's field in New Orleans. \u2014 NOLA.com , 24 Jan. 2018"
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": silica in the form of powdered quartz originally made by pulverizing flint pebbles":[]
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each of the individual parts of her sculptures is formed on the potter's wheel of stoneware clay and then is altered and assembled. \u2014 Courant Community , 26 June 2018"
],
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"1567, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Lizzy\u2019s dad, Bill (Judd Hirsch), is a sculptor too \u2014 a potter who found enough success to rub shoulders with the art world. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 27 May 2022",
"Now the museum exhibits all of this iconic art (by everyone from Frida Kahlo to Native master potter Maria Martinez). \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 12 May 2022",
"Traces of the potter \u2019s hand can be seen at the uncoated bottom of a kintsugi tea bowl. \u2014 Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022",
"Inspiration, the alchemy by which an idea makes it from the mind to the page (or canvas or potter \u2019s wheel or dress form), is often inarticulable or somehow unsatisfying. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Williams grew up in Chicago, the eldest child of a white mother, a potter , and a Black father, a factory worker who later became a teacher. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"For Bettina Chow, a potter turning her one-time hobby into an expanding career, a studio stuck in the dark garage had gone from convenience to hindrance. \u2014 J.s. Marcus, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The potter pulls the clay against the rotation of the wheel. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Feb. 2022",
"While these nails created by L.A.-based artist Sojin Oh were inspired by Japanese potter Takuro Kuwata, the glowing bulbous shapes bring to mind glossy ornaments. \u2014 Michella Or\u00e9, Glamour , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Can the simple, tactile pleasure of pottering in the dirt or watching seedlings sprout comfort us at a time of loss and bewilderment? \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2020",
"Ammons, who could control the rate of his unrolling tape by slowing down his writing, liked to potter around. \u2014 Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker , 6 Jan. 2020",
"Which brings us to Streep\u2019s Mary Louise, a folksy enigma in greige cardigans and ferrety prosthetic teeth, who potters around Monterey making all her rudest inner observations out loud. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 7 June 2019",
"As a young journalist, Ms. Lawson often ended up pottering around the kitchen when copy was due, to help focus her thoughts. \u2014 Eleanore Park, WSJ , 12 Apr. 2018",
"These theories often involve high-end sports cars, swimming pools or pottering around the expensive parts of the Monopoly board, enjoying fine food and donning overpriced designer clothing. \u2014 SI.com , 16 Feb. 2018",
"A place to potter and fix and, dare it be said, a temporary respite from the stresses and strains of modern life. \u2014 John Sinnott, CNN , 16 May 2017"
],
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"1829, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"probably frequentative of English dialect pote to poke":"Verb"
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"verb"
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"He has collected pottery for years.",
"She was a painter for years before she discovered pottery .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gallup\u2019s historic downtown\u2014with its one and two-story storefronts\u2014is also home to dozens of Indian trading posts and galleries, displaying everything from Zuni pottery to Navajo rugs. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 June 2022",
"Take a class in pottery or watercolor, or write a little poetry. \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 27 Jan. 2022",
"This mini ice bucket from Carolina Irving & Daughters \u2014 founded by the textile designer and her two daughters, Olympia and Ariadne \u2014 was inspired by medieval pottery and crafted in Portugal. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Dec. 2021",
"It is steeped in local history and offers guests an array of cultural activities such as medicine plant tours, Fijian weaving and cooking classes, and tours of an ancient pottery site nearby. \u2014 Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure , 12 May 2022",
"Dial, a sculptor and painter, ran an inmate pottery program with Parker in the garage of the home Parker shared with her husband, which was on prison grounds. \u2014 Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com , 9 May 2022",
"Turnagain Ceramics has 16 pottery wheels, plus kilns and storage areas. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
"Two donors, a husband and wife couple who owned a pottery store, told investigators that Gomez, who was their friend from church, gave them $1,500 cash to donate to Villanueva, the memo said. \u2014 Alene Tchekmedyianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022",
"Soon, the village clergy allowed the excavation of the village church, where Dr. Khamisy said Iron Age pottery was dug up. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221257",
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"noun"
]
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"can",
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"comfort station",
"convenience",
"head",
"john",
"latrine",
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"loo",
"restroom",
"toilet",
"washroom",
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"All this noise is driving me potty !",
"She's just potty about this new dance class.",
"Noun",
"the little girl announced loudly that she needed to go to the potty",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"May 22 said three teens had tipped over a porta potty . \u2014 cleveland , 27 May 2022",
"Dakota Albritton, who pitches on stilts, talks with people waiting for a port-a- potty . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"The bathroom is a port-a- potty found at the bottom, so make sure to do your business before calling it a night. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 25 Apr. 2022",
"For example, my kids\u2019 current school sends an email daily about potty and eating activities and food updates. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Shark Tank Hopefuls pitch a product designed to keep cats stimulated; a product to help potty -training; a measuring tool for cutting hair; a product line providing first aid for minor injuries. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The driver, who has not been identified, jumped out of the bulldozer to check if anyone was inside the port-a- potty and found Henderson unresponsive. \u2014 Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Early Sicilians may have used the ancient porta- potty simply by sitting on it. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s a porta potty at the trailhead but no other facilities. \u2014 Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic , 30 Dec. 2021"
],
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"circa 1860, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"circa 1942, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"probably from pot entry 1":"Adjective"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4-t\u0113"
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"persnickety",
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"snobby",
"snooty",
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"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
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": a standing place or vantage point : base , basis":[]
},
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"Greek pou st\u014d where I may stand; from a statement attributed (in various forms) to Archimedes, \"Give me a place to stand (literally, where I may stand) and I will move the earth\"":""
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"\u02c8p\u00fc\u02c8st\u014d",
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"beetle",
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"bulge",
"bunch",
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"poke",
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"Noun",
"He carried his money in a small leather pouch in his pocket.",
"we sealed the catnip in a cloth pouch and tossed it to the cat",
"Verb",
"as he grew older, the skin on his neck pouched",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Cuyana's convertible belt bag can also be worn as a crossbody and has a small pouch to hold just your necessities. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
"They are served cold in a 16-ounce pouch with a yellow squiggle straw. \u2014 Courtney Wilson, Chron , 20 Apr. 2022",
"This part also has a tiny pouch to help separate bite-sized travel essentials like headphones, lip balm, hand sanitizer, attraction tickets, and more. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 19 Apr. 2022",
"For some, the grey-and-green smartphone pouch with a magnetic lock is the pain-in-the-ass bag keeping them from their phones (and social accounts and recording apps) until after a live gig is over. \u2014 A.d. Amorosi, Variety , 11 Apr. 2022",
"This Nappa leather bag, which is available in black and creme, has a drawstring pouch and a brass ring. \u2014 Marques Harper Deputy Features Editor, Los Angeles Times , 1 Dec. 2021",
"This deluxe version is identical to the middle model but comes with an extra cable, spare earpads and a pouch to store the headphones in. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"The joeys will spend most of their time in mom's pouch for the first nine months, but there's a small chance guests could see them in the yard. \u2014 Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 8 June 2022",
"Throw an extra pair of shoes in one, t-shirts in another, or electronics in a smaller pouch . \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Miami can pouch another team\u2019s practice squad player by offering him more money, but teams have the opportunity to match, or improve a player\u2019s weekly practice squad salary. \u2014 Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com , 25 Sep. 2021",
"Last season, Milan\u2019s schedule gave rise to some of the year\u2019s biggest trends and must-have pieces, from a goth-grunge comeback \u00e0 la Prada to pouch bags and braided sandals via Bottega Veneta (thanks Daniel Lee!). \u2014 Eliza Huber, refinery29.com , 24 Feb. 2020",
"The company sells canned and pouched tuna, salmon, sardines, and specialty seafood products under the Bumble Bee, Brunswick, Sweet Sue, Snow\u2019s, Beach Cliff and Wild Selections brands. \u2014 Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY , 22 Nov. 2019",
"An African giant pouched rat rode on a handler\u2019s shoulder at Apopo\u2019s training facility in Morogoro in 2016. \u2014 Alexandra Wexler, WSJ , 4 May 2018",
"An exotic pet dealer imported 800 animals from Africa, including giant pouched rats, dormice and rope squirrels. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Nov. 2017",
"No giant pouched rats, but the majority of traps have yet to be set. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Nov. 2017",
"Giant pouched rats, dormice and squirrels are the chief suspects, but there could be others. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Nov. 2017",
"The push to exclude products that are canned, pouched , smoked or steamed stemmed from a push by the U.S. tuna fleet. \u2014 Author: Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News , 23 Oct. 2017"
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"placed a poultice over the infected cut",
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"If the stains look lighter but aren\u2019t gone, repeat the poultice procedure. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Oct. 2021",
"If there's still some residual tarnish, repeat the poultice treatment. \u2014 Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 16 Feb. 2022",
"In that case, Forguson recommends applying a broad-spectrum poultice . \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Oct. 2021",
"And Bachelor in Paradise is a 17th-century doctor applying a poultice of herbs to revitalize my HOT GOSS humor. \u2014 Ali Barthwell, Vulture , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Ancient Greeks and Romans ground it into a poultice to relieve back pain and menstrual cramps. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 30 Mar. 2021",
"Lister and his disciples mostly developed and spread antisepsis through benign breaches of expectation\u2014applying an untested acidic poultice here, treating an otherwise terminal patient without informing them there. \u2014 Matt Beane, Wired , 8 June 2020",
"Choctaws used a poultice of its leaves for headaches. \u2014 Popular Science , 28 Mar. 2020",
"Choctaws used a poultice of its leaves for headaches. \u2014 Popular Science , 28 Mar. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Actually, Sister, in my experience poulticing isn\u2019t much help in these chest cases. \u2014 Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic , 12 May 2020"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"Verb",
"Heavy waves pounded the shore.",
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"He pounded his fist on the table.",
"The boxers were really pounding each other.",
"Waves pounded against the side of the boat.",
"The wheat is pounded into flour.",
"Pound the herbs and garlic until they form a paste.",
"He came pounding down the stairs.",
"The horses pounded up the track."
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"Middle English, from Old English pund , from Latin pondo pound, from ablative of pondus weight \u2014 more at pendant":"Noun",
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"to swallow in liquid form Friday nights were usually spent wolfing down pizza and pounding down beers"
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"Verb",
"He carefully poured the water into her glass.",
"Pour the sauce over the pasta.",
"She poured salt into the palm of her hand and then sprinkled it over the stew.",
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"The burst pipe poured out water.",
"The concrete foundation has been poured .",
"Can I pour you some lemonade?",
"Smoke poured out from the chimney.",
"Sweat was pouring from her brow.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Once the coffee and water mixture is done steeping, pour it into a coffee filter placed in a strainer over a bowl or measuring cup. \u2014 Olivia Munson, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
"The Panthers continued to pour it on in the eighth, extending the margin with a bases-loaded walk by Chatham, a sacrifice fly from Smigelski and an RBI single by Aldridge. \u2014 Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News , 3 June 2022",
"Measure one cup of vinegar and pour it around the inside of the toilet bowl, making sure to cover the hard water stains with vinegar. \u2014 Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping , 2 June 2022",
"Rodas climbed into the truck\u2019s bed to pour it in the tank, leaning over the edge to avoid being hit by speeding traffic. \u2014 Sam Stecklow, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Once all the kale has been added, pour in the stock. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Page asks tour guests to read some of their names out loud, and to pour out a bit of water with each name. \u2014 Maya Eaglin, NBC News , 20 June 2022",
"If using a charcoal grill, fill a chimney starter with charcoal, light it and when the coals are gray and ashed over, pour them into the grill. \u2014 Joe Yonan, Washington Post , 19 June 2022",
"Add a squeeze of lemon using the lemon squeezer and pour your alcohol with the15ml and 30ml jigger. \u2014 Michael Goldstein, Forbes , 18 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Sadly, customers don\u2019t seem to get the connection between the tap and the pour . \u2014 cleveland , 20 June 2022",
"Rob Burns, cofounder and president of Night Shift Brewing in Everett, said draft prices of his beer in Massachusetts can range from $8 to $14, including at its own taprooms, depending on the style and size of the pour . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"After each pour , the bartender explained the flavors and the origin. \u2014 Jake Kwon, CNN , 22 May 2022",
"Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping's Chief Food Director, says that this cheesy pour is a total game changer. \u2014 Taylor Worden, Good Housekeeping , 7 June 2022",
"Both are on pour at Shelburne's sleek, Craftsman-style tasting room. \u2014 Valerie Stivers + Hank Zona, Travel + Leisure , 5 June 2022",
"Once a secret code is entered, the bookshelf can be pushed open, revealing a dazzling 20-seat lounge where cocktails can set you back upwards of $45 each and spirits up to $8,000 per pour . \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 2 June 2022",
"Central Standard\u2019s co-founders, Evan Hughes and Pat McQuillan, will be the hosts of a release party for their new ready-to- pour cocktails from 4 to 6 p.m. on 414 Day, April 14, at 320 E. Clybourn St. \u2014 Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Poured over ice, the bubbly combination makes a refreshing and quick-to- pour cocktail. \u2014 Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2022"
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": a test to determine the pour point by chilling a sample \u2014 compare cold test":[]
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"He carefully poured the water into her glass.",
"Pour the sauce over the pasta.",
"She poured salt into the palm of her hand and then sprinkled it over the stew.",
"The smokestacks poured out thick clouds of black smoke.",
"The burst pipe poured out water.",
"The concrete foundation has been poured .",
"Can I pour you some lemonade?",
"Smoke poured out from the chimney.",
"Sweat was pouring from her brow.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Once the coffee and water mixture is done steeping, pour it into a coffee filter placed in a strainer over a bowl or measuring cup. \u2014 Olivia Munson, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
"The Panthers continued to pour it on in the eighth, extending the margin with a bases-loaded walk by Chatham, a sacrifice fly from Smigelski and an RBI single by Aldridge. \u2014 Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News , 3 June 2022",
"Measure one cup of vinegar and pour it around the inside of the toilet bowl, making sure to cover the hard water stains with vinegar. \u2014 Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping , 2 June 2022",
"Rodas climbed into the truck\u2019s bed to pour it in the tank, leaning over the edge to avoid being hit by speeding traffic. \u2014 Sam Stecklow, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Once all the kale has been added, pour in the stock. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Page asks tour guests to read some of their names out loud, and to pour out a bit of water with each name. \u2014 Maya Eaglin, NBC News , 20 June 2022",
"If using a charcoal grill, fill a chimney starter with charcoal, light it and when the coals are gray and ashed over, pour them into the grill. \u2014 Joe Yonan, Washington Post , 19 June 2022",
"Add a squeeze of lemon using the lemon squeezer and pour your alcohol with the15ml and 30ml jigger. \u2014 Michael Goldstein, Forbes , 18 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Sadly, customers don\u2019t seem to get the connection between the tap and the pour . \u2014 cleveland , 20 June 2022",
"Rob Burns, cofounder and president of Night Shift Brewing in Everett, said draft prices of his beer in Massachusetts can range from $8 to $14, including at its own taprooms, depending on the style and size of the pour . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"After each pour , the bartender explained the flavors and the origin. \u2014 Jake Kwon, CNN , 22 May 2022",
"Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping's Chief Food Director, says that this cheesy pour is a total game changer. \u2014 Taylor Worden, Good Housekeeping , 7 June 2022",
"Both are on pour at Shelburne's sleek, Craftsman-style tasting room. \u2014 Valerie Stivers + Hank Zona, Travel + Leisure , 5 June 2022",
"Once a secret code is entered, the bookshelf can be pushed open, revealing a dazzling 20-seat lounge where cocktails can set you back upwards of $45 each and spirits up to $8,000 per pour . \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 2 June 2022",
"Central Standard\u2019s co-founders, Evan Hughes and Pat McQuillan, will be the hosts of a release party for their new ready-to- pour cocktails from 4 to 6 p.m. on 414 Day, April 14, at 320 E. Clybourn St. \u2014 Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Poured over ice, the bubbly combination makes a refreshing and quick-to- pour cocktail. \u2014 Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2022"
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": an after-dinner drink consisting of several liqueurs of different colors and specific gravities poured so as to remain in separate layers":[]
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"1862, in the meaning defined above":""
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": to swing in a semicircle with hands joined with one's partner in a country-dance":[]
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"1798, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u2014 Roy Blount Jr."
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},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"She pouted her lips and stared at him angrily.",
"The boy didn't want to leave\u2014he stomped his feet and pouted .",
"The model pouted for the cameras.",
"Her lips pouted , and she began to cry."
],
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"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pooch",
"pouch",
"project",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell"
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": any of several breeds of domestic pigeons characterized by erect carriage and an inflatable crop":[],
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Once unmasked, pouters may be willing to re-engage or at least back off. \u2014 Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Nov. 2017",
"So, how does an aggressive pouter differ from a passive one? \u2014 Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Nov. 2017",
"School\u2019s officially in session for Prince George, helicopter aficionado, precious pouter , and oh, yes, heir to the British throne. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 7 Sep. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1793, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"definitions":{
": a dish of French fries covered with brown gravy and cheese curds":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The high country poutine ($5.95) is a snacky indulgence, cheese curds and fries in pork belly gravy sprinkled with scallions. \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2022",
"Despite this, most users probably won\u2019t be moving to another social media destination anytime soon, pledges to adopt a liking for poutine notwithstanding. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The meals are no longer cooked in the center of the restaurant and a few new items (Qu\u00e9bec-style poutine and a chicken Caesar salad plate) have sneaked onto the menu. \u2014 David Shribman, WSJ , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Steak and egg poutine and breakfast pizzas are two of the specialties for brunch, served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Feb. 2022",
"The truck serves it two ways: over rice or on french fries, the latter is a twist on Canadian poutine . \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Feb. 2022",
"The downtown Naperville poutine restaurant is set to open in the spring and also plans to employ people with special needs. \u2014 Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The sausage and poutine eatery will be open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Christmas Eve. \u2014 cleveland , 16 Dec. 2021",
"But, once this is all over, in six years, there will be free poutine fountains at the border. \u2014 Emma Allen, The New Yorker , 3 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1982, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Canadian French":""
},
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"p\u00fc-\u02c8t\u0113n"
],
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"\u2014 The Economist"
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"Sure, you have sports figures misbehaving today. John McEnroe pouts and snarls and curses at tennis judges twice his age, on television \u2026",
"\u2014 Roy Blount Jr."
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"She pouted her lips and stared at him angrily.",
"The boy didn't want to leave\u2014he stomped his feet and pouted .",
"The model pouted for the cameras.",
"Her lips pouted , and she began to cry."
],
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"1591, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"\u2014 Susan Sheehan"
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"\u2014 The Economist"
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"\u2014 Roy Blount Jr."
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"She pouted her lips and stared at him angrily.",
"The boy didn't want to leave\u2014he stomped his feet and pouted .",
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"we could tell from the way she turned pouty that she'd lost the tennis match",
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"Her recent albums have come off as glitchy satires of club music, in which her pouty croon became a silvery, cybernetic instrument. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 19 May 2020",
"But at least Maria can enjoy some acrobatic lovemaking with him in between his pouty protestations. \u2014 Glenn Kenny, New York Times , 7 May 2020",
"Critics accused Amazon of playing a game of pouty hardball. \u2014 Helene Fouquet, Bloomberg.com , 7 May 2020",
"With her big eyes, long straight nose and pouty mouth, Wu looks nothing like the shy teen seen in old family photos. \u2014 Julie Zaugg, Cnn | Stella Ko, Cnn, Natalie Leung, CNN , 3 Mar. 2020",
"For dessert: a tall, pouty Grand Marnier souffl\u00e9 and bananas flamb\u00e9 (the pyrotechnic finale) over ice cream, with sliced almonds and the odd garnish of canned peach. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Sep. 2019",
"The Portuguese presence in West Africa was limited at first to their trading posts and missions, but in 1571, Sebastian of Portugal \u2014 a pouty blond with firm calves \u2014 ordered the conquest and subjugation of all of Ndongo. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Pennywise, who sometimes takes the form of a giant spider-like monster, and whose pouty moue can suddenly sprout rows of sharp, brownish fangs, both feeds and feeds upon ordinary human viciousness. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Sep. 2019",
"Her songs layered pouty vocals over bland hip-hop beats and movie-melodrama strings; the lyrics were all stars, stripes and James Dean. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 30 Aug. 2019"
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"examples":[
"He was born in poverty .",
"There is a poverty of information about the disease.",
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"The tragedy has resonated across Mexico and Central America, where all those thus far identified hailed from \u2014 a region where rising numbers are looking to flee violence, corruption and poverty for a life in the United States. \u2014 Arelis R. Hern\u00e1ndez, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Most immigrants come here to save their lives \u2013 whether to flee persecution or poverty . \u2014 Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
"Still, for many in Flint, a city that was once a hub of the global auto industry, but that struggled with disinvestment, blight and poverty even before the water crisis, the Supreme Court ruling was seen as yet another betrayal. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"Centers and institutes can gather faculty from across campus to explore topics such as computing, aging, climate change or poverty . \u2014 Gregory Crawford, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Which was our groundbreaking project to explore the effects of poverty on children. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"The book will chronicle Bono's childhood in Dublin, U2's rise to fame and his activism in the fight against HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty , among other topics. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"There may be no better indication of the jurisprudential soundness of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization than the intellectual poverty of the response from its opponents. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 27 June 2022",
"The novel turns on power, appropriation and poverty . \u2014 Pablo Sandoval, Variety , 27 June 2022"
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"She powdered her face and put on lipstick.",
"you have to powder the antibiotic tablet and mix it with food",
"Noun",
"The powder is made from the roots of the plant.",
"Mix together the different powders .",
"She crushed the peppercorns into a fine powder .",
"We're running low on baby powder and diapers.",
"We woke this morning to several inches of fresh powder on the ground.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Bronzers come in various formulas\u2014from liquid to powder to cream\u2014but the one for you ultimately comes down to your skin type. \u2014 ELLE , 22 Apr. 2022",
"From pencils to gel to powder ; these will be the only products for your celebrity like fluffy brows. \u2014 Daisy Maldonado, SELF , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Mills the size of phone booths grind the bugs to powder . \u2014 Brittany J. Miller, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Syrup and butter are to sweet pancakes what podi (which translates to powder ) and chutney are to these savory ones. \u2014 Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon App\u00e9tit , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Khan contrasts this whispery realism, meanwhile, with stark breaks to dissociative fantasy reflecting Mary\u2019s inner turmoil: In her reveries, a ceiling cracks and crashes and floods, and the white cliffs of Dover crumble to powder . \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Like when a mourning Slate skips throwing her ex\u2019s clothes out the window and instead dumps his protein powder down the drain (which blows up in her face, like a cloud of smoke). \u2014 Sara Butler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Mar. 2022",
"The big white Christmas news came for Seattle late Saturday in a region unaccustomed to powder on Dec. 25. \u2014 NBC News , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Forecasters estimate a likely La Ni\u00f1a visit to this part of the country, which if true, translates to powder for days and days\u2014until May 2022 to be precise. \u2014 Stacey Lastoe, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But Blackstone seems ready for an influx of new dry powder . \u2014 Jessica Mathews, Fortune , 29 June 2022",
"Deputies found a line of white powder on a book with a piece of a red straw in another bedroom. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 24 June 2022",
"Start by dissolving it in cold water (a one-to-one ratio of arrowroot powder to cornstarch should do the trick) before slowly adding to room-temperature sauces. \u2014 Antara Sinha, Bon App\u00e9tit , 13 June 2022",
"The first shipments from the federal government\u2019s Operation Fly Formula will bring a total of nearly 1 million pounds of baby formula powder into the United States. \u2014 Deidre Mcphillips, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"One scoop of this powder provides 20 grams of protein with a complete essential amino acid profile. \u2014 Good Housekeeping , 9 June 2022",
"At restaurants, little pink and blue packets of white powder mixed in with lemon water for sugar-free lemonade. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 2 June 2022",
"Food and Drink Old-fashioned banana pudding gets a hit of chocolate from wafers and a light dusting of cocoa powder just before serving. \u2014 Kim Sun\u00e9e, Anchorage Daily News , 26 May 2022",
"Officers seized from Smith two 11-gram bags of white powder that tested positive for fentanyl and cocaine, FOX17 Nashville reported. \u2014 Fox News , 22 May 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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"Political instability has made the region a powder keg .",
"the immigration bill has become a political powder keg for legislators on both sides of the aisle",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Obviously, this wintry oasis is headed for failure, functioning as a powder keg for these nefarious characters to start turning against each other. \u2014 Gwen Ihnat, EW.com , 13 June 2022",
"For all the strides that have been made since 1992, many Angelenos believe their city may still be a powder keg , according to a survey by the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Extremely dry conditions in the area have created a veritable wildfire powder keg . \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The former Yugoslavia \u2014 the last European region to succumb to armed conflict, in the civil wars of the 1990s \u2014 could again prove a powder keg . \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Kellen Davis, Drakeo\u2019s longtime attorney, said that the tense circumstances and lack of security at the festival created a powder keg , one that should have been easily foreseeable by the promoters of an L.A. hip-hop festival. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"This approach might have made sense in countries that lacked substantial Russian populations, like Tajikistan and Georgia, but a one-size-fits-all strategy was a poor fit for Ukraine, whose demographic makeup was a powder keg from the get-go. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 31 Jan. 2022",
"However, the rapid adoption of SaaS technologies combined with the lag in SaaS security investment has created a powder keg of vulnerabilities. \u2014 Brendan O'connor, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Worse, the streets of Seattle are filled with protesters and cops, i.e. a powder keg ready to blow. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 5 Jan. 2022"
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"1791, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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]
},
"examples":[
"the beach's powdery white sand",
"We skied down the powdery slopes.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These tiny, winged insects have a delicate, powdery white appearance. \u2014 Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens , 1 Dec. 2021",
"You're Exposed to Tear Gas Tear gas is a thick, powdery fog that sticks to moisture, like saliva, sweat, tears, and mucous membranes and causes an intense burning sensation. \u2014 Louryn Strampe, Wired , 2 June 2020",
"Beaches in the coastal states are in the process of welcoming guests (slowly and distantly) back to their powdery , soft-sanded shores. \u2014 Maya Kachroo-levine, Travel + Leisure , 23 May 2020",
"Grand Haven State Park, Michigan Set on the shores of Lake Michigan, this 48-acre park with powdery white sand offers activities like fat-tire biking, barbecuing, sunbathing, swimming, and volleyball. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 20 May 2020",
"The resort island, known for its powdery white sand and shallow waters, was shut down for months for a government clean up before gradually reopening to the public about a year ago. \u2014 Ian C Sayson, Bloomberg.com , 6 May 2020",
"Klorane and Batiste lean more powdery , Dove and Tresemm\u00e9 have more of a micro-mist, while Living Proof has oil-eliminating molecules that actually clean your hair. \u2014 Glamour Beauty Editors, Glamour , 15 Jan. 2020",
"One, in a darkened tunnel, is shot amid a crimson glow and a clouds of powdery white (from a flour truck). \u2014 Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press , 12 Mar. 2020",
"The server set the jars\u2019 tops aside, reached in with silver tongs and lifted a long, chubby white band of powdery marshmallow, snipping off squares with shiny oversize scissors. \u2014 Dorie Greenspan, New York Times , 5 Feb. 2020"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02c8pau\u0307-d\u0259-r\u0113"
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"dusty",
"fine",
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]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a plant disease caused by a powdery mildew":[],
": an ascomycetous fungus (family Erysiphaceae) producing abundant powdery conidia on the host":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This type of impatiens is more disease resistant than other kinds of impatiens, which have succumbed to powdery mildew in recent years. \u2014 Arricca Sansone, Country Living , 24 June 2022",
"Downside: Some types are susceptible to powdery mildew , a devastating disease that kills the plants and overwinters in the soil for years! \u2014 Lauren Smith Mcdonough, House Beautiful , 25 May 2022",
"This crowding can impede circulation and encourage powdery mildew , a common problem with older varieties of lilac. \u2014 Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune , 21 May 2022",
"Use these tips to keep powdery mildew from ruining your squash harvest. \u2014 Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 May 2022",
"Phlox is one of the plants that is particularly sensitive to powdery mildew . \u2014 Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online , 14 May 2022",
"Keep leaves of cucumber, melon, and squash dry to stave off powdery mildew . \u2014 Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine , 11 May 2022",
"What is the best product to prevent powdery mildew on honeysuckle. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 Dec. 2021",
"This application will greatly reduce the future incidence and severity of the three main fungal diseases that afflict roses \u2014 powdery mildew , rust and black spot. \u2014 Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Apr. 2022"
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"1889, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a disease of potato tubers caused by a fungus ( Spongospora subterranea ) and characterized by nodular discolored lesions which at maturity burst to expose a powdery mass of spores in circular pits surrounded by the lighter colored frayed remnants of the skin of the tuber":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004449",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"powellite":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mineral CaMoO 4 consisting of a calcium molybdate occurring in small yellow tetragonal pyramidal crystals isomorphous with scheelite":[]
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"John W. Powell \u20201902 American geologist + English -ite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pau\u0307\u0259\u02ccl\u012bt"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024021",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"power":{
"antonyms":[
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness"
],
"definitions":{
": a controlling group : establishment":[
"\u2014 often used in the phrase the powers that be"
],
": a force of armed men":[],
": a large number or quantity":[],
": ability to act or produce an effect":[],
": ability to get extra-base hits":[],
": an order of angels \u2014 see celestial hierarchy":[],
": capacity for being acted upon or undergoing an effect":[],
": cardinal number sense 2":[],
": legal or official authority, capacity, or right":[],
": magnification sense 2b":[],
": mental or moral efficacy":[],
": motive power":[],
": of, relating to, or being a meal at which influential people discuss business or politics":[
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": operated mechanically or electrically rather than manually":[
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"power tools"
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": possession of control, authority, or influence over others":[],
": scope entry 1 sense 3":[],
": the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when a particular alternative hypothesis happens to be true":[],
": the time rate at which work is done or energy emitted or transferred":[],
": to give impetus to":[],
": to move about by means of motive power":[],
": to move with great speed or force":[],
": to supply with power and especially motive power":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"She is from a very wealthy family with a lot of social power .",
"The company abused its power , forcing workers to work overtime without pay.",
"The company was almost destroyed in a power struggle between its two founders.",
"After the emperor died, power passed to his eldest son.",
"the peaceful transfer of power to the newly elected president",
"The president was removed from power in the recent uprising.",
"The new government has taken power .",
"The rebels rose to power several years ago.",
"A small company with only a few products has grown to become a power in the industry.",
"Our state is now the region's leading economic power .",
"Verb",
"The running back powered through the defensive line.",
"He powered the ball past the goalie.",
"She powered her way to the finish line.",
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"In a 2014 Guardian article about the punk scene\u2019s misogyny, writer Charlotte Richardson Andrews argued that women had to fight for visibility in a scene where men held all the power . \u2014 Peter Rubin, Longreads , 1 July 2022",
"Glynda Carr, president of Higher Heights for America, an organization that advocates for the growth of Black women\u2019s political power , said the timing of Jackson's swearing-in was bittersweet. \u2014 Mark Sherman, ajc , 30 June 2022",
"If purchasing power keeps declining and humanitarian relief doesn\u2019t reach the most vulnerable, Somalia could experience a famine in the months ahead. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"On the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that amplified the struggle for equality, here are some words of wisdom from LGBTQ representatives from the past and present on the power of representation. \u2014 Holly Corbett, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"The novel turns on power , appropriation and poverty. \u2014 Pablo Sandoval, Variety , 27 June 2022",
"Charismatic and divisive former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ousted last year by a fragile coalition of rivals from across the right, center and left who came together in an effort to break his more than a decadelong hold on power . \u2014 Tovah Lazaroff, NBC News , 22 June 2022",
"The move comes as the ruling Communist Party doubles down on stifling dissent ahead of a key meeting this fall when Xi is expected to further tighten his grip on power with an almost unprecedented third term. \u2014 Cnn Staff, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"More recently, surging prices for items from food to fuel have weighed on workers\u2019 buying power , pressuring employers to boost pay to make up the shortfall. \u2014 Benjamin Katz, WSJ , 22 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That\u2019s where Apple could have unveiled realityOS, the operating system that will reportedly power the mixed reality headset and the AR glasses. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 23 June 2022",
"Apple announces the software that will power its devices later this year. \u2014 David Phelan, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"Broadcom is best known for designing and selling a wide range of wired and wireless communication chips, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips and the processors that power many routers and modems. \u2014 Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica , 26 May 2022",
"Nvidia\u2019s sales of chips to big server farms that power the internet\u2014and where the Santa Clara, Calif., company\u2019s hardware excels in rapidly growing artificial-intelligence applications\u2014rose by 83% to $3.75 billion in its first fiscal quarter. \u2014 Asa Fitch, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"Coldplay's concert setup now includes kinetic dance floors and stationary bikes that can channel energy directly from the fans in the crowd into batteries that power different elements of the show. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
"Tango 2 is a gene that is important for mitochondrial function, and mitochondria are energy centers that power every cell, Shillington explained. \u2014 Terry Demio, The Enquirer , 5 May 2022",
"In Maine, a solar farm that would power hundreds of homes is partly built but might not be completed. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The burning of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal that power our world releases greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
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"The Bearcats, who finished undefeated in the regular season, became the first non- power -five team to earn a spot inside the College Football Playoff committee's top four on Nov. 23. \u2014 Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer , 5 Dec. 2021",
"Whitford did what most folks say all Indiana's non- power conference schools should do: Load up on the best of the rest in-state players. \u2014 Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star , 8 June 2022",
"Great to see this @CA_DWR @SolarAquaGrid @TurlockID solar-over-canal project moving from idea to proof-of-concept construction - a baby step potentially helping CA and the planet with both water and clean- power gains. \u2014 Roger Bales, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The little things stood out during Joe Biden\u2019s sober nine-minute Tuesday afternoon speech addressing the most serious super- power crisis of this century. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 22 Feb. 2022",
"The Lower lake is reserved for canoeing, non- power boating and swimming from mid-May to mid-September. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Why does America, a super- power , celebrate such an important holiday with a turkey? \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 24 Nov. 2021",
"The Aztecs are the only non- power conference school among the final five. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Currently, only a handful of states allow securitization, while some are actively using it to transition from coal to clean- power plants. \u2014 Jakob Puckett, National Review , 28 May 2021"
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"If there are more because of this bill, shame on every legislator who voted for it, who earned more of a power base for it, who got a few more votes in their next election. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 Mar. 2022",
"American owners of teams do not act as proxies for the government or serve as the power base for a tyrant. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Ward power base a hefty batch of internships each summer, according to prosecutors. \u2014 Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But after years of political maneuvering, imprisonment, and assassinations, Putin has not only decimated Russia\u2019s democratic opposition but gradually shifted his own power base to reduce his vulnerability to palace coups. \u2014 Nate Sibley, National Review , 23 Feb. 2022",
"And as Tokayev moves against Nazarbayev\u2019s remaining power base , Nazarbayev\u2019s legacy has transformed from a fantasy of domestic comity and stability to one far closer to reality. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 12 Jan. 2022",
"This elevated hard-liners within his administration, while also leading Mr. Putin to shift his power base to security services. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Jan. 2022",
"If federal employees were further spread around the union, their political power base would expand. \u2014 WSJ , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Barrett\u2019s breakneck rise, boosted by an alliance of the Scalia-loving Federalist Society and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a power base of the Christian right. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2021"
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"The festival\u2019s closing-night selection, Loudmouth tells the story of Al Sharpton, who\u2019s been a preacher, a civil rights activist, a political advisor, and a power broker throughout his long and storied career. \u2014 The Editors, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
"After weeks of wavering, the city\u2019s mayor and power broker , Hennady Kernes, a former ally of Mr. Yanukovych, sided with the Ukrainian state, and shortly afterward survived being shot by a sniper. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Russia\u2019s role as a power broker in neighboring Syria along with its ties to Iran have meant that Israel has avoided joining the West in criticizing Russia for its invasion. \u2014 Siladitya Ray, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"If America was pivoting away from the region, Russia was increasingly seen as a new power broker . \u2014 Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Every show has a panel discussion with real people and an interview with a power broker (former Disney CEO Bob Iger, SEC Chair Gary Gensler). \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"But his role as a power broker is on the line when the primary season heats up in May, in North Carolina and across the map. \u2014 Byrick Klein,averi Harper, ABC News , 8 Apr. 2022",
"That followed months of tension stemming from Abiy\u2019s sidelining of the TPLF, which had previously been the nation\u2019s preeminent power broker . \u2014 Simon Marks, Bloomberg.com , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Jetsetting creatives have breezed in and out of Soho Houses since hospitality power broker Nick Jones founded his first members-only club in 1995. \u2014 Samantha Falew\u00e9e, Travel + Leisure , 16 Mar. 2022"
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"No tight spaces for car lovers and their passengers, who stay cozy in the memory seats with full power function . \u2014 Essence , 20 Oct. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pickup will initially be available as two variants, the high-end RST and the Work Truck (WT), both of which are powered by a 24-module Ultium power pack . \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Jeff Parker rode up on his horse, carrying a red portable power pack to pump air into the tires. \u2014 Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com , 9 Aug. 2021",
"The system consists of a backpack, which houses the power pack , and artificial tendons that connect to the glove. \u2014 Stephanie Bailey, CNN , 12 May 2021",
"Challenges such as double gloving, the weight of the power pack and controller, and activation issues required for the task continue to exist. \u2014 Borislav Marinov, Forbes , 28 Apr. 2021",
"The result is this new and more muscular DCS573B, capable of running on a standard 20-volt Max battery or the brand\u2019s hulking 20/60 Flex Volt power pack . \u2014 The Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 29 Dec. 2020",
"Some models of wireless earbuds include a dedicated charging station for a one-and-done charging process, and some include a carrying case that doubles as a portable power pack to extend their playtime far beyond a single charge. \u2014 Popular Science , 30 Oct. 2020",
"Just bring a power pack because 5G is a battery drain. \u2014 Joanna Stern, WSJ , 20 Oct. 2020",
"This 2-in-1 has 51 air jets to build the fire and reduce smoke and is run by a power pack with a 24-hour run time that can be recharged with a USB port. \u2014 Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics , 14 Oct. 2020"
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"They scored their first goal on a power play .",
"He made a power play to seize control of the company.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy couldn't find a way to get his team's power play firing this season. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"Makar is an elite skater who quarterbacks the power play and is solid defensively, too. \u2014 Mike Brehm, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"Carolina went on the attack immediately to try to get back into the game, but Igor Shesterkin, the Rangers\u2019 goalie and the Vezina Trophy favorite, was flawless, withstanding a second Hurricanes power play . \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"Leading 4-2, the Rangers had a 5-on-3 power play for nearly a minute early in the third period. \u2014 Vin A. Cherwoo, Hartford Courant , 29 May 2022",
"Seattle only received one power play , and that was on a strange bench minor rather than in open play. \u2014 Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive , 8 May 2022",
"Sure enough, the unit proved solid, holding the AHL\u2019s second best power play to no shots. \u2014 Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The aforementioned power play had five Grade-A scoring chances. \u2014 Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel , 22 May 2022",
"Which at this point feels like a win for Seattle, because the power play is now the Winterhawks\u2019 main mode of scoring. \u2014 Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive , 15 May 2022"
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"And the power station in North Yorkshire accounts for 12% of the country\u2019s renewable energy. \u2014 Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 June 2022",
"The nuclear power station closed in 2019 after almost 50 years of operation. \u2014 Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"By 2011, when a tsunami triggered reactor failures at Japan\u2019s Fukushima Daiichi power station , most Western countries had largely stopped building new nuclear plants. \u2014 James B. Meigs, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"For campers, in particular, packing a portable power station is as important as packing a tent, a hiking backpack and a proper s\u2019mores kit. \u2014 Mike Richard And Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health , 10 June 2022",
"To explain curtailing its operations at its Big Bend power station in Florida, Tampa Electric blamed the railroad for insufficient coal rather than the coal mine. \u2014 Roslyn Layton, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Ratepayers of the local utility are footing the bill for the power station on the site. \u2014 Joe Barrett, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power station near Pripyat, Ukraine \u2013 then part of the Soviet Union \u2013 was destroyed by an explosion. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Maria, 68 whose husband passed away from radiation poisoning after being exposed while working at Chernobyl nuclear power station during the 1986 disaster, fled her home in Kyiv shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Apr. 2022"
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"An entrenched \u2014 and virtually all-white power structure runs the city with little more than lip service to notions of equity and inclusion. \u2014 Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
"Kaba recalls King\u2019s own experiences with the carceral state and how policing has been used to maintain a white power structure that King was fighting. \u2014 Malaika Jabali, Essence , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Perhaps no one is more prepared to capitalize on such a decentralized power structure in college sports than Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY , 30 Dec. 2021",
"The four leading candidates running to become chair of the Multnomah County Commission have drawn their financial backing from different parts of the Portland area and different sectors of the local economy and power structure . \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Apr. 2022",
"After arriving in Sacramento, De Le\u00f3n quickly climbed the ladder in the Assembly, winning the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee and cementing his position in the Latino power structure . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 May 2022",
"The financial wherewithal may be in the hands on these women CMOs, with significant implications for the agency\u2019s power structure . \u2014 Avi Dan, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Consider instead that this is just the routine mental gymnastics of a party that\u2019s fixated on conflating protection with control in a desperate attempt to keep the existing power structure intact. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Meanwhile, a process of Church renewal called the Synodal Way has led to formal proposals for laypeople in Germany to take a role in choosing bishops\u2014a change that would alter the Church power structure profoundly. \u2014 Paul Elie, The New Yorker , 20 Feb. 2022"
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"So Drake studied mechanical engineering and took a job right out of college at Ford as a power train engineer. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 15 June 2022",
"Its next-generation power train will propel future models of Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles. \u2014 Laura Burstein, Robb Report , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The power train combines a rear-mid-mounted, twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter V-8 engine making 727 hp and 531 ft lbs of torque, with an electric motor\u2014mounted directly onto the engine\u2014making up the extra. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 8 Nov. 2021",
"My cousins tried to teach me about how the power train delivers torque to the wheels. \u2014 John Seabrook, The New Yorker , 24 Jan. 2022",
"The power train , including Porsche\u2019s eight-speed PDK automatic transmission (a seven-speed manual is also available for the same price), allows the model to cover zero to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds (with the Sport Chrono Package) and top out at 190 mph. \u2014 Viju Mathew, Robb Report , 18 Jan. 2022",
"After two decades at Goldman Sachs, his stint at MIT was a needed stop on the Democrat power train , conferring the academic bona fide to secure his nomination as SEC Chair. \u2014 Roslyn Layton, Forbes , 29 Oct. 2021",
"The power train will be hybrid in the sense of having electric lift rotor assemblies, while still employing turboshaft thrusters for the most efficient and longer-range flight. \u2014 J. George Gorant, Robb Report , 23 Dec. 2021",
"That\u2019s something the Mach-E won\u2019t be able to deliver, because lurking under its hood is Ford\u2019s first all-electric\u2014and relatively silent\u2014 power train . \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 12 Oct. 2021"
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"Once operational in 2023, the 50-megawatt plant will generate enough electricity to power up to 5,000 homes. \u2014 Camille Squires, Quartz , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Put that down in large part to the Spain AVS Hub plan, a governmental drive to power up production, exports and inward investment in Spanish film and TV, funded to the tune of \u20ac1.6 billion ($1.8 billion). \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 21 Mar. 2022",
"The Okp K3 Robot Vacuum and Mop is designed with a strong suction \u2014 and can hit a suction power up to 2,000 pascals \u2014 able to effortlessly pick up crumbs, dirt, and pet hair. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 16 Apr. 2022",
"The bZ4X can also power up at a DC fast-charger, where Toyota claims that adding 80 percent charge takes just under an hour, with peak charging rates of 150 kW for the front-drive variants and 100 kW for the all-wheel-drive models. \u2014 Joe Lorio, Car and Driver , 12 Apr. 2022",
"For about $50, this one from BLAVOR takes around 13 hours to recharge, then can power up an iPhone up to 4.5 times. \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The earbuds also automatically power up when removed from their charging case and switch off when they are put away. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Like other automakers, Ford is in a race to deliver electric vehicles that power up quickly. \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Together, these innovations help Solana power up to 65,000 transactions per second (tps). \u2014 Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022"
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"Can the Lightning trailer a large and heavy powerboat up and down a hilly two-lane at Texas speeds? \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 12 May 2022",
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"Geopolitical circumstances are unlikely to allow another country to become as powerful as the United States has been for much of the past seven decades. \u2014 Daniel Bessner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Hormones are also very powerful , so even a small change in their levels can cause all sorts of changes in your body, per the U.S. National Library of Medicine. \u2014 Kirsten Nunez, SELF , 22 June 2022",
"Can that quote still be accurate, can the stakes of that final battle between the two still be as powerful , if another meeting was jammed in between movies? \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 14 June 2022",
"While Activision Blizzard doesn\u2019t call this gear per se, stronger, rarer legendary gems are a crucial part of upgrading your endgame equipment to be as powerful as possible. \u2014 Gene Park, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"Also, if leaks are accurate, the MR device will be as powerful as a Mac and won\u2019t require a wired connection to any computer. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 13 June 2022",
"The letter notes how much money is lost to gun violence every year\u2014$280 billion a year\u2014but its emotional thrust is arguably as powerful . \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 9 June 2022",
"With the land of my ancestors going through this bloody, existential fight for survival, the pull to remain is as powerful as ever. \u2014 Michael Bociurkiw, CNN , 9 June 2022",
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"But ultimately the evidence itself -- damning texts, revelatory recordings, graphic videos of the attack and testimony from firsthand witnesses -- will hit harder and resonate more powerfully than any speech from any member of Congress ever could. \u2014 Elie Honig, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"Such placements convey a cultural and political solidarity with conservatives more powerfully than most anything else, according to Republican strategists and aides. \u2014 Colby Itkowitz, Anchorage Daily News , 1 June 2022",
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"Coconut oil is a powerhouse natural ingredient used in skin-, health- and home-care products. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Of special note are Parr\u2019s pictures of Ireland over the past four decades, charting its rise from poor cousin to its British neighbor to economic powerhouse . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
"Chelsea had immense success under Abramovich, rising from middle of the table in the Premier League to an international powerhouse . \u2014 Nicholas Reimann, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
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"Yang Wenhui should be a proud example of China\u2019s rise from economic rubble to global powerhouse . \u2014 New York Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"With 1:03 left in the game here in Greenville, S.C., War Jabari instantly became the physical presence of this season\u2019s euphoric rise of Auburn basketball from great to national powerhouse . \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The second season will be based on Isaac\u2019s upcoming book about Facebook and its transition from startup to social media powerhouse . \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 15 Feb. 2022",
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"The Fed appears largely powerless to stop runaway inflation, which is being driven up further by the soaring prices of food and fuel brought on by Russia's War on Ukraine. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 16 June 2022",
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"The upshot: The country faces a government shutdown on Friday and unprecedented default on federal debts in October, and Biden seems powerless to help. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 29 Sep. 2021",
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"The Fed appears largely powerless to stop runaway inflation, which is being driven up further by the soaring prices of food and fuel brought on by Russia's War on Ukraine. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 16 June 2022",
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"In an era of positional flexibility, Stuart\u2019s skill set matches. \u2014 Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al , 2 June 2022",
"Segura is fine, offering some positional flexibility and general competence though relatively little upside. \u2014 Tony Blengino, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The former Butler University star flashed his scoring potential and positional flexibility over the past two seasons. \u2014 Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star , 7 Jan. 2022",
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"Dipoto said as of now the Mariners view Frazier as their starting second baseman, while also fitting with Seattle's goal of having positional flexibility with significant chunks of its roster. \u2014 Tim Booth, ajc , 27 Nov. 2021",
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"Texas on Sunday drew upon its advantageous ties to Alabama to bolster a positional group led by Heisman candidate sophomore running back Bijan Robinson. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 6 June 2021",
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"After winning the girls\u2019 pole vault (11-6) and the outdoor pentathlon (3,313 points) on Thursday, Westford Academy senior Megan Frazee added a third state championship. \u2014 Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"Local history was made in the boys pole vault , when Lloyd Memorial senior Jake Davidson won the event for the fourth-straight season. \u2014 James Weber, The Enquirer , 3 June 2022",
"Other boys winners were Phoenix\u2019s Elwood Hosking (3,000), Marshfield\u2019s Jonathon Parks ( pole vault ) and Henley\u2019s Eli Hayes (long jump). \u2014 oregonlive , 20 May 2022",
"Poly got wins from Casey Talamini-Kelemen in the pole vault (9 feet) and Ellie Yerkes in the 3,200 (12:33.32). \u2014 Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Her father, Jeff, had a different vision: more family success in the pole vault . \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Snifferlin\u2019s 15-6 pole vault was 1.5 feet better than the rest of the Comet Relays field. \u2014 cleveland , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Difficult and dangerous, the pole vault has broken the heart of many a decathlete. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Those first flights took place six years ago, when Johnston got involved in the event which has become synonymous with his last name: the pole vault . \u2014 Dave Melton, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022"
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"p\u0259-\u02c8t\u0101-t\u014d",
"dialectal p\u0259-\u02c8d\u0101-",
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"b\u0259-"
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"She's growing carrots and potatoes in her garden this year.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pasta salad \u2014 alongside coleslaw and potato salad \u2014 form the trio of staple summer side dishes. \u2014 Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"Two-and-a-half pounds of homemade potato salad is up 19%, while hamburger buns are 16% pricier. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 28 June 2022",
"Second, nobody wants to go to a sanctity-of-life anti-choice cookout \u2014 the potato salad is going to be trash. \u2014 Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone , 27 June 2022",
"The hosts recommended smearing it on a hot dog, pastrami sandwich or even elevating a potato salad with the mustard. \u2014 Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
"People across the country can order the potato salad, pre-made. \u2014 Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
"The Reffitts hosted a mixer for the local branch of the militia at their home, with brisket, potato salad, and beer. \u2014 Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Popular salads include the Tuna Nicoise with chili-fennel crusted and seared rare tuna and fingerling potato salad; a Blue Crab and Fennel Citrus Salad; and a Mustard Crusted Salmon Salad with quinoa. \u2014 Chelsea Davis, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Often lauded as the optimal bun for smashburgers, the squishy, yellow potato roll has been a holy grail for burger geeks around the country. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 June 2022"
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"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144139"
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": submarine entry 2 sense 2":[]
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"ordered a fried catfish po'boy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Louisiana-style restaurant served po'boy sandwiches, catfish baskets, shrimp boils and jambalaya in a modern space decorated with musical New Orleans themed artwork and murals. \u2014 Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Here, grab meat plates with two sides from $13, fish and shrimp combos from $9, or an easy handheld like a sandwich or po'boy from $9. \u2014 Chron Staff, Chron , 13 Oct. 2021",
"Crispy chicken skin po'boy with jalape\u00f1o apple slaw and hot sauce aioli on a King's Hawaiian roll. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic , 2 June 2021",
"His restaurant offers po'boys and seafood plates with catfish, shrimp and oysters. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral , 19 Feb. 2020",
"From po'boys to muffalettas to beignets, the city is known for a wide array of rich, spicy and tasty foods. \u2014 David Oliver, USA TODAY , 10 July 2019",
"Locals come before and after ballgames for the overstuffed empanadas, shrimp and oyster po'boy , and baked chilaquiles topped with poblano cream and two eggs, any style. \u2014 Antonio Basada, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 3 Mar. 2018",
"Sweeten that romantic bond by treating them to a crunchy creole shrimp po'boy . \u2014 Catherine O\u2019neill, Bon Appetit , 1 Aug. 2017",
"The Waiting Room in Northwest Portland is hosting a Porch Party series on Sundays with a crawfish boil, daiquiris, soft shell crab po'boy , oysters on the half shell and more. \u2014 Michael Russell | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com , 27 June 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"1932, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
": a coil or winding connected in shunt across a circuit (as in a wattmeter)":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144313"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a holistic discipline that seeks to achieve physical and emotional health through a system of touch, diet, exercise, and self-awareness designed to balance energy flows in the body":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a combination of two tones consisting of a root and its fifth that is often used in rock music":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As essential to the genre as a power chord is to hard rock. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"An electric guitarist unleashes a series of triumphant power chords as fans hold their smartphone cameras aloft, the glowing screens dotting the darkened concert hall like fireflies. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 15 Oct. 2019",
"Brahms is also the primordial master of classical rock and roll, with his jagged and rhythmically obsessive power chords , and Langr\u00e9e had the string section slash its way through such passages with strokes of an appropriate near-violence. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 31 July 2019",
"But all that music really came to life in concert, thanks to Mercury\u2019s big voice and powerful strut, coupled with May\u2019s hooky power chords and symphonic solos. \u2014 Noel Murray, The Verge , 2 Nov. 2018",
"Minus a few rocking power chords , the cover is initially identical to the original. \u2014 Mackenzie Cummings-grady, Billboard , 29 May 2018",
"Cuomo shredded through his power chords with a big grin on his face and decimated an awesome guitar solo before tackling the final chorus. \u2014 Mackenzie Cummings-grady, Billboard , 13 June 2018",
"This band is nothing short of a national treasure, deftly able to smash politics, poetry, and power chords into a severe beating that feels like a warm hug (and proceeds to hang out on the couch of your cochlea for a few days afterward). \u2014 Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com , 5 Apr. 2018",
"By themselves, Baldi\u2019s lyrics become a poem about the hardship of moving on, but add some catchy power chords and jubilation takes over the dismay. \u2014 Efrain Dorado, RedEye Chicago , 31 July 2017"
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"1977, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a style of musical composition employing two or more simultaneous but relatively independent melodic lines : counterpoint":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Soon the others start to sing, too, their voices overlapping to create a rapturous polyphony . \u2014 Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The Master Chorale and the cellist C\u00e9cilia Tsan nimbly negotiated the score\u2019s Hindustani gestures, which were seamlessly woven into a four-part texture modelled on Renaissance polyphony . \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 11 Apr. 2022",
"In this oral history, Alexievich brings forth a polyphony of voices from one of the most radical social-engineering experiments ever carried out. \u2014 Marci Shore, The Atlantic , 11 Mar. 2022",
"For practitioners of what used to be called the lively arts, Life Isn\u2019t Everything, an oral biography of Mike Nichols, is manna from heaven, its brilliantly orchestrated polyphony bringing him, his work, and his world to vivid life. \u2014 Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"For practitioners of what used to be called the lively arts, Life Isn\u2019t Everything, an oral biography of Mike Nichols, is manna from heaven, its brilliantly orchestrated polyphony bringing him, his work, and his world to vivid life. \u2014 Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"For practitioners of what used to be called the lively arts, Life Isn\u2019t Everything, an oral biography of Mike Nichols, is manna from heaven, its brilliantly orchestrated polyphony bringing him, his work, and his world to vivid life. \u2014 Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"For practitioners of what used to be called the lively arts, Life Isn\u2019t Everything, an oral biography of Mike Nichols, is manna from heaven, its brilliantly orchestrated polyphony bringing him, his work, and his world to vivid life. \u2014 Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"For practitioners of what used to be called the lively arts, Life Isn\u2019t Everything, an oral biography of Mike Nichols, is manna from heaven, its brilliantly orchestrated polyphony bringing him, his work, and his world to vivid life. \u2014 Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Leonardo applied a mapping technique developed by Florentine humanist Leon Battista Alberti, who proposed that a town can be mapped using polar coordinates . \u2014 National Geographic , 21 May 2020",
"Critical mathematical applications such as Fourier transforms, Riemann zeta functions, Gaussian distributions, roots of unity, integrating over polar coordinates and pretty much anything involving trigonometry employs pi. \u2014 Randyn Charles Bartholomew, Scientific American , 25 June 2014"
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"He later realized that his response was not politically correct .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In newspapers at the time, Slick was politically correct , never outing his board as the reason the Pacers passed on Bird. \u2014 Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
"The embrace of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable practices has been criticized by conservative politicians who have accused supporters of shareholder capitalism of being politically correct and anti-business. \u2014 Siladitya Ray, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Red state officials deride it as politically correct and woke and are trying to stop investors who contract with states from adopting it on any level. \u2014 Sam Metz, Anchorage Daily News , 19 May 2022",
"Their traditional advantage on education has narrowed because of parental fury at school closures, mask rules, confusing Covid guidance, and politically correct school boards. \u2014 Matthew Continetti, National Review , 14 May 2022",
"Whigham will play Blaire Bennett, a smart and politically correct college student who is living with her uncle Matty, aunt Susan and younger cousin John. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Blaire is a smart and politically correct college student who\u2019s living with her Uncle Matty, Aunt Susan and younger cousin John. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The makers of Fiddler\u2019s Journey don\u2019t go against the politically correct shibboleths but work around them. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 13 May 2022",
"According to a National Public Radio report, the actual implementation of these politically correct requirements in Texas is messy. \u2014 Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News , 11 May 2022"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150734"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So, if a Bay Area gardener plants sweet corn seed surrounded by pole bean seed, the most likely result is a corn plant disappearing under bean vines and bearing little or no corn. \u2014 Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com , 23 May 2020",
"Among them: a family favorite known now as Great-Great Aunt Rosie\u2019s pole beans . \u2014 Joan Morris, The Mercury News , 3 Aug. 2019",
"Plants such as fruit trees provide food as well as shade; a patch of bamboo could provide stakes for supporting pole beans and other vining plants. \u2014 The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping , 1 Mar. 2017",
"Grow space-hungry vining crops\u2014such as tomatoes, pole beans , peas, squash, melons, cukes, and so on\u2014straight up, supported by trellises, fences, cages, or stakes. \u2014 The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping , 19 Jan. 2017",
"Romano beans, also known as Italian pole beans , are wide and flat and have a less delicate texture than green beans but share their mild and sweet flavor. \u2014 Bon Appetit , 5 May 2018",
"Romano beans, also known as Italian pole beans , are wide and flat and have a less delicate texture than green beans but share their mild and sweet flavor. \u2014 Bon Appetit , 5 May 2018",
"Space these seedlings farther apart than the spring crop, and place them so a tall crop, such as corn or pole beans , provide some afternoon shade. \u2014 The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping , 24 May 2017",
"Romano beans, also known as Italian pole beans , are wide and flat and have a less delicate texture than green beans but share their mild and sweet flavor. \u2014 Bon Appetit , 5 May 2018"
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": a power-operated excavating machine consisting of a boom or crane that supports a lever arm with a large bucket at the end of it":[]
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