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141 lines
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{
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"kuru":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a rare progressive fatal prion disease that resembles Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and has occurred among tribespeople in eastern New Guinea who engaged in a form of ritual cannibalism":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ku\u0307r-(\u02cc)\u00fc",
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"\u02c8ku\u0307(\u0259)r-(\u02cc)\u00fc"
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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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"For a late breakfast or early lunch, meander over to Mimar Sinan, one of several nearby restaurants specializing in kuru fas\u00fclye, white beans stewed in olive oil and tomato sauce and served with rice pilaf. \u2014 Ashlea Halpern, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 28 Dec. 2018",
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"At least, with kuru , the cannibalism comes at the beginning. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 25 Jan. 2018",
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"When Prusiner started work on them, it had been established that Creutzfeldt-Jakob, kuru and a sheep disease called scrapie could be transmitted by infected brains, but nobody knew what caused it. \u2014 Kat Eschner, Smithsonian , 6 Oct. 2017",
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"But there are other infectious forms: scrapie in sheep, kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. \u2014 Michael Nedelman, CNN , 19 Sep. 2017",
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"The disease predominantly struck women and children, who customarily handled the brains and organs of dead kuru victims during Fore funerals. \u2014 Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post , 6 Apr. 2017",
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"These mysterious misfolded proteins are thought to cause kuru , scrapie, and mad cow disease, as well as the fatal insomnia referred to in the title. \u2014 Wired Staff, WIRED , 1 Oct. 2006",
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"In the 1950s, D. Carleton Gajdusek, an American research scientist, traveled to Papua New Guinea to study a disease called kuru that infected as many as 2,500 natives in the highlands. \u2014 Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 6 July 2017"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Fore (language of eastern highland Papua New Guinea)":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1957, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112433"
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},
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"kurtosis":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the peakedness or flatness of the graph of a frequency distribution especially with respect to the concentration of values near the mean as compared with the normal distribution":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02cc)k\u0259r-\u02c8t\u014d-s\u0259s"
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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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"Greek kyrt\u014dsis convexity, from kyrtos convex \u2014 more at curve":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-202415"
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},
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"kure atoll":{
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"type":[
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"geographical name"
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],
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"definitions":{
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"island of the central Pacific in Hawaii; westernmost of the Leeward Islands":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8kyu\u0307r-",
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"\u02c8k\u00fc-(\u02cc)r\u0101",
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"\u02c8ku\u0307r-\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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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-215444"
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},
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"Kurdistan":{
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"type":[
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"geographical name",
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an Oriental rug woven by the Kurds and noted for fine colors":[],
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"region of eastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syria that is largely inhabited by Kurds population 28,000,000":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccku\u0307r-d\u0259-\u02c8stan",
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"\u02cck\u0259r-",
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"-\u02c8st\u00e4n",
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"-\u02ccst\u00e4n",
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"\u02c8k\u0259r-d\u0259-\u02ccstan"
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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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"Kurdistan , Asia":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014737"
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},
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"kurgan":{
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"type":[
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"geographical name",
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a burial mound of eastern Europe or Siberia":[],
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"city on the Tobol River and the Trans-Siberian Railroad in southwestern Russia in Asia population 333,600":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"ku\u0307r-\u02c8gan",
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"ku\u0307r-\u02c8g\u00e4n",
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"-\u02c8g\u00e4n",
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"-\u02c8gan"
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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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"Trifonov and his team suggest that the Maikop people who built the kurgan used the tubes to drink beer from a communal vessel. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Jan. 2022",
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"The straws, along with one of the beer vessels, were found at the Maikop kurgan , a prehistoric burial mound in the northern Caucasus in Russia. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 18 Jan. 2022",
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"For the past four years, a joint Russian-Swiss team of archaeologists has been excavating a kurgan , or burial mound, in the Russian republic of Tuva in southern Siberia. \u2014 Andrew Curry, National Geographic , 22 Sep. 2020",
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"University of Sydney archaeologist Gino Caspari and his colleagues searched for Scythian burial mounds, or kurgans , in high-resolution satellite images of a 110 square kilometer (68.4 square mile) area of the Xinjiang province in northwestern China. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 26 Dec. 2018",
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"An ancient problem Looting is an old tradition on the steppe\u2014as old as the oldest kurgans themselves. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 26 Dec. 2018",
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"The two apparent plague victims were buried together in a kurgan : a wooden chamber beneath a mound of earth. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 12 June 2018",
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"That group consisted of herders from the Asian steppes, whose skeletons and genes are known from their burial mounds called kurgans . \u2014 Jared Diamond, New York Times , 20 Apr. 2018",
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"The preliminary dig suggests the structure is the relatively undisturbed kurgan \u2014a tomb of a Scythian prince. \u2014 Mika Mckinnon, Smithsonian , 22 Jan. 2018"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Russian, of Turkic origin; akin to Turkish kurgan fortress, castle":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1889, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025741"
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}
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} |