dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/psy_MW.json

{
  "Psychean":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to Psyche":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Psyche , beloved of Eros + English -an":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u012bk\u0113\u0259n",
      "(\u02c8)s\u012b\u00a6k-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204855",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "psych":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": brain":[
        "psycho surgery"
      ],
      ": mental and":[
        "psycho somatic"
      ],
      ": mind : mental processes and activities":[
        "psycho dynamic",
        "psycho logy"
      ],
      ": psychoanalyze":[],
      ": psychological methods":[
        "psycho analysis",
        "psycho therapy"
      ],
      ": to analyze or figure out (something, such as a problem or course of action)":[
        "I psyched it all out by myself and decided",
        "\u2014 David Hulburd"
      ],
      ": to anticipate correctly the intentions or actions of : outguess":[],
      ": to make (someone, such as oneself) psychologically ready especially for performance":[
        "\u2014 often used with up psyched herself up for the race"
      ],
      ": to make psychologically uneasy : intimidate , scare":[
        "pressure doesn't psych me",
        "\u2014 Jerry Quarry",
        "\u2014 often used with out has a way of psyching out the competition"
      ],
      "psychology":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "He was trying to psych himself before the race.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Backing him up is some truly energizing post-hardcore, which emulates the melodic heaviness of \u201890s greats like Helmet or Quicksand \u2014 and will psych you up for a stagedive like little else this year. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 7 June 2022",
      "From hotline to psych hospital, the focus is on risk management. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
      "There's no real preparation to like pump myself up or psych myself out for those kind of scenes. \u2014 Bella Cacciatore, Glamour , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "In previous seasons with this exact scenario, T.J. will call the players down to psych them out before saying the elimination is canceled. \u2014 Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "Dane paces back and forth, trying to psych himself up to pick up the sword \u2014 which Marvel comics fans know will bestow him with great power and long life, but at the cost of Dane\u2019s eroding sanity and innate goodness. \u2014 Adam B. Vary, Variety , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "However, King said her efforts to psych out her opponents don\u2019t impact her own performances. \u2014 Michelle R. Martinelli, The Indianapolis Star , 20 July 2021",
      "Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista also spoofed the incident, taking a minute to psych himself up like a boxer preparing for battle before ultimately finding the courage to take a one-handed sip. \u2014 Mike Miller, EW.com , 22 June 2020",
      "Later at Big Cat Rescue, she was psyched there was a snow leopard at that sanctuary. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 17 Apr. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1917, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek, from psych\u0113 breath, principle of life, life, soul, from psychein to breathe; akin to Sanskrit babhasti he blows":"Combining form",
      "by shortening":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u012bk"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-173836",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "combining form",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "psych (up)":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionally I have to psych myself up before every swimming competition"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-131453",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "psych-":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": brain":[
        "psycho surgery"
      ],
      ": mental and":[
        "psycho somatic"
      ],
      ": mind : mental processes and activities":[
        "psycho dynamic",
        "psycho logy"
      ],
      ": psychoanalyze":[],
      ": psychological methods":[
        "psycho analysis",
        "psycho therapy"
      ],
      ": to analyze or figure out (something, such as a problem or course of action)":[
        "I psyched it all out by myself and decided",
        "\u2014 David Hulburd"
      ],
      ": to anticipate correctly the intentions or actions of : outguess":[],
      ": to make (someone, such as oneself) psychologically ready especially for performance":[
        "\u2014 often used with up psyched herself up for the race"
      ],
      ": to make psychologically uneasy : intimidate , scare":[
        "pressure doesn't psych me",
        "\u2014 Jerry Quarry",
        "\u2014 often used with out has a way of psyching out the competition"
      ],
      "psychology":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "He was trying to psych himself before the race.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Backing him up is some truly energizing post-hardcore, which emulates the melodic heaviness of \u201890s greats like Helmet or Quicksand \u2014 and will psych you up for a stagedive like little else this year. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 7 June 2022",
      "From hotline to psych hospital, the focus is on risk management. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
      "There's no real preparation to like pump myself up or psych myself out for those kind of scenes. \u2014 Bella Cacciatore, Glamour , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "In previous seasons with this exact scenario, T.J. will call the players down to psych them out before saying the elimination is canceled. \u2014 Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "Dane paces back and forth, trying to psych himself up to pick up the sword \u2014 which Marvel comics fans know will bestow him with great power and long life, but at the cost of Dane\u2019s eroding sanity and innate goodness. \u2014 Adam B. Vary, Variety , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "However, King said her efforts to psych out her opponents don\u2019t impact her own performances. \u2014 Michelle R. Martinelli, The Indianapolis Star , 20 July 2021",
      "Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista also spoofed the incident, taking a minute to psych himself up like a boxer preparing for battle before ultimately finding the courage to take a one-handed sip. \u2014 Mike Miller, EW.com , 22 June 2020",
      "Later at Big Cat Rescue, she was psyched there was a snow leopard at that sanctuary. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 17 Apr. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1917, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek, from psych\u0113 breath, principle of life, life, soul, from psychein to breathe; akin to Sanskrit babhasti he blows":"Combining form",
      "by shortening":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u012bk"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-074055",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "combining form",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "psychagogic":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": attractive , persuasive , inspiring":[],
      ": of or relating to psychagogy":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek psychag\u014dgikos , from psychag\u014dgia persuasion, winning of souls + -ikos -ic":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6s\u012bk\u0259\u00a6g\u00e4jik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-175002",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "psychagogue":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a believer in or practicer of psychagogy":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek psychag\u014dgos leading souls to the lower world, from psych- + ag\u014dgos leading, from agein to lead":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u012bk\u0259\u02ccg\u00e4g sometimes -\u02ccg\u022fg"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174334",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "psychal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": psychical":[
        "whatever the psychal reactions to the camera and the moving picture",
        "\u2014 Lewis Mumford"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "psych- + -al":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u012b-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212720",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "psychasthenia":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a neurotic state characterized especially by phobias, obsessions, or compulsions that one knows are irrational":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1900, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u0259s-\u02c8th\u0113-n\u0113-\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043217",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adjective or noun",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "psyche":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a princess loved by Cupid":[],
      ": soul , personality":[
        "the nation's consumer psyche",
        "\u2014 D. J. Kevles"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "some hidden corner within your psyche",
      "disturbing, enigmatic paintings that seem to embody the psyche of this brilliant but troubled artist",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The dichotomy is a stunning example of how to animate the psyche . \u2014 Holly Jones, Variety , 15 June 2022",
      "Nike has managed to maintain its dominant place in the global psyche . \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
      "Committee sources viewed Ivanka Trump and Kushner as sometimes helpful and at times frustrating, according to multiple advisers - but particularly useful in understanding Donald Trump's psyche . \u2014 Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
      "But the ongoing war has revealed something more deep-seated in Putin\u2019s psyche : a narrative of mythic destiny that supersedes any geopolitical imperative and which has set Russia on a bloody collision course with the West. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
      "Her voice opens the film and occasionally returns throughout, giving us insight into Ali\u2019s skittishness and tortured psyche . \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
      "Our files, photos, and music appear magically across multiple devices, much like the Greek psyche , which could, through the mysterious work of transmigration, manifest in different physical bodies after its host had died. \u2014 Meghan O'gieblyn, Wired , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Fame has its burdens, some of which can be cruel to the psyche . \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
      "Both of those teams are tied up into the psyche of Cleveland. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 23 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1590, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from Greek psych\u0113 soul":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u012b-(\u02cc)k\u0113",
      "\u02c8s\u012b-k\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "soul",
      "spirit"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224931",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "psychedelia":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": psychedelic music":[],
      ": the world of people, phenomena, or items associated with psychedelic drugs":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the tie-dyed fashions of psychedelia",
      "music ranging from jazz to disco to '60s psychedelia",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Black psychedelia was among the 20th century\u2019s boldest experiments in using art to reopen questions about power and identity in this world. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "Another option: journeys through undulating, hyper-colorful pieces of art, beautifully rendered works of geometry and psychedelia . \u2014 Matt Fuchs, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
      "There\u2019s a lot of wondrous genre-blending on Connecticut stages coming up \u2014 bands that mix punk with psychedelia , or bluegrass with jazz, or folk with funk. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Pioneers of folk-rock, psychedelia and country-rock in the 1960s, The Byrds helped create the template for the Americana music movement that followed. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Late Nite Records contains a hefty selection of rock, garage-rock and psychedelia from the \u201860s onward. \u2014 Annie Nickoloff, cleveland , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "The fabrics ranged from \u201870s psychedelia and \u201960s florals, to '50s-era rockabilly animal prints and Renaissance fair Celtic velvets. \u2014 Chiara Barzini, Vogue , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "An article on Page 116 about Black psychedelia refers to the funk singer and songwriter Betty Davis. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Feb. 2022",
      "Folky and folksy, her pleasant style pervades all 12 tracks, along with the alluring and disarming production from Jonathan Wilson that adds a feel of psychedelia . \u2014 Jon Schwartz, SPIN , 1 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1967, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from English psychedelic":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u0259-\u02c8d\u0113l-y\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021455",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "psychedelic":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a psychedelic drug (such as LSD)":[],
      ": imitating, suggestive of, or reproducing effects (such as distorted or bizarre images or sounds) resembling those produced by psychedelic drugs":[
        "psychedelic color schemes"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, characteristic of, or being the period of the mid- to late-1960's that is associated with the psychedelic drug culture":[
        "psychedelic rock",
        "the psychedelic era/movement",
        "\u2026 the \"rainbow newspaper\" of San Francisco that burst onto the psychedelic scene in 1966 \u2026",
        "\u2014 Don Lattin",
        "\u2026 speaking of stereotypes, the illustrations reject any hint of a '60s psychedelic style \u2026",
        "\u2014 Steven Heller"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or being drugs (such as LSD) capable of producing abnormal psychic effects (such as hallucinations) and sometimes psychotic states":[],
      ": produced by or associated with the use of psychedelic drugs":[
        "a psychedelic experience"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Then there\u2019s ketamine, a Schedule III substance that is not typically seen as a genuine psychedelic . \u2014 Nikesha Elise Williams, SELF , 25 May 2022",
      "And while it's said that the song is written from the perspective of someone struggling with depression after loss, the song has seemingly transcended the emo story line with a lasting foothold in the psychedelic . \u2014 Derek Scancarelli, EW.com , 12 May 2022",
      "Clinical studies on psychedelics test use of the drugs in combination with therapy, usually before and after taking the psychedelic , and with a therapist available while patients are high. \u2014 Olivia Goldhill, STAT , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "One fascinating example is the Sonoran Desert toad, which is often discussed as an ancient psychedelic . \u2014 Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "And with a year to go before the implementation deadline, the Oregon Health Authority is working to develop a system to administer the psychedelic in therapeutic settings in the state. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Jan. 2022",
      "Studies have found that a single dose of a psychedelic can have lasting positive effects. \u2014 Will Yakowicz, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "With a little more time, these abstractions may edge toward something like the art of Fred Tomaselli, who pushes abstraction into the cosmic and the psychedelic . \u2014 New York Times , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "This fall, the federal government granted researchers funding to study the therapeutic potential of a classic psychedelic for the first time in 50 years. \u2014 Madison Margolin, Rolling Stone , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Three additional trials of MDMA and synthetic psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, are scheduled to begin later this year at clinics in Portland and San Diego. \u2014 A.j. Herrington, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "Chappelle remembers wanting to get Saget\u2019s attention at Mayer's house by putting psychedelic mushrooms in a cappuccino maker. \u2014 Erin Jensen, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
      "Last year, Oregon became the first state to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Sep. 2021",
      "Interestingly, Kasson and other researchers have also found evidence of psilocybin\u2014the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms\u2014in another Massospora species that only infects annual cicadas in the western U.S. \u2014 Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American , 27 May 2021",
      "Possessing small quantities of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, LSD, MDMA (ecstasy) or psilocybin (the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms) will be a civil violation carrying a small fine that can... \u2014 Jacob Gershman, WSJ , 4 Nov. 2020",
      "Tame Impala\u2019s Kevin Parker, the ringleader of the psychedelic indie-rock band, , has been more active recently. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
      "Where local psychedelic rock band 13th Floor Elevators had played would stand another 13-floor, bland layer-cake office building, One Texas Center. \u2014 Steve Ditlea, SPIN , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "The psychedelic Australian band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, whose members are mostly in their late 20s, is requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test for its April 11 concert. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1956, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1957, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "irregular from psych- + Greek d\u0113loun to show, from d\u0113los evident; akin to Sanskrit d\u012bdeti it shines, Latin dies day \u2014 more at deity":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u0259-\u02c8de-lik",
      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u0259-\u02c8del-ik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114532",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "psycho":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a deranged or psychopathic person":[
        "\u2014 not used technically"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He plays a drug-dealing psycho in the movie.",
      "a story based on a real-life psycho who had serious mother-son issues",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The movie presents him not as a complex figure of evil but as a pure movie archetype: the psycho with a dungeon next door. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 18 June 2022",
      "Where the history of drug development has been astonishingly haphazard, and our grasp of brain function is disturbingly low-level, the history of psycho -pharmaceutical marketing has been clever and effective. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
      "There\u2019s no battered babysitter, no psycho stalker, no trope-y \u201980s clich\u00e9s in sight\u2014except for those being completely slashed and reimagined by their director. \u2014 Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 May 2022",
      "Affleck smile-grimacing his way through an everyday rich guy/closet- psycho routine for two hours also counts for\u2026 something. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Also complicating the play\u2019s psycho -social dynamics is image-conscious, self-actualizing Davey (a riveting Brandon J. Dirden), Darren\u2019s morally righteous baseball bud and a trigger that leads to tragic consequences. \u2014 Frank Rizzo, Variety , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "In the name of psycho -thermal research, G\u00f3mez Mil\u00e1n has put study volunteers into tense imaginary situations. \u2014 Jessica Wapner, The New Yorker , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "Another, a young psycho who calls himself ZoomGnat, has been up for two days straight on Adderall and Red Bull and has driven from Texas without stopping. \u2014 Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone , 30 Jan. 2022",
      "The Miz became a total Hellraiser, JoJo Siwa killed as a sinister Pennywise clown and Cody Rigsby went psycho as Patrick Bateman. \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 27 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1942, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "short for psychopath":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u012b-(\u02cc)k\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bug",
      "crackbrain",
      "crazy",
      "fool",
      "fruitcake",
      "head case",
      "loon",
      "loony",
      "lunatic",
      "maniac",
      "nut",
      "nutcase",
      "nutter",
      "psychopath",
      "sickie",
      "sicko",
      "wacko",
      "whacko"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100209",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "psychoanalyze":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to treat by means of psychoanalysis":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In our era of therapy speak, the impulse to psychoanalyze Jackson here is boundless, as is the desire to codify her perspective in the language of trauma. \u2014 Kovie Biakolo, ELLE , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "The group was unaware of the standings leading up to the event, as the four of them just wanted to get across the line and score rather than psychoanalyze the results. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2021",
      "Having the ability to psychoanalyze and relate to others while experiencing some of your first traumatic moments is no easy task. \u2014 Zane Pickett, Forbes , 13 May 2021",
      "If Sigmund Freud were to psychoanalyze the Jazz, the good doctor would pronounce them mentally and emotionally whole. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 Jan. 2021",
      "Writers gathered in a room to psychoanalyze the storyline of each episode before one of them would lay down words in a script. \u2014 Michael Granberry, Dallas News , 1 Apr. 2020",
      "There is often little use in psychoanalyzing Donald Trump: His behavior is so erratic, his thinking so shallow that any definitive assertion about his character or temperament is disproven within minutes. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 27 Aug. 2019",
      "All the people psychoanalyzing Grande's ring or her recent trips to Disneyland and furniture stores can calm down. \u2014 Christopher Rosa, Glamour , 21 June 2018",
      "More critically, the claim that our current crisis has economic roots does not rest on psychoanalyzing the Trumpen proletariat. \u2014 Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer , 23 May 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1911, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u014d-\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185557",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "psychobabble":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a predominantly metaphorical language for expressing one's feelings":[],
      ": psychological jargon":[],
      ": trite or simplistic language derived from psychotherapy":[
        "repeating the usual psychobabble about self-discovery",
        "\u2014 Mark Coleman"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a popular book filled with the usual psychobabble",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The show is savvy enough to sense how easily human ache can fall prey to the manipulative language of certain practitioners, and how alluring psychobabble can be, in the right context. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 19 Aug. 2021",
      "To the uninitiated, this might read like so much innocuous psychobabble . \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 8 Nov. 2020",
      "The fetishistic horse business is merely a weird aesthetic choice that's explained away with a bit of perfunctory psychobabble . \u2014 Katie Walsh, latimes.com , 2 May 2018",
      "Even taking the Super Bowl hangover psychobabble into account, this looks more like a mechanical problem than a mental one \u2014 for now. \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 19 Oct. 2017",
      "Such speculation makes psychobiography sound like little more than psychobabble . \u2014 Jason Zinoman, New York Times , 2 June 2017",
      "As Elgafink, Bruiser\u2019s sympathetic shrink, Kellie Spill gooses psychiatry and parodies psychobabble . \u2014 Orange County Register , 9 Feb. 2017",
      "So is the very way in which the teachers address one another, a psychobabble presumably born of workshops on treating students with sensitivity. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 9 Oct. 2016"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1975, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u012b-k\u014d-\u02ccba-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, and Chris Hemsworth star in this psychological thriller. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 12 June 2022",
      "Bette Davis and Joan Crawford play formerly famous sisters engaged in a vicious, decades-long sibling rivalry in 60th anniversary screenings of this 1962 psychological thriller. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
      "Darren Aronofsky\u2019s psychological thriller Black Swan catalyzed the popularity of ballet flats, wrap tops, bodysuits, and leg warmers in the 2010s. \u2014 Hannah Jackson, Vogue , 9 June 2022",
      "The six-episode psychological thriller features an appearance from Liotta, who died on May 26. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
      "Worry Darling, the psychological thriller feature film directed by his partner Olivia Wilde. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
      "Based on the 1983 novel by the same name, this psychological thriller reminds us that even the most picture-perfect love stories have their secrets behind closed doors. \u2014 Annie O\u2019sullivan, Good Housekeeping , 7 June 2022",
      "After the trial, Tyler was sent to [a] lunatic asylum receiving psychological treatment. \u2014 Michelle Toh, Nectar Gan, And Cnn's Beijing Bureau, CNN , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "After the trial, Tyler was sent to lunatic asylum [sic] receiving psychological treatment. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 7 Feb. 2022"
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      "Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, and Chris Hemsworth star in this psychological thriller. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 12 June 2022",
      "Bette Davis and Joan Crawford play formerly famous sisters engaged in a vicious, decades-long sibling rivalry in 60th anniversary screenings of this 1962 psychological thriller. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
      "Darren Aronofsky\u2019s psychological thriller Black Swan catalyzed the popularity of ballet flats, wrap tops, bodysuits, and leg warmers in the 2010s. \u2014 Hannah Jackson, Vogue , 9 June 2022",
      "The six-episode psychological thriller features an appearance from Liotta, who died on May 26. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
      "Worry Darling, the psychological thriller feature film directed by his partner Olivia Wilde. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
      "Based on the 1983 novel by the same name, this psychological thriller reminds us that even the most picture-perfect love stories have their secrets behind closed doors. \u2014 Annie O\u2019sullivan, Good Housekeeping , 7 June 2022",
      "After the trial, Tyler was sent to [a] lunatic asylum receiving psychological treatment. \u2014 Michelle Toh, Nectar Gan, And Cnn's Beijing Bureau, CNN , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "After the trial, Tyler was sent to lunatic asylum [sic] receiving psychological treatment. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 7 Feb. 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The day as of ending at 6 p.m. was one in which the wet watched the disposal of stocks to find the psychological moment for his investment in home supply. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 June 2019"
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      "suffered from psychological disorders all of his life",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, and Chris Hemsworth star in this psychological thriller. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 12 June 2022",
      "Bette Davis and Joan Crawford play formerly famous sisters engaged in a vicious, decades-long sibling rivalry in 60th anniversary screenings of this 1962 psychological thriller. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
      "Darren Aronofsky\u2019s psychological thriller Black Swan catalyzed the popularity of ballet flats, wrap tops, bodysuits, and leg warmers in the 2010s. \u2014 Hannah Jackson, Vogue , 9 June 2022",
      "The six-episode psychological thriller features an appearance from Liotta, who died on May 26. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
      "Worry Darling, the psychological thriller feature film directed by his partner Olivia Wilde. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
      "Based on the 1983 novel by the same name, this psychological thriller reminds us that even the most picture-perfect love stories have their secrets behind closed doors. \u2014 Annie O\u2019sullivan, Good Housekeeping , 7 June 2022",
      "After the trial, Tyler was sent to [a] lunatic asylum receiving psychological treatment. \u2014 Michelle Toh, Nectar Gan, And Cnn's Beijing Bureau, CNN , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "After the trial, Tyler was sent to lunatic asylum [sic] receiving psychological treatment. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 7 Feb. 2022"
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      "She studied psychology in college.",
      "the psychology of an athlete",
      "the psychology of crowd behavior",
      "We need to understand the psychologies of the two people involved in the incident.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Tessa West is an associate professor of psychology at New York University. \u2014 Tessa West, Fortune , 21 June 2022",
      "Because of this, deconstructing the causes behind the habituation of our actions and searching for new ways to integrate intention and self-control into our lives has taken center stage in the field of psychology . \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "The first step is to divide your tasks into short-, medium- and long-term goals, said Alejandro Lleras, professor in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 16 June 2022",
      "Marjorie Sanfilippo, a professor of psychology and the executive director of academic excellence at Eckerd College, has researched young children and whether educating them about firearm safety prevents them from touching a gun. \u2014 Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
      "Angela Farris Watkins is a fourth-generation Spelmanite (\u201986) who has been a professor of psychology at Spelman for 27 years. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
      "There is a self-fulfilling aspect to recessionary psychology . \u2014 Alexis Christoforous, ABC News , 17 June 2022",
      "Thomas Plante, who teaches psychology at California\u2019s Santa Clara University, a liberal Jesuit school, urges the same. \u2014 Leanne Italie, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
      "Adam Grant, a professor of management and psychology at the Wharton School, viewed the report as unveiling a growth point many managers and business leaders likely were not aware of. \u2014 Darreonna Davis, Forbes , 15 June 2022"
    ],
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      "1749, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "declared that he was a dangerous psychopath who needed to be locked up",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Isabella must put herself to the test physically and emotionally to survive a psychopath who is stalking and killing the retreat guests. \u2014 al , 5 June 2022",
      "However, the word psychopath doesn\u2019t necessarily mean criminal. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 4 June 2022",
      "The Seven is headed up by Homelander (Antony Starr), a violent and unstable psychopath disguised as the All-American hero. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 May 2022",
      "Ruth is about to turn into a murderous psychopath against Javi over his killing of her cousin, Wyatt. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Writer and creator Catherine Tate plays multiple characters from Laura Willis, the Governor who believes creativity leads to rehabilitation, to Big Viv, the psychopath lifer. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Not every show will have a couture-wearing psychopath , but read on to find your next favorite series. \u2014 cleveland , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "In Euphoria, Dane plays the very problematic father of teen psychopath Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi). \u2014 Carrie Wittmer, Glamour , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "Danny is a notorious criminal and a psychopath , though quick-witted and charming for all that. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 8 Apr. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1885, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-121519",
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      ": treatment of mental or emotional disorder or of related bodily ills by psychological means":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Fisher said treatments such as light therapy and behavioral psychotherapy are possible solutions that can help alleviate negative feelings associated with dreary weather. \u2014 Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune , 5 May 2022",
      "Anyone can find talk therapy (known as psychotherapy ) helpful\u2014including people with bipolar disorder. \u2014 Ashley Abramson, SELF , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "Daniels also points out that the sense of empowerment people may feel with nutritional psychiatry\u2014improving their mood through their own food choices instead of relying solely on medication and psychotherapy \u2014can backfire. \u2014 Christine Byrne, Outside Online , 21 Oct. 2021",
      "Apparently, depressed millennials are just as likely to want and benefit from spiritual psychotherapy as geriatric patients. \u2014 David H. Rosmarin, Scientific American , 15 June 2021",
      "Cognitive behavioral therapy is considered the gold standard in psychotherapy . \u2014 Sourav Sengupta, The Conversation , 19 May 2022",
      "After the half dose, participants attended an eight-hour psychotherapy session. \u2014 Jennifer Chesak, Health.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Sarah Ahmed, co-founder of Wellnest, a psychotherapy clinic in Toronto, agreed. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Nov. 2021",
      "Gestalt and person-centered therapies are often referred to as humanistic psychotherapy . \u2014 Sourav Sengupta, The Conversation , 19 May 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1890, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "type":[
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      "noun",
      "noun,"
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      "cuckoo",
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      "fruity",
      "gaga",
      "haywire",
      "insane",
      "kooky",
      "kookie",
      "loco",
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      "lunatic",
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      "He was diagnosed as psychotic .",
      "a psychotic patient who was recently admitted",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In his closing argument, prosecutor Alfred Peterson conceded that Rojas was having a psychotic episode, including hearing voices, at the time of the rampage. \u2014 CBS News , 22 June 2022",
      "Pourbafrana said the man was talking to himself and appeared to be having a psychotic episode. \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 June 2022",
      "Around 14 million Americans suffer from some form of serious mental illness and conditions like schizophrenia spectrum disorders with psychotic symptoms can be among the most serious. \u2014 Iain Martin, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
      "Peterson\u2019s study found psychotic symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, played no role in almost 70 percent of cases, and only a minor role in 11 percent of cases, where the shooters had other motives. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
      "Users can experience a worsening of mood, heightened anxiety or, in extreme cases, psychotic symptoms. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "Behavioral Analysis Unit evaluating 63 active shooters between 2000 and 2013 found that a quarter of the perpetrators were known to have been diagnosed with any kind of mental illness, and just 3 of the 63 had a verified psychotic disorder. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
      "Long-acting drugs are helping to stabilize many thousands of them for weeks or months, doctors said, reducing the risk of relapse or psychotic episodes that could require hospitalization. \u2014 Julie Wernau, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
      "The Adventures of Lyle Swann (1982), a former Vietnam War tunnel rat in Ted Kotcheff\u2019s Uncommon Valor (1983) and a rumpled cop who battles a psychotic criminal (Alec Baldwin) and loses his dentures in George Armitage\u2019s Miami Blues (1990). \u2014 Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1890, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-091717"
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      "noun"
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      ": a method of analyzing psychic phenomena and treating emotional disorders that involves treatment sessions during which the patient is encouraged to talk freely about personal experiences and especially about early childhood and dreams":[]
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      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u014d-\u0259-\u02c8nal-\u0259-s\u0259s",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For a moment, Texas\u2019 third-year reliever seemed ready for some psychoanalysis in the immediate aftermath of a career-best performance. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 6 June 2022",
      "Particularly in postwar America, psychoanalysis had been hermetically focussed on the private, the interior\u2014but wasn\u2019t the interior indelibly marked by the exterior world",
      "After learning the art of cold writing and psychoanalysis from Pete, Stan leaves and reinvents himself as a psychic for the wealthy. \u2014 Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "On the plus side, though, Clayton put his remaining women through some long-overdue psychoanalysis . \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "Some claimed that the Method amounted to unlicensed psychoanalysis , but Strasberg countered with an ingenious defense. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "After his early experience with traditional Freudian psychoanalysis , Dr. Beck searched for experimental proof of its efficacy. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "The hackneyed premise about a film-nerd cuckold in need of psychoanalysis distracts from the real-life dilemma of personal betrayal. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "Gunther\u2019s own psychoanalysis in Vienna with Wilhelm Stekel, one of Freud\u2019s first disciples, helped consolidate his views. \u2014 Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic , 8 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1906, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150909"
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      ": lying outside the sphere of physical science or knowledge : immaterial, moral, or spiritual in origin or force":[],
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      ": a person apparently sensitive to nonphysical forces":[],
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      "Adjective",
      "She claims to be psychic .",
      "Noun",
      "She claims to be a psychic .",
      "a TV psychic who managed to convince at least some people that their deceased loved ones were using him to relay messages",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Davies plays the drunk, abusive dad to the hilt, and Madeleine McGraw is a bit over-the-top as Finney\u2019s overly precocious, potty-mouthed psychic sister, Gwen. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "You guys seem to have an almost psychic connection onstage. \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 22 June 2022",
      "As a result, Viktor and Harlan develop a psychic connection. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
      "But there is no avoiding the city\u2019s damage, physical and psychic alike, onstage. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
      "John Anderton, super cop, could not wait ten minutes to negate the prophecy, even when the infallible dream- psychic was screaming at him to leave",
      "Leslie Hale, psychic astrologer at Keen.com, says that one of the most significant dates of the season is 1st July, when Mars in Aries squares Pluto. \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 19 June 2022",
      "Maybe these bands were trying to challenge the speed of everyday life here, too \u2014 fast music as a tacit revolt against psychic inertia, Beltway traffic, the month of August and more. \u2014 Chris Richards, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
      "Fire Island Pines is depicted as classist, racist, and superficial\u2014with everyone lugging their own psychic baggage from the mainland. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 3 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Maggie originally started as a short film about a psychic who sees herself in a stranger\u2019s reading and was written and directed by Tim Curcio. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 15 June 2022",
      "The Shapiro campaign\u2019s strategic calculations don\u2019t require a psychic to divine. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 18 May 2022",
      "After a psychic predicted the date of Frankie\u2019s death, Frankie holds a funeral for herself and when she, with a mic, and a cocktail-holding Grace collide, the pair are accidentally electrocuted and sent up to heaven early. \u2014 Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 May 2022",
      "Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick could be expecting a bundle of joy soon \u2014 if their psychic 's prediction comes true. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "After learning the art of cold writing and psychoanalysis from Pete, Stan leaves and reinvents himself as a psychic for the wealthy. \u2014 Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Miss Cleo, the popular television psychic whose commercials became iconic during the 1990s, is set to be the focus of an upcoming documentary. \u2014 Okla Jones, Essence , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Rebecca Rittenhouse stars as a young woman trying to cope with life while coming to terms with her abilities as a psychic . \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "At one point, Patrizia calls into a television psychic \u2019s hotline and asks Pina, played by Salma Hayek, for relationship advice. \u2014 Robert Daniels, Vulture , 26 Nov. 2021"
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      "Greek psychikos of the soul, from psych\u0113 soul":"Adjective"
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      "1645, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "That is not uncommon, said Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, as patients are often uncertain about whether exams are inappropriate and fear no one will take their word. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
      "This includes therapists who have degrees in social work, psychology or psychiatry , and who have undergone extensive training and continuing education in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
      "Psychology and psychiatry , the new sciences, are peculiar in that dealing with the mind ... \u2014 Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic , 8 Nov. 2021",
      "This is called the biopsychosocial model and is the consensus across clinical psychology and psychiatry . \u2014 Andrew Devendorf, The Conversation , 29 Mar. 2021",
      "The professor of psychology and psychiatry at Florida International University has studied the effects of terror attacks like 9/11 and the Boston Marathon Bombing on children. \u2014 Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN , 11 Mar. 2021",
      "Although symptoms of chronic stress are often dismissed as being in one\u2019s head, the pain is very real, said Kate Harkness, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Queen\u2019s University in Ontario. \u2014 Kaiser Health News, oregonlive , 18 Oct. 2020",
      "Food insecurity never even entered the picture of how psychology and psychiatry conceptualized an eating disorder, Singh said. \u2014 Carrie Arnold, STAT , 25 June 2020",
      "Sleep is more individual than traditional wisdom suggests, according to Dr. Jamie Zeitzer, an associate research professor of psychiatry and sleep medicine at Stanford University. \u2014 Tatum Hunter, Washington Post , 3 June 2022"
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      "probably from French psychiatrie , from psychiatre psychiatrist, from psych- psych- + Greek iatros physician \u2014 more at -iatry":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Her father, Martin, one of Sigmund Freud\u2019s six children, ran a psychoanalytic publishing house. \u2014 Emily Langer, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
      "Most practiced psychoanalytic psychotherapy or one of the Neo-Freudian psychodynamic variants. \u2014 Richard J. Mcnally, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
      "Guralnik started to immerse herself in psychoanalytic writing: Freud, Winnicott, R. D. Laing. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
      "Though this is one of the denser texts on this list, and will require some patience and interest in the academic formalities of psychoanalytic theory, the perceptiveness and humility of Winnicott\u2019s observations are worth the read. \u2014 Ana Cecilia Alvarez, The Atlantic , 1 May 2022",
      "Nevertheless, Roston soldiers on, casting himself as part literary scholar and part psychoanalytic sleuth. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "These psychoanalytic theories all seek to explain the personal traumas and particular pathologies of individuals. \u2014 Adam Kuper, WSJ , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "Beck trained as a psychoanalyst, and his study of psychoanalytic concepts of depression led to his development of cognitive therapy in the 1960s, according to the Beck Institute. \u2014 Amy Woodyatt, CNN , 2 Nov. 2021",
      "To Keohane the problem was obvious: Levine still viewed gender dysphoria through a psychoanalytic lens rather than as the product of neurobiology. \u2014 Aviva Stahl, Wired , 8 July 2021"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Over time, dealing with fires is something that combines art, science and the deepest psychophysiology of human performance under stress. \u2014 ProPublica , 5 Apr. 2020",
      "Credit where credit is due, though: America invented the 3D-printable anal pneumatic base for psychophysiology research. \u2014 Matt Simon, WIRED , 11 July 2019"
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      "International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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      "1839, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "So several foreign experts were also invited to weigh in, including Louis Lewin, who pioneered the study of psychoactive plants. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "School officials found a cartridge containing THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, in the younger boy\u2019s backpack. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 27 May 2022",
      "Delta 8 is perfect for people who want to enjoy the benefits of THC without the intense psychoactive effects. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 June 2022",
      "An entheogen is a psychoactive substance that has been historically used in spiritual contexts. \u2014 Louis Metzger Iv, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Professionals in the industry regard the cannabis plant as an entheogen or a psychoactive substance used for various purposes. \u2014 Amanda Reiman, Rolling Stone , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "On June 1 last year, Curaleaf instructed an employee named Liam Drain to bottle both the CBD wellness drops and the THC drops, the ones with psychoactive ingredients. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 May 2022",
      "However, the legal situation of CBD at the federal level doesn't differ much from delta-8 THC, even though CBD has no psychoactive effect. \u2014 Dario Sabaghi, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
      "Delta-8 THC, a hemp chemical that has been found to assist with anxiety and tension while also promoting calmness, is one of the two most psychoactive cannabinoids. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022"
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      "probably from French psychiatre , from psych- + Greek iatros healer, physician":""
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      ": a religion disseminated principally through lessons and publications sent out on a mail-order basis from its headquarters in Moscow, Idaho and based on a central message that each individual is capable of discovering and utilizing the spiritual power within him to achieve his own requisites (as health, happiness, and financial success)":[]
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      "Adjective",
      "She claims to be psychic .",
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      "She claims to be a psychic .",
      "a TV psychic who managed to convince at least some people that their deceased loved ones were using him to relay messages",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Davies plays the drunk, abusive dad to the hilt, and Madeleine McGraw is a bit over-the-top as Finney\u2019s overly precocious, potty-mouthed psychic sister, Gwen. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "You guys seem to have an almost psychic connection onstage. \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 22 June 2022",
      "As a result, Viktor and Harlan develop a psychic connection. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
      "But there is no avoiding the city\u2019s damage, physical and psychic alike, onstage. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
      "John Anderton, super cop, could not wait ten minutes to negate the prophecy, even when the infallible dream- psychic was screaming at him to leave",
      "Leslie Hale, psychic astrologer at Keen.com, says that one of the most significant dates of the season is 1st July, when Mars in Aries squares Pluto. \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 19 June 2022",
      "Maybe these bands were trying to challenge the speed of everyday life here, too \u2014 fast music as a tacit revolt against psychic inertia, Beltway traffic, the month of August and more. \u2014 Chris Richards, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
      "Fire Island Pines is depicted as classist, racist, and superficial\u2014with everyone lugging their own psychic baggage from the mainland. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 3 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Maggie originally started as a short film about a psychic who sees herself in a stranger\u2019s reading and was written and directed by Tim Curcio. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 15 June 2022",
      "The Shapiro campaign\u2019s strategic calculations don\u2019t require a psychic to divine. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 18 May 2022",
      "After a psychic predicted the date of Frankie\u2019s death, Frankie holds a funeral for herself and when she, with a mic, and a cocktail-holding Grace collide, the pair are accidentally electrocuted and sent up to heaven early. \u2014 Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 May 2022",
      "Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick could be expecting a bundle of joy soon \u2014 if their psychic 's prediction comes true. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "After learning the art of cold writing and psychoanalysis from Pete, Stan leaves and reinvents himself as a psychic for the wealthy. \u2014 Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Miss Cleo, the popular television psychic whose commercials became iconic during the 1990s, is set to be the focus of an upcoming documentary. \u2014 Okla Jones, Essence , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Rebecca Rittenhouse stars as a young woman trying to cope with life while coming to terms with her abilities as a psychic . \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "At one point, Patrizia calls into a television psychic \u2019s hotline and asks Pina, played by Salma Hayek, for relationship advice. \u2014 Robert Daniels, Vulture , 26 Nov. 2021"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek psychikos of the soul, from psych\u0113 soul":"Adjective"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1645, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193350"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "And in 2019, when Rosengart was its chairman, the Society of Surgical Chairs recommended mandatory cognitive and psychomotor testing of surgeons by at least age 65. \u2014 Lola Butcher, Quartz , 25 June 2020"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1878, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203026"
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      "adverb"
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      ": originating in the mind or in mental or emotional conflict":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "These are technically called psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). \u2014 Patti Greco, Health.com , 9 Nov. 2021",
      "State Department officials have expressed skepticism at the idea that the diplomats\u2019 illness could be psychogenic . \u2014 Michael P. H. Stanley, National Review , 22 Aug. 2020",
      "Christle discusses a moth species that sups on elephant tears; why plane travellers sob in the air; the difference between basal, irritant, and psychogenic eye water. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 8 Jan. 2020",
      "While Parkinson\u2019s is treated with medications such as levodopa, patients determined to have a functional or psychogenic condition are often prescribed psychological regimens such as cognitive behavioral therapy. \u2014 David Armstrong, ProPublica , 23 Aug. 2019",
      "At Patton, Nunez was treated for schizophrenia and developed psychogenic polydipsia, which drives a pervasive addiction to water. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Sep. 2019",
      "That\u2019s the type of vague complaint that could point to a psychogenic diagnosis. \u2014 David Armstrong, ProPublica , 23 Aug. 2019",
      "Theories range from the existence of a dubious sonic weapon, to mass psychogenic illness, to infectious agents, chemical exposure, malfunctioning surveillance equipment, and a mix of stress and crickets. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 24 July 2019",
      "Other researchers and physicians maintain that mass psychogenic illness could explain some, if not all, of the symptoms. \u2014 Richard Stone, Science | AAAS , 20 June 2018"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1915, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205221"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In one study from 2017, researchers measured 27 people for their psychophysiological responses (such as chills or goosebumps) to hearing poetry read aloud. \u2014 David Allan, CNN , 15 June 2022",
      "Multiple behavioral, psychophysiological , and neuroimaging studies have shown that the placebo response is a real, multifactorial effect associated with changes in biochemical pathways in the brain. \u2014 Erica Smith, STAT , 13 Oct. 2020"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1839, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232221"
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-012324"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025055"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u014d-k\u0259-\u02c8n\u0113-s\u0259s",
      "-k\u0259-\u02c8n\u0113-s\u0259s, -k\u012b-",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Area 51 author Annie Jacobsen sees psychokinesis in Phenomena (Little, Brown). \u2014 Sloane Crosley, Vanities , 19 Apr. 2017",
      "Area 51 author Annie Jacobsen sees psychokinesis in Phenomena (Little, Brown). \u2014 Sloane Crosley, Vanities , 19 Apr. 2017",
      "PK ( psychokinesis ) experimentation (((Who can\u2019t like THAT?))) \u2013 \u2014 Bruce Sterling, WIRED , 29 Apr. 2009",
      "Area 51 author Annie Jacobsen sees psychokinesis in Phenomena (Little, Brown). \u2014 Sloane Crosley, Vanities , 19 Apr. 2017",
      "Area 51 author Annie Jacobsen sees psychokinesis in Phenomena (Little, Brown). \u2014 Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com , 4 Apr. 2017"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1914, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045707"
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      "noun"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Citing the growing literature on psychogenesis , a neurosurgeon suggested a lobotomy. \u2014 Jim Carrier, STAT , 12 June 2018"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
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      "1838, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-063836"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Psychopsis , type genus (from Greek psych\u0113 butterfly + New Latin -opsis ) + -idae":""
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      "This ultimately evolved into the idea that too many or too few neurochemicals could cause different kinds of mental illness, such as psychosis . \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
      "For instance, there is evidence that some people predisposed to psychosis or other psychiatric disorders may be at higher risk for adverse events following cannabis exposure, which may in some cases exacerbate symptoms of the disease. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "For example, mental disorders \u2013 particularly those that cause psychosis \u2013 are believed even by some healthcare professionals, to be caused by supernatural forces such as witchcraft, evil spirits or punishment by God. \u2014 Adie Vanessa Offiong, CNN , 2 June 2022",
      "As part of the new CARE Court, counties would be required to provide comprehensive treatment and housing to people with debilitating psychosis . \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "The treatment caused fever in patients, which Wagner-Jauregg found would ameliorate the psychosis . \u2014 Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "If the person suffering from psychosis refused at any point to participate, their criminal case would proceed. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Other moments played to the psychosis of the tragedy \u2014 one set piece being a long corridor with a door at the end of it with a dagger for a knob. \u2014 Daron James, Los Angeles Times , 12 Jan. 2022"
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      "Each center can serve 1,000 people per day, providing hygiene supplies, safe water, learning materials, psychosocial support, child-protection services and assistance for reuniting children who've been separated from their families. \u2014 Marion Hart, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
      "Most have been exposed to deeply traumatic events and require safety, stability, child protection services and psychosocial support \u2013 especially those who are unaccompanied or have been separated from their families. \u2014 Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
      "That's not to say that personnel impacted by psychosocial factors aren't experiencing real symptoms either, with stress and mass psychogenic illness capable of causing debilitating health effects like neurological disorders. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "Provides assistance with evacuation, humanitarian aid and psychosocial support. \u2014 USA Today , 22 May 2022",
      "Schools also provide an important entry point for humanitarian workers and mental health professionals to provide psychosocial support, said Amanda Brydon, child protection lead for the advocacy organization Save the Children in Ukraine. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Mechanic, whose work focuses on the psychosocial consequences of violence, trauma and victimization, evaluated Holmes for 14 hours, and also conducted interviews with her family members, according to pre-trial filings. \u2014 Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN , 4 Dec. 2021",
      "At Palanca, the border crossing in Moldova, psychosocial clinics have been established to identify those struggling mentally and ease the effects of this trauma. \u2014 Dr. Nicholas P. Kondoleon, ABC News , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "That family needs to get that man in for a complete physical, mental and, especially, psychosocial checkup NOW! \u2014 Annie Lane, oregonlive , 8 Feb. 2022"
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      "These specialists are known as ' psychosexual therapists' because they are trained to look at both the mind and body in their approach to treating conditions like vaginismus. \u2014 Ella Glover, refinery29.com , 17 Jan. 2022",
      "There\u2019s a lot of psychosexual wheel-spinning revolving around characters who are, by design, defined exclusively by their trauma. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "It\u2019s a modern-day psychosexual fable of co-dependency and abusive relationships between a young woman and a big bear, to be lensed as a chamber drama with touches of horror and magic realism. \u2014 Annika Pham, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "Meat Loaf was showing them and us the path into the provocative, put-on \u201980s \u2014 Madonna with her three-minute psychosexual cinematic dramas, a generation of hair-metal dudes with longer hair and tighter pants, girls writhing on the hood of a car. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022",
      "The upcoming series is based on the iconic 1987 psychosexual thriller of the name, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Pacey Witter better keep an eye on his rabbit. Joshua Jackson has been cast in Paramount+'s Fatal Attraction, a forthcoming TV series based on the 1987 psychosexual thriller film that starred Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "The Conformist comes to mind, as the great model for a cinematic mapping of fascism\u2019s psychosexual pathologies. \u2014 Lidija Haas, The New Republic , 23 Dec. 2021"
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      "Bloomberg has a bachelor\u2019s in special education from St. Cloud University, a master\u2019s in psychometrics and educational psychology from Cornell University, and a doctorate in educational policy and administration from Minnesota. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Aside from the many similarities shared by Apple and Lumon on an organizational level, Severance also mocks the modern corporate culture of psychometrics as a productivity tool. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 26 Feb. 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Evans stars as psychopathic rogue secret agent Lloyd Hansen, who's hunting down a former CIA colleague played by Ryan Gosling. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
      "In this award-winning film, wealthy New Yorker Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) spends his days working as an investment banking executive and his nights embracing his psychopathic urges and violent desires. \u2014 Annie O\u2019sullivan, Good Housekeeping , 13 June 2022",
      "Our political class advocates military violence with a regularity and ease that is psychopathic . \u2014 Matthew Duss, The New Republic , 1 June 2022",
      "Leading the charge is a psychopathic former colleague named Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans). \u2014 cleveland , 24 May 2022",
      "The most prominent players in the cast are Kevin Kline and Zach Galifianakis, who return to their regular roles as Bob\u2019s hardhearted landlord, Calvin Fischoeder, and his ne\u2019er-do-well, possibly psychopathic brother, Felix. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
      "And this is a group were formerly led by Teddy, a psychopathic serial killer and doomsday prophet. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
      "Evans plays his psychopathic ex-colleague leading the global manhunt. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "The psychopathic assassin appears to be turning over a new leaf and shaking all sorts of trees in the fourth and final season of Killing Eve \u2014 and in the first trailer for the BBC America spy thriller. \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 1 Feb. 2022",
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      "The character is a pure psychopathic who drives a classic hot rod and has a fanatical love of Coors beer. \u2014 James Hibberd, EW.com , 24 Nov. 2020",
      "They are popularly recognized as the motto of a fictional psychopathic supervillain. \u2014 Brian Murphy, OrlandoSentinel.com , 22 May 2018",
      "The sheer accumulation of images of celebrity bodies in my browser history feels psychopathic . \u2014 Amanda Hess, New York Times , 23 Apr. 2018",
      "People who are psychopathic have a fearless personality. \u2014 Lynn Johnson, National Geographic , 3 Jan. 2018"
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      "And because one in three migraineurs are women, the disease has long been dismissed, or at least minimized, as just another psychosomatic condition of neurotic women. \u2014 Jenifer Frank, courant.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "Placebo effects are well-documented and real\u2014in that people can indeed experience a certain extent of psychosomatic benefits. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 19 Jan. 2022",
      "The psychosomatic symptoms spread rapidly among the children: witnessing their classmates fall ill during a school assembly triggered a spread of symptoms through the 224 students honoring the sixth-graders who were graduating. \u2014 Gary W. Small, STAT , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "But the mechanism responsible for these psychosomatic reactions has always been shadowy. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 Nov. 2021",
      "My subsequent studies of psychosomatic illness outbreaks show that symptom susceptibility is driven by anxieties in the community, social standing, and sensory cues, especially visual ones. \u2014 Gary W. Small, STAT , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "Medical experts who investigated his claims reached the conclusion that a good number of the ailments from which his patients suffered were psychosomatic . \u2014 Richard J. Evans, The New Republic , 1 Dec. 2021",
      "The psychiatrist Alexander Mitscherlich, founder of a clinic for psychosomatic medicine at Heidelberg University in 1949, considered Gr\u00f6ning and his followers dangerously close to providing a kind of substitute for Hitler and the Nazis. \u2014 Richard J. Evans, The New Republic , 1 Dec. 2021"
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      "This actually reminded me of another fictional tale of psychopathy , Gone Girl, which (unlike You) manages to make a disturbed character interesting without undermining the severity of their disorder. \u2014 Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire , 18 Dec. 2019",
      "Plus the scenes in which Oliver finally confronts Sebastian Blood are a masterclass in tension and psychopathy , and Felicity and Diggle\u2019s creative interrogation methods prove that Team Arrow is more than just one vigilante and two sidekicks. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 15 Oct. 2019",
      "What\u2019s more, scores on each of the dimensions of the dark triad were positively correlated with one another: People with a tendency toward narcissism are also more likely to demonstrate Machiavellianism and psychopathy , and vice versa. \u2014 Glenn Geher, WSJ , 6 Dec. 2018",
      "However, the analysis also showed that certain traits associated with psychopathy were perceived as slightly positive for men, but negative for women. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 26 Oct. 2018",
      "Murphy used the data on personality from the previous study and used it to calculate a new score based on personality traits that indicated psychopathy , according to Quartz. \u2014 Scott Berson, miamiherald , 19 June 2018",
      "The one-in-five rate is much too high\u2014the base rate for clinical psychopathy is only around 1 percent (one in 100)\u2014due in part to the relatively small sample size of 261 senior professionals. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 26 Oct. 2018",
      "The coldblooded and grandiose assault on a crowd of people Paddock had never met also bore characteristics of psychopathy , not of someone having a mental breakdown, said Dr. O\u2019Toole, the retired FBI profiler. \u2014 Zusha Elinson, WSJ , 30 Sep. 2018",
      "Criminal versatility\u2014committing different types of crimes in different settings\u2014can also hint at future psychopathy . \u2014 Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic , 16 May 2017"
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      "At the outset of his career, Lichtenberg was taken with the promise of psychopharmacology . \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Despite upbeat advertising campaigns for new drugs, there have been no true breakthroughs in psychopharmacology for more than a half-century. \u2014 Richard J. Mcnally, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
      "The advent of psychopharmacology in the 1950s facilitated, but did not cause, the emptying of state psychiatric hospitals. \u2014 Richard J. Mcnally, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
      "According to an overview by Marc-Antoine Crocq, who studies the history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology at University of Upper Alsace in Mulhouse, France, mentions of cannabis show up in ancient texts from India, Egypt and the Roman Empire. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Jan. 2022",
      "Then, seemingly overnight, psychopharmacology changed much of that. \u2014 Scott Shannon, Wired , 18 May 2021",
      "Psychedelics aren\u2019t just an exciting development in psychopharmacology . \u2014 John Semley, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2021",
      "His work helped refine the definitions of certain psychiatric disorders and establish the legitimacy of treating them with drugs \u2014 a field known as psychopharmacology \u2014 along with traditional psychotherapy. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com , 16 Aug. 2019",
      "There, working under Max Fink, Dr. Klein became increasingly interested in psychopharmacology , collecting data on the effects of drugs on various conditions. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , 16 Aug. 2019"
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      "Particularly in postwar America, psychoanalysis had been hermetically focussed on the private, the interior\u2014but wasn\u2019t the interior indelibly marked by the exterior world? \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
      "After learning the art of cold writing and psychoanalysis from Pete, Stan leaves and reinvents himself as a psychic for the wealthy. \u2014 Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "On the plus side, though, Clayton put his remaining women through some long-overdue psychoanalysis . \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "Some claimed that the Method amounted to unlicensed psychoanalysis , but Strasberg countered with an ingenious defense. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "After his early experience with traditional Freudian psychoanalysis , Dr. Beck searched for experimental proof of its efficacy. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "The hackneyed premise about a film-nerd cuckold in need of psychoanalysis distracts from the real-life dilemma of personal betrayal. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "Gunther\u2019s own psychoanalysis in Vienna with Wilhelm Stekel, one of Freud\u2019s first disciples, helped consolidate his views. \u2014 Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic , 8 Mar. 2022"
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      "Which, in the context of Facebook and Cambridge Analytics, is where the psychometricians at Cambridge University come in. \u2014 Antonio Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, WIRED , 19 Mar. 2018",
      "Teachers know that good standardized measurements designed by knowledgeable psychometricians are vitally important measures. \u2014 Valerie Strauss, Washington Post , 11 Aug. 2017",
      "We pair teachers from Minnesota with our own subject-matter experts (many of them former teachers themselves) and psychometricians , experts in test design, to build the assessment. \u2014 Peggy Young, Twin Cities , 3 May 2017"
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      "This suggests that self-storage was not an inevitable convenience but something else, perhaps an indicator of national psychopathology . \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "This suggests that self-storage was not an inevitable convenience but something else, perhaps an indicator of national psychopathology . \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "This suggests that self-storage was not an inevitable convenience but something else, perhaps an indicator of national psychopathology . \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "These findings indicate that when it is understood through a particular cultural filter, the disorder can cause psychopathology . \u2014 Baland Jalal, Scientific American , 15 July 2020",
      "It's used to treat the four kinds of psychopathology : Depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviors, and delusions. \u2014 Beth Shapouri, Allure , 16 June 2021",
      "Cruella showcases Hollywood\u2019s current psychopathology . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 28 May 2021",
      "The death of a pet was likelier to increase psychopathology in boys than in girls. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine , 24 Nov. 2020",
      "Imagine Don Draper\u2019s grasp of American psychopathology delivered with the pithy asperity of Emily Dickinson. \u2014 Megan O\u2019grady, New York Times , 19 Oct. 2020"
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      "And so, duly catering to the market, the book is presented as a psychobiography of the author\u2019s uncle, whose military academy class photo adorns the cover. \u2014 Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books , 8 Sep. 2020",
      "Esa-Pekka Salonen, in his stirring performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday night at Symphony Center, treated it as a masterpiece of pure music, rather than as musical psychobiography . \u2014 John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com , 18 May 2018",
      "Some commentators attempted to bridge this gap by indulging in dubious psychobiography posing as criticism. \u2014 Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 Dec. 2017",
      "Such speculation makes psychobiography sound like little more than psychobabble. \u2014 Jason Zinoman, New York Times , 2 June 2017"
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      "To illustrate the absurdity\u2014and long history\u2014of this notion, linguists often retell the ancient story of the Greek historian Herodotus, who in about the fifth century B.C. wrote about an ancient psycholinguistics experiment. \u2014 Katherine D. Kinzler, Scientific American , 6 Aug. 2020"
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      "That said, psyllium does contain a little bit of insoluble fiber too. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Karl Malone starts his day with a breakfast that includes ashwagandha root and psyllium husk powder. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "Much of the research on fiber and IBS specifically use psyllium , a type of supplemental soluble fiber found in products like Metamucil. \u2014 Natalie Rizzo, SELF , 26 Nov. 2021",
      "Taking a fiber supplement like methylcellulose (Citrucel) or psyllium (Metamucil) can also boost your dietary fiber intake, notes the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). \u2014 Karen Pallarito, Health.com , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "These moist, soft buns swap your typical flour for flour made from almonds and coconuts, plus psyllium husk, for 20 grams of fiber per serving. \u2014 Anna Haines, Forbes , 10 June 2021",
      "Bulk-forming laxatives such as Metamucil are formulated with psyllium husk (natural fiber from the outside of Plantago Ovata plant seeds). \u2014 Rachel Boller, chicagotribune.com , 18 Apr. 2021",
      "Soluble fiber is found in oats, peas, beans, apples, citrus fruits, carrots, barley and psyllium . \u2014 Christine Byrne, Health.com , 21 Sep. 2020",
      "Word about the store spread during its first week on Facebook\u2019s Margate Florida Residents page, where former City Commissioner Le Peerman boasted of finding a bargain on psyllium husk powder. \u2014 Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com , 31 Oct. 2019"
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      "There\u2019s not much psychodrama to her flames of hell. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 12 May 2022",
      "Campion\u2019s adaptation of Thomas Savage\u2019s novel is a western but really a psychodrama , a love story concealed as a hate story, a critics\u2019 darling and an audience picture, an actors\u2019 showcase and a technical showpiece. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "Dunst\u2019s awards fate could soon change thanks to The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion\u2019s spellbinding psychodrama about a cruel rancher (Benedict Cumberbatch) who terrorizes his tender brother\u2019s new wife (Dunst) in 1920s Montana. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "The movie is a crucial exploration of the aesthetics of digital video, as well as a terrifying psychodrama with a revelatory performance by Laura Dern. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Jane Campion\u2019s neo-Western psychodrama , which is nominated for best picture, follows a Montana rancher, a closeted gay man battling his own toxic masculinity played by Benedict Cumberbatch. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Scott stars as a grieving man who takes work/life balance to the extreme in this sleek psychodrama from exec producer Ben Stiller. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "The show quickly set itself apart by capitalizing on its mystery to format as a thrilling psychodrama . \u2014 Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour , 10 Jan. 2022",
      "If some subterranean psychodrama is playing out deep within Charles Conwell, the surface registers no tremors. \u2014 Jacob Stern, The Atlantic , 18 Nov. 2021"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This suggests that self-storage was not an inevitable convenience but something else, perhaps an indicator of national psychopathology . \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "This suggests that self-storage was not an inevitable convenience but something else, perhaps an indicator of national psychopathology . \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "This suggests that self-storage was not an inevitable convenience but something else, perhaps an indicator of national psychopathology . \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "These findings indicate that when it is understood through a particular cultural filter, the disorder can cause psychopathology . \u2014 Baland Jalal, Scientific American , 15 July 2020",
      "It's used to treat the four kinds of psychopathology : Depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviors, and delusions. \u2014 Beth Shapouri, Allure , 16 June 2021",
      "Cruella showcases Hollywood\u2019s current psychopathology . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 28 May 2021",
      "The death of a pet was likelier to increase psychopathology in boys than in girls. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine , 24 Nov. 2020",
      "Imagine Don Draper\u2019s grasp of American psychopathology delivered with the pithy asperity of Emily Dickinson. \u2014 Megan O\u2019grady, New York Times , 19 Oct. 2020"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In a video interview attached to the study, Daisy Fancourt, an associate professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at the University of Central London, discusses the role the arts can play in medical treatment. \u2014 Charles Trepany, USA TODAY , 6 Jan. 2020",
      "Not so long ago, the Sackler name was stamped across the most rarified perches in Manhattan\u2014in the psychobiology department at Columbia University, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and at the Museum of Natural History. \u2014 Alexander Sammon, The New Republic , 18 Oct. 2019",
      "This happens for several reasons, says Bertha Madras, a professor of psychobiology at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. \u2014 Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American , 8 Jan. 2018",
      "Meanwhile, the Sackler institutes at Cornell, Columbia, McGill, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sussex, and King\u2019s College London tackle psychobiology , with an emphasis on early childhood development. \u2014 Christopher Glazek, Esquire , 16 Oct. 2017",
      "The commission also includes Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, and the Harvard Medical School psychobiology professor Bertha Madras. \u2014 Olga Khazan, The Atlantic , 31 July 2017",
      "Huntington Beach High School Major: psychobiology Why this school? \u2014 Heide Janssen, Orange County Register , 15 June 2017"
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      "The fascination with psychedelic drugs, psychosurgery , brain-stimulation devices, intravenous infusions, etc., is symptomatic of the current mental health crisis. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2018",
      "Although Moniz would share the 1949 Nobel Prize in medicine for his pioneering work in psychosurgery , the lobotomy had not only fallen out of favor by the 1950s but was being excoriated as a barbaric practice. \u2014 Tony Long, WIRED , 12 Nov. 2010"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Alternatively, re-evaluating the process and using psychometric assessments of the candidates, among other strategies to diminish the impact of personal preferences and human biases, can work wonders. \u2014 Naveen Joshi, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
      "This includes psychometric testing to look for a balance of skills within the leadership team. \u2014 Philip Salter, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "Then, using a psychometric approach to behavioral modeling, job-relevant competencies are examined to pinpoint the high potential candidates. \u2014 Sanjoe Jose, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
      "Linked closely to those studies are the psychometric studies that focus on processes for identification and selection of these students. \u2014 Jonathan Wai, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "Your executive coach may leverage psychometric assessments and other strategies to learn about how people think and perceive their roles and companies. \u2014 Clark Waterfall, Forbes , 22 June 2021",
      "An assessment is considered reliable if scores remain consistent over time \u2014 the general standard for a psychometric assessment is an internal consistency reliability of .70 or above. \u2014 Sherrie Haynie, Forbes , 3 June 2021",
      "The hiring process often includes psychometric testing, competency quizzes and open ended questions but something that is often forgotten, is personality. \u2014 Paul Westall, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2021",
      "Businesses that went in looking for CRM systems discovered tools that provide psychometric analysis of prospects, tools to manage retrospectives and thousands more. \u2014 Gordian Braun, Forbes , 1 Mar. 2021"
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      "International Scientific Vocabulary psychro- + -phyte":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-092410"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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      ": a psychoactive chemical":[]
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      "-\u02c8kem-i-k\u0259l",
      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u014d-\u02c8ke-mi-k\u0259l"
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      "1956, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": of or relating to a psydracium":[]
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      "(\u02c8)s\u012b\u00a6dr\u0101sh\u0259s"
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      "New Latin psydraci um + English -ous":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-101353"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Allison isn\u2019t advising marketers to ditch the use of demographics and psychographics in their research. \u2014 Peggy Anne Salz, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
      "This complicates deriving common planning metrics like demographics and psychographics at the user level. \u2014 Brad Adgate, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
      "Objectives should be shaped around revenue (drive new customers and increase revenue), brand awareness and engagement (impressions, likes, comments, community buzz), and customer insights (feedback from different demographics and psychographics ). \u2014 Groupshop, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "However, data provides insights on interests, areas of affinity, financial capacity, psychographics and past charitable behavior to drive focus and to support engaging optimal potential partners. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "Start by learning more about them in terms of demographics and psychographics . \u2014 Shaan Rais, Forbes , 12 Oct. 2021",
      "An ideal client profile describes demographics and psychographics \u2014 what\u2019s top of mind with your prospective buyers? \u2014 Randy Shattuck, Forbes , 5 July 2021",
      "Choosing a platform based on the age, psychographics and demographics of your audience. \u2014 Matt Maher, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
      "With this technology, retailers can even prepare psychographics about their customers. \u2014 Terence Mills, Forbes , 24 May 2021"
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      "psych - + - graphics (as in demographics )":""
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      "1968, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "noun"
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      ": a theory that applies psychological conceptions to the interpretation of historical events or logical thought":[]
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1850, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-110426"
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      "noun"
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      "s\u012b\u02c8k\u00e4gr\u0259f\u0113"
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      "psych- + -graphy":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-110654"
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      "noun"
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      ": biochemistry applied to the problems of psychology and psychiatry":[]
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      "\"+"
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      "psych- + biochemistry":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-113207"
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      "adjective"
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      ": of or relating to the relationship between environmental climatic conditions and the efficiency of utilization of foodstuffs especially by domestic animals":[]
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      "\u00a6s\u012b(\u02cc)kr\u014d+"
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      "psychro- + energetic":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-120532"
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      "noun"
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      ": a form of psychotherapy combining psychoanalytic techniques with meditation and exercise":[]
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      "1919, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "noun"
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      "New Latin, from Greek psych\u0113 butterfly, moth + New Latin -oda (probably from Greek -\u014dd\u0113s -ode)":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-123057"
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      "adjective",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-124556"
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      "noun"
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      ": psychical research":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
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      "French psychisme , from psych- + -isme -ism":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-131551"
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      "noun"
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      "back-formation from psychometry":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-133042"
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      "adjective",
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      ": the psychology of mental or emotional forces or processes developing especially in early childhood and their effects on behavior and mental states":[],
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      ": motivational forces acting especially at the unconscious level":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u014d-d\u012b-\u02c8na-miks",
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      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u014d-d\u012b-\u02c8nam-iks, -d\u0259-"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1874, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "adjective",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The Foundation confronts barbarian kingdoms, imperial revanchists, and shadowy telepaths who elude psychohistory \u2019s grasp. \u2014 Julian Lucas, The New Yorker , 1 Nov. 2021",
      "By the end of the show\u2019s second episode, just as psychohistory must have predicted, that fate comes to pass. \u2014 Jackson Mchenry, Vulture , 29 Sep. 2021",
      "Jared Harris plays Hari Seldon, a brilliant professor who develops the field of psychohistory . \u2014 Jeff Ewing, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "The other aha moment was on the Prime Radiant, which is the device that calculates psychohistory for Hari Seldon, sort of like this Magic 8-Ball. \u2014 Scott Huver, Variety , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Foundation tells the story of Hari Seldon and his followers, who use the futuristic science of psychohistory to plot their course through a galactic dark age and preserve scientific knowledge. \u2014 WIRED , 2 Oct. 2020",
      "Around the same time, the science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov began his Foundation series of novels, premised on the idea of a science of psychohistory . \u2014 James Gleick, The New York Review of Books , 22 Sep. 2020",
      "The crime: applying psychohistory to predict the future\u2014specifically, to predict a very bad future for the Galactic Empire. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 22 June 2020"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-143555"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, genus name, from Greek, flea; akin to Latin pulex flea, Sanskrit plu\u1e63i":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1852, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-144354"
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      "noun"
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      ": psychological warfare":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1951, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-152150"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-152239"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": music that blends punk rock and rockabilly":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u012b(\u02cc)k\u014d\u02ccbil\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "psycho entry 2 + rocka billy":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1978, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-153838"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-153903"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary psych- + -oid":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-160927"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin psychomachia conflict of the soul, probably from Greek psych- + -machia -machy":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-161612"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a jar used in ancient Greece for cooling wine":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek psykt\u0113r , from psychein to make cold":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-164756"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": of or related to psychism":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-170558"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek, from psychros , from psychein to cool":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-170921"
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      ": of or relating to the period beginning with the appearance of man on the earth : quaternary":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "psych- + -zoic":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-173931"
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      "noun"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek psydrakion , from psydrak- psydrax blister on the tongue (from psydros lying, untrue, from pseudein to lie, falsify) + -ion (noun suffix)":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-173956"
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      ": a genus of jumping plant lice containing many economically important pests of cultivated plants \u2014 see pear psylla":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Psylla + -ia":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-174355"
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  "psyllid yellows":{
    "type":[
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    "definitions":{
      ": a virus disease of potatoes characterized by rolling and yellowish discoloration of the leaflets and transmitted by the potato psyllid":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-182542"
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    "type":[
      "plural noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a family of homopterous insects comprising the jumping plant lice and having long usually 10-jointed antennae, forewings that are thickened and often feathery, and the femora thickened and adapted for leaping":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Psylla , type genus + -idae":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-192057"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": an act or an instance of psyching someone out":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1971, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-194400"
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    "type":[
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      "noun"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u012b-k\u0259-\u02c8tr\u014d-pik"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Hinckley still takes two psychotropic drugs and credits decades of individual and group therapies with enabling him to reintegrate into society. \u2014 Major Garrett, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
      "Her character is a psychiatrist who used to prescribe psychotropic drugs and now prescribes them to herself. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "The screen does not test for psychotropic medication. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "In addition to youths not being evaluated by health workers within four days of admission, the previous violations that were remedied included poor record keeping for youths who were taking psychotropic medicine. \u2014 Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "This psychotropic production aired last month, when the San Francisco 49ers upset the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the playoffs. \u2014 Jake Nevins, The Atlantic , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "Deaths involving psychotropic drugs primarily involve crystal meth. \u2014 Casey B. Mulligan, National Review , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "Bufo is the venom of the Sonoran desert toad, Bufo alvarius, which contains the molecule 5-MeO-DMT, one of the most potent psychotropic drugs ever discovered. \u2014 Alex Kuczynski, Town & Country , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Back in Cambridge, two young psychologists, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, were at the same time exploring the effects of psychotropic substances on the human mind. \u2014 David E. Carpenter, Forbes , 8 June 2021"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1948, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-194601"
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  "psychotrine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a yellow crystalline alkaloid C 28 H 36 N 2 O 4 having a blue fluorescence and found in ipecac":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u2027tr\u0259\u0307n",
      "\u02c8s\u012bk\u0259\u2027\u02cctr\u0113n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary psychotr- (from New Latin Psychotria ) + -ine":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-200103"
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  "psychotaxis":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": an involuntary adjustment of one's modes of thought and action for keeping the agreeable and avoiding the disagreeable as a mechanism of ego defense":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u012bk\u014d+"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from psych- + -taxis":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-201312"
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  "psychotechnician":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": one specializing in the practical application of psychology (as in the use of psychological tests) \u2014 compare psychometrician":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "psych- + technician":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-202739"
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  "psyllid":{
    "type":[
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Notice if other citrus trees are nearby and a potential source of the Asian psyllid that spreads the disease and the disease itself. \u2014 Tom Maccubbin, orlandosentinel.com , 4 Sep. 2021",
      "This provides less food for the psyllids , which feed on the flush of new leaves. \u2014 Amanda Morris, AZCentral.com , 15 Apr. 2020",
      "For the next 15 years, Baumann, Moran, and their colleagues used similar DNA analyses to document equally long-term relationships between bacteria and white flies, spittlebugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, and psyllids . \u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS , 14 Nov. 2019",
      "Well, the psyllids never got the memo.\u2019\u2019 Jackson is a relative newcomer to the citrus business. \u2014 Duncan Strauss, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Jan. 2020",
      "In Ventura County, growers spray pesticides to get rid of the psyllid . \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Sep. 2019",
      "One was Carsonella ruddii, from that psyllid from the Mexican restaurant, which proved to have just 160,000 bases compared with E. coli's 5 million bases and Buchnera's 640,000. \u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS , 14 Nov. 2019",
      "Her work on psyllids , aphids, and other sap-sucking insects has uncovered intricate, intertwined relationships with internal bacteria, which help them survive on a meager diet of plant juices. \u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS , 14 Nov. 2019",
      "That included injection of the insecticide imidacloprid into the tree to combat lerp psyllids , a type of insect that sucks nutrients from leaves and causes them to shed. \u2014 Lilly Nguyen, Daily Pilot , 30 Sep. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "ultimately from New Latin Psylla":""
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      "1909, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": the doctrine that God is pure spirit":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ketamine is already widely used in the United States to treat depression, but Awakn is seeking to construct a manualized approach to incorporate the chemical into a three-dose psychotherapeutic regimen. \u2014 Zack Jones, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "The healers associate themselves with a range of shamanistic traditions and typically also incorporate vernacular psychotherapeutic ideas about trauma and healing. \u2014 Noah Feldman, Star Tribune , 18 May 2021",
      "Sanacora also notes that the psychotherapeutic component of the study\u2014which gave equal amounts of preparation, counseling and follow-up to both the escitalopram and psilocybin groups\u2014is unusual and noteworthy. \u2014 Zoe Cormier, Scientific American , 15 Apr. 2021",
      "Transitioning from in-person psychotherapeutic care to telehealth may also be more difficult or uncomfortable for some people than others, Anderson suggests. \u2014 Jeffrey Kluger, Time , 23 Feb. 2021",
      "OpenPath Collective, a collective of therapists who conduct sessions online and in-person, has matched over 50,000 clients with psychotherapeutic care. \u2014 Stefanie Groner, Glamour , 21 Jan. 2021",
      "The failure of the psychotherapeutic process is located at its epicenter: the power disparity in the therapeutic dyad. \u2014 Erica Rex, Scientific American , 12 July 2020",
      "His minimalist downtown office lacks a chaise longue, but Fan\u2019s consultations give off more than a whiff of psychotherapeutic energy. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Jan. 2020",
      "Yet much of the psychotherapeutic establishment now regards the therapy as marginal. \u2014 Margalit Fox, New York Times , 2 Oct. 2017"
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      "1854, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Fisher said treatments such as light therapy and behavioral psychotherapy are possible solutions that can help alleviate negative feelings associated with dreary weather. \u2014 Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune , 5 May 2022",
      "Anyone can find talk therapy (known as psychotherapy ) helpful\u2014including people with bipolar disorder. \u2014 Ashley Abramson, SELF , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "Daniels also points out that the sense of empowerment people may feel with nutritional psychiatry\u2014improving their mood through their own food choices instead of relying solely on medication and psychotherapy \u2014can backfire. \u2014 Christine Byrne, Outside Online , 21 Oct. 2021",
      "Apparently, depressed millennials are just as likely to want and benefit from spiritual psychotherapy as geriatric patients. \u2014 David H. Rosmarin, Scientific American , 15 June 2021",
      "Cognitive behavioral therapy is considered the gold standard in psychotherapy . \u2014 Sourav Sengupta, The Conversation , 19 May 2022",
      "After the half dose, participants attended an eight-hour psychotherapy session. \u2014 Jennifer Chesak, Health.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Sarah Ahmed, co-founder of Wellnest, a psychotherapy clinic in Toronto, agreed. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Nov. 2021",
      "Gestalt and person-centered therapies are often referred to as humanistic psychotherapy . \u2014 Sourav Sengupta, The Conversation , 19 May 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
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    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u012b-\u02cck\u00e4t-\u014d-m\u0259-\u02c8met-ik, -m\u012b-",
      "-m\u012b-",
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