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{
"atremble":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": shaking involuntarily : trembling":[
"he was white as death and all atremble",
"\u2014 Robert Coover"
]
},
"examples":[
"atremble with fright at the sound of the booming howitzers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The prospect of a multicultural America cannot mesh with the white Protestant template, and this has many white people atremble with cultural insecurity. \u2014 John E. Mcintyre, baltimoresun.com , 30 Aug. 2017",
"His gaze has the power to set walls, grown men and the earth itself atremble . \u2014 A. O. Scott, New York Times , 17 Mar. 2016"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1845, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8trem-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"aquiver",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shaky",
"shuddering",
"shuddery",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024529",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"the atrocious weapons of modern war",
"an atrocious accident"
],
": extremely wicked, brutal , or cruel : barbaric":[
"prisoners subjected to atrocious treatment"
],
": of very poor quality":[
"atrocious handwriting"
],
": utterly revolting : abominable":[
"atrocious working conditions",
"atrocious weather"
]
},
"examples":[
"\u2026 much of the manufactured-home industry employed sales practices that were atrocious . The need for meaningful down payments was frequently ignored. Sometimes fakery was involved. Moreover, impossible-to-meet monthly payments were being agreed to by borrowers who signed up because they had nothing to lose. \u2014 Warren E. Buffett , Newsweek , 9 Mar. 2009",
"In the hands of a succession of more or less sadistic colonial governors and prison officers, convicts, particularly repeat offenders, found themselves subjected to atrocious punishments, flogged, committed to chain gangs, kept in underground pits, starved, and bullied. \u2014 Caroline Moorehead , New York Review of Books , 16 Nov. 2006",
"It would seem that by now the Tigers might be weary of analyzing their roller-coaster season, sick of reliving their atrocious 9-23 start and comparing it with their recent hot streak. \u2014 Sports Illustrated , 4 Sept. 2000",
"an atrocious period in the nation's history",
"an atrocious crime that shocked even hardened members of the police force",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The gap between the annual income of Black families versus non-Black families is atrocious . \u2014 Scarlett Newman, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 June 2022",
"However, paying nearly $80 million for four acres of land is atrocious . \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 May 2022",
"The Dallas Cowboys will always be a thing\u2014whether good, not good, mediocre, atrocious , brilliant, exasperating, or ordinary. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 18 Oct. 2021",
"The Kings\u2019 special teams have been atrocious , for example, with seven of Edmonton\u2019s 21 goals in the series coming on power plays. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022",
"The tricky thing about discussing wartime atrocities is that war itself is atrocious . \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 7 Apr. 2022",
"What happens when an unstoppable force (Steve Cohen\u2019s wallet) meets an immovable object (the Mets\u2019 atrocious luck). \u2014 Daniel Kohn, SPIN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Michigan wound up with 22 turnovers, along with some atrocious 3-point shooting, but hung around thanks to a massive disparity at the foul line. \u2014 Dave Skretta, ajc , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The biggest reason Michigan was able to hang around despite 22 turnovers and atrocious 3-point shooting was a massive disparity at the foul line. \u2014 Fox News , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1604, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin atroc-, atrox gloomy, atrocious, from atr-, ater black + -oc-, -ox (akin to Greek \u014dps eye) \u2014 more at eye":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8tr\u014d-sh\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"appalling",
"awful",
"dreadful",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmare",
"nightmarish",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
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": appalling , horrifying":[
"the atrocious weapons of modern war",
"an atrocious accident"
],
": extremely wicked, brutal , or cruel : barbaric":[
"prisoners subjected to atrocious treatment"
],
": of very poor quality":[
"atrocious handwriting"
],
": utterly revolting : abominable":[
"atrocious working conditions",
"atrocious weather"
]
},
"examples":[
"\u2026 much of the manufactured-home industry employed sales practices that were atrocious . The need for meaningful down payments was frequently ignored. Sometimes fakery was involved. Moreover, impossible-to-meet monthly payments were being agreed to by borrowers who signed up because they had nothing to lose. \u2014 Warren E. Buffett , Newsweek , 9 Mar. 2009",
"In the hands of a succession of more or less sadistic colonial governors and prison officers, convicts, particularly repeat offenders, found themselves subjected to atrocious punishments, flogged, committed to chain gangs, kept in underground pits, starved, and bullied. \u2014 Caroline Moorehead , New York Review of Books , 16 Nov. 2006",
"It would seem that by now the Tigers might be weary of analyzing their roller-coaster season, sick of reliving their atrocious 9-23 start and comparing it with their recent hot streak. \u2014 Sports Illustrated , 4 Sept. 2000",
"an atrocious period in the nation's history",
"an atrocious crime that shocked even hardened members of the police force",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The gap between the annual income of Black families versus non-Black families is atrocious . \u2014 Scarlett Newman, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 June 2022",
"However, paying nearly $80 million for four acres of land is atrocious . \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 May 2022",
"The Dallas Cowboys will always be a thing\u2014whether good, not good, mediocre, atrocious , brilliant, exasperating, or ordinary. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 18 Oct. 2021",
"The Kings\u2019 special teams have been atrocious , for example, with seven of Edmonton\u2019s 21 goals in the series coming on power plays. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022",
"The tricky thing about discussing wartime atrocities is that war itself is atrocious . \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 7 Apr. 2022",
"What happens when an unstoppable force (Steve Cohen\u2019s wallet) meets an immovable object (the Mets\u2019 atrocious luck). \u2014 Daniel Kohn, SPIN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Michigan wound up with 22 turnovers, along with some atrocious 3-point shooting, but hung around thanks to a massive disparity at the foul line. \u2014 Dave Skretta, ajc , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The biggest reason Michigan was able to hang around despite 22 turnovers and atrocious 3-point shooting was a massive disparity at the foul line. \u2014 Fox News , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1604, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Latin atroc-, atrox gloomy, atrocious, from atr-, ater black + -oc-, -ox (akin to Greek \u014dps eye) \u2014 more at eye":""
},
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"\u0259-\u02c8tr\u014d-sh\u0259s"
],
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"awful",
"dreadful",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmare",
"nightmarish",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060738",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"atrocity":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation":[
"the atrocities of war"
],
": the quality or state of being atrocious":[
"\u2026 the paralysing atrocity of the thought which occupied her.",
"\u2014 Joseph Conrad"
]
},
"examples":[
"Atrocities were committed by forces on both sides of the conflict.",
"Who could be capable of such atrocity ",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Continuing a theme from the series last month at Progressive Field, the White Sox defense was an atrocity Monday with four errors, including two more by shortstop Tim Anderson. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"This atrocity , whose impact on the Korean people still reverberates in the present, forms the backdrop of Min Jin Lee\u2019s magnificent 2017 novel Pachinko. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Breivik's 2011 bombing and shooting attack was Norway\u2019s worst peacetime atrocity . \u2014 Patrick Smith, NBC News , 17 May 2022",
"After the war, several Japanese battlefield commanders were tried for their role in the Bataan atrocity and were sentenced to death. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Every business leader that says and does something in response to an atrocity encourages another business leader to do the same. \u2014 Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone , 29 Apr. 2022",
"This was my imagination formulating a solution, an idea, where people would feel supported and shielded from the atrocity bearing its teeth on the news. \u2014 Alex Wagner, SPIN , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Some proponents of atrocity investigations in Ukraine have argued that senior Russian leaders might be tried in absentia. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Kurzel redirects social disaster (the public horror that has haunted Australia since the atrocity Bryant committed, leading to the country\u2019s gun-reform laws) to command our focus on individual crisis. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 8 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see atrocious":""
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"\u0259-\u02c8tr\u00e4-s\u0259-t\u0113"
],
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"atrociousness",
"awfulness",
"dreadfulness",
"frightfulness",
"ghastliness",
"grisliness",
"gruesomeness",
"hideousness",
"horridness",
"horror",
"monstrosity",
"repulsiveness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025320",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"atrophia":{
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"definitions":{
": atrophy":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u2027\u02c8tr\u014df\u0113\u0259"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": having progressively declined or weakened":[
"Growing responsibilities in the Balkans and Africa, coinciding with reserves in Angola and signs of trouble in Cambodia, may soon limit the organization's eagerness and ability to take on new challenges in atrophied states.",
"\u2014 Ronald K. McMullen et al."
],
": having wasted away or decreased in size (as from disease or disuse)":[
"Astronauts and test animals have returned to Earth with atrophied muscles \u2026",
"\u2014 Ivan Amato"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccf\u012bd",
"\u02c8a-tr\u0259-f\u0113d"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122501",
"type":[
"adjective"
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": a wasting away or progressive decline":[
"It was not a solitude of atrophy , of negation, but of perpetual flowering.",
"\u2014 Willa Cather",
"an atrophy of imagination"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The doctor is concerned about possible atrophy of the shoulder muscles.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The cause was complications of multiple systems atrophy , her son MK Asante said. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Vocalist/guitarist Gaz Coombes\u2019 voice rang through clear and flawless, no sign of atrophy from the quarter century that has passed since the release of that album. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, Variety , 14 May 2022",
"Doctors say social isolation can result in a faster rate of brain atrophy . \u2014 Julie Jargon, WSJ , 11 Dec. 2021",
"In late 2016, Biogen Spinraza was approved for a rare disease called spinal muscular atrophy and had $1.9 billion in sales last year, down 7% from the previous year. \u2014 Joseph Walker, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"The German man in the study was diagnosed with progressive muscle atrophy in August 2015, an ALS variant that selectively affects motor neurons. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 15 Apr. 2022",
"With this much Netflix, the danger of muscle atrophy is real. \u2014 Elizabeth Logan, Glamour , 24 Mar. 2022",
"And it is countered by other studies suggesting that maintenance on the drugs may actually worsen outcomes and even cause brain atrophy , though these findings have been debated. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"The cause was multiple system atrophy , said a daughter, Rosie Donaldson. Mrs. Pannoni was born Lisa Sherman in Washington. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1863, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
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"Late Latin atrophia , from Greek, from atrophos ill fed, from a- + trephein to nourish":"Noun"
},
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"-\u02ccf\u012b",
"\u02c8a-tr\u0259-f\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113322",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": atropine":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u2027\u02c8tr\u014dp\u0113\u0259"
],
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"New Latin, from Atropa + -ia":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172447"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a racemic mixture of hyoscyamine obtained from any of various solanaceous plants (such as belladonna) and used especially in the form of its sulfate for its anticholinergic effects (such as pupil dilation or inhibition of smooth muscle spasms)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-tr\u0259-\u02ccp\u0113n"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That shows up in the chapter on atropine , the toxin in deadly nightshade that blocks the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and again in the chapter on strychnine, a popular rat killer that blocks the neurotransmitter glycine. \u2014 Diana Gitig, Ars Technica , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Skripal was severely stricken, along with his daughter, Yulia, and a local police officer, but all three recovered after aggressive treatment by British doctors using atropine , an nerve-agent antidote. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Low concentration eye drops of a pupil-dilating substance called atropine have been shown to be extremely effective for many patients when administered daily, Walline says. \u2014 Fortune , 12 Jan. 2022",
"In addition to the hyoscyamine, other medications used include: atropine eyedrops under the tongue; the antidepressant amitriptyline; and glycopyrrolate. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 3 Dec. 2021",
"The doctors then went back and analyzed blood taken from the patient at the time, finding the atropine at high concentrations in his blood too. \u2014 Victoria Forster, Forbes , 1 June 2021",
"Using a technique called mass spectrometry, Robinson and his colleagues studied the chemical composition of four of the bundles and found the compounds scopolamine and atropine \u2014the same chemical mixture that\u2019s found in datura. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 24 Nov. 2020",
"The flower contains the alkaloids scopolamine and atropine , which are considered an entheogen\u2014a psychoactive compound used in a spiritual context. \u2014 David Shultz, Science | AAAS , 23 Nov. 2020",
"But all types of nerve agent poisoning can be treated with standard antidotes such as atropine and diazepam. \u2014 Robert Chilcott, Ars Technica , 5 Sep. 2020"
],
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"German Atropin , from New Latin Atropa , genus name of belladonna, from Greek Atropos , one of the three Fates":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1820, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185322"
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"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a widely distributed family of wingless insects (order Corrodentia) that include most book lice and that feed on organic debris and often damage various stored products (as processed foods, book bindings, and herbarium specimens)":[]
},
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"\u0259\u2027\u02c8tr\u00e4p\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
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"New Latin, from Atropos , type genus (from Greek Atropos ) + -idae ; from the belief that the ticking sound made by some species of book lice forebodes a death":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-225044"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a peptide hormone secreted by the cardiac atria that in pharmacological doses promotes salt and water excretion and lowers blood pressure":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This stretching causes the release of hormones, including atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP). \u2014 Rachel Nall, Msn, SELF , 8 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1986, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071944"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": of or relating to the genus Atropa":[]
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Atropa + English -aceous":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-074736"
},
"atri-":{
"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":{
": atrium (see atrium sense 3 )":[
"atri al",
"atrio pore"
],
": atrial and":[
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},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek atropos not to be turned, from a- a entry 2 + -tropos -trope":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083333"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the central room of a Roman house":[],
": a rectangular open patio around which a house is built":[],
": a many-storied court in a building (such as a hotel) usually with a skylight":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each one sat in silence in the atrium of his own house, on the ivory throne that symbolized his high office, his hands holding the insignia of imperium\u2014high command. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books , 23 Mar. 2022",
"But the theme inside the Trump Tower retail atrium , located at the prime location of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, remains all Trump, all the time. \u2014 Peter Grant, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"The trio brought in a crowd that overflew the library\u2019s auditorium, forcing library staff to open the doors and set up chairs in the stairway atrium . \u2014 Corey Schmidt, Chicago Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"On a recent Sunday afternoon, the atrium bustles as worshippers greet familiar faces and welcome new ones. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 June 2022",
"Last fall, a red rope blocked off the entrance to the escalator leading to the store, but the atrium still featured a large Starbucks sign, and a spokesperson for the Trump Organization said the coffee chain was continuing to pay rent. \u2014 Dan Alexander, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"In the vast hotel atrium , Charlotte tried to relax with her father and younger brothers. \u2014 Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"In the vast hotel atrium , Charlotte tried to relax with her father and younger brothers. \u2014 Tara Bahrampour, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"While many of Charlottesville's best hotels lean into the pastoral nature of the area, Omni Charlottesville Hotel blends a modern aesthetic \u2014 featuring a seven-story glass atrium lobby \u2014 into its narrative. \u2014 Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1577, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-092721"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-094031"
},
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
": kept bow on to the sea by a balance of sails":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"a- entry 1 + try (\"to lie to\")":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-144936"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a photosynthesis-inhibiting persistent herbicide C 8 H 14 ClN 5 used especially to kill annual weeds and quack grass":[]
},
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"\u02c8a-tr\u0259-\u02ccz\u0113n"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That means the wallabies are more vulnerable to external threats, such as chemical pollutants, and are likely to more clearly show effects of things like atrazine exposure, writes Corryn Wetzel for Nat Geo. \u2014 National Geographic , 10 Sep. 2020",
"Pask disagrees, citing evidence of high atrazine spikes in Australian streams. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, National Geographic , 9 Sep. 2020",
"Aerial spraying can allow toxic chemicals like glyphosate, 2,4-D and atrazine to drift long distances or get into waterways that serve as drinking water sources. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Those pesticides included atrazine (26%), chlorpyrifos (59%), cypermethrin (49%), diazinon (60%), and permethrin (46%). \u2014 Rebekah Tuchscherer, USA TODAY , 26 June 2019",
"Take atrazine , a weed killer that's widely used on agricultural crops (especially corn) as well as on golf courses and residential lawns and along highways. \u2014 Rachael Moeller Gorman, Good Housekeeping , 15 Aug. 2012",
"As a control, one field was treated with atrazine before the corn was planted (a full control using no herbicides at all would have been destroyed by weeds without an overwhelming amount of hand weeding). \u2014 The Economist , 1 Mar. 2018",
"Atrazine : A herbicide, found within legal limits and above state and national averages. \u2014 Ian Cummings, kansascity , 4 Aug. 2017",
"Some chemicals of concern include estrogens from birth control pills, the plasticizer bisphenol A, and the herbicide atrazine . \u2014 National Geographic , 3 Feb. 2016"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps from a mino + tr i azine":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1959, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-185612"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a widely distributed genus of herbs or subshrubs (family Chenopodiaceae) with small diclinous flowers and utricular fruit enclosed in two bracts \u2014 see orache":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u2027tr\u0259\u02ccpleks"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, orache":""
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"noun"
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": a genus of extinct Silurian and Devonian plicate-shelled or costate-shelled brachiopods having the plates of the brachidium produced into spirally rolled processes with the apices usually directed toward the plane of symmetry of the valve":[]
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"\u0259\u2027\u02c8tr\u012bp\u0259"
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"New Latin, from a- entry 2 + Greek trypa hole":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-215354"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
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": aweigh":[]
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"\u0259-\u02c8trip"
],
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"1796, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u0101-\u02cctr\u00fcs",
"-tr\u0113-\u0259s"
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"Greek":""
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a small mass of tissue in the right atrioventricular region of higher vertebrates through which impulses from the sinus node are passed to the ventricles":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-075242"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": of, relating to, or located between an atrium and ventricle of the heart":[]
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"-v\u0259n-",
"\u02cc\u0101-tr\u0113-(\u02cc)\u014d-\u02ccven-\u02c8trik-y\u0259-l\u0259r",
"\u02cc\u0101-tr\u0113-\u014d-ven-\u02c8tri-ky\u0259-l\u0259r"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Selah had a hole in her heart (complete atrioventricular canal defect) that was diagnosed before she was born. \u2014 Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping , 27 Oct. 2016",
"Sadie was born with complete atrioventricular canal defect \u2014a large hole in the center of the heart \u2014on Nov. 11, 2014, and underwent a pair of surgeries to repair the defect, Lee\u2019or tells PEOPLE. \u2014 Char Adams, PEOPLE.com , 10 Apr. 2018"
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"New Latin atrium + English ventricular":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-103907"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": hairless":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-kik"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek atrich os + English -ic":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-111736"
},
"atro-":{
"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":{
": black and":[
"atro castaneous"
]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin atr-, ater black + English -o-":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-135120"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": atrichia":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u0101\u2027tr\u0259\u0307\u02c8k\u014ds\u0259\u0307s"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek atrich os hairless + New Latin -osis":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-162206"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the valley between two cones of a volcano":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4\u2027tr\u0113\u02cc\u014d"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, from Latin atrium":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-194529"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": absence or closure of a natural passage of the body":[],
": absence or disappearance of an anatomical part (such as an ovarian follicle) by degeneration":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259-\u02c8tr\u0113-zh\u0259"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"A\u2019ja developed a benign tumor on her lip and Kyrie was diagnosed with biliary atresia , a liver disease that will require Kyrie to undergo a transplant. \u2014 Char Adams, PEOPLE.com , 7 Oct. 2019",
"Sadie was born with biliary atresia , a condition in infants in which the bile ducts outside and inside the liver are scarred and blocked, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). \u2014 Fernando Alfonso Iii, CNN , 12 Sep. 2019",
"This is due to atresia , the ASRM explains, or the natural process through which follicles that house eggs in the ovaries degenerate and die. \u2014 Natasha Lavender, SELF , 22 Aug. 2019",
"Didn\u2019t Want to Get Too Close\u2019 to Son Billy at First Kimmel and his wife revealed that their son underwent two heart surgeries after he was born with a congenital heart condition, tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia . \u2014 Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com , 23 Apr. 2018",
"The Jimmy Kimmel Live host\u2019s son was born with a congenital heart condition called tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia . \u2014 Jessica Derschowitz, EW.com , 21 Apr. 2018",
"Kimmel's son Billy, who turns one in April, was born with Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia , which kicked off his crusade for affordable health care. \u2014 Erin Jensen, USA TODAY , 27 Feb. 2018",
"Robertson, who lists his favorite wrestlers as John Cena and Roman Reigns, was stricken at birth with biliary atresia , a liver disease that stunted his growth and has required two transplants among 36 surgeries. \u2014 Gene Guillot, NOLA.com , 26 Feb. 2018",
"Billy suffers from the congenital heart condition tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia . \u2014 Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com , 11 Dec. 2017"
],
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"New Latin, from a- entry 2 + Greek tr\u0113sis perforation, from tetrainein to pierce \u2014 more at throw entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1790, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-232924"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the opening of an atrium : an atrial pore (as in amphioxus)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u0101\u2027tr\u0113\u0259\u02ccp\u014d(\u0259)r"
],
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"atri- + -pore":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-030002"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": black as ink : inky":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-042055"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a chaetopod larva lacking the preoral circle of cilia and having most of the body uniformly ciliated":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u2027tr\u0259k\u0259"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from a- entry 2 + -trocha (from Greek trochos wheel)":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-103526"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": ink":[
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"\u2014 usually used of liquids a puff of atrament emitted by the octopus"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u2027tr\u0259m\u0259nt"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin atramentum , from (assumed) Latin atrare to make black (from Latin atr-, ater black) + Latin -mentum -ment":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-121311"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small genus of perennial vines (family Ranunculaceae) with small spatulate petals":[],
": a plant of the genus Atragene":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u02c8traj\u0259\u02ccn\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, modification of Greek athragen\u0113 traveler's-joy":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-162421"
},
"Atractaspis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of slender African burrowing oviparous vipers having large head shields like harmless snakes of the region but provided with long poison fangs":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca\u2027trak\u02c8tasp\u0259\u0307s"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek atraktos spindle, arrow + Latin aspis asp":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-205545"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the central room of a Roman house":[],
": a rectangular open patio around which a house is built":[],
": a many-storied court in a building (such as a hotel) usually with a skylight":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u0101-tr\u0113-\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lines for the main security checkpoint at the domestic terminal of the Atlanta airport stretched into the atrium before 7 a.m., with wait times up to 20 minutes. \u2014 Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc , 1 July 2022",
"Visitors enter into a 67-foot-tall atrium called Freedom Hall; the Defending Freedom Table is a large touch-screen where museumgoers can view maps and photographs from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
"On a sunny November day in 2018, hundreds of Wisconsin Army National Guard members crowded into the atrium at Green Bay\u2019s Lambeau Field. \u2014 jsonline.com , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Each one sat in silence in the atrium of his own house, on the ivory throne that symbolized his high office, his hands holding the insignia of imperium\u2014high command. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books , 23 Mar. 2022",
"But the theme inside the Trump Tower retail atrium , located at the prime location of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, remains all Trump, all the time. \u2014 Peter Grant, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"The trio brought in a crowd that overflew the library\u2019s auditorium, forcing library staff to open the doors and set up chairs in the stairway atrium . \u2014 Corey Schmidt, Chicago Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"On a recent Sunday afternoon, the atrium bustles as worshippers greet familiar faces and welcome new ones. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 June 2022",
"Last fall, a red rope blocked off the entrance to the escalator leading to the store, but the atrium still featured a large Starbucks sign, and a spokesperson for the Trump Organization said the coffee chain was continuing to pay rent. \u2014 Dan Alexander, Forbes , 7 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1577, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-222234"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": belonging to or characteristic of the genus Atrypa":[],
": a brachiopod of the genus Atrypa":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccp\u022fid",
"\""
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Atrypa + English -oid":"Adjective"
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-233949"
},
"atrabilarious":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": atrabilious":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6a\u2027tr\u0259b\u0259\u0307\u00a6la(a)r\u0113\u0259s"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin atrabilarius , from Latin atra bilis black bile (from atra \u2014feminine of ater black\u2014 + bilis bile) + -arius -ary":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-044106"
},
"atrabilious":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": given to or marked by melancholy : gloomy":[],
": ill-natured , peevish":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca-tr\u0259-\u02c8bil-y\u0259s"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin atra bilis black bile":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-050512"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": without tracheae":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)\u0101\u2027 + \u00a6-"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"a- entry 2 + tracheate":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-053655"
},
"Atrek":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"river 300 miles (483 kilometers) long in northeastern Iran flowing into the Caspian Sea on the border with Turkmenistan":[]
},
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"\u00e4-\u02c8trek"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-100937"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": atrabilious":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u00a6bil\u0113\u0259(r)",
"-ly\u0259(r)"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin atrabiliarius":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-123054"
},
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an order of inarticulate Brachiopoda having the peduncle emerging freely from between the valves":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u2027\u02c8trem\u0259t\u0259",
"\u0101\u02c8-",
"\"",
"-tr\u0113-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from a- entry 2 + -tremata":"Plural noun"
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-131204"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a brachiopod of the order Atremata":[]
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"\u0259\u2027\u02c8trem\u0259\u0307t"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Atremata entry 1":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-212033"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or belonging to the Atremata":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u2027\u02c8trem\u0259t\u0259s",
"(\u02c8)\u0101\u2027\u00a6-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Atremata entry 1 + English -ous":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-012020"
}
}