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361 lines
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{
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"buoy":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": life buoy":[],
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": to mark by or as if by a float or buoy":[
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"buoy an anchor"
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],
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": to keep afloat":[
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"a raft buoyed by empty oil drums"
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],
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": support , uplift":[
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"an economy buoyed by the dramatic postwar growth of industry",
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"\u2014 Time"
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],
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": to raise the spirits of":[
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"\u2014 usually used with up hope buoys him up"
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],
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": float":[
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"\u2014 usually used with up They buoyed up like a cork."
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8b\u022fi",
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"\u02c8b\u00fc-\u0113"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"The tax breaks should help to buoy the economy.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Jonah crab and lobster fishermen now must reduce the number of buoy lines and use rope weak enough to break under a whale\u2019s weight. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"For 76 years, Tilly guided ships to Columbia River shipping lanes until it was decommissioned in 1957, replaced by an electronic buoy , according to the National Register of Historic Places. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Apr. 2022",
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"The sloshing ocean, meanwhile, is always depositing new material onto the surface of the buoy . \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 25 May 2022",
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"LimnoTech first placed a buoy on Lake Erie near Toledo in 2014, stemming from a scare that resulted from an outbreak of toxic algal blooms on the lake that threated drinking water. \u2014 Peter Krouse, cleveland , 11 May 2022",
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"If the buoy fell or the castaway stepped off the perch, they would be eliminated from the challenge. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 21 Apr. 2022",
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"It\u2019s bad enough in normal conditions, but when the wind blows, the Island Hole at Sawgrass is the size of a buoy . \u2014 Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Mar. 2022",
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"For 25 years, an oceanographic buoy named Peggy has been moored in the middle of the Bering Sea collecting data on ocean conditions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. \u2014 Heather Hansman, Outside Online , 27 Apr. 2020",
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"That left only seven people competing in the ol' balance-on-a-narrow-perch-while-holding-a- buoy -with-two-handles contest. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"The 2022-23 regulations were set coming off a year in which hunters registered 9% fewer deer but also a mild winter which is expected to buoy this fall's deer numbers. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel , 25 June 2022",
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"The cuts sharply reduced federal subsidies under a program, known as 340B, created to help buoy hospitals that care for larger numbers of uninsured patients. \u2014 Melanie Evans, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
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"Ukrainian leaders have sought to buoy troops\u2019 morale. \u2014 Julian Duplain, Washington Post , 6 June 2022",
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"With fewer entertainment options, slots pulled double duty and helped buoy gaming revenue. \u2014 Will Yakowicz, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
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"Gonsolin gave up just two hits and one walk in his latest gem, continuing to buoy a Dodgers rotation that could have more reinforcements on the way, with Clayton Kershaw and Andrew Heaney both scheduled to go on rehab assignments this weekend. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
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"Government programs designed to buoy struggling Americans during the first phase of the pandemic included federal stimulus checks and expanded child tax credits for parents in the form of monthly cash payments. \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 25 May 2022",
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"Those are all signs of the kind of ingenuity and collaboration that ultimately could not only repair the grid but also buoy the island\u2019s society and economy, too. \u2014 Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 May 2022",
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"But better-than-expected political advertising helped buoy its first quarter revenue, a sign that political ads will reach record levels this year. \u2014 Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun , 4 May 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English boye , probably from Middle Dutch boeye ; akin to Old High German bouhhan sign \u2014 more at beacon":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"1596, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151024"
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},
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"buoyage":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a system of buoys (as for marking a channel)":[],
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": buoys":[],
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": the fee for the use of a buoy for mooring a boat":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8bu\u0307i(\u2027i)j",
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"\u02c8b\u022fi\u2027ij",
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"\u02c8b\u00fci\u2027ij"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114408",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"buoyance":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": buoyancy":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8b\u022fi-\u0259n(t)s",
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"\u02c8b\u00fc-y\u0259n(t)s"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"There was one overlap in Biden's new buoyance and Carville's tactical reality. \u2014 John Brummett, Arkansas Online , 2 May 2021",
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"But there\u2019s an abundance of buoyance in the music, too. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Oct. 2019",
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"Cartoon characters\u2019 rubberiness [sic], their jazziness, their cheerful buoyance and idleness, all chimed with popular images of African Americans, already embodied in minstrel shows. \u2014 John Canemaker, WSJ , 18 Jan. 2019"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1723, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-102850"
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},
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"buoyancy":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the ability to recover quickly from depression or discouragement : resilience":[
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"his buoyancy of spirit"
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],
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": the property of maintaining a satisfactorily high level (as of prices or economic activity)":[
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"betting that the economy will maintain its buoyancy"
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],
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": the tendency of a body to float or to rise when submerged in a fluid":[
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"testing an object's buoyancy"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"the natural buoyancy of cork",
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"The swimmer is supported by the water's buoyancy .",
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"We hope that the economy will maintain its buoyancy .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Lightner was referring to the domestic abuse allegations while explaining Greitens' buoyancy with voters. \u2014 Will Mcduffie, ABC News , 22 June 2022",
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"The neck, belly and back floats offer all-around buoyancy . \u2014 Kelley Rebori, Popular Mechanics , 21 June 2022",
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"Glazunov\u2019s Concert Waltz No. 2 in F \u2014 imparting welcome softness and buoyancy to the strings that made the waltzes shimmer. \u2014 Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
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"Fellini\u2019s early films as a director were in a neorealist mode but had a buoyancy and antic air that suggested a different direction. \u2014 Glenn Kenny, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
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"The float also has a full-roll pillow, adding extra buoyancy on the water. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 19 May 2022",
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"In fact, the side-forming air tubes absorb vibrations and limit any rolling while retaining buoyancy . \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"This was in part because of the whale oil on board, which provided buoyancy to the sinking ship, according to a report filed by Delgado, Brennan, Sorset, BOEM and SEARCH, Inc. \u2014 Maxime Tamsett, CNN , 23 Mar. 2022",
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"The pure pop buoyancy of the creative partnership between Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield\u2013coupled with the Robb Brothers\u2019 stellar production\u2013took this Boston band into the stratosphere. \u2014 Ron Hart, SPIN , 25 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1713, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"see buoy entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8b\u00fc-y\u0259n-",
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"\u02c8b\u00fc-y\u0259n(t)-",
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"\u02c8b\u022fi-\u0259n(t)-s\u0113",
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"\u02c8b\u022fi-\u0259n-s\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202924",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"buoyancy tank":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an airtight tank fitted into the stern or bow of a small boat (such as a lifeboat) to keep it afloat if it fills with water or capsizes":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020650",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"buoyant":{
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"antonyms":[
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"dour",
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"gloomy",
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"glum",
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"morose",
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"saturnine",
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"sulky",
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"sullen"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": capable of floating":[
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"Cork is naturally buoyant ."
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],
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": capable of maintaining a satisfactorily high level":[
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"a buoyant economy"
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],
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": cheerful , gay":[
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"in a buoyant mood"
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],
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": having buoyancy":[
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"Warm air is more buoyant than cool air."
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],
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": such as":[
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"Warm air is more buoyant than cool air."
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Warm air is more buoyant than cool air.",
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"The actors were buoyant as they prepared for the evening's performance.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Zeneta Everhart described her good-natured and buoyant son Zaire Goodman, who was wounded by a man charged with the racist killing of 10 Black shoppers at a Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
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"The series, adapted from Emily St. John Mandel\u2019s 2014 novel about survivors of a cataclysmic viral outbreak, offered something buoyant and rare: a spirit of optimism. \u2014 Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
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"That\u2019s because it\u2019s both buoyant and IP67 dust- and waterproof, which means its submersible up to a meter for 30 minutes. \u2014 Will Palmer, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
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"William Taubman\u2019s volumes about Khrushchev and Gorbachev are vivid, buoyant , and dramatic. \u2014 Yuri Slezkine, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022",
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"Brazil\u2019s top samba schools filled Rio\u2019s Sambadrome, home to the festival since the 1980s, with buoyant and elaborate floats and dancers. \u2014 Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"The through line for these seemingly disparate selections is his buoyant and mellifluous voice, capable of roping any and all material into the realm of genuine romance. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
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"Written in a bracing, acerbic, and darkly comic tenor, the book is a surprisingly buoyant and fast-paced read, a modern and sly spin on the meaning of devotion. \u2014 Vogue , 29 May 2021",
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"The real-life Jan in the documentary was buoyant and articulate. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 20 May 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1578, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"see buoy entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8b\u022fi-\u0259nt",
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"\u02c8b\u00fc-y\u0259nt"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"blithe",
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"blithesome",
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"bright",
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"canty",
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"cheerful",
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"cheery",
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"chipper",
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"eupeptic",
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"gay",
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"gladsome",
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"lightsome",
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"sunny",
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"upbeat",
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"winsome"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165054",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"buoyant force":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the upward force exerted by any fluid upon a body placed in it \u2014 compare archimedes' principle":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071237",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"buoyantness":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the quality or state of being buoyant":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113548",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"buoyed":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": life buoy":[],
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": to mark by or as if by a float or buoy":[
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"buoy an anchor"
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],
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": to keep afloat":[
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"a raft buoyed by empty oil drums"
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],
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": support , uplift":[
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"an economy buoyed by the dramatic postwar growth of industry",
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"\u2014 Time"
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],
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": to raise the spirits of":[
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"\u2014 usually used with up hope buoys him up"
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],
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": float":[
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"\u2014 usually used with up They buoyed up like a cork."
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8b\u022fi",
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"\u02c8b\u00fc-\u0113"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"The tax breaks should help to buoy the economy.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Jonah crab and lobster fishermen now must reduce the number of buoy lines and use rope weak enough to break under a whale\u2019s weight. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"For 76 years, Tilly guided ships to Columbia River shipping lanes until it was decommissioned in 1957, replaced by an electronic buoy , according to the National Register of Historic Places. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Apr. 2022",
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"The sloshing ocean, meanwhile, is always depositing new material onto the surface of the buoy . \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 25 May 2022",
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"LimnoTech first placed a buoy on Lake Erie near Toledo in 2014, stemming from a scare that resulted from an outbreak of toxic algal blooms on the lake that threated drinking water. \u2014 Peter Krouse, cleveland , 11 May 2022",
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"If the buoy fell or the castaway stepped off the perch, they would be eliminated from the challenge. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 21 Apr. 2022",
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"It\u2019s bad enough in normal conditions, but when the wind blows, the Island Hole at Sawgrass is the size of a buoy . \u2014 Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Mar. 2022",
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"For 25 years, an oceanographic buoy named Peggy has been moored in the middle of the Bering Sea collecting data on ocean conditions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. \u2014 Heather Hansman, Outside Online , 27 Apr. 2020",
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"That left only seven people competing in the ol' balance-on-a-narrow-perch-while-holding-a- buoy -with-two-handles contest. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"The 2022-23 regulations were set coming off a year in which hunters registered 9% fewer deer but also a mild winter which is expected to buoy this fall's deer numbers. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel , 25 June 2022",
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"The cuts sharply reduced federal subsidies under a program, known as 340B, created to help buoy hospitals that care for larger numbers of uninsured patients. \u2014 Melanie Evans, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
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"Ukrainian leaders have sought to buoy troops\u2019 morale. \u2014 Julian Duplain, Washington Post , 6 June 2022",
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"With fewer entertainment options, slots pulled double duty and helped buoy gaming revenue. \u2014 Will Yakowicz, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
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"Gonsolin gave up just two hits and one walk in his latest gem, continuing to buoy a Dodgers rotation that could have more reinforcements on the way, with Clayton Kershaw and Andrew Heaney both scheduled to go on rehab assignments this weekend. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
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"Government programs designed to buoy struggling Americans during the first phase of the pandemic included federal stimulus checks and expanded child tax credits for parents in the form of monthly cash payments. \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 25 May 2022",
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"Those are all signs of the kind of ingenuity and collaboration that ultimately could not only repair the grid but also buoy the island\u2019s society and economy, too. \u2014 Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 May 2022",
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"But better-than-expected political advertising helped buoy its first quarter revenue, a sign that political ads will reach record levels this year. \u2014 Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun , 4 May 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English boye , probably from Middle Dutch boeye ; akin to Old High German bouhhan sign \u2014 more at beacon":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"1596, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-085546"
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},
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"buon fresco":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": fresco sense 1a(1)":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"bw\u022fn\u02c8fre(\u02cc)sk\u014d"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Italian, literally, good fresco":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-024817"
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}
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} |