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{
"Hickok":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"James Butler 1837\u20131876 Wild Bill Hickok American scout and U.S. marshal":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hi-\u02cck\u00e4k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040636",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hidatsa":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of an American Indian people of the Missouri River valley in North Dakota":[],
": the Siouan language of the Hidatsa":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1873, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Hidatsa hir\u00e1\u00b7ca , a Hidatsa subgroup":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"hi-\u02c8d\u00e4t-s\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094559",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Higgs field":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a physical field that endows elementary particles with mass and that is mediated by the Higgs boson":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1980, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114647",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"High Church":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": favoring especially in Anglican worship the sacerdotal, liturgical, ceremonial, and traditional elements in worship":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1704, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125718",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"Highland fling":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a lively Scottish folk dance":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1804, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110806",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Himalayan":{
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a breed of domestic cats developed by crossing the Persian and the Siamese and having the stocky build and long thick coat of the former and the blue eyes and coat patterns of the latter":[],
": enormously large : mountainous":[
"a task of Himalayan proportions"
],
": of, relating to, or resembling the Himalayas":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"as military blunders go, the disastrous Pickett's Charge was of Himalayan proportions"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1949, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"hi-\u02c8m\u00e4l-y\u0259n",
"\u02cchi-m\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-\u0259n",
"-\u02c8m\u00e4-l\u0113-\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085808",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"Hindenburg":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Paul von 1847\u20131934 Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg German field marshal; president of Germany (1925\u201334)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccbu\u0307rg",
"\u02c8hin-d\u0259n-\u02ccb\u0259rg"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130310",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hindustani":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a group of Indo-Aryan dialects of northern India of which literary Hindi and Urdu are considered diverse written forms":[],
": of or relating to Hindustan or its people or Hindustani":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1786, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1787, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi & Urdu Hind\u016bst\u0101n\u012b , from Persian Hind\u016bst\u0101n India":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8st\u00e4-n\u0113",
"\u02cchin-d\u00fc-\u02c8sta-n\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105656",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"Hissarlik":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"site of ancient Troy northwestern Turkey in Asia 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) southeast of the mouth of the Dardanelles Strait":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cchi-s\u0259r-\u02c8lik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083830",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Histrionicus":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a genus of ducks including only the harlequin duck":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Late Latin, adjective, histrionic; from their handsome plumage":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cchistr\u0113\u02c8\u00e4n\u0259\u0307k\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133519",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Histrix":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of Histrix taxonomic synonym of hystrix"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, alteration of Hystrix"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8histriks"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-174413",
"type":[]
},
"Hitchcock":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Edward 1793\u20131864 American geologist":[],
"Sir Alfred Joseph 1899\u20131980 British film director":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hich-\u02cck\u00e4k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091229",
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hitchcock chair":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a turned usually rush-seated chair with legs often and back always slightly bent with a top rail and back posts above the seat, and with a finish usually of black paint and stenciled decoration":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"after Lambert H. Hitchcock \u20201852 American furniture manufacturer":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231809",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hitchiti":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Muskogean people of Georgia, member of the Creek confederacy":[],
": a member of such people":[],
": the language of the Hitchiti people":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hich\u0259t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114558",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hitler":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Adolf 1889\u20131945 German chancellor and f\u00fchrer (1933\u201345)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hit-l\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195017",
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hitler?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=bix&file=bixhit05":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Adolf 1889\u20131945 German chancellor and f\u00fchrer (1933\u201345)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hit-l\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200411",
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name"
]
},
"hiatus":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a break in or as if in a material object : gap":[
"the weedy hiatus between the town and the railroad",
"\u2014 Willa Cather",
"the hiatus between the theory and the practice of the party",
"\u2014 J. G. Colton"
],
": a gap or passage in an anatomical part or organ":[],
": the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or intervening consonantal sound":[]
},
"examples":[
"The band is making an album again after a five-year hiatus .",
"steam was rising from an hiatus in the ground",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Consider that while the LPGA took a hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, Harigae won $2,300 for winning a mini-tour event on the Cactus Tour by 16 shots with a closing 61. \u2014 Beth Ann Nichols, USA TODAY , 6 June 2022",
"When news broke of Better\u2019s boorish firings, Garg took a month-long hiatus from his duties, returning in mid-January. \u2014 Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 2 June 2022",
"While many spin offs have come from the show, the original Law & Order first aired in 1990, and after a 20 year run, took over a 10 year hiatus before finally returning in 2022. \u2014 al , 19 May 2022",
"The show opened on March 5, 2020, just a week before theaters shut down for the pandemic; restarted on Oct. 13, 2021; took a three-month hiatus when Omicron hit; and then started for a third time on April 29. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"No experience bonded them more than when Kerr took a hiatus during the 2017 playoffs to deal with chronic back pain. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 May 2022",
"MadeMe\u2019s relaunch comes after Magee, a mother of two (including a newborn), took a hiatus from designing. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The show took an extended hiatus because of scheduling conflicts on NBC. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Minaj's Carpool Karaoke appearance comes after the popular segment took a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. \u2014 Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from hiare to yawn \u2014 more at yawn":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u012b-\u02c8\u0101-t\u0259s",
"h\u012b-\u02c8\u0101t-\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"gulf",
"hole",
"interstice",
"interval",
"opening",
"rent",
"rift",
"separation",
"void"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204554",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hiccough":{
"antonyms":[
"continuation",
"continuity"
],
"definitions":{
": a slight irregularity, error, or malfunction":[
"a few hiccups in the computer system"
],
": a spasmodic inhalation with closure of the glottis accompanied by a peculiar sound":[],
": a usually minor and short-lived interruption or disruption, or change":[
"a hiccup in the stock market"
],
": an attack of hiccuping":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Our computer problems were caused by a hiccup in the power supply.",
"The stock market has continued to rise, except for a slight hiccup earlier this month.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That downward trend, however, proved to be a hiccup in a climb that\u2019s lasted nearly a year. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"The losing streak to end the regular season was just a hiccup ; the Huskies dominated the conference tournament. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 29 May 2022",
"Dobberstein heaped the praise on the lefty Doubek, whose only real hiccup was a two-run home run to left field off the bat of Grand Canyon commit JT Kelenic in the fifth inning to trim the Pirate lead to four. \u2014 Michael Whitlow, Journal Sentinel , 2 June 2022",
"There\u2019s every sense the drivetrain will answer the driver\u2019s call without hesitation or hiccup . \u2014 Karl Brauer, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Eovaldi ran into the occasional hiccup against the Orioles, a rocky start and a blast over the Green Monster. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 28 May 2022",
"One minor hiccup with this product is the bottle drips a little after it's pumped, but that can be fixed by wiping the excess on your blender or brush before using it. \u2014 Madison Yauger, PEOPLE.com , 5 May 2022",
"The one major hiccup came with measuring the flow of heat through the planet: the lander\u2019s heat probe couldn\u2019t punch itself into the ground and get operational thanks to some surprisingly incorrigible soil. \u2014 Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 Mar. 2022",
"This latest hiccup in Toyota\u2019s supply chain highlights the difficult and uncharted territory car companies find themselves in as such disruptions continue to dent their outlooks and delay a full recovery in factory output. \u2014 Sean Mclain, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Often when someone starts to hiccup , a debate begins among everyone nearby over which home remedy is the true cure. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Would wake up in the night to use the bathroom and start to hiccup . \u2014 Korin Miller, Health.com , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Customers can usually tell when a brand is not being authentic due to mixed or low-value messaging, and a lack of transparency is oftentimes the first negative hiccup a customer hits with any brand. \u2014 Expert Panel, Forbes , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Rapinoe begins hiccuping , the beginning of the end for her night. \u2014 Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral , 27 Apr. 2020",
"Slip and slide After winning a season-high eight in a row, the Bruins had hiccupped over the last three (0-2-1) prior to Wednesday night, a dip only slightly worse than their 1-2-3 slide prior to that eight-game run. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Charles Osborne of Anthon, Iowa, began hiccupping in 1922 while attempting to weigh a hog. \u2014 Bulletin Board, Twin Cities , 22 Sep. 2019",
"The defense hiccupped on L.A.\u2019s first drive, with rookie end Joey Bosa looking confused and exiting to get sideline instruction and the Rams going 56 yards on seven runs for a 7-0 lead. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Oct. 2019",
"A few years after its discovery, this object was observed to hiccup again \u2026 and again, every few weeks or so. \u2014 Seth Shostak, NBC News , 3 Sep. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1580, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"circa 1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"imitative":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hi-(\u02cc)k\u0259p",
"\u02c8hi-\u02cck\u0259p"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"hiatus",
"interim",
"interlude",
"intermission",
"interregnum",
"interruption",
"interstice",
"interval",
"parenthesis"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190826",
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hiccup":{
"antonyms":[
"continuation",
"continuity"
],
"definitions":{
": a slight irregularity, error, or malfunction":[
"a few hiccups in the computer system"
],
": a spasmodic inhalation with closure of the glottis accompanied by a peculiar sound":[],
": a usually minor and short-lived interruption or disruption, or change":[
"a hiccup in the stock market"
],
": an attack of hiccuping":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Our computer problems were caused by a hiccup in the power supply.",
"The stock market has continued to rise, except for a slight hiccup earlier this month.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That downward trend, however, proved to be a hiccup in a climb that\u2019s lasted nearly a year. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"The losing streak to end the regular season was just a hiccup ; the Huskies dominated the conference tournament. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 29 May 2022",
"Dobberstein heaped the praise on the lefty Doubek, whose only real hiccup was a two-run home run to left field off the bat of Grand Canyon commit JT Kelenic in the fifth inning to trim the Pirate lead to four. \u2014 Michael Whitlow, Journal Sentinel , 2 June 2022",
"There\u2019s every sense the drivetrain will answer the driver\u2019s call without hesitation or hiccup . \u2014 Karl Brauer, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Eovaldi ran into the occasional hiccup against the Orioles, a rocky start and a blast over the Green Monster. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 28 May 2022",
"One minor hiccup with this product is the bottle drips a little after it's pumped, but that can be fixed by wiping the excess on your blender or brush before using it. \u2014 Madison Yauger, PEOPLE.com , 5 May 2022",
"The one major hiccup came with measuring the flow of heat through the planet: the lander\u2019s heat probe couldn\u2019t punch itself into the ground and get operational thanks to some surprisingly incorrigible soil. \u2014 Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 Mar. 2022",
"This latest hiccup in Toyota\u2019s supply chain highlights the difficult and uncharted territory car companies find themselves in as such disruptions continue to dent their outlooks and delay a full recovery in factory output. \u2014 Sean Mclain, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Often when someone starts to hiccup , a debate begins among everyone nearby over which home remedy is the true cure. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Would wake up in the night to use the bathroom and start to hiccup . \u2014 Korin Miller, Health.com , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Customers can usually tell when a brand is not being authentic due to mixed or low-value messaging, and a lack of transparency is oftentimes the first negative hiccup a customer hits with any brand. \u2014 Expert Panel, Forbes , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Rapinoe begins hiccuping , the beginning of the end for her night. \u2014 Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral , 27 Apr. 2020",
"Slip and slide After winning a season-high eight in a row, the Bruins had hiccupped over the last three (0-2-1) prior to Wednesday night, a dip only slightly worse than their 1-2-3 slide prior to that eight-game run. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Charles Osborne of Anthon, Iowa, began hiccupping in 1922 while attempting to weigh a hog. \u2014 Bulletin Board, Twin Cities , 22 Sep. 2019",
"The defense hiccupped on L.A.\u2019s first drive, with rookie end Joey Bosa looking confused and exiting to get sideline instruction and the Rams going 56 yards on seven runs for a 7-0 lead. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Oct. 2019",
"A few years after its discovery, this object was observed to hiccup again \u2026 and again, every few weeks or so. \u2014 Seth Shostak, NBC News , 3 Sep. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1580, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"circa 1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"imitative":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hi-(\u02cc)k\u0259p",
"\u02c8hi-\u02cck\u0259p"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"hiatus",
"interim",
"interlude",
"intermission",
"interregnum",
"interruption",
"interstice",
"interval",
"parenthesis"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051555",
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hick":{
"antonyms":[
"cosmopolitan",
"cosmopolite",
"sophisticate"
],
"definitions":{
": an unsophisticated provincial person":[],
": unsophisticated , provincial":[
"a hick town"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We felt like a bunch of hicks when we went to the city for the first time.",
"city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For all of his self-ridicule about being an uneducated hick , Bird would prove to have the best grasp of the reporter-player relationship of all the Celtics players during my time covering the team. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 Nov. 2021",
"There was also a lovely moment of hillbilly elegizing, as one of the pundits put on his best hick costume to get in with the little people. \u2014 Bethy Squires, Vulture , 23 July 2021",
"As written by Cain and portrayed by Hoesktra, Reeves is a Texas hick but a quick learner; tense and explosive; profane yet disciplined; disordered but aware of right and wrong. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 28 Apr. 2021",
"The images of people gathering on Florida beaches conjure the dynamics of the Florida Man meme, which delights in the broad-brush painting of Floridians as criminally stupid hicks . \u2014 Amanda Hess, New York Times , 11 May 2020",
"Shakespeare\u2019s airiest souffle does put one in mind of all those half-hours of zaniness that once dominated prime time: clueless hicks living in Beverly Hills and horses that talk and mischievous uncles from Mars. \u2014 Peter Marks, Washington Post , 22 Jan. 2020",
"Trump can always count on these two Alabama hicks to lick his clown boots. \u2014 J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al , 18 Oct. 2019",
"Played with locked jaw and a terrible haircut by Jared Keeso, the show\u2019s co-creator and writer, Wayne is king of the hicks , a courteous ladykiller in stonewashed jeans. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 7 Aug. 2019",
"Keeso, the driving force of the series, plays Wayne, the toughest (but also, weirdly, the nicest) guy in Letterkenny, who is a hick and runs a produce stand outside of the family farm, which is basically just a setup for sitting around and talking. \u2014 Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 July 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Rimac moved to Germany at age 2 and then to an independent Croatia in his early teens, where he was teased for his hick Bosnian accent. \u2014 Ben Oliver, Robb Report , 3 Oct. 2021",
"All of California isn\u2019t vegan with wild hair, just like all of Texas isn\u2019t overly crazy conservative, southern or hick accents, riding horses and shooting armadillos. \u2014 Emily Bloch, Teen Vogue , 10 Sep. 2018",
"All of California isn\u2019t vegan with wild hair, just like all of Texas isn\u2019t overly crazy conservative, southern or hick accents, riding horses and shooting armadillos. \u2014 Emily Bloch, Teen Vogue , 10 Sep. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1669, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1913, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Hick , nickname for Richard":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bumpkin",
"chawbacon",
"churl",
"clodhopper",
"cornball",
"countryman",
"hayseed",
"provincial",
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"doohickey",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There is a variety of different kinds and flavors like hickory , mesquite or apple. \u2014 Joe Difazio, USA TODAY , 30 June 2022",
"Some 300 species of trees are on the menu, including oak, maple, apple, crabapple, hickory , birch, pine, spruce and willow. \u2014 Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"Kwiatkowski said luna moth caterpillars are also known to feed on the leaves of hickory , birch, red maple, white oak, and sassafras. \u2014 Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Completely renovated in 2016, the house spans just over 2,800 square feet and features huge floor-to-ceiling windows, hickory flooring and cozy fireplaces throughout. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 3 June 2022",
"There are many species of wood to choose from, but common choices for hardwood are cherry, walnut, oak, maple, and hickory . \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 13 May 2022",
"Aromas of smoke, salt and hickory and a midpalate with taut acidity, and flavors of limes and grapefruit. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"The trend to mix wood can be see here with hickory flooring, white oak counters, and faux beams made of fir and larch under a vaulted, tongue-and-groove ceiling. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 May 2022",
"More oxidized than green teas but less oxidized than black teas, oolong teas are carefully withered, rolled, squeezed, and roasted to develop complex flavors ranging from fresh butter and daisies to hickory nuts and coffee. \u2014 Max Falkowitz, Bon App\u00e9tit , 5 May 2022"
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"1670, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"short for obsolete pokahickory , from Virginia Algonquian pawcohiccora food prepared from pounded nuts":""
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"\u02c8hi-k(\u0259-)r\u0113",
"\u02c8hi-kr\u0113",
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"New Latin hidat us (past participle of hidare to measure in hides, from Medieval Latin hida hide) + English -ed":""
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"There was a hidden flaw in the airplane's design.",
"the hidden costs in buying a home",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From a hidden ledge high above the courtyard runway, a dancing troupe suddenly stood up mid-show to gasps from the audience. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"Identifying hidden barriers is messy, implicit and buried in social culture and normative mutual expectations. \u2014 Nancy Doyle, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"The bill will be financed by delaying implementation of a Medicare rule approved under former President Donald J. Trump that would limit hidden discounts negotiated between drug companies and insurers. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"Recessed or pocket handles are hidden and won't protrude into the kitchen space. \u2014 Carolyn Fort\u00e9, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
"Of course, there are myriad ways to raise prices that are completely indirect and hidden , Dholakia says. \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
"The hidden storage space keeps the countertop and shelves (which Holland built) clutter-free. \u2014 Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens , 10 June 2022",
"However, by digging deeper, business owners may discover hidden fees or even rate increases. \u2014 Maurice Griefer, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Curious to explore the hidden gems awaiting you in the Amazon Global Style storefront? \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 13 June 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8hi-d\u1d4an"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The lawmaker suggested the judge might have a hidden agenda of letting violent criminals, killers of police officers and child predators back on the streets. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Hawkins cleverly doles out the clues to each character\u2019s personality and motive for being on this trip, and how each has a hidden agenda . \u2014 Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Some Tweeters wondered whether the band had a hidden agenda . \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2021",
"Cool, calculating and focused on executing the company\u2019s hidden agenda . \u2014 Scott Tobias, New York Times , 18 Apr. 2018"
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"1955, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": the quantity of a hidden vowel so situated that its natural quantity is not determinable by scansion (as when it comes before a double consonant or before two or more consecutive consonants other than a mute and a liquid in the same word)":[]
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"\u2014 H. L. Davis"
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"Middle English, from Old English h\u012bgid, h\u012bd":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English h\u0233d ; akin to Old High German h\u016bt hide, Latin cutis skin, Greek kytos hollow vessel":"Noun and Verb"
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": a children's game in which everyone hides from one player who tries to find them":[]
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"\u02cch\u012bd-\u1d4an-\u02c8s\u0113k",
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"type":[
"noun"
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": retreat , hideout":[]
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"The resort is a perfect romantic hideaway for young couples.",
"the novelist has a little hideaway in the country where he goes whenever he wants to do some serious writing",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Here, Low shares a shopping list of some of her favorite items to furnish a bedroom with bold color and pattern, and furniture pieces that bring some island energy to a landlocked space or coastal hideaway . \u2014 Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine , 22 Mar. 2022",
"In addition to the soft poofs, a steel coffee table offers a stark balance, and features barely-there seams and handy hideaway storage. \u2014 Kevin Leblanc, ELLE , 8 June 2022",
"Longtime lovers of South Africa\u2019s most stylish hideaway , Babylonstoren, grumble that its luster has somewhat tarnished. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 7 Apr. 2022",
"This luxury boutique hideaway hotel is set in western Belize in the 107,000-acre Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve among tropical trees, shrubs, waterfalls, and jungle. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 15 Mar. 2022",
"This is how Joshua Miele and other blind students found their way to this underground hideaway . \u2014 Isabella Cueto, STAT , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Winbush stars as Carly Stewart, the queen of holiday celebrations who ends up running to a holiday hideaway after a mistletoe mishap. \u2014 Jennifer Yuma, Variety , 16 Aug. 2021",
"Although in lieu of a rocket launchpad, Fernando\u2019s hideaway is built around a tree. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The four-bed, four-bath hideaway known as Trapper's Cabin sleeps up to 10 guests in total style. \u2014 Brandon Perlman, Travel + Leisure , 3 Jan. 2022"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
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"open-minded",
"progressive",
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"the hidebound innkeeper refused to see the need for a website, insisting that the inn had done without one for over 150 years",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s amazing to see someone quite so hidebound change in that way\u2014and through pleasure. \u2014 Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"The problem, the publication concludes, is that governments and companies are often hidebound , reluctant to adopt the new analytical methods, and that the political will to act on what the analysis is showing is often lacking. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 7 June 2022",
"Elizabeth was too young, too hidebound , to develop any passion projects before the death of her father, George VI, in February, 1952. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 29 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s also, of course, anomalous, freakish, the kind of novelty that plays into a narrative urge on the part of certain hidebound intellectuals to blame new media for the worst impulses of humanity. \u2014 Jason Kehe, Wired , 9 Mar. 2022",
"On Sunday night, that falling royal blue and yellow confetti validated the Rams\u2019 iconoclastic team-building approach that upended a hidebound league. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Feb. 2022",
"That hidebound attitude lived on after Ha\u00fcy\u2019s death in 1822. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Hadley gamely exploits this tension in a narrative that grants the reader sympathy for all its characters \u2014 the fearless and hidebound alike. \u2014 Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2022",
"His most significant insight, though, was that there was no reason to be hidebound by borders. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Jan. 2022"
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"1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061642",
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"antonyms":[
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"The dress looked hideous on her."
]
},
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"The room was filled with hideous furniture.",
"the hideous way in which she treated her maid after she discovered her ring was missing",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The automobile is a prime example and designers have used that to great (and sometimes downright hideous ) effect for decades. \u2014 Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Will the president be held accountable for inciting his supporters to attack Congress, in a hideous attempt to hold onto power? \u2014 Charlie Dent, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"Navigating through this hideous grief that absolutely destroyed & shattered my heart and my soul into almost nothing has swallowed me whole. \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"But Google didn\u2019t go for the notch design, so the 2019 Pixel 4 featured this hideous screen instead. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The mission here is to save the world from its hideous near-future and to prevent time travel from being invented and exploited, for personal gain, by the all-powerful tech zillionaire played by Catherine Keener. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
"As people head back into the office after years at home, those with smell disorders are struggling to handle a new wave of hideous smells. \u2014 Andrea Ball, USA TODAY , 21 May 2022",
"In the process, Alfredo Manicotti is disfigured into a hideous creature, half-man, half-macaroni, and leads a pasta uprising that threatens all of humanity. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"In any case, exceptions or not, the prospect of such a federal law is hideous . \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 9 May 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8hi-d\u0113-\u0259s"
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"the hideous way in which she treated her maid after she discovered her ring was missing",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The automobile is a prime example and designers have used that to great (and sometimes downright hideous ) effect for decades. \u2014 Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Will the president be held accountable for inciting his supporters to attack Congress, in a hideous attempt to hold onto power? \u2014 Charlie Dent, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"Navigating through this hideous grief that absolutely destroyed & shattered my heart and my soul into almost nothing has swallowed me whole. \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"But Google didn\u2019t go for the notch design, so the 2019 Pixel 4 featured this hideous screen instead. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The mission here is to save the world from its hideous near-future and to prevent time travel from being invented and exploited, for personal gain, by the all-powerful tech zillionaire played by Catherine Keener. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
"As people head back into the office after years at home, those with smell disorders are struggling to handle a new wave of hideous smells. \u2014 Andrea Ball, USA TODAY , 21 May 2022",
"In the process, Alfredo Manicotti is disfigured into a hideous creature, half-man, half-macaroni, and leads a pasta uprising that threatens all of humanity. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"In any case, exceptions or not, the prospect of such a federal law is hideous . \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 9 May 2022"
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"The dress looked hideous on her."
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"The room was filled with hideous furniture.",
"the hideous way in which she treated her maid after she discovered her ring was missing",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The automobile is a prime example and designers have used that to great (and sometimes downright hideous ) effect for decades. \u2014 Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Will the president be held accountable for inciting his supporters to attack Congress, in a hideous attempt to hold onto power? \u2014 Charlie Dent, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"Navigating through this hideous grief that absolutely destroyed & shattered my heart and my soul into almost nothing has swallowed me whole. \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"But Google didn\u2019t go for the notch design, so the 2019 Pixel 4 featured this hideous screen instead. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The mission here is to save the world from its hideous near-future and to prevent time travel from being invented and exploited, for personal gain, by the all-powerful tech zillionaire played by Catherine Keener. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
"As people head back into the office after years at home, those with smell disorders are struggling to handle a new wave of hideous smells. \u2014 Andrea Ball, USA TODAY , 21 May 2022",
"In the process, Alfredo Manicotti is disfigured into a hideous creature, half-man, half-macaroni, and leads a pasta uprising that threatens all of humanity. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"In any case, exceptions or not, the prospect of such a federal law is hideous . \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 9 May 2022"
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"a criminal's secret hideout"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even a hot spring in a cave, Reza\u2019s nearly metaphysical hideaway for consolation and contemplation, must become a hideout for concocting cold-blooded machinations. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 14 June 2022",
"Your hideout in Amsterdam was reported at the time to the J\u00fcdische Auswanderung [Jewish Emigration] in Amsterdam, Euterpestraat, by A. van den Bergh, a resident at the time at Vondelpark, O Nassaulaan. \u2014 Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books , 11 May 2022",
"Bin Laden was killed in a 2011 raid by U.S. forces on his compound hideout in Pakistan. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 8 May 2022",
"Sugar kelp\u2019s translucent amber ribbons provide a hideout for marine life, which generate all the fertilizer the kelp needs. \u2014 Carol Leonetti Dannhauser, Hartford Courant , 27 May 2022",
"One of the most enduring of those mysteries is exactly how the Franks\u2019 hideout was exposed. \u2014 Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books , 11 May 2022",
"Located on the lower level of the Tschuggen Grand Hotel, The Basement feels like a secret hideout , complete with a lively bar scene and its own private bowling alley. \u2014 Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure , 12 Apr. 2022",
"These were later used as an al-Qaida hideout , and at least one was bombed by the U.S. in 2001. \u2014 Samya Kullab, ajc , 27 Mar. 2022",
"On this private island reserved for Disney Cruise Line guests, there's a water park, white-sand beach, walking trails, snorkeling lagoon, boat rentals, teen hideout , and adults-only Serenity Bay. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 28 Nov. 2021"
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"1885, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8h\u012bd-\u02ccau\u0307t"
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"covert",
"den",
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"nest"
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"\u2014 The Economist"
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"1817, in the meaning defined above":""
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"alteration of earlier hiding-hole":""
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"\u2014 The Economist"
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"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
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"thither we advise you to hie",
"\u2014 New Yorker"
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},
"examples":[
"we had best hie home before the snow gets worse",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Such shows\u2014in major museums in major cities\u2014are perfect for the summer, when much of the art world has hied off to beaches and country houses, but when regular-folk tourists arrive in droves. \u2014 Peter Plagens, WSJ , 8 June 2019"
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
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"\u02c8h\u012b"
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"blaze",
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"bomb",
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"scurry",
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"zip",
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},
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"1884, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u012b-(\u0259-)\u02ccr\u00e4r-\u02cck\u012bz"
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": church government by a hierarchy":[]
},
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"\u2026 he wrote a verse whose metaphors were read somewhere in the Baathist hierarchy as incitement to Kurdish nationalism. \u2014 Geraldine Brooks , Los Angeles Times , 30 Dec. 2001",
"Whereas the monkeys normally hew to strict hierarchies when it comes to who gets the best food and who grooms whom, there are no obvious top or rotten bananas in the sharing of millipede secretions. \u2014 Natalie Angier , New York Times , 5 Dec. 2000",
"The idea that social order has to come from a centralized, rational, bureaucratic hierarchy was very much associated with the industrial age. \u2014 Francis Fukuyama , Atlantic , May 1999",
"The church hierarchy faced resistance to some of their decisions.",
"He was at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy .",
"a rigid hierarchy of social classes",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The current aesthetic problems -- pace of play, lack of action, and the rest -- are exacerbated by the game\u2019s hierarchy and its penchant for diving into rules changes. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"The problems of union mergers, which often spilled into public disputes about jurisdiction, became a reflection of Hollywood\u2019s own troubled history of politics, cultural hierarchy and technology. \u2014 Peter Labuza, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Children are usually hyperaware of these nuances of hierarchy and judgment. \u2014 Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Steven Abel and Keith Dienes showed how UV-IR mixing in string theory might address both the hierarchy and cosmological constant problems. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Meanwhile, archetypal Trump Country is inhabited by the descendants of Scots-Irish anti-authoritarians who deplore outsiders, hierarchy , and learned university men. \u2014 Sam Adler-bell, The New Republic , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Racial hierarchy continued to take root in California and beyond when slavery was abolished federally by the 13th Amendment in 1865. \u2014 Taryn Lunastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"Flipping back to football, several SEC coaches\u2014including Georgia\u2019s Kirby Smart\u2014said Tuesday that NIL has risen up the hierarchy of factors for prospects when considering their recruitment. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 1 June 2022",
"Late on Friday, the leaders of the central branch of the Orthodox church in Ukraine made a formal break with the hierarchy in Moscow. \u2014 Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English ierarchie rank or order of holy beings, from Anglo-French jerarchie , from Medieval Latin hierarchia , from Late Greek, from Greek hierarch\u0113s":""
},
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"also \u02c8hi(-\u0259)r-\u02cc\u00e4r-",
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"scale"
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"noun"
]
},
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"opponent"
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": expositor":[]
},
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"as an early hierophant of birth control, Margaret Sanger had to face down often vehement opposition"
],
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"1677, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Late Latin hierophanta , from Greek hierophant\u0113s , from hieros + phainein to show \u2014 more at fancy":""
},
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"h\u012b-\u02c8er-\u0259-f\u0259nt",
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"gospeller",
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"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
],
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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": expressed in or marked by the use of language that is elaborated or heightened by artificial or empty means : pompous":[
"giving a highfalutin speech"
],
": pretentious , fancy":[
"highfalutin people"
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191534",
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"adjective"
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},
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"tiny hovels piled higgledy-piggledy against each other",
"\u2014 Edward Behr"
]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined above":""
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"origin unknown":""
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"\u02cchi-g\u0259l-d\u0113-\u02c8pi-g\u0259l-d\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080611",
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"adverb or adjective"
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},
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"fatly",
"grandly",
"large",
"lavishly",
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],
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],
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"the high of victory"
],
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"higher mathematics"
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],
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"a high vowel"
],
": at or to a high place, altitude, level, or degree":[
"climbed higher",
"passions ran high"
],
": constituting the late, most fully developed, or most creative stage or period":[
"high Gothic"
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],
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"a high note"
],
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"party leaders high on a new candidate"
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"high winds"
],
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"high officials"
],
": having a specified height or elevation : tall":[
"six feet high",
"\u2014 often used in combination sky- high waist- high"
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"\u2014 usually used with on wisdom from on high"
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"high culture"
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"high antiquity"
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],
": observed with the utmost solemnity":[
"high religious observances"
],
": of greater degree, amount, cost, value, or content than average, usual, or expected":[
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"high temperatures",
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"high living"
],
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],
": serious , grave":[
"high crimes"
],
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],
": the space overhead : sky":[
"\u2014 usually used with on birds wheeling on high"
],
": the transmission gear of a vehicle (such as an automobile) giving the greatest speed of travel":[
"put it into high"
],
": verging on lateness":[
"\u2014 usually used in the phrase high time It's high time he won an award."
],
": well , luxuriously":[
"\u2014 often used in the phrases high off the hog and high on the hog"
]
},
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"Adjective",
"The apartment has high ceilings.",
"The airplane was high above the clouds.",
"The bush is six feet high .",
"a building 100 stories high",
"They have a home in the high country.",
"The houses are built on high ground.",
"They reached speeds as high as 100 mph.",
"He's being treated for high blood pressure.",
"She earns a high salary.",
"His books are in high demand.",
"Adverb",
"The painter climbed high on the ladder.",
"The hawks were circling high in the air.",
"The letters were stacked high on the table.",
"buy low and sell high",
"Noun",
"Oil prices reached a new high last winter.",
"The forecast is for showers with highs in the 70s.",
"The high only lasted a few minutes.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Fans know all too well the Giants finished runners-up several times in sweepstakes for high -profile players. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 July 2022",
"The singer's third film received mixed reviews at the time, with several high -profile publications panning it vociferously. \u2014 Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
"The justices will hear arguments in the Alabama case in October, among several high -profile cases involving race or elections, or both. \u2014 Mark Sherman, ajc , 2 July 2022",
"Roberts sided with conservatives on gun rights, the death penalty, workplace mask mandates, EPA authority over greenhouse gases and two high -profile religious liberty appeals. \u2014 Fox News , 2 July 2022",
"Going against this is the sheer number of high -profile leakers who have been talking about an iPhone 14 Max for months. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"In contrast, about 10% of jurors who served on high -profile, graphic trials reported long-term stress, Hannaford-Agor said. \u2014 Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"Laws establishing ethical practices in treating pregnant people behind bars usually follow high -profile controversies. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 2 July 2022",
"Rulings in the most contentious and high -profile cases ran counter to public opinion and may be driving an erosion in public faith in the court itself, some experts say. \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 1 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Senior leaders can embrace stakeholder emotions and build high -performing organizations by effectively defining and regularly listening to them for feedback. \u2014 Christine Michel Carter, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"However, his memo still provided some wiggle room for high -performing workers. \u2014 Chloe Berger, Fortune , 16 June 2022",
"Specialty drugs tend to be high priced and treat chronic, potentially life-threatening conditions such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, growth hormone deficiency, and multiple sclerosis. \u2014 Maureen Testoni, STAT , 13 June 2022",
"Because of the high -performing real estate market, property values in Mobile have gone up. \u2014 Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al , 7 June 2022",
"The second fund excludes the high -performing but climate-warming fossil-fuel companies. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2022",
"That\u2019s bolstered by the outsole, which boasts five-millimeter, multi-directional lugs made of high -performing Vibram MegaGrip, which grab all trail surfaces with aplomb. \u2014 Cory Smith, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"More than a third of that energy is used just to cool the high -performing computers with conventional air chillers. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 May 2022",
"Baltimore County ranked 490 out of 500 urban high -performing counties when analyzing the opportunity index. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The entire crypto sector has lost about 66%, or $2 trillion, since its November high . \u2014 Paul Vigna, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"The incident unfolded as Phoenix faces sweltering temperatures, with a high of around 108 degrees expected on Friday, according to the National Weather Service. \u2014 Chantal Da Silva, NBC News , 24 June 2022",
"That is 1 percentage point below the all-time high reached during the Great Recession, according to the report. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"With inflation at a 40-year high , and even higher rates on the horizon due to massive increases in the producer price index, the Fed had no real choice but to increase rates and attempt to slow the economy. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"After Massachusetts road deaths reached an 11-year high in 2021, the toll could be even higher this year, according to state Transportation Secretary Jamey Tesler. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"But the adrenaline rush of being in the middle of a breaking news story not to mention the high of witnessing history in real time? \u2014 Wendy Kaur, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
"Portland will likely see a high of about 92 degrees, and a northeast wind with gusts as strong as 28 mph at times. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 June 2022",
"Bitcoin\u2019s value has fallen nearly 70 percent from its November high of more than $68,000. \u2014 Taylor Telford, Washington Post , 23 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English h\u0113ah ; akin to Old High German h\u014dh high, Lithuanian kaukaras hill":"Adjective, Adverb, and Noun"
},
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"\u02c8h\u012b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for high Adjective high , tall , lofty mean above the average in height. high implies marked extension upward and is applied chiefly to things which rise from a base or foundation or are placed at a conspicuous height above a lower level. a high hill a high ceiling tall applies to what grows or rises high by comparison with others of its kind and usually implies relative narrowness. a tall thin man lofty suggests great or imposing altitude. lofty mountain peaks",
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"lofty",
"tall",
"towering"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085025",
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"high altar":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the principal altar in a church":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Before disassembly, the component parts of large items like the high altar were carefully labeled, photographed and documented, so each artifact could one day be put back together like a giant, sacred jigsaw puzzle. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
"Archbishop Thabo Makgoba laid a small box containing Tutu's remains to rest in the floor in front of the high altar at St George\u2019s Cathedral. \u2014 Andrew Meldrum, ajc , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Two of the most striking items in the warehouse are a pair of white-marble angels that once flanked the high altar at the Church of All Saints, on Madison Avenue and 129th Street. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
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"Ivy Getty is no stranger to high fashion \u2014see her wedding for further proof\u2014but still, the magic of Paris Fashion Week can enchant even the most jaded among us. \u2014 Sarah Spellings, Vogue , 11 Mar. 2022",
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"The idea was to help prepare military pilots to take high ground of space. \u2014 Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune , 29 May 2022",
"With the threat from China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran on the rise, your mission to seize the high ground of space is critically important. \u2014 Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al , 13 May 2022",
"Ukrainian forces occupying the high ground in Lysychansk fired down on the Russian troops in Severodonetsk. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"On May 10, 1869, the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was marked at a ceremony on high ground in Utah. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022",
"But when the couple purchased the 100 acres in 1990, the high ground had been farmed intensively for corn and other parts of the property were pocked by out-of-place trees and invasive plants. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 May 2022",
"It can be cancelled into Rocket Punch to help Doomfist reach some serious high ground . \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Aaron attempts to claim the Black American high ground in this debate, triggering a real-life version of the game where he is being stalked and burned by Felix, before the cops shoot the darker Felix in the shoulder. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 13 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There is a great scene where Bullock climbs a 20-foot, 5.6-grade pitch in high heels and a sequin pantsuit. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 9 June 2022",
"Sparkly dresses, high heels and bold patterns strutted the Eastern Market Shed 3 Friday for Michigan Fashion Week\u2019s 10th anniversary show. \u2014 Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press , 11 June 2022",
"Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers, a red bandana, black Christian Louboutin high heels and a sailor cap. \u2014 Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Ashley lovingly recalled her mother's attentiveness to fans and support staff, while Wynonna \u2014 now with her high heels shed and steadier on her feet \u2014 was ready to dish on the woman who was also her favorite sparring partner. \u2014 Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com , 16 May 2022",
"Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa already count on this emerging label for their most dizzyingly high heels . \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Perhaps the Manolo-Birkenstock teamup is an acknowledgement from the foremost king of high heels that many consumers, even luxury shoppers, are ready to privilege comfort over beauty. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 Mar. 2022",
"More precisely, about the need to be herself and not have to conform to all those beauty standards of wearing a dress, high heels , and make-up. \u2014 Carolina Milanesi, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The moving walkways installed by SLC's airport have preventative measures against high heels \u2014 or other loose clothing \u2014 getting stuck. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"I won't deal with you until you get off your high horse and stop patronizing me.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Get off your high horse and follow the customer and your team. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Visible displays of sustainability \u2014 and the moralistic high horse that comes with them \u2014 has become yet a status symbol. \u2014 Sydney Clarke, refinery29.com , 22 Apr. 2021",
"LeBron James is living on a high horse in a multimillion dollar house, living near nothing but White people. \u2014 Fox News Staff, Fox News , 22 Apr. 2021",
"Trying to climb on any high horse would only be embarrassing at best, and at the very least hypocritical. \u2014 Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com , 5 Jan. 2021",
"There\u2019s a reason Scott doesn\u2019t travel anywhere by high horse . \u2014 Sean Keeler, The Denver Post , 18 July 2020",
"Just emphasize your concern and leave the high horse at home. \u2014 Courtney Shea, refinery29.com , 22 May 2020",
"Players around Major League Baseball have mounted their high horses to belittle the Astros and commissioner Rob Manfred, who hasn\u2019t punished those players in any way. \u2014 Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com , 19 Feb. 2020",
"The vandals apparently felt the 32-foot- high horse of a different color ought to be at least partially orange. \u2014 Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post , 6 Sep. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Winkler, an actor, drew on his childhood experiences with dyslexia to write about Hank and his fourth-grade high jinks and trouble with reading and writing. \u2014 Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"On their long-running reality series, the Chrisleys and their five children entertained viewers with their quirky family dynamics and high jinks . \u2014 Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
"Matafeo is a comedic delight, a master of both physical high jinks and witty repartee who deserves to catch the eye of Emmy voters. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"Occasionally, of course, the volume of high jinks on Beowulf Boritt\u2019s grandly rendered, revolving set of West Wing interiors becomes a little too frenetically amplified. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"And some of that excitement might happen in Las Vegas, where Jenner\u2019s daughter Kourtney Kardashian and her fianc\u00e9, Travis Barker, seem to have fooled a few people with their wedding-chapel high jinks . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Closer to home, Helfferich was involved in an endless stream of community building organizations and efforts, and more than a few high jinks , most famously co-founding the Great Tanana Raft Classic, which took place from 1968 to 1971. \u2014 David James, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Mar. 2022",
"While Tammy bought furs, her husband Jim got up to some financial high jinks \u2014 and worse. \u2014 Sarah Jones, Vulture , 18 Sep. 2021",
"The glove belonged to Toby Spiselman, one of Johnson\u2019s dearest friends, secretary of the Correspondance School and partner in innumerable high jinks . \u2014 Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com , 17 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Looking at Division 1, where most of the area\u2019s athletes will compete, the area is home to the defending champion or top returner in the high jump , long jump, triple jump and pole vault for boys. \u2014 Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 1 June 2022",
"Saturday\u2019s field events finals start at noon with girls discus and high jump , and boys long jump, pole vault and shot put. \u2014 cleveland , 1 June 2022",
"His specialty events for the Dragons this season included the 100, 4x100 relay, high jump and shot put. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 27 May 2022",
"The Monster Jam World Finals brings two days of competitions in racing, freestyle, high jump and skills to the City Beautiful May 21-22. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"Despite almost no formal training in high school, Thomas now competes in the 200-meter and 400-meter races, 400-meter relay, high jump and long jump. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Indiana\u2019s other national champion was Warren Central\u2019s Brion Stephens, who cleared 6 feet, 11 inches in the boys high jump . \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Mar. 2022",
"The Lions won four events, highlighted by Gavin Shaffer, who won the 55-meter hurdles and the high jump . \u2014 Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com , 21 Feb. 2022",
"She was selected Stark County's Girls Athlete of the Year for 2020-21 after being all-county in volleyball (helping team to regional finals last two years), basketball and track and field (state qualifier in discus and high jump last season). \u2014 Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer , 19 Nov. 2021"
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"The duel was to take place at high noon .",
"We are approaching high noon of the election campaign.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
"An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
"An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
"An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
"An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
"An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
"At high noon on an early-spring day in 2017, six steers doomed to die escaped their slaughterhouse and stormed the streets of my city. \u2014 Ian Bogost, The Atlantic , 13 Mar. 2022",
"An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"the high priest of tax relief for the state's property owners",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Coatl flees to Tenochtitlan to warn King Moctezuma and his high priest , Yoka, of looming danger. \u2014 Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"The tall stone slab includes a decree by Tutankhamen guaranteeing the protection of a high priest and dates back to 1327 BCE. \u2014 Miriam Berger, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"For the high priest wearing the Urim v\u2019Tumim, this message is critical. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Feb. 2022",
"As the high priest of the Sankat Mochan, one of the most influential Hindu temples in Varanasi, Mishra made for an unlikely critic of the BJP. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Feb. 2022",
"At times, the high priest would turn to the Urim v\u2019Tumim for advice. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Her brother Matt Marostica, a Latter-day Saint high priest living in Berkeley, Calif., also welcomed the statement. \u2014 Emily Kaplan, Washington Post , 27 Sep. 2021",
"One sibling, Jonathan, was elected high priest of Jerusalem and enjoyed a relative amount of autonomy but was betrayed and murdered by a Seleucid general in 143. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Her brother Matt Marostica, a Latter-day Saint high priest living in Berkeley, Calif., also welcomed the statement. \u2014 Emily Kaplan, Washington Post , 27 Sep. 2021"
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"hair-raising tales of outlaws who ambushed coaches traveling the high roads",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If the bad press is unsubstantiated, then take the high road , flood your communication channels with positivity and move forward. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Kardashian has mostly taken the high road during all this, and she and West were actually seen together last weekend at son Saint West's soccer game. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Rebel Wilson is taking the high road after an Australian newspaper threatened to publicize her relationship with Ramona Agruma without her consent. \u2014 Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 June 2022",
"The high road might be a more noble choice for all concerned; sinking into the muck will be more entertaining. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 June 2021",
"For his part, Butler took the high road in the wake of Monday night\u2019s 102-82 Game 4 loss at TD Garden. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 24 May 2022",
"Khloe is visibly frustrated at the news, telling her sister to take the high road . \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 26 May 2022",
"If employees take the high road and raise their level of performance, any issues might take a back seat or even fade away. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Armstrong: The term of art in my field is that there are certain companies that follow a high road and certain companies that follow a low road. \u2014 Ethan Karp, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021"
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"a high roller known for his lavish parties",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"LaBarron Burton attended a vendor fair at Hard Rock Northern Indiana Casino on Thursday, hoping his gourmet popcorn would make its way to one of the casino\u2019s guests, perhaps as a gift for a high roller or for purchase in its retail store. \u2014 Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The days leading up to Feb. 13\u2019s Super Bowl \u2014 a matchup that pits the home team Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals inside SoFi Stadium \u2014 are filled with enough party amenities to make any high roller salivate. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Feb. 2022",
"All be will be ready by launch time, and the show will start with as much energy as when a high roller throws down a $10,000 bet. \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021",
"The most noticeable of what's new is the Riptide, a 55-foot- high roller coaster that will loom over the Midway. \u2014 Paul Walsh, Star Tribune , 28 July 2021",
"No public reckoning has ever explained why a casino high roller stocked his hotel room with assault rifles and opened fire on an outdoor concert below. \u2014 Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune , 30 June 2021",
"Anbang Insurance Group, another private high roller , has been taken over by the state, while its founder Wu Xiaohui in 2018 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. \u2014 Lingling Wei, WSJ , 20 Dec. 2020",
"Give your tush some cush by upgrading your desk chair to this high roller from Steelcase. \u2014 Carla Sosenko, Popular Science , 13 Nov. 2020",
"The high rollers \u2014mostly wealthy businessmen from mainland China\u2014may come back sooner than casual gamblers, provided their businesses recover from the hit. \u2014 Jacky Wong, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2020"
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"\u2014 usually used in plural"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As the tallest building in the city, Hotel Arts Barcelona has the only spa in Barcelona boasting sky- high sea views. \u2014 Chelsea Davis, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"There were no artisanal fishermen selling their catch \u2014 the only fish available was caught by boats on the high sea , far from the spill. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Satellite data that stretches back to 1978 shows that the region was still producing record- high sea ice extent as recently as 2014 and 2015. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Hurricane-protection features include the home\u2019s ground floor sitting over 14 feet above sea level and protected by a nine-foot- high sea wall. \u2014 Howard Walker, Robb Report , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Victorino mentioned the threat to Maui\u2019s roadways, saying that waves run over the roads because of high sea level rise and tidal action. \u2014 Janae Morris, ABC News , 31 Oct. 2021",
"And, extreme temperature fluctuations, dangerously high sea levels and devastating droughts are disrupting daily life and endangering communities across every continent. \u2014 Suzanne Dibianca, Forbes , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Most paths also include signs outlining the connection to the Impressionist painters; a few overlap with the coastal GR21 trail atop that skirts the rim of the 300-foot- high sea -cliffs. \u2014 Adam H. Graham, WSJ , 28 May 2021",
"This adaptation of the tool shows how sea rise is expected to affect coastal roads in your neighborhood under the NOAA intermediate high sea level rise projection, the estimate most commonly used by infrastructure designers in Southeast Florida. \u2014 Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com , 19 Mar. 2021"
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": a main or principal street":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The gaming industry has truly mastered building huge IPs that take brands beyond the gaming space and onto the high street \u2014 and in some cases, the big screen. \u2014 Victor Potrel, Forbes , 5 Nov. 2021",
"On a higher note, Prada; the high street brand recently worked with Charli D\u2019Amelio number one TikTok influencer to capture branded Milan Fashion Week content for her followers. \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The always considered Kate frequently re-wears pieces already hanging in her wardrobe for formal occasions and public appearances, and is careful to mix in high street labels with her designer pieces. \u2014 Vogue , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Though the high street is struggling, the industrial park near Amazon is humming with small businesses. \u2014 Sarah O'connor, Ars Technica , 19 Mar. 2022",
"This week, the team revealed its new Guild Academy and corporate headquarters, which will be situated at 2 Chance Street in London\u2019s thriving Shoreditch area, just off its high street . \u2014 Matt Gardner, Forbes , 22 Jan. 2022",
"However, the current challenges the retail industry faces, both on the high street and in ecommerce, mean buying in bulk might not be possible, or the most effective way to operate. \u2014 Tejas Dave, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Iconic brands disappeared for good from the high street , including Miss Selfridge, Topshop and Debenhams. \u2014 Kate Hardcastle, Forbes , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Last week, Queen Letitzia gave a sartorial nod to her hosts King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden at a state dinner in Stockholm by wearing a tulle dress from the Swedish high street brand H&M. \u2014 Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com , 3 Dec. 2021"
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"This bistro set is perfect for entertaining, with four bar-height swivel chairs and a high table topped with smoky gray tempered glass. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Anne Cortez, 57, founder of the consulting firm Federal Strategies, stood near a high table covered with materials about her company \u2014 and tiny Dove brand chocolate hearts wrapped in foil. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Curiously, because people have been waiting for something to fall off the high table of rock and roll, some crumbs! \u2014 Derek Scancarelli, Forbes , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Nissley, an architect, spent $45 on a 4-foot high table -top tree at a lot near her home. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, USA TODAY , 20 May 2020",
"On the food side, Revy said the 200-seat venue, which includes a 15-seat bar as well as high tables , will transform obligatory brew-pub options into something special. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 22 Jan. 2020",
"The street level, home to the open kitchen and set off with high tables and a bar, is meant to be casual. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2019",
"The happiness, the high table , the low table, the big house, the fields, the slaves, the jook joints, the fish fries. \u2014 Michael Russell | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Karen and Bagel receive guests inside a plastic dome, where Bagel is curled up on a blue blanket atop a high table . \u2014 Andrea Sachs, Washington Post , 11 June 2019"
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"Also among the well-wishers was mother and daughter Lin Quinn and Lucy Edwards who were enjoying their high tea with a glass of champagne. \u2014 NBC News , 2 June 2022",
"The Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum is offering high tea May 8 at 2 p.m., and for $25 a person, hot and cold teas, punch and finger foods will be served and crafts will be available. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 2 May 2022",
"Ladies from Glenview and the surrounding area, stepped back in time on Saturday, for a special Mother\u2019s Day treat, to attend high tea at the historic 1856 Kennicott House. \u2014 Gina Grillo, Chicago Tribune , 9 May 2022",
"For tea lovers at the height of luxury, there would be nothing more impressive than pulling out this Christofle egg of small spoons for their high tea . \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Included in every all-inclusive booking is a daily buffet breakfast, lunch, and dinner; high tea ; and unlimited drinks. \u2014 Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure , 20 Feb. 2022",
"The hotel features Acqua di Parma toiletries, a heated saltwater pool, hot tub and fitness center in a secluded courtyard and offers local transportation in their Maserati and high tea with an Italian twist. \u2014 Rebecca Treon, Chron , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The ship arrives at Falmouth, Jamaica, located between Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, for options like horseback riding, river tubing, duty-free shopping, hiking to a waterfall, or high tea at historical Good Hope Estate. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Some highlights include an agrarian historical tour going to two different types of nearby farms, making chowder with local produce, and a high tea on Saturday afternoon, a hat tip to P\u00e9rez Kennealy's culinary education in London. \u2014 Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure , 18 Jan. 2022"
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"This region has become a center of high technology .",
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"Gallagher is now executive director of 5 Lakes Institute, a nonprofit working to grow the Great Lakes region's high technology entrepreneurial economy and culture. \u2014 Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
"Gallagher is now executive director of 5 Lakes Institute, a nonprofit working to grow the Great Lakes region's high technology entrepreneurial economy and culture. \u2014 Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
"Gregory Coll wants to develop the high technology systems that are required for the U.S. military and the defense of the nation. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"Gallagher is now executive director of 5 Lakes Institute, a nonprofit working to grow the Great Lakes region's high technology entrepreneurial economy and culture. \u2014 Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 10 May 2022",
"Western governments have responded to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine by imposing tough restrictions on trade, including on high technology exports and imports of Russian oil. \u2014 Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"Those include an export ban that would deny Russia U.S. high technology for its industries and military, and more sweeping financial bans that could cripple Russia\u2019s ability to do business with the rest of the world. \u2014 Raf Casert, Aamer Madhani And Zeke Miller, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Feb. 2022",
"That system worked to foster explosive growth and the creation of many of the signature companies of high technology \u2014 Intel, Apple and Google among them. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 3 Jan. 2022",
"In this spirit, Mo\u00ebt & Chandon inaugurated in 2012 a new facility dedicated to winemaking: an amazing benchmark in terms of sustainability and high technology . \u2014 Y-jean Mun-delsalle, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021"
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"Promiscuity may be an adaptation to the danger of a nest full of eggs being destroyed by a peak high tide ; mating opportunistically lets adults start over right away before a breeding season ends. \u2014 Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine , 20 May 2022",
"That effort washed away his first-half brilliance like an ornate sand sculpture succumbing to high tide . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"The southern two-thirds of Oceanside\u2019s coastline has been scoured down to the rock revetments, and at high tide there\u2019s no beach at all. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Mar. 2022",
"There were no reports of major flooding in the state on Sunday morning, and any damage on the Cape, the South Shore, Martha\u2019s Vineyard and Nantucket from the overnight high tide was still being assessed. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Jan. 2022",
"After covering a large distance, the dog became stranded on mud flats that can flood in high tide , 20-year-old DDSI volunteer Stefani Dennis told CNN. \u2014 Sara Spary, CNN , 21 Jan. 2022",
"King tides are coming to the Bay Area this weekend, potentially raising the high tide to 7 feet and possibly swamping the seawall on the San Francisco Embarcadero. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Buoys in the Chesapeake Bay near Havre De Grace recorded a high tide of 5.59 feet overnight, just shy of the record flood level of 5.8 feet. \u2014 Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com , 30 Oct. 2021",
"Minor saltwater flooding will be possible around the times of high tide in low-lying, vulnerable coastal areas in Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach and other coastal cities between Broward and Miami-Dade. \u2014 CBS News , 20 Sep. 2021"
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"The conspirators were hanged for high treason .",
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"Harry Johannes Knoesen, 61, a leader of the National Christian Resistance Movement, was on Monday found guilty of high treason , incitement to carry out violent attacks, and recruiting people to commit attacks. \u2014 Mogomotsi Magome, ajc , 6 June 2022",
"Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian politician and a businessman, was put under arrest after prosecutors accused him of high treason and terrorist financing. \u2014 Fortune , 22 May 2022",
"Shariy is suspected of high treason by the Ukrainian authorities. \u2014 Artem Grudinin, NBC News , 5 May 2022",
"At least two different calls had warned of a coming police raid at TV Rain; after the site was blocked, the false alarms regarding police seemed like a warning shot\u2014leave or face arrest and charges of high treason . \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 2 Mar. 2022",
"In May, Ukrainian authorities charged Medvedchuk with high treason , shut down his television network and placed him under house arrest. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
"His speech and actions drew the ire of the country\u2019s military leaders, who accused Mr. Kyaw Moe Tun of high treason and tried to replace him as their ambassador. \u2014 Dom Calicchio, Fox News , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Ukraine\u2019s top prosecutor later accused Mr. Medvedchuk of high treason , and a court placed him under house arrest. \u2014 James Marson, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022",
"His speech and actions drew the ire of the country\u2019s military leaders, who accused Mr. Kyaw Moe Tun of high treason and tried to replace him as their ambassador. \u2014 Dom Calicchio, Fox News , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down. \u2014 Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun , 4 June 2022",
"It\u2019s one of those ABBA songs that fools you with its mirror ball synths, a classic disco rhythm on the high hat and lush harmonizing. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 6 Nov. 2021",
"Indeed, at Thursday\u2019s show in Charlotte, Jordan integrated Watts\u2019 signature swing \u2013 and his unusual way of playing by not hitting the high hat and snare simultaneously \u2013 with his own muscular approach. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Deja stifled a yawn and cranked up her music; the warring bass and high hat thrummed in her chest and kept her mostly awake. \u2014 Brittany N. Williams, NOLA.com , 26 Oct. 2020",
"The song -- a frenetic trap banger built from buzzy synths and high hat -- debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 on March 2, 2013, the same week Billboard started factoring YouTube streaming data into the chart's methodology. \u2014 Katie Bain, Billboard , 21 Nov. 2019",
"Here comes one now, rattling catastrophically, like Max Roach whaling on the high hat . \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 18 Nov. 2019",
"The disco-pop track is about as close as Mitski has come to mainstream radio fare, with its bubbly beat, toe-tap-ready high hat and her sweet croon recalling another era. \u2014 Raisa Bruner, Time , 29 June 2018",
"The bouncy instrumental, produced by Kato on the Track, features Wright showcasing a more staccato flow over a high hats and quick synths. \u2014 Mackenzie Cummings-grady, Billboard , 6 June 2018"
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"The days leading up to Feb. 13\u2019s Super Bowl \u2014 a matchup that pits the home team Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals inside SoFi Stadium \u2014 are filled with enough party amenities to make any high roller salivate. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Feb. 2022",
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"The most noticeable of what's new is the Riptide, a 55-foot- high roller coaster that will loom over the Midway. \u2014 Paul Walsh, Star Tribune , 28 July 2021",
"No public reckoning has ever explained why a casino high roller stocked his hotel room with assault rifles and opened fire on an outdoor concert below. \u2014 Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune , 30 June 2021",
"Anbang Insurance Group, another private high roller , has been taken over by the state, while its founder Wu Xiaohui in 2018 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. \u2014 Lingling Wei, WSJ , 20 Dec. 2020",
"Give your tush some cush by upgrading your desk chair to this high roller from Steelcase. \u2014 Carla Sosenko, Popular Science , 13 Nov. 2020",
"The high rollers \u2014mostly wealthy businessmen from mainland China\u2014may come back sooner than casual gamblers, provided their businesses recover from the hit. \u2014 Jacky Wong, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2020"
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"The yield on the 10-year Treasury note finished on Friday at 2.785%, well below the high-water mark this year of 3.124% recorded two weeks earlier. \u2014 Matt Grossman, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
"The previous nationwide high-water mark , also set in 2008, was $4.27, or $5.73 in today\u2019s dollars. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 May 2022",
"That's only a tick below the high-water mark of 99 incidents recorded in 2020. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 Mar. 2022",
"By 2015, the legal fight against corruption in Guatemala was reaching its high-water mark . \u2014 Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker , 29 Apr. 2022",
"His wife and doctor begged him to stop, so 80 minutes became his high-water mark . \u2014 Greg Presto, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Additionally, 557 patients were boarding in emergency departments at state hospitals on May 16 \u2014 another high-water mark since the association began tracking the numbers in October. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"Caruso\u2019s campaign largesse remains well below the mayoral money high-water mark set by Michael R. Bloomberg in New York City. \u2014 Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The following night featured perhaps the season\u2019s high-water mark in terms of opulence and fantasy. \u2014 The Masked Observer, al , 1 Mar. 2022"
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"Place ice cubes in a tall highball glass, add 1 ounce vodka and half of cocktail mixture to each glass. \u2014 Erin Jensen, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
"For each drink, fill a highball glass with the crushed ice and set aside. \u2014 M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"In a tall highball glass, combine the lime slices and juice with the sugar and three mint leaves. \u2014 Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The drink is served in a highball glass and is a yellowish green color at the bottom. \u2014 Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Fill a highball glass nearly to the top with rocks cracked from a solid ice block, or 1-inch ice cubes, or a frozen spear of ice. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Rub the rim of a highball glass with cut side of lime wedge, then dip rim into salt. \u2014 Odette Williams, WSJ , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The three-ingredient version is a bright low-sugar sip; adding orange liqueur makes for something like a margarita in highball form. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 July 2021",
"Other cocktail options include approachable classics like a highball made with Botanist Gin, lime and a touch of California absinthe and a sidecar made with cognac and Alessio Bianco Vermouth. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 24 Nov. 2021"
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"Nannette, with her plain, angular face and hawklike eyes, wasn\u2019t beautiful or highborn . \u2014 Patricia Morrisroe, New York Times , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Live, Love, Laugh, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex AVAILABLE ITEMS PRINCELY AF sweatshirt (\u00a380): Sharpie on a Champion-brand hooded sweatshirt\u2014the perfect blend of highborn -lowbrow! \u2014 Emily Flake, The New Yorker , 15 Jan. 2020",
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"Here, Morris incorporated antiques, like the highboy and a sunburst mirror, with more contemporary pieces such as the 10-seater dining table (from Tritter Feefer) and Woodbridge Furniture side chairs. \u2014 Marisa Spyker, Southern Living , 23 Apr. 2021",
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"There was a stellar American highboy that came from her grandfather for the living room. \u2014 Carrie Nieman Culpepper, House Beautiful , 4 Nov. 2013",
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"Add personal lifestyle objects: On a Craftsman highboy in the bedroom, Palmer has men's collar holders and painted glass jars that held cosmetics. \u2014 Susan Green, OregonLive.com , 11 July 2017",
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"The ideas in Hamaguchi\u2019s stories develop emotions \u2014 the specter of loneliness \u2014 rather than meander toward quizzical, highbrow pathos. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 29 Apr. 2022",
"There are more cynical interpretations of the rise of highbrow science or speculative fiction. \u2014 Katie Roiphe, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
"While the slow-burning western psychodrama has sturdy cross-branch support from disparate ends of the Academy, many forecasters have noted that its highbrow appeal might not be enough to sustain the swell of passion building for other titles. \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 8 Mar. 2022",
"And yet, Apple seems perfectly content with its current approach: methodically building a platform with really good highbrow movies and TV. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 28 Mar. 2022",
"This too primed him for an age when comics went highbrow and genre began to infuse literature. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Books on Tape advertised in highbrow publications including the New Yorker magazine, the Wall Street Journal and Smithsonian magazine. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
"But streaming companies are now in the dominant position, in part because the pandemic accelerated a consumer shift away from theaters, at least where highbrow films are concerned. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
"With her East Boston Oysters event series, Cervasio paired oysters and caviar with Cheetos and potato chips, aiming to make the highbrow accessible and gaining a huge following in the process. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2021"
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"There are more cynical interpretations of the rise of highbrow science or speculative fiction. \u2014 Katie Roiphe, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
"While the slow-burning western psychodrama has sturdy cross-branch support from disparate ends of the Academy, many forecasters have noted that its highbrow appeal might not be enough to sustain the swell of passion building for other titles. \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 8 Mar. 2022",
"And yet, Apple seems perfectly content with its current approach: methodically building a platform with really good highbrow movies and TV. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 28 Mar. 2022",
"This too primed him for an age when comics went highbrow and genre began to infuse literature. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
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"But streaming companies are now in the dominant position, in part because the pandemic accelerated a consumer shift away from theaters, at least where highbrow films are concerned. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
"With her East Boston Oysters event series, Cervasio paired oysters and caviar with Cheetos and potato chips, aiming to make the highbrow accessible and gaining a huge following in the process. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"White made taming the Northern highbush berries in her woods her life\u2019s work, and made American agricultural history in the process. \u2014 Rachel Wharton, New York Times , 2 July 2018",
"White made taming the Northern highbush berries in her woods her life\u2019s work, and made American agricultural history in the process. \u2014 Rachel Wharton, New York Times , 2 July 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Shrubs planted included speckled alder, service berry, sweet pepperbush, elderberry, highbush blueberry , and bayberry, and varieties of holly, dogwood, and choke cherry among others. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 July 2021",
"Southern highbush blueberry varieties, such as Cooper, Gulfcrest, Blue Ridge and Cape Fear, may also be planted. \u2014 Dan Gill, NOLA.com , 3 Feb. 2021",
"But one highbush blueberry can only successfully cross with a small handful of other blueberry species. \u2014 Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal , 20 June 2020",
"In the 1850s, Thoreau charted when Walden Pond\u2019s highbush blueberry first flowered. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 June 2018",
"The dramatic change is happening right in front of us.\u2019\u2019 In the 1850s, Thoreau charted when Walden Pond\u2019s highbush blueberry first flowered. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2018",
"Set lowbush blueberries two feet apart, highbush blueberries six feet apart, and rabbiteyes fifteen feet apart. \u2014 The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping , 14 Mar. 2017",
"Northern highbush blueberries grow best in USDA Plant Hardiness zones 4-7. \u2014 The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping , 14 Mar. 2017"
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"Fans know all too well the Giants finished runners-up several times in sweepstakes for high -profile players. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 July 2022",
"The singer's third film received mixed reviews at the time, with several high -profile publications panning it vociferously. \u2014 Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
"The justices will hear arguments in the Alabama case in October, among several high -profile cases involving race or elections, or both. \u2014 Mark Sherman, ajc , 2 July 2022",
"Roberts sided with conservatives on gun rights, the death penalty, workplace mask mandates, EPA authority over greenhouse gases and two high -profile religious liberty appeals. \u2014 Fox News , 2 July 2022",
"Going against this is the sheer number of high -profile leakers who have been talking about an iPhone 14 Max for months. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"In contrast, about 10% of jurors who served on high -profile, graphic trials reported long-term stress, Hannaford-Agor said. \u2014 Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"Laws establishing ethical practices in treating pregnant people behind bars usually follow high -profile controversies. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 2 July 2022",
"Rulings in the most contentious and high -profile cases ran counter to public opinion and may be driving an erosion in public faith in the court itself, some experts say. \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 1 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Is that a folding card table piled high with desserts? \u2014 New York Times , 4 July 2022",
"Indeed, as Fortune has documented, equity valuations had flown so high that many felt a big correction was inevitable. \u2014 Ali Fazal, Fortune , 4 July 2022",
"Teenager Yuu Ominae leads a double life as a high school student and a high -ranking agent at a secretive corporation called Arcam. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
"There was fire through the roof, and firefighters had to get ladders up high and around multiple wires, the department said. \u2014 Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com , 4 July 2022",
"However, a preliminary investigation found the driver was going too fast through curves, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 3 July 2022",
"But a preliminary investigation determined the driver was taking curves too fast, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"Keep your head up high , stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor. \u2014 Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com , 30 June 2022",
"Beyonc\u00e9 looks like a goddess of lightning in a spiky metallic outfit with matching heels, sitting with her head held high on the horse full of lightning bolts. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The entire crypto sector has lost about 66%, or $2 trillion, since its November high . \u2014 Paul Vigna, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"The incident unfolded as Phoenix faces sweltering temperatures, with a high of around 108 degrees expected on Friday, according to the National Weather Service. \u2014 Chantal Da Silva, NBC News , 24 June 2022",
"That is 1 percentage point below the all-time high reached during the Great Recession, according to the report. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"With inflation at a 40-year high , and even higher rates on the horizon due to massive increases in the producer price index, the Fed had no real choice but to increase rates and attempt to slow the economy. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"After Massachusetts road deaths reached an 11-year high in 2021, the toll could be even higher this year, according to state Transportation Secretary Jamey Tesler. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"But the adrenaline rush of being in the middle of a breaking news story not to mention the high of witnessing history in real time? \u2014 Wendy Kaur, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
"Portland will likely see a high of about 92 degrees, and a northeast wind with gusts as strong as 28 mph at times. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 June 2022",
"Bitcoin\u2019s value has fallen nearly 70 percent from its November high of more than $68,000. \u2014 Taylor Telford, Washington Post , 23 June 2022"
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"Noun",
"Oil prices reached a new high last winter.",
"The forecast is for showers with highs in the 70s.",
"The high only lasted a few minutes.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Fans know all too well the Giants finished runners-up several times in sweepstakes for high -profile players. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 July 2022",
"The singer's third film received mixed reviews at the time, with several high -profile publications panning it vociferously. \u2014 Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
"The justices will hear arguments in the Alabama case in October, among several high -profile cases involving race or elections, or both. \u2014 Mark Sherman, ajc , 2 July 2022",
"Roberts sided with conservatives on gun rights, the death penalty, workplace mask mandates, EPA authority over greenhouse gases and two high -profile religious liberty appeals. \u2014 Fox News , 2 July 2022",
"Going against this is the sheer number of high -profile leakers who have been talking about an iPhone 14 Max for months. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"In contrast, about 10% of jurors who served on high -profile, graphic trials reported long-term stress, Hannaford-Agor said. \u2014 Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"Laws establishing ethical practices in treating pregnant people behind bars usually follow high -profile controversies. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 2 July 2022",
"Rulings in the most contentious and high -profile cases ran counter to public opinion and may be driving an erosion in public faith in the court itself, some experts say. \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 1 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Is that a folding card table piled high with desserts? \u2014 New York Times , 4 July 2022",
"Indeed, as Fortune has documented, equity valuations had flown so high that many felt a big correction was inevitable. \u2014 Ali Fazal, Fortune , 4 July 2022",
"Teenager Yuu Ominae leads a double life as a high school student and a high -ranking agent at a secretive corporation called Arcam. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
"There was fire through the roof, and firefighters had to get ladders up high and around multiple wires, the department said. \u2014 Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com , 4 July 2022",
"However, a preliminary investigation found the driver was going too fast through curves, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 3 July 2022",
"But a preliminary investigation determined the driver was taking curves too fast, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"Keep your head up high , stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor. \u2014 Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com , 30 June 2022",
"Beyonc\u00e9 looks like a goddess of lightning in a spiky metallic outfit with matching heels, sitting with her head held high on the horse full of lightning bolts. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Primary global energy consumption grew by 5.5% last year to a new all-time high . \u2014 Robert Rapier, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
"The travel industry is certainly rebounding, and search interest for international flights reached a new high after the White House revoked the requirement for a negative COVID test before entry to the U.S. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 3 July 2022",
"On June 23, departing passenger traffic at the airport hit a new high for the pandemic of 31,436, surpassing the Wednesday before Thanksgiving 2021 as the airport\u2019s busiest day since the start of the pandemic. \u2014 Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun , 30 June 2022",
"The ruble hit a new high against the dollar this week, continuing its streak as the best-performing currency in the world this year. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
"The rolling seven-day average for new daily cases hit a four-month high on Saturday, when an average of 827 cases were reported on each of the seven days in the period. \u2014 Olivia Alexander, Arkansas Online , 26 June 2022",
"In addition, power demand there has reached a new all-time high . \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 22 June 2022",
"That's the biggest box office jump last week on Broadway and a new high for the show. \u2014 Mark Kennedy, ajc , 22 June 2022",
"Those box office returns come as moviegoing comfort reaches a new all-time high , according to the National Research Group. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 22 June 2022"
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"\u02c8h\u012b"
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"a highfalutin way of talking",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Philip thought Woody Allen was a phony pseudo-intellectual who had never finished a book in his life and made all these highfalutin allusions to Strindberg and whatnot. \u2014 Jordan Reife, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2021",
"In less highfalutin language, increasing taxes on an activity leads to less of it; cutting taxes on an activity leads to more of it. \u2014 Star Tribune , 30 Jan. 2021",
"But after some highfalutin remarks, Crowe makes a hard turn to a profane, confrontational rant pitching his movie about a homicidal maniac. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, chicagotribune.com , 22 Aug. 2020",
"American politicians, the pusillanimous and the mountebanks and even their opposites, used to be as highfalutin as Foghorn Leghorn with their gibes, which made politics fun for fans of Shakespeare, the Bible or obscure history. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 Mar. 2020",
"What began as semi-legal \u2014 if highfalutin \u2014 graffiti has taken off in recent years, with local and even international artists being commissioned to turn once-seedy downtown walls into canvases for all manner of murals. \u2014 Paul Abercrombie, Washington Post , 12 Feb. 2020",
"And even the most highfalutin fly rodder won\u2019t argue against a hot fried bluegill with a side of onions and potatoes. \u2014 T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream , 12 Mar. 2020",
"The highfalutin words, plastered on the side of the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum, might ring hollow to those who know him largely as the most prominent of eight White Sox players who allegedly conspired with gamblers to lose a World Series. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Oct. 2019",
"The highfalutin words, plastered on the side of the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum, might ring hollow to those who know him largely as the most prominent of eight White Sox players who allegedly conspired with gamblers to lose a World Series. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Oct. 2019"
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"The deal, the exact dollar figure of which remained unclear, represents quite a comedown for the one-time highflier . \u2014 Amy Feldman, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2021",
"At first look, Biogen seems more like a plodding drugmaker than a pending highflier : The neurology specialist boasts a market cap of about $46 billion. \u2014 Charley Grant, WSJ , 26 Aug. 2020",
"The bankruptcy follows that of another highflier in the U.S. oil patch, Whiting Petroleum Corp., which filed for Chapter 11 at the start of April after championing what was once the premiere U.S. shale field, the Bakken of North Dakota. \u2014 David Wethe, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
"The Federal Reserve lent trillions of dollars to bail out Wall Street highfliers , hoping that by stabilizing big banks, the benefits would flow through to the rest of the economy. \u2014 Sheila Bair For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 27 Mar. 2020",
"Traders have turned to derivatives to bet on the continued rise of some tech highfliers , wagering that there are even bigger gains ahead for the group. \u2014 Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 20 Feb. 2020",
"O\u2019Neal continued, referring to the legendary former Nets and Philadelphia 76ers highflier Julius Erving. \u2014 Marc Stein, New York Times , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Although manufacturing heavyweights delivered lackluster news, some tech highfliers outperformed, soaring to unprecedented heights. \u2014 Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 31 Jan. 2020",
"The implication is that as long as the Fed keeps the money flowing, and highfliers and stock repurchases continue to supercharge earnings, the party can continue. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2019"
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"circa 1961, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"one of New York's largest law firms, it attracts highfliers looking for a big-time legal career",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The deal, the exact dollar figure of which remained unclear, represents quite a comedown for the one-time highflier . \u2014 Amy Feldman, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2021",
"At first look, Biogen seems more like a plodding drugmaker than a pending highflier : The neurology specialist boasts a market cap of about $46 billion. \u2014 Charley Grant, WSJ , 26 Aug. 2020",
"The bankruptcy follows that of another highflier in the U.S. oil patch, Whiting Petroleum Corp., which filed for Chapter 11 at the start of April after championing what was once the premiere U.S. shale field, the Bakken of North Dakota. \u2014 David Wethe, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
"The Federal Reserve lent trillions of dollars to bail out Wall Street highfliers , hoping that by stabilizing big banks, the benefits would flow through to the rest of the economy. \u2014 Sheila Bair For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 27 Mar. 2020",
"Traders have turned to derivatives to bet on the continued rise of some tech highfliers , wagering that there are even bigger gains ahead for the group. \u2014 Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 20 Feb. 2020",
"O\u2019Neal continued, referring to the legendary former Nets and Philadelphia 76ers highflier Julius Erving. \u2014 Marc Stein, New York Times , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Although manufacturing heavyweights delivered lackluster news, some tech highfliers outperformed, soaring to unprecedented heights. \u2014 Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 31 Jan. 2020",
"The implication is that as long as the Fed keeps the money flowing, and highfliers and stock repurchases continue to supercharge earnings, the party can continue. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2019"
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"\u2014 Evening Gazette (Middlesborough, England)"
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"\u2014 David Drake",
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"\u2014 Willem Hoos",
"At last count, Parmalat had given away 5.2 million stuffed animals in a massive Brazilian promotion, not including the truckload of furry animals hijacked earlier this year by thieves too impatient to collect their own Parmalat labels.",
"\u2014 Laurel Wentz"
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"\u2014 Commercial Motor (Sutton, England)"
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"\u2014 Dave Armstrong"
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"\u2014 David Drake",
"A shipment of \u2026 albums by British pop idol Sting was hijacked in transit while being transported from Germany to an Italian warehouse.",
"\u2014 Willem Hoos",
"At last count, Parmalat had given away 5.2 million stuffed animals in a massive Brazilian promotion, not including the truckload of furry animals hijacked earlier this year by thieves too impatient to collect their own Parmalat labels.",
"\u2014 Laurel Wentz"
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"\u2014 Commercial Motor (Sutton, England)"
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"\u2014 Dave Armstrong"
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"He hijacked a truck, threatening the driver at gunpoint.",
"A band of robbers hijacked the load of furs from the truck.",
"A group of terrorists hijacked the plane.",
"The organization has been hijacked by radicals.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To us, the strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive, small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific, to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country. \u2014 Brad Lendon And Heather Chen, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"The second component can hijack industrial control systems from Schneider Electric to delete files, crash the device, or upload additional payloads. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Two bank robbers, the adoptive brothers Danny (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) and Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), hijack an ambulance after a heist gone wrong, using it to sneak by the cops. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 9 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s the producer (Yannick Bono) who conspires to let the veteran male DP (Maxime Ruiz) hijack Dalle\u2019s big set-piece and direct the film himself. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"The action-thriller stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez and centers on a pair of adoptive siblings who hijack an ambulance while trying to pull of a bank heist. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Of course, the heist doesn\u2019t go as planned, and in their getaway Danny and Will hijack an ambulance. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The researchers had seen similar symptoms in fire ants infected with other kinds of microsporidia, which hijack an ant's fat cells to produce even more spores. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Samuel Joseph Byck tries to hijack a Delta passenger jet at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, with the plan to crash it into the White House. \u2014 CNN , 12 Dec. 2021"
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"1923, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"city in southeastern California east of San Bernardino population 53,104":[],
"town in northwestern Indiana south of Hammond population 23,727":[]
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"there are permanent glaciers in the cool, humid highlands of the Pacific Northwest",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The holiday is filled with gorgeous Scottish vistas and highland balls, but the Flintshire household is a deeply unhappy one. \u2014 Tom Fitzgerald And Lorenzo Marquez, Town & Country , 17 May 2022",
"The highland patio chat table is crafted from a weather-resistant resin weave that the manufacturer says retains its color for 2,500 UV hours. \u2014 Daria Smith, Better Homes & Gardens , 11 May 2022",
"The Parker Solar Probe's views aligned with topographical landmarks seen by the Magellan spacecraft, including the Tellus Regio plateau in the northern hemisphere of Venus and a continent-sized highland known as Aphrodite Terra. \u2014 NBC News , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The band\u2019s lineup features three highland bagpipers and traditional marching snare, backed by the most-famous bagpipe band on the planet. \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"At around eight o\u2019clock in the evening on October 28th, Fredy L\u00f3pez Ar\u00e9valo, a journalist in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, pulled up in front of his home in the highland city of San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas. \u2014 Peter Canby, The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Take a cinematic cruise down the long flat farm roads, cooing at highland cattle and relaxed quarter horses, or stop to collect a local farmer\u2019s bounty in exchange for a few dollars in the honor system jar. \u2014 Kaitlyn Wylde, Vogue , 3 Jan. 2022",
"These include Birkhall, formerly home to the Queen Mother and since taken over by Prince Charles, and the modest house that Queen Victoria had built for her highland servant, John Brown. \u2014 Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ , 9 Dec. 2021",
"The scene is announced with the portentous drone of bagpipes, an aural assault generated by a battalion of 30 highland pipers playing in a converted church in Scotland. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The highland town is surrounded by lush countryside in northern Sulawesi, home to the Minahasa people and an amazing diversity of wildlife. \u2014 The Economist , 26 May 2020",
"Under four miles, the easy trail rings a highland lake that reflects the steep and treeless mountains surrounding it. \u2014 Elaine Glusac, New York Times , 27 Feb. 2020",
"Maybe their bloodline spirits crossed, perhaps hundreds of years ago across a highland moor, their prey the red grouse. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Mar. 2020",
"Wearing the trappings of highland Mexican warriors could communicate that the Maya leader had military prowess. \u2014 Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS , 27 Feb. 2020",
"Now the divide between a wealthier, more European-descended lowland east and a more indigenous, poorer, highland west is once again exposed. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Nov. 2019",
"Two ancient Christian sites, in the highland towns of Axum and Lalibela, are undergoing restoration. \u2014 The Economist , 7 Nov. 2019",
"The best choice is colonial or highland bentgrass, but as mentioned above, plant perennial ryegrass with it at about 4 pounds of seed per 1,000 square feet. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Sep. 2019",
"Torres\u2019 support is strongest in Guatemala\u2019s poorer rural and highland areas. \u2014 Ciara Nugent, Time , 11 Aug. 2018"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The guileless turns of the film's real-life highlander cast also grounds the film nicely and act as an effective foil to Ugyen. \u2014 Thomas Page, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The show's core relationship, that of Claire and eternally-hunky Scottish highlander Jamie Fraser (played by Sam Heughan) remains one of the steamiest on modern television. \u2014 Taylore Glynn, Allure , 5 Mar. 2022",
"The tan exterior is complemented by an orange highlander plaid interior. \u2014 Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Linked together by a series of tiny medieval hamlets, the area is known for its distinct highlander culture, mysterious folk customs and ancient local tongue. \u2014 Melanie Hamilton, CNN , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Outlander fans know Sam Heughan for his performance as Jamie Fraser, a Scottish highlander in the 1700s. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 18 June 2020",
"Population groups that don\u2019t have deep local roots, like the thousands of Guatemalan highlanders who have moved to the Bay Area in recent years, have become especially tough to track now that most face-to-face contact is impossible. \u2014 Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com , 24 Apr. 2020",
"But like the highlander (the one with the sword, not the Toyota SUV) there can be only one, and 2020's World Urban Car of the Year is the Kia Soul EV. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Pem and her fellow highlanders have become some of the wealthiest people in Bhutan, the heart of an unusual economy. \u2014 Chris Jones, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2020"
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"1610, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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": a summary of the most significant or interesting parts of something (such as a completed sporting event) presented typically on a television broadcast":[
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"Noun",
"I missed the game, but I saw the highlights on the evening news.",
"Verb",
"Unfortunately, the media insisted upon highlighting his troubled past.",
"Our trip was highlighted by a great jazz concert we attended.",
"The students highlighted important vocabulary words in their textbooks.",
"Important names and dates in each chapter are highlighted .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On a sunny Sunday last October, dozens of kids came to the Victoria and Albert Museum to celebrate with Amal, sing in Arabic, play and, the highlight , pick a cupcake. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
"With plastic waste growing around the world, Buthelezi is using his work to both highlight and combat the issue. \u2014 CNN , 14 June 2022",
"Extending warmth and sympathy, as well as spreading wealth to those who may not have a home or stable income, are all acts of generosity which these Bible verses highlight . \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 10 June 2022",
"Indy Pride traditionally hosts numerous LGBTQ+-themed events throughout the month of June, but the Saturday that features both its parade and festival is undoubtedly the month's highlight . \u2014 Channing King, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022",
"Joey Votto was robbed of a two-run homer in the first inning by Thomas, who sprinted to the wall, timed his jump and made a leaping catch with his outstretched arm past the wall to make the highlight grab. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 9 June 2022",
"Finally, our engineers evaluated general construction, such as materials and fittings, to highlight models that should deliver the longest service. \u2014 Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
"With some time now to reflect on the special night, Wade says her biggest highlight was having her entire family come out to Nashville to support her. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"The first race Saturday is USF2000 at 11 a.m., with IndyCar qualifying the highlight at 12:45. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"With about 6,000 square feet of interior living space, the four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath condo is framed by wide walls of glass that highlight panoramic vistas throughout. \u2014 Brenda Richardson, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"There are tons of cute fall quotes that highlight the beauty of the season from authors and celebrities. \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 27 June 2022",
"The ensemble cast's star power and captivating chemistry makes for some fascinating, interconnected stories that highlight the ups and downs of love. \u2014 Angela Andaloro, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
"Six new and upcoming historical novels take readers across World War II Europe, in tales that highlight both the atrocities of that conflict and the resilience of everyday people. \u2014 Carol Memmott, Washington Post , 20 June 2022",
"The result is a new Solo Traveler in-app experience that will highlight new safety features for people traveling alone. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 15 June 2022",
"Here, men were the usual suspects, for reasons that highlight the frighteningly capricious ways power and hierarchy structured everyday life. \u2014 Valerie Kivelson, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"Their daily updates that highlight real setbacks are atypically honest by the standards of military press offices, a tactic perhaps intended to add a sense of urgency to their daily calls for heavy Western weaponry. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"The town is a center point for three nearby Indian reservations: Leech Lake, Red Lake and White Earth, which have joined together to highlight and promote Native artists and their works at the festival. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 June 2022"
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"The increase comes as Oregon sees more iterations of the highly contagious omicron variant. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 June 2022",
"The United Kingdom has declared a rare \u2018national incident\u2019 after traces of the highly contagious polio virus were found in sewage in London, the government said. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Hundreds of dead birds have washed up on Martha's Vineyard and animal control officials there think a highly contagious strain of avian flu may be responsible. \u2014 CBS News , 23 June 2022",
"The variola virus that caused smallpox was not only lethal but also highly contagious. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Hundreds of dead birds have washed up on Martha's Vineyard and animal control officials there think a highly contagious strain of avian flu may be responsible. \u2014 Fox News , 21 June 2022",
"Although most children with covid-19 recover uneventfully, data presented to the CDC panel Friday made clear that this highly contagious virus has managed to sicken thousands of children who were too young until now to get vaccinated. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 19 June 2022",
"Despite the persistence of highly contagious strains of COVID-19 in Connecticut and elsewhere, restrictions designed to curb the spread of the virus are more relaxed than ever. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 17 June 2022"
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"The color will be trooped, and then all back to her royal highness \u2019s for a party at the palace. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t call her Brandy no more \u2014 call her your highness . \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022",
"If your recipe calls for a crumb crust, such as her highness the B.S.G.C.C., the shape of the loaf pan actually allows for another cool trick. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Trixie advises Alma to playact highness to flummox E.B. \u2014 Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture , 18 Dec. 2021",
"To avoid any misunderstanding, steer clear of any mention of his royal highness . \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 14 July 2021",
"Introducing his serene highness , Kaiser Otto Von Stop-Zalot. \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 12 June 2021",
"Under new rules bestowed by the king, designed to limit titles of members of the royal family, only those in direct succession to the British throne could receive HRH (his or her royal highness ) titles. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2021",
"And every last email between the first lady, her royal highness , and their staff \u2014 every personal reflection, reservation, itinerary change and security detail \u2014 was beaming back to former N.S.A. analysts\u2019 computers in Abu Dhabi. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Feb. 2021"
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"Russian forces continue their attempts to take over the strategically important Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway . Mykolaiv. \u2014 Katya Soldak, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"There are mini piles that are encased in concrete between the highway and the railroad tracks, and larger steel H piles drilled between 230 and 270 feet deep into the ground below. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
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"Officials said examples could include a pedestrian walkway under or over a highway slicing through a neighborhood, or a new deck and park above a freeway - an idea being explored in Atlanta with federal help. \u2014 Michael Laris, Anchorage Daily News , 1 July 2022",
"Three large wildfires skirted the mountainous city this spring alone, prompting hundreds of people to evacuate, closing down a major highway and destroying some homes. \u2014 Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 July 2022",
"Two decades after his wife's killing, authorities named late Ohio business owner Edward Geddes as the person responsible for the murder of Lina Reyes-Geddes, who was found dead along an interstate highway near Maidenwater Spring, Utah. \u2014 Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News , 30 June 2022",
"While a number flee into a nearby field, one instead runs into the highway -- and into the path of an approaching vehicle. \u2014 Bill Melugin, Fox News , 30 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"How many other writers could convincingly depict a blind highwayman or cap that eerie encounter with a duel on bagpipes between Alan and a son of the famous Rob Roy? \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Jan. 2021",
"Others are the result of bizarre last requests, like when a highwayman asked for his memoir to be bound in his own skin after his execution. \u2014 Wired Staff, Wired , 29 Sep. 2020",
"Thieves of the Wood (Netflix) Charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte leads the oppressed in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 18th-century Flanders. \u2014 Nina Zafar, Washington Post , 2 Jan. 2020",
"This later-season standout stars Cleese as a bumbling, flower-thieving highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 4 Oct. 2019",
"In the late 1950s, Zorro grew especially popular because of a Disney television series featuring handsome Guy Williams as the daredevil highwayman . \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 10 July 2019",
"What started as the usual conduct by the highwaymen in the Freedom Caucus is now spreading. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 25 May 2018",
"The story the museum tells is laced with human connections and studded with violence, from wartime bombs to pirate attacks on postal ships to highwaymen 's raids on mail coaches. \u2014 Jill Lawless, Detroit Free Press , 29 July 2017",
"The story the museum tells is laced with human connections and studded with violence, from wartime bombs to pirate attacks on postal ships to highwaymen \u2019s raids on mail coaches. \u2014 Jill Lawless, The Seattle Times , 27 July 2017"
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"To us, the strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive, small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific, to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country. \u2014 Brad Lendon And Heather Chen, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"The second component can hijack industrial control systems from Schneider Electric to delete files, crash the device, or upload additional payloads. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Two bank robbers, the adoptive brothers Danny (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) and Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), hijack an ambulance after a heist gone wrong, using it to sneak by the cops. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 9 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s the producer (Yannick Bono) who conspires to let the veteran male DP (Maxime Ruiz) hijack Dalle\u2019s big set-piece and direct the film himself. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"The action-thriller stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez and centers on a pair of adoptive siblings who hijack an ambulance while trying to pull of a bank heist. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Of course, the heist doesn\u2019t go as planned, and in their getaway Danny and Will hijack an ambulance. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The researchers had seen similar symptoms in fire ants infected with other kinds of microsporidia, which hijack an ant's fat cells to produce even more spores. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Samuel Joseph Byck tries to hijack a Delta passenger jet at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, with the plan to crash it into the White House. \u2014 CNN , 12 Dec. 2021"
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"\u2014 Willem Hoos",
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"To us, the strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive, small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific, to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country. \u2014 Brad Lendon And Heather Chen, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"The second component can hijack industrial control systems from Schneider Electric to delete files, crash the device, or upload additional payloads. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Two bank robbers, the adoptive brothers Danny (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) and Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), hijack an ambulance after a heist gone wrong, using it to sneak by the cops. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 9 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s the producer (Yannick Bono) who conspires to let the veteran male DP (Maxime Ruiz) hijack Dalle\u2019s big set-piece and direct the film himself. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"The action-thriller stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez and centers on a pair of adoptive siblings who hijack an ambulance while trying to pull of a bank heist. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Of course, the heist doesn\u2019t go as planned, and in their getaway Danny and Will hijack an ambulance. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The researchers had seen similar symptoms in fire ants infected with other kinds of microsporidia, which hijack an ant's fat cells to produce even more spores. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Samuel Joseph Byck tries to hijack a Delta passenger jet at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, with the plan to crash it into the White House. \u2014 CNN , 12 Dec. 2021"
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"We spent the afternoon hiking around the lake.",
"She hiked 10 miles in the hot desert sun.",
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"Our neighbors spent their vacation hiking the Rockies.",
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"There's talk of hiking the eligibility age.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"On land, hike through the forest, play tennis and croquet, stargaze without light pollution, or rejuvenate in the spa. \u2014 Johanna Read, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"For sweeping views of the ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge, hike the trails at Lands End in the city\u2019s northwest corner. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 20 June 2022",
"According to adventure outfitter World Expeditions, fewer than 10 percent of the region\u2019s trekkers hike up Gokyo Valley. \u2014 Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online , 18 June 2022",
"With rising prices making everything from apples to sandwich buns to chicken more expensive, the Seminole County school district will hike the cost of cafeteria meals in August, the first such increase in seven years. \u2014 Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel , 17 June 2022",
"Visitors can hike , drive, and even slide down the dunes, which are estimated to be between 10,000 and 15,000 years old. \u2014 Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure , 11 June 2022",
"Then hike to Griffith Park Observatory (a 2.6-mile loop), return and eat lunch at the Trails Cafe (open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays) in Fern Dell. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"Rottnest Island off the coast of Perth in western Australia is car-free, too (though there\u2019s a hop-on, hop-off bus that loops around the 63 beaches); most visitors hike or rent a bike. \u2014 Jon Marcus, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"Von Furstenberg would hike up the jagged hillside to see Vidal when her yacht sailed along the Amalfi Coast in the summer. \u2014 Christopher Bollen, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Swim, camp, or hike along this relaxed sand beach that spans about 600 acres. \u2014 Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Now that the market has priced in a more aggressive rate- hike path from the Fed, ERC\u2019s big discount and yield look more attractive. \u2014 Michael Foster, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"In the summer, go on a cart tour with the dogs; an adventurous hike with the pack; or cuddle with the heart-melting newborn puppies. \u2014 Kimberly Lyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"That\u2019s the price- hike world Americans are struggling to cope with \u2013 and a key question is how persistent the problem will be. \u2014 Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
"Powell told reporters at a post-meeting press conference that another 75 basis-point hike , or a 50 basis-point move, was likely at the next meeting of policy makers in July. \u2014 Jonnelle Marte, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"Anyone who has looked at land ownership maps to find a spot to hunt, fish, camp, or hike has seen those chunks of green or yellow with no discernible access point. \u2014 Christine Peterson, Outside Online , 15 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, buyers are grappling with inflation, this year\u2019s interest-rate hike and the volatile stock market. \u2014 E.b. Solomont, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"The easiest and most inexpensive way to explore the park is by setting off on a hike or a mountain bike ride. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 10 June 2022"
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"Verb",
"We spent the afternoon hiking around the lake.",
"She hiked 10 miles in the hot desert sun.",
"We hiked some of the shorter trails.",
"Our neighbors spent their vacation hiking the Rockies.",
"The state keeps hiking the tax on cigarettes.",
"There's talk of hiking the eligibility age.",
"I hiked myself onto the ledge.",
"Noun",
"We went for a hike around the lake.",
"The school lost a number of students after the tuition hike .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"On land, hike through the forest, play tennis and croquet, stargaze without light pollution, or rejuvenate in the spa. \u2014 Johanna Read, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"For sweeping views of the ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge, hike the trails at Lands End in the city\u2019s northwest corner. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 20 June 2022",
"According to adventure outfitter World Expeditions, fewer than 10 percent of the region\u2019s trekkers hike up Gokyo Valley. \u2014 Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online , 18 June 2022",
"With rising prices making everything from apples to sandwich buns to chicken more expensive, the Seminole County school district will hike the cost of cafeteria meals in August, the first such increase in seven years. \u2014 Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel , 17 June 2022",
"Visitors can hike , drive, and even slide down the dunes, which are estimated to be between 10,000 and 15,000 years old. \u2014 Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure , 11 June 2022",
"Then hike to Griffith Park Observatory (a 2.6-mile loop), return and eat lunch at the Trails Cafe (open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays) in Fern Dell. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"Rottnest Island off the coast of Perth in western Australia is car-free, too (though there\u2019s a hop-on, hop-off bus that loops around the 63 beaches); most visitors hike or rent a bike. \u2014 Jon Marcus, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"Von Furstenberg would hike up the jagged hillside to see Vidal when her yacht sailed along the Amalfi Coast in the summer. \u2014 Christopher Bollen, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Swim, camp, or hike along this relaxed sand beach that spans about 600 acres. \u2014 Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Now that the market has priced in a more aggressive rate- hike path from the Fed, ERC\u2019s big discount and yield look more attractive. \u2014 Michael Foster, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"In the summer, go on a cart tour with the dogs; an adventurous hike with the pack; or cuddle with the heart-melting newborn puppies. \u2014 Kimberly Lyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"That\u2019s the price- hike world Americans are struggling to cope with \u2013 and a key question is how persistent the problem will be. \u2014 Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
"Powell told reporters at a post-meeting press conference that another 75 basis-point hike , or a 50 basis-point move, was likely at the next meeting of policy makers in July. \u2014 Jonnelle Marte, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"Anyone who has looked at land ownership maps to find a spot to hunt, fish, camp, or hike has seen those chunks of green or yellow with no discernible access point. \u2014 Christine Peterson, Outside Online , 15 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, buyers are grappling with inflation, this year\u2019s interest-rate hike and the volatile stock market. \u2014 E.b. Solomont, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"The easiest and most inexpensive way to explore the park is by setting off on a hike or a mountain bike ride. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 10 June 2022"
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"1865, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"Raymond is different, so well written and acted, so perfectly pitched, that even the silences, especially the silences, are hilarious . It makes comedy look easy. \u2014 James Morris , Wilson Quarterly , Autumn 2005",
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tim Burton's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved (by children) and reviled (by critics and librarians) book, is quirky, well acted, often hilarious , and visually sumptuous, but don't go to it expecting sweetness in anything except the title. \u2014 Richard Alleva , Commonweal , 12 Aug. 2005",
"In fairness, McEnroe does have genuine passion for the game, and his willingness to take on the sport's sacred cows is admirable. His candor and hilarious random ruminations as an analyst make even the most lopsided matches worth watching. \u2014 Jon Wertheim , Sports Illustrated , 17 Sept. 2001",
"Since his material is genuinely funny, at times hilarious , it makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium. Sedaris has an unexpectedly high-pitched voice that comes across as majorly mischievous in its delivery \u2026 \u2014 Publishers Weekly , 5 May 1997",
"Some people don't like his comedy, but I think he's hilarious .",
"She gave us a hilarious account of her first days as a teacher.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Today marks 30 years since the release of the hilarious Eddie Murphy comedy, Boomerang. \u2014 Okla Jones, Essence , 28 June 2022",
"Love and Thunder costar Natalie Portman shared a hilarious story about the Australian actor's tactic to not be recognized when picking up his children after school. \u2014 Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
"The more inspired newcomers are the Vicious 6, including Taraji P. Henson as Belle Bottom, a usurper who wields her chain belt as a weapon, and the hilarious Lucy Lawless as Nun-Chuck, a woman of the cloth with a thirst for violence. \u2014 Thomas Floyd, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Kate's hilarious court-side looks have become the stuff of Internet legend\u2014and after taking a year off from the competition due to COVID-19, the Duchess and her signature expressions officially returned to the royal box in 2021. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 27 June 2022",
"The actress additionally shared a hilarious behind-the-scenes video of her time at Glastonbury. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 27 June 2022",
"Other recommendations this week include the film Doula starring Chris Pine and Troian Bellisario (check out the description and the hilarious trailer below), as well as several very timely and important documentaries. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 26 June 2022",
"The show\u2019s entire cast returns for the second film, including Maggie Smith as the scathingly hilarious Countess Dowager, Michelle Dockery as the leading Lady Mary Crawley and Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley. \u2014 Anna Tingley, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"Read full article Competition, ego, and acting chops collide in a hilarious insider comedy set during rehearsals for their upcoming production. \u2014 Thelma Adams, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022"
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"Raymond is different, so well written and acted, so perfectly pitched, that even the silences, especially the silences, are hilarious . It makes comedy look easy. \u2014 James Morris , Wilson Quarterly , Autumn 2005",
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tim Burton's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved (by children) and reviled (by critics and librarians) book, is quirky, well acted, often hilarious , and visually sumptuous, but don't go to it expecting sweetness in anything except the title. \u2014 Richard Alleva , Commonweal , 12 Aug. 2005",
"In fairness, McEnroe does have genuine passion for the game, and his willingness to take on the sport's sacred cows is admirable. His candor and hilarious random ruminations as an analyst make even the most lopsided matches worth watching. \u2014 Jon Wertheim , Sports Illustrated , 17 Sept. 2001",
"Since his material is genuinely funny, at times hilarious , it makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium. Sedaris has an unexpectedly high-pitched voice that comes across as majorly mischievous in its delivery \u2026 \u2014 Publishers Weekly , 5 May 1997",
"Some people don't like his comedy, but I think he's hilarious .",
"She gave us a hilarious account of her first days as a teacher.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Today marks 30 years since the release of the hilarious Eddie Murphy comedy, Boomerang. \u2014 Okla Jones, Essence , 28 June 2022",
"Love and Thunder costar Natalie Portman shared a hilarious story about the Australian actor's tactic to not be recognized when picking up his children after school. \u2014 Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
"The more inspired newcomers are the Vicious 6, including Taraji P. Henson as Belle Bottom, a usurper who wields her chain belt as a weapon, and the hilarious Lucy Lawless as Nun-Chuck, a woman of the cloth with a thirst for violence. \u2014 Thomas Floyd, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Kate's hilarious court-side looks have become the stuff of Internet legend\u2014and after taking a year off from the competition due to COVID-19, the Duchess and her signature expressions officially returned to the royal box in 2021. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 27 June 2022",
"The actress additionally shared a hilarious behind-the-scenes video of her time at Glastonbury. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 27 June 2022",
"Other recommendations this week include the film Doula starring Chris Pine and Troian Bellisario (check out the description and the hilarious trailer below), as well as several very timely and important documentaries. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 26 June 2022",
"The show\u2019s entire cast returns for the second film, including Maggie Smith as the scathingly hilarious Countess Dowager, Michelle Dockery as the leading Lady Mary Crawley and Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley. \u2014 Anna Tingley, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"Read full article Competition, ego, and acting chops collide in a hilarious insider comedy set during rehearsals for their upcoming production. \u2014 Thelma Adams, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022"
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"My attempt to carve the turkey was a source of great hilarity at the dinner table.",
"hilarity is the last thing you expect to find at a funeral, but we were there to celebrate his life rather than to dwell on his death",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When his disapproving mother hires a ham delivery driver (Cruz\u2019s future husband, Javier Bardem) to seduce her, hilarity ensues. \u2014 Radhika Seth, Vogue , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Adding to the hilarity of the situation, Ayaansh ordered so many items that everything still hasn't arrived. \u2014 Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Drama and hilarity ensues when a human discovers a remote resort for monsters and other mythical creatures run by Dracula, played by Adam Sandler. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"The hilarity of Black women on television has been sorely missed and ignored by the Television Academy over multiple decades. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"There\u2019s also, of course, Winkler, who continues to achieve dignified restraint and high hilarity this season, and just had a finely etched longform profile in the New York Times and is poised for a late career renaissance. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
"There are four young Athenian lovers, a mischievous fairy, a quarreling fairy king and queen and a troupe of truly awful amateur actors and the hilarity that ensues when all of their stories diverge. \u2014 Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The whole of the series reached a stage of sad hilarity , really. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Not to mention the hilarity of an actual accidental hanging. \u2014 Marilyn Stasio, Variety , 22 Apr. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"h\u012b-",
"hi-\u02c8ler-\u0259-t\u0113"
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"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102918",
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},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"She watched the sun set behind the hills .",
"The house was built at the very top of the hill .",
"Our driveway is a long, steep hill .",
"He came barreling down the hill at 65 miles per hour.",
"The plows came and cleared the streets, forming a hill of snow on the street corner.",
"Verb",
"hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But things don\u2019t quite go according to plan: Even when Max isn\u2019t running up that hill , Vecna refuses to take the bait. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 2 July 2022",
"Some survivors recalled being swept down by the gush of the hill debris, The Times of India daily cited Daichuipao, a resident, as saying. \u2014 Wasbir Hussain, ajc , 1 July 2022",
"Twenty years ago, Supriya Sahu, a young government official charged with oversight of Nilgiris, a popular hill station in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, saw a seemingly impossible problem. \u2014 Anant Gupta, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"And unlike many artists, Bush owns her masters and record label, meaning her money hill is turning into a mountain. \u2014 Alexandra Sternlicht, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Rodgers, who dropped Japanese rival Toshihiko Seko on Heartbreak Hill, was the greatest hill runner of his generation. \u2014 John Powers, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"One by one, the seven Samuels siblings and their parents, Shanda and Qwanzi Samuels Sr., stumble out and make their way up a hill adjacent to the blacktop. \u2014 Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant , 30 June 2022",
"That whole process was like rolling a boulder up a hill . \u2014 Brandon Tensley, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"The professor, choosing not to die on this particular hill , vowed not to use the offending expression again. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Other aggressive turkeys are a common sight in the Oakland hills a few miles east, where some have been known to mix it up with passing bicyclists and hikers. \u2014 Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com , 21 May 2020",
"Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Learn about planting times, using fertilizer and lime, and when to prune, pinch, hill up or tie up plants. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 Feb. 2020"
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"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8hil"
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"cock",
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"the hawk's reddish hind feathers"
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"1520, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"Middle English hine servant, farmhand, from Old English h\u012bna , genitive of h\u012bwan , plural, members of a household; akin to Old High German h\u012bwo spouse, Latin civis fellow citizen":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German hinta hind, Greek kemas young deer":"Noun",
"Middle English, probably back-formation from Old English hinder , adverb, behind; akin to Old High German hintar , preposition, behind":"Adjective"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its hind wing boasts yellow tufts called the androconia. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Apr. 2020",
"Known to entomologists as , the red admiral is mostly black, with white spots near the wing tips, orange bands on the hind wings , and a bright red band on the forewing. \u2014 Dan Southerland, Washington Post , 24 Mar. 2020",
"The hind wings have contrasting patches of red and black with a white band. \u2014 Beth Burger, Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati.com , 24 Jan. 2020",
"The small postman loses the vivid red streaks on its hind wings . \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 18 Sep. 2017"
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"\u2014 R. E. Coker"
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"economic growth hindered by sanctions"
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},
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"Verb",
"The witness refused to cooperate, hindering the investigation.",
"The country's economic growth is being hindered by the sanctions.",
"It's not clear whether the change will help or hinder our project.",
"Adjective",
"the animal's case of mange was especially bad in its hinder parts",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Because jackdaws rely on sound to communicate with each other, researchers say human activities may hinder these interactions. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 June 2022",
"Data silos hinder organizations from gaining real-time visibility of their manufacturing processes. \u2014 Mykola Striletskyi, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"County officials, who are suing the state to maintain their share of tax revenue, say the reduction will hinder several public health programs and services for veterans, seniors and disabled residents. \u2014 Alison Burdo, ProPublica , 2 June 2022",
"Proper ventilation also can prevent the build-up of carbon dioxide, which some studies show can hinder how students stay alert and learn. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 May 2022",
"Unfortunately, several aspects of modern social media hinder the free marketplace of ideas. \u2014 Filippo Menczer, The Conversation , 9 May 2022",
"While stepping up their support for Kyiv, Ukraine's allies are also focused on how to punish Moscow and hinder its war effort. \u2014 Artem Grudinin, NBC News , 5 May 2022",
"According to the National Psoriasis Foundation, treatments range from oral medications that reduce inflammation and swelling to biologic therapies that are injected or infused to target certain parts of your immune system and hinder joint damage. \u2014 Claire Gillespie, SELF , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Whether hybrid releases on average help or hinder a film overall financial performance is still an open question for movie studios. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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"Middle English, from Old English hinder , adverb \u2014 see hinder entry 1":"Adjective"
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"\u02c8h\u012bn-d\u0259r",
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hinder Verb hinder , impede , obstruct , block mean to interfere with the activity or progress of. hinder stresses causing harmful or annoying delay or interference with progress. rain hindered the climb impede implies making forward progress difficult by clogging, hampering, or fettering. tight clothing that impedes movement obstruct implies interfering with something in motion or in progress by the sometimes intentional placing of obstacles in the way. the view was obstructed by billboards block implies complete obstruction to passage or progress. a landslide blocked the road",
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hinder from":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to stop (someone) from (doing something)":[
"Financial troubles hindered him from going on the trip.",
"Unfortunately, her ignorance has never hindered her from giving her opinion."
]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234052",
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
]
},
"hindered":{
"antonyms":[
"aft",
"after",
"back",
"hind",
"hindmost",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rearward"
],
"definitions":{
": situated behind or in the rear : posterior":[
"a long oval forward part and a taillike hinder portion",
"\u2014 R. E. Coker"
],
": to delay, impede, or prevent action":[
"uncertain whether the changes would help or hinder"
],
": to hold back : prevent , check":[
"His financial troubles hindered him from buying a home."
],
": to make slow or difficult the progress of : hamper":[
"Their journey was hindered by snow and high winds.",
"economic growth hindered by sanctions"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The witness refused to cooperate, hindering the investigation.",
"The country's economic growth is being hindered by the sanctions.",
"It's not clear whether the change will help or hinder our project.",
"Adjective",
"the animal's case of mange was especially bad in its hinder parts",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Because jackdaws rely on sound to communicate with each other, researchers say human activities may hinder these interactions. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 June 2022",
"Data silos hinder organizations from gaining real-time visibility of their manufacturing processes. \u2014 Mykola Striletskyi, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"County officials, who are suing the state to maintain their share of tax revenue, say the reduction will hinder several public health programs and services for veterans, seniors and disabled residents. \u2014 Alison Burdo, ProPublica , 2 June 2022",
"Proper ventilation also can prevent the build-up of carbon dioxide, which some studies show can hinder how students stay alert and learn. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 May 2022",
"Unfortunately, several aspects of modern social media hinder the free marketplace of ideas. \u2014 Filippo Menczer, The Conversation , 9 May 2022",
"While stepping up their support for Kyiv, Ukraine's allies are also focused on how to punish Moscow and hinder its war effort. \u2014 Artem Grudinin, NBC News , 5 May 2022",
"According to the National Psoriasis Foundation, treatments range from oral medications that reduce inflammation and swelling to biologic therapies that are injected or infused to target certain parts of your immune system and hinder joint damage. \u2014 Claire Gillespie, SELF , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Whether hybrid releases on average help or hinder a film overall financial performance is still an open question for movie studios. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 28 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hindren , from Old English hindrian ; akin to Old English hinder behind":"Verb",
"Middle English, from Old English hinder , adverb \u2014 see hinder entry 1":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012bn-d\u0259r",
"\u02c8hin-d\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hinder Verb hinder , impede , obstruct , block mean to interfere with the activity or progress of. hinder stresses causing harmful or annoying delay or interference with progress. rain hindered the climb impede implies making forward progress difficult by clogging, hampering, or fettering. tight clothing that impedes movement obstruct implies interfering with something in motion or in progress by the sometimes intentional placing of obstacles in the way. the view was obstructed by billboards block implies complete obstruction to passage or progress. a landslide blocked the road",
"synonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205901",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hindering impediment":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": impedient impediment":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025547",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hinderingly":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": in a hindering manner":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170517",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"hinderlands":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": buttocks":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"hinderlands alteration of hinderlins, hinderlings; hinderlins, hinderlings from hinder entry 3 + -lings or -lins (alteration of -lings )":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132756",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"hindmost":{
"antonyms":[
"anterior",
"fore",
"forward",
"front",
"frontal"
],
"definitions":{
": farthest to the rear : last":[]
},
"examples":[
"the dance teacher had to keep reminding us to kick our hindmost foot when we reversed direction",
"the hindmost wagon in the caravan had the roughest ride because of the deep ruts and dust created by the others"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u012bn(d)-\u02ccm\u014dst"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"aft",
"after",
"back",
"hind",
"hinder",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rearward"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013047",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hindrance":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a person or thing that interferes with or slows the progress of someone or something : impediment":[
"a hindrance to learning"
],
": the act of interfering with or slowing the progress of someone or something : the action of hindering":[
"should be allowed to live where he chooses without hindrance"
],
": the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered":[
"hindrance of speech"
]
},
"examples":[
"Is my presence here a help or a hindrance ?",
"made a survey of all the hindrances to wheelchair access, such as curbs and stairs",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ryan Horn, a Republican media strategist, is watching to see whether Lindstrom\u2019s lower-key, suburban profile will be a help or a hindrance amid the state\u2019s shifting demographic and political trends. \u2014 Peter Slevin, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"Racist beauty standards have also been a hindrance in the past for Black women getting out and exercising, Elliott said. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 18 Apr. 2022",
"And since the gaskets are lightweight, shipping them from anywhere in the country won\u2019t be a hindrance . \u2014 Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Even the vaunted Brown v. Board of Education demonstrates the extent to which the court has been a hindrance in the fight for equal rights. \u2014 Jamelle Bouie New York Times, Star Tribune , 25 July 2021",
"Not having a car is a hindrance ; not having food can be fatal, in the short or long term. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Operating within a franchise that has over 80 years worth of material to draw from was both a help and a hindrance , according to Dillon and Crossman. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 4 Mar. 2022",
"His size had not been a hindrance , in college or in the N.F.L. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Mar. 2022",
"The Newsom administration has pointed to federal rules as a hindrance to doing more, but parent and anti-poverty advocates are pushing the state, which is now flush with cash, to follow Colorado\u2019s lead. \u2014 Mackenzie Mays Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 28 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see hinder entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hin-dr\u0259ns",
"\u02c8hin-dr\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"shackles",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024131",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hine":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a male Asian elephant without tusks or tushes \u2014 compare tusker":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"native name in Burma":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0113(\u02cc)n\u0101"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112820",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hing":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": asafetida":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi h\u012b\u0303g , from Sanskrit hi\u1e45gu":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hi\u014b",
"\""
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105106",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hinge":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a determining factor : turning point":[],
": a flexible ligamentous joint":[],
": a jointed or flexible device on which a door, lid, or other swinging part turns":[],
": a small piece of thin gummed paper used in fastening a postage stamp in an album":[],
": to attach by or furnish with hinges":[],
": to be contingent on a single consideration or point":[
"\u2014 used with on or upon the prosecution's case hinges on the DNA evidence"
],
": to swing on or as if on a hinge":[
"These thoughtful amenities include \u2026 an outdoor patio TV that hinges outward toward the pool \u2026",
"\u2014 Paul Takahashi",
"\u2026 we pulled within feet of a 12-foot crocodile, his huge jaw hinging open in warning to reveal a toothy grin.",
"\u2014 Andrea Bartz"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"the outcome of the game hinged on a single play",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In almost every reading of Auden, the familiar hinge of his career remains visible\u2014and indeed is emphasized in the division of these two volumes, the first of which ends in 1939 and the second of which begins in 1940. \u2014 Alan Jacobs, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The moment, at its simplest and cruelest, was a hinge in a long saga. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Feb. 2022",
"For this exercise, 100% of the motion is a hinge from your hips while the spine remains 100% stable. \u2014 Jay Dicharry, Outside Online , 10 Sep. 2019",
"Dell also overhauled the XPS 13 2-in-1's design, transforming it from a portable ultralight with a 360-degree hinge to a tablet with an optional detachable keyboard cover sold separately. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Position each hinge on the top, and use a knife to mark its perimeter. \u2014 Thomas Klenck, Popular Mechanics , 14 Aug. 2021",
"Initiate the hip hinge again to lower the weight towards the floor while maintaining a flat back. \u2014 Greg Presto, Men's Health , 26 May 2022",
"Apparently, changes to the hinge will let Samsung reduce the handset\u2019s weight. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The pin added five lucrative points for Oregon State and made the potential of winning the title hinge on the final two matches. \u2014 Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Instead, the radical group engineers environments that hinge on collaboration, and foster social, cultural, and creative exchange. \u2014 Cassidy George, Vogue , 22 June 2022",
"But these consumer-protection economics hinge upon the U.S. Senate passing legislation that has languished for months after passing the House of Representatives. \u2014 Energy Innovation: Policy And Technology, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Such ambitions all hinge on Moscow\u2019s success in the east. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 13 June 2022",
"And some noted the commission is also a better venue for many cases that hinge on evidence generally not allowed in traditional courtroom proceedings, such as an employee recalling what their boss told them in private. \u2014 Todd Wallack, BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2022",
"But the schedule might hinge on Foxconn\u2019s ability to resume hiring more workers. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 5 May 2022",
"The parking situation will hinge on what at this point are two unknowns \u2014 how many people carpool to games and how many arrive by trolley. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 May 2022",
"Part of that work will hinge on understanding how to best help patients once they\u2019re identified as high risk. \u2014 Mohana Ravindranath, STAT , 29 Apr. 2022",
"This runoff, which polls predict could be close, will hinge to a large extent on perceptions of the economy. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1719, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English heng ; akin to Middle Dutch henge hook, Old English hangian to hang":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hinj"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"depend",
"hang",
"ride",
"turn"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012600",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hingecorner":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a hinged corner (as on a box or packing case)":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-141049",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hinky":{
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"convinced",
"positive",
"sure"
],
"definitions":{
": nervous , jittery":[],
": suspicious":[]
},
"examples":[
"the cop was feeling hinky about the whole situation and was starting to think that it was a setup",
"after noticing that the driver seemed hinky , the border guard demanded that he submit to an inspection of his vehicle",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lumber prices have shot up again in a rise reminiscent of a year ago, when high-climbing wood prices warned of the hinky supply lines and broad inflation to come. \u2014 Ryan Dezember, WSJ , 19 Dec. 2021",
"Some of these outcasts \u2014 like the would-be killer of Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley (a hinky looking Adam Chanler-Berat) \u2014 are all too familiar. \u2014 Marilyn Stasio, Variety , 14 Nov. 2021",
"Certainly, there was no shortage of hinky transactions precipitated by the debtors who were intent on protecting their residence as long as possible. \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2021",
"The scene at the small, Northeast Hancock Street house was hinky . \u2014 oregonlive , 3 May 2021",
"To him, the statistics in the Lancet paper looked hinky . \u2014 Adam Rogers, Wired , 11 Nov. 2020",
"But something hinky is happening on the five-year-old board charged with approving new charter applications in Alabama. \u2014 al , 21 Sep. 2020",
"No longer was there just an uneasy sense that something was hinky . \u2014 Jack Hitt, Wired , 13 Aug. 2020",
"Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus\u2019\u2019 \u2014 a name chosen to evoke the moniker of a hinky theatrical booker and the shorthand for a World War I aerial squadron. \u2014 Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com , 22 Jan. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1956, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of argot hincty suspicious":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hi\u014b-k\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"trustless",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unsettled",
"unsure"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194736",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hint":{
"antonyms":[
"allude",
"imply",
"indicate",
"infer",
"insinuate",
"intimate",
"suggest"
],
"definitions":{
": a slight indication of the existence, approach, or nature of something : clue":[
"gave only a hint of what was to come"
],
": a statement that expresses indirectly what one prefers not to say explicitly":[
"had been dropping hints that he would like to be invited"
],
": a very small amount : suggestion":[
"with just a hint of spice"
],
": an indirect or general suggestion for how to do or solve something":[
"helpful hints for inexperienced cooks",
"can't tell you the answer but can give you a hint"
],
": opportunity , turn":[],
": to convey indirectly and by allusion rather than explicitly":[
"a suspicion that she scarcely dared to hint"
],
": to give an indirect suggestion or piece of evidence that leads one toward the solution of a problem : to give a hint":[
"\u2014 usually used with at hint at the answer"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Her face gave me a hint of what she was thinking.",
"\u201cI have a lot of work to do.\u201d \u201cOK, I'll leave. I can take a hint .\u201d",
"The sauce has a subtle hint of garlic.",
"He had a hint of a German accent.",
"They'll betray you at the first hint of trouble.",
"Verb",
"I keep hinting , but she's not catching on. I think I need to be more direct.",
"The boss hinted about possible layoffs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Read on for a Wordle primer or skip ahead for today\u2019s hint and answer! \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The Fierce Madres\u2019 first foray into demanding change at the school board meeting gave them a hint that the road ahead could be long and bumpy. \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"The tonal and philosophical differences between this often humorous novel and the violence and unremitting gloom of the other three hint at the breadth of Hermans\u2019s range\u2014and sharpen our curiosity about the works that have yet to appear in English. \u2014 Francine Prose, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"The visual motif of rodeo riders and the evocative use of acoustic guitar in No\u00ebl Akchot\u00e9\u2019s score hint at the extent to which cowboy culture influenced Highsmith\u2019s personal style while simultaneously distancing her. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 June 2022",
"The now award-winning mashup was a 1989 era masterpiece, which in itself feels like a possible hint that 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) will be the third of her old albums to get a revamp following Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version) and Red (Taylor\u2019s Version). \u2014 Hannah Dailey, Billboard , 20 June 2022",
"In conversation, his patience and intellect hint at a lifetime spent dealing with people who have preconceptions about his art or his identity. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"Tidal, the streaming service purchased by her husband Jay-Z in 2015, tweeted a hint on Thursday. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"In November 2021, Barry posted on Twitter that the main unit production had wrapped filming, which gave fans a hint that season 2 would likely drop sometime in mid-2022. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 8 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The creators hint that what\u2019s in store will not only encourage new viewers to go back and watch from the start but also reward longtime viewers with payoffs and questions answered. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Youngjae leaving the party to follow the woman through a set of doors hint toward a part two of this story potentially continued in his following visual. \u2014 Jeff Benjamin, Billboard , 22 June 2022",
"Its zero-tolerance approach leaves the country stuck in a cycle of disruptive shutdowns and reopenings that hint at lingering economic pain. \u2014 Fortune , 12 June 2022",
"Those attacks might have helped elevate the state senator\u2019s name identification across California, and hint that Newsom might prefer going up against a Republican in November rather than an independent like Shellenberger. \u2014 Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"Market watchers pay attention to the number of bidders who compete for works at the priciest levels because thin bidding can hint at potential cracks in collector confidence. \u2014 Kelly Crow, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Small business hiring intentions hint at a possible downshift in monthly payroll advances to about 250,000 a month, Shepherdson says, citing surveys by the National Federation of Independent Business. \u2014 Paul Davidson, USA TODAY , 6 May 2022",
"Yet, though the movie\u2019s drama and settings hint at studio classics, its styles and methods are at the forefront of modern cinema. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 Apr. 2022",
"However, some outsiders believe Wiggins\u2019 issues hint as something more concerning. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1604, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Noun",
"1648, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably alteration of obsolete hent act of seizing, from hent , verb":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hint"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hint Verb suggest , imply , hint , intimate , insinuate mean to convey an idea indirectly. suggest may stress putting into the mind by association of ideas, awakening of a desire, or initiating a train of thought. a film title that suggests its subject matter imply is close to suggest but may indicate a more definite or logical relation of the unexpressed idea to the expressed. measures implying that bankruptcy was imminent hint implies the use of slight or remote suggestion with a minimum of overt statement. hinted that she might get the job intimate stresses delicacy of suggestion without connoting any lack of candor. intimates that there is more to the situation than meets the eye insinuate applies to the conveying of a usually unpleasant idea in a sly underhanded manner. insinuated that there were shady dealings",
"synonyms":[
"clue",
"cue",
"indication",
"inkling",
"intimation",
"lead",
"suggestion"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094658",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hinterland":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a region lying beyond major metropolitan or cultural centers":[],
": a region lying inland from a coast":[],
": a region remote from urban areas":[]
},
"examples":[
"the colonies hugged the coastline, while the hinterland remained largely unexplored",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In India\u2019s vast hinterland , scores of people are dying with covid symptoms without being tested. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 May 2021",
"The protests highlighted the disconnect between urban elites and overlooked communities in the rural hinterland or underserved projects surrounding big cities. \u2014 Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"Modern treehouse cabins are sprouting in the Scandinavian hinterland , and the roof of a new Swiss lodge is designed to double as a walking trail. \u2014 Paige Darrah, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"Migrants from India\u2019s vast hinterland are now returning to its megacities in search of jobs, and the streets are packed with traffic. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Migrants from India\u2019s vast hinterland are now returning to its megacities in search of jobs, and the streets are packed with traffic. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Migrant workers from India\u2019s hinterland , who mostly worked on daily wages in urban India, then began leaving these centres en masse. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Migrants from India\u2019s vast hinterland are now returning to its megacities in search of jobs, and the streets are packed with traffic. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Mar. 2022",
"For gardeners, the survey brings an important discovery: The greatest diversity of bee species was not found in Mt. Cuba\u2019s natural hinterland , but in the gardens. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1890, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"German, from hinter hinder + Land":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hin-t\u0259r-\u02ccland",
"-l\u0259nd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"backcountry",
"backland(s)",
"backwater",
"backwoods",
"bush",
"frontier",
"outback",
"outlands",
"up-country"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171035",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hip":{
"antonyms":[
"acquaint",
"advise",
"apprise",
"brief",
"catch up",
"clear",
"clue (in)",
"enlighten",
"familiarize",
"fill in",
"inform",
"instruct",
"tell",
"verse",
"wise (up)"
],
"definitions":{
": aware or appreciative of something":[
"\u2014 used with to got hip to their plan"
],
": having or showing awareness of or involvement in the newest developments or styles":[],
": hip joint":[],
": hipness":[],
": rose hip":[],
": the external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides of a roof that have their wall plates running in different directions":[],
": the laterally projecting region of each side of the lower or posterior part of the mammalian trunk formed by the lateral parts of the pelvis and upper part of the femur together with the fleshy parts covering them":[],
": to make aware : tell , inform":[],
": very fashionable : trendy":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He tried to learn about the latest bands so he could impress his hip new college friends.",
"She knows how to get into all of the hippest clubs and restaurants.",
"Verb",
"if you want to get hipped on what goes on behind the scenes at a television network, you should read this book"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1811, in the meaning defined above":"Interjection",
"1904, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1952, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"circa 1932, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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"Middle English hipe , from Old English h\u0113ope ; akin to Old High German hiafo hip":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English hype ; akin to Old High German huf hip":"Noun",
"alteration of hep entry 2":"Adjective",
"origin unknown":"Interjection"
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"\u02c8hip"
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"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"cool",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"fresh",
"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"supercool",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"interjection",
"noun",
"verb"
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": a person who is unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns (as in jazz or fashion)":[]
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"a movie that appeals equally to hipsters and suburbanites",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet there the buns are in the display cabinet of Khlibar, a high-end bakery and coffee shop (whose name means Bread Bar) in Podil, the hipster neighborhood in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Flipping through its delightfully chaotic pages is like cracking open a time capsule, or bearing witness to an unhinged showcase of the definitive trends of hipster style, as worn by some of its earliest adopters. \u2014 Cassidy George, Vogue , 2 June 2022",
"MacBook Pro leaning into the laptops with grunt, the serendipity of diminishing the importance of raw specifications in place of the hipster aesthetic is definitely on message. \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Some years ago, to attract fellow collectors, Mr. Rossato, 37, began driving his red 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV on Sunday mornings to Panther Coffee in Miami\u2019s hipster Wynwood neighborhood. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2022",
"Their cut falls between a hipster style and shorts for full coverage that still feels like underwear. \u2014 Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping , 3 May 2022",
"The atmosphere was more hipster club than stuffy shelter. \u2014 Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Greta, a privileged type turned impoverished Brooklyn hipster , hawks iPads at the Apple Store on the corner of Flatbush and Lafayette and harbors no small dose of maternal grievance. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Whether a hedonistic wine festival or a cool hipster market, before the war, Kyiv was a city that could always surprise. \u2014 Bytom Soufi Burridge, ABC News , 11 May 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1940, in the meaning defined above":""
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"hip entry 2":""
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"\u02c8hip-st\u0259r"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[
"charter",
"engage",
"lease",
"rent"
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": available for use or service in return for payment":[
"They have boats for hire .",
"willing to do farm work for hire"
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"starting wage for the new hires"
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": rental":[
"the hire of equipment",
"\u2014 often used attributively a hire car"
],
": the act or an instance of hiring (see hire entry 2 )":[
"laws regarding the hire of workers"
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": the state of being hired : employment":[],
": to engage the personal services of for a set sum":[
"hire a crew"
],
": to engage the temporary use of for a fixed sum":[
"hire a hall"
],
": to get done for pay":[
"hire the mowing done"
],
": to grant the personal services of or temporary use of for a fixed sum":[
"hire themselves out"
],
": to take employment":[
"hire out as a guide during the tourist season"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The company has a few new hires .",
"The hire of a car and other equipment will of course incur a supplementary charge.",
"Verb",
"She had very little office experience, so the company wouldn't hire her.",
"We hired someone to clean the office once a week.",
"The company isn't hiring right now.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Interviews are ongoing, with a hire expected to be made by the end of this month. \u2014 Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
"Connect with a new hire who has questions about compensation. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Rather than starting from scratch with a brand new hire , consider increasing the ease with which employees can transition within your company. \u2014 Otto Berkes, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Unlike with the hire of incoming defensive coordinator Jim Knowles, the connections to Day and the Big Ten abound with Frye. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 11 Jan. 2022",
"While the pair spoke with one potential hire , the movie producer raved about Lala's success in business. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Cristobal was whisked across the country Monday night on a private plane with Jose Mas, a Board of Trustee member who moved front and center with this hire of another Miami Christopher Columbus High grad. \u2014 Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Kheiron Medical Technologies grew its cancer technologies team with the hire of Ben Glocker, a machine learning and medical imaging researcher. \u2014 Mario Aguilar, STAT , 5 Dec. 2021",
"The brewery struck gold with the hire of Osborne, who is widely respected by brewers across the Valley and seen as one of the best in the business. \u2014 Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"What companies have done, historically, is hire more people for more clients. \u2014 Michael Cupps, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Binance is looking to hire more than 2,000 people across Europe, Asia, South America and the Middle East. \u2014 Fortune , 29 June 2022",
"Meehan\u2019s short tenure at Disneyland comes as the park works to retrain and hire enough people to return to the full staffing of about 32,000 employees before the pandemic. \u2014 Hugo Mart\u00ednstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 29 June 2022",
"This historic shift equips businesses with the ability to hire more people, expand their impact, and ultimately, help narrow the racial wealth gap in this country. \u2014 Marcia Fudge, Essence , 17 June 2022",
"In the last quarter of 2021\u2014peak holiday shopping season\u2014Amazon fell short on its plans to hire 150,000-plus people, chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky said on a February earnings call. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 17 June 2022",
"The Federal Reserve's main tool for managing the economy is to change the federal funds rate, which can affect not only borrowing costs for consumers but also shape broader decisions by companies like how many people to hire . \u2014 Justin Lahart, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"To have enough lifeguards on staff to reach full capacity, Raleigh needs to hire at least 75 people, ABC 11 reports. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 9 June 2022",
"For this year's ceremony, the Grammys adopted an inclusion rider that required producers to audition, interview and hire people from groups that have been historically and systematically excluded from the industry. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
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"Middle English, from Old English h\u0233r ; akin to Old Saxon h\u016bria hire":"Noun and Verb"
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"\u02c8h\u012b(-\u0259)r",
"\u02c8h\u012br"
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"bald",
"furless",
"glabrous",
"hairless",
"shorn",
"smooth"
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": covered with coarse stiff hairs":[
"a hirsute leaf"
],
": hairy sense 1":[
"his hirsute chest"
]
},
"examples":[
"wore a hirsute mask as part of his werewolf costume",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Mandico sets the stage via a chorus of overlapping narrators, their disembodied heads (and naked hirsute shoulders) floating in space: The atmosphere on After Blue is toxic to men, whose hair grew inward and killed them off. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 3 June 2022",
"In my main feed and the app\u2019s Explore and Reels tabs, Instagram was building a crescendo of shock: There were babies missing limbs, babies with bulging veins, babies with too-small heads, babies with too-big heads, even hirsute babies. \u2014 Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"The clip then transitions to a shot of a string quartet playing swelling chords as Cave\u2019s hirsute collaborator, Warren Ellis, conducts them dramatically. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 3 Feb. 2022",
"She\u2019s wearing a halter and hot pants and sitting between two hirsute guys with big hair and beards. \u2014 Zadie Smith, The New Yorker , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Acne also released a hirsute cow-print boot that almost hit the knee. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 21 Jan. 2022",
"But the trailer for the film, which also showcases Jodie Comer and Adam Driver, displays a hirsute horror for the two consummate movie stars. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 14 Sep. 2021",
"No doubt channeling his energy into these efforts, rather than hirsute pursuits, has proven a lot more gratifying to Denning. \u2014 Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com , 16 Aug. 2021",
"Dusty Hill, the hirsute bass player with ZZ Top, has passed away at 72. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 29 July 2021"
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"1621, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Latin hirsutus ; akin to Latin horr\u0113re to bristle \u2014 more at horror":""
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"\u02c8hir-",
"hir-",
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"\u02c8h\u0259r-\u02ccs\u00fct",
"\u02cch\u0259r-\u02c8s\u00fct",
"hi(\u0259)r-\u02c8",
"\u02cch\u0259r-\u02c8"
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"brushy",
"cottony",
"fleecy",
"furred",
"furry",
"hairy",
"rough",
"shaggy",
"silky",
"unshorn",
"woolly",
"wooly"
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"adjective",
"noun"
]
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": rough or covered with bristles, stiff hairs, or minute spines":[
"hispid leaves"
]
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"first_known_use":{
"1646, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Latin hispidus ; akin to Latin horr\u0113re":""
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"\u02c8hi-sp\u0259d"
],
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"adjective"
]
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": a cotton rat ( Sigmodon hispidus ) of the southern and central U.S. that has a grizzled coat of dark hairs interspersed with buff or grayish hairs, nests on the ground or in burrows, eats primarily green vegetation, and is sometimes used in medicine as an animal model in the study of infectious disease (such as polio and influenza)":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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": minutely hispid":[]
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"hispid + -ulous or -ulate (from -ulous + -ate )":""
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"(\u02c8)hi\u00a6spij\u0259l\u0259s"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": of or related to the genus Hispa":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Hispa + English -ine":""
},
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"-sp\u0259\u0307n",
"\u02c8hi\u02ccsp\u012bn"
],
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"type":[
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": to express disapproval of by hissing":[
"hissed the performers off the stage"
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": to make a sharp sibilant sound":[
"the crowd hissed in disapproval",
"hissing steam"
],
": to utter or whisper angrily or threateningly and with a hiss":[]
},
"examples":[
"The radiator hissed as it let off steam.",
"The audience hissed him off the stage.",
"\u201cLeave me alone!\u201d he hissed .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The two share similar tan and brown colorings, and gopher snakes will often hiss or vibrate their tails when threatened, according to the wildlife division. \u2014 Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Fat king oyster mushrooms are trimmed, then painted with olive oil before being sent screaming into a hot skillet to brown and hiss off their moisture. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Lacy and Daddario have the toughest roles, and White and the actors do an impressive job of not giving us easy cues about when to hiss at Shane\u2019s selfishness, or root for Rachel\u2019s yearning to be independent. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 July 2021",
"Sensing the commotion and chaos, Aries began to hiss and growl. \u2014 Brett Steenbarger, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
"But imagine trying to plead your case before a judge while your phone cuts in and out, your kids wail in the background, or library patrons hiss shhhh. \u2014 Eric Scigliano, The Atlantic , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Cordova-Rojas, who previously volunteered at the New York City Wild Bird Fund for five years, said swans are normally territorial and can hiss at or try to flee from people when threatened. \u2014 Alec Snyder, CNN , 12 Nov. 2020",
"When threatened, these wide-eyed critters will hiss and clasp their paws atop their heads, undulate like snakes, and suck up a mouthful of venom from glands in their armpits. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Feb. 2020",
"One painful memory of mine from the summer of 2018\u2014of an encounter with a rabid harasser who hissed threatening insults at me at the San Francisco Airport\u2014has returned to haunt me. \u2014 Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books , 6 Apr. 2020"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
},
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"Middle English, of imitative origin":""
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"\u02c8his"
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"fizz",
"fizzle",
"sizzle",
"swish",
"whish",
"whiz",
"whizz"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103148",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"\u02c8his\u0259b\u0259l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215948",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": himself sense 1":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8sef",
"(h)i-\u02c8self"
],
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"pronoun"
]
},
"hisself?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=h&file=hissel01":{
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": himself sense 1":[]
},
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"12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8sef",
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],
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"the crowd hissed in disapproval",
"hissing steam"
],
": to utter or whisper angrily or threateningly and with a hiss":[]
},
"examples":[
"The radiator hissed as it let off steam.",
"The audience hissed him off the stage.",
"\u201cLeave me alone!\u201d he hissed .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The two share similar tan and brown colorings, and gopher snakes will often hiss or vibrate their tails when threatened, according to the wildlife division. \u2014 Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Fat king oyster mushrooms are trimmed, then painted with olive oil before being sent screaming into a hot skillet to brown and hiss off their moisture. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Lacy and Daddario have the toughest roles, and White and the actors do an impressive job of not giving us easy cues about when to hiss at Shane\u2019s selfishness, or root for Rachel\u2019s yearning to be independent. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 July 2021",
"Sensing the commotion and chaos, Aries began to hiss and growl. \u2014 Brett Steenbarger, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
"But imagine trying to plead your case before a judge while your phone cuts in and out, your kids wail in the background, or library patrons hiss shhhh. \u2014 Eric Scigliano, The Atlantic , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Cordova-Rojas, who previously volunteered at the New York City Wild Bird Fund for five years, said swans are normally territorial and can hiss at or try to flee from people when threatened. \u2014 Alec Snyder, CNN , 12 Nov. 2020",
"When threatened, these wide-eyed critters will hiss and clasp their paws atop their heads, undulate like snakes, and suck up a mouthful of venom from glands in their armpits. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Feb. 2020",
"One painful memory of mine from the summer of 2018\u2014of an encounter with a rabid harasser who hissed threatening insults at me at the San Francisco Airport\u2014has returned to haunt me. \u2014 Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books , 6 Apr. 2020"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
},
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"Middle English, of imitative origin":""
},
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"\u02c8his"
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"fizzle",
"sizzle",
"swish",
"whish",
"whiz",
"whizz"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": hognose snake":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035753",
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"noun"
]
},
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050051",
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": tantrum":[]
},
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"she throws a royal hissy whenever her food is late"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1934, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"perhaps by shortening & alteration from hysterical":""
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"\u02c8hi-s\u0113"
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"fireworks",
"fit",
"hissy fit",
"huff",
"scene",
"tantrum"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174102",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": tantrum":[]
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"examples":[
"the demanding diva had a major hissy fit when she had to wait for her trailer to be ready",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As the smell of cinnamon rolls and suntan lotion wafted through the spring air at Disneyland on Monday morning, Rory Sutherland flung herself on the sidewalk and had what can only be described as a hissy fit . \u2014 New York Times , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Others argue that the Fed will be reluctant to raise rates too far too fast because the market might have what is essentially a hissy fit . \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Roy, then only 30, was quick-dished to Colorado in December 1995, just days after staging a hissy fit behind the bench in Montreal for all to see the night he was yanked from net. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 Oct. 2021",
"Our biggest clue is what my late father used to call a hissy fit thrown by chairman Walker at the July 16 public meeting. \u2014 Dallas News , 31 July 2020",
"And the disruptive behavior went far beyond the chatters, the fragrant passengers and the ones having hissy fits . \u2014 Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY , 30 Aug. 2019",
"Drake, coaching for the Kalamazoo Growlers, had a real on-field hissy fit . \u2014 Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY , 21 July 2019",
"If his on-field performance wasn't bad enough, Pogba had a number of hissy fits off it, too. \u2014 SI.com , 10 June 2019",
"At least that should leave us a little better prepared when the current love-in gives way to the next hissy fit . \u2014 The Economist , 5 July 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1967, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
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"explosion",
"fireworks",
"fit",
"hissy",
"huff",
"scene",
"tantrum"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180143",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a representation of a frequency distribution by means of rectangles whose widths represent class intervals and whose areas are proportional to the corresponding frequencies":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Examination of the daily histogram for September reveals that most of the damage occurs from the 18th through the 22nd. \u2014 Bill Sarubbi, Forbes , 30 Aug. 2021",
"Here is the daily histogram for the days of the week. \u2014 Bill Sarubbi, Forbes , 28 Apr. 2021",
"The April daily histogram shows that Monday, the 12th, has been up 80% of the time for a 0.37% gain, the most bullish day of the month. \u2014 Bill Sarubbi, Forbes , 11 Apr. 2021",
"Presenting data in a histogram induces comparisons to familiar reference shapes, like the symmetric bell curve that arises in many applications of statistics. \u2014 Andrew Gelman, Wired , 25 Aug. 2020",
"The shape of the histogram of engagement ring cost, is not normal. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Feb. 2020",
"The quantitative variable displayed in the histogram is the cost of engagement rings. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Feb. 2020",
"The histogram summarizes the distribution of a data set composed of 50 integers. \u2014 Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics , 6 Aug. 2019",
"On a technical level, the software is looking at how the log-chrominance histogram of each photo shifts with varying tints. \u2014 Vlad Savov, The Verge , 14 Nov. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Greek histos mast, web + English -gram":""
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"\u02c8hi-st\u0259-\u02ccgram",
"\u02c8his-t\u0259-\u02ccgram"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110338",
"type":[
"noun"
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": description of bodily tissue":[]
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"International Scientific Vocabulary hist- + -graphy":""
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"hi\u02c8st\u00e4gr\u0259f\u0113"
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"Once the initial assessment was finished, Lossie would dissect the bird and send samples to different labs with the ADDL: The histology lab to make microscopic slides, the bacteriology lab, the virology lab and the molecular diagnostic lab. \u2014 Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Additional test results for toxicology and histology could take another month. \u2014 Michael Ruiz, Fox News , 12 Jan. 2022",
"For their study, researchers collected specimens of Ramisyllis multicaudata and their host sponges from waters near Darwin, Australia, and examined them using microscopes, X-ray computed microtomography scans, histology and other techniques. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 May 2021",
"French physician Xavier Bichat, considered the father of histology and tissue pathology, was the first person to look deeper than the organs, dissecting the organs and analyzing the tissues that comprised them. \u2014 Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics , 11 Nov. 2020",
"Cardiac pathology, neuropathology, toxicology and histology testing are still necessary to determine the cause of death, according to the Medical Examiners Office. \u2014 Chloe Melas, CNN , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Stage, grade, time since diagnosis, and histology can be entered to compute how many people survive for up to five years. \u2014 Elizabeth Cooney, STAT , 15 Jan. 2020",
"Additional studies include cardiac pathology, neuropathology, toxicology and histology . \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 16 Dec. 2019",
"Those studies include cardiac pathology, neuropathology, toxicology and histology . \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 16 Dec. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Both diseases affect domestic birds, and histoplasmosis can be transferred to humans. \u2014 Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
"May 1997 - Is hospitalized for a fungal infection called histoplasmosis . \u2014 Cnn Editorial Research, CNN , 6 May 2021",
"Remicade was first approved in 1998, and by 2001 there already were enough reports of invasive histoplasmosis cases that the FDA issued a black box warning for it and other drugs in its class. \u2014 John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Nov. 2020",
"Tschannen died in an Illinois hospital that year of a fungal infection known as histoplasmosis , a condition that for most people causes only mild symptoms. \u2014 John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Nov. 2020",
"Coming into contact with their feces can also put people at risk of infectious diseases, including histoplasmosis and Salmonella, reports Justin Rohrlich for Quartz. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Jan. 2020",
"Most histoplasmosis cases in humans have no symptoms or flu-like symptoms. \u2014 Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral , 19 Mar. 2020",
"Bat droppings can enrich soil to fertilize a fungus (histoplasma capsulatum) that can causes histoplasmosis in humans. \u2014 Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral , 19 Mar. 2020",
"Coming into contact with their feces can also put people at risk of infectious diseases, including histoplasmosis and , reports Justin Rohrlich for . \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Jan. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Both diseases affect domestic birds, and histoplasmosis can be transferred to humans. \u2014 Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
"May 1997 - Is hospitalized for a fungal infection called histoplasmosis . \u2014 Cnn Editorial Research, CNN , 6 May 2021",
"Remicade was first approved in 1998, and by 2001 there already were enough reports of invasive histoplasmosis cases that the FDA issued a black box warning for it and other drugs in its class. \u2014 John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Nov. 2020",
"Tschannen died in an Illinois hospital that year of a fungal infection known as histoplasmosis , a condition that for most people causes only mild symptoms. \u2014 John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Nov. 2020",
"Coming into contact with their feces can also put people at risk of infectious diseases, including histoplasmosis and Salmonella, reports Justin Rohrlich for Quartz. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Jan. 2020",
"Most histoplasmosis cases in humans have no symptoms or flu-like symptoms. \u2014 Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral , 19 Mar. 2020",
"Bat droppings can enrich soil to fertilize a fungus (histoplasma capsulatum) that can causes histoplasmosis in humans. \u2014 Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral , 19 Mar. 2020",
"Coming into contact with their feces can also put people at risk of infectious diseases, including histoplasmosis and , reports Justin Rohrlich for . \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Jan. 2020"
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"historians are still trying to sort out fact from fiction in the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks",
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"His indictment cites a YouTube interview from 2017, with a gang historian named Kev Mac. \u2014 Charles Bethea, The New Yorker , 24 June 2022",
"The San Diego Brewing Timeline, maintained by historian Judith Downie at Cal State San Marcos, makes grim reading. \u2014 Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"According to physician- historian Jos\u00e9 G. Rigau-P\u00e9rez, Spanish officials purposely infected orphans with the virus so that their bodies would incubate it. \u2014 Jim Downs, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"The groundbreaking 2018 report by Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr and French historian B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Savoy calls for the restitution of Africa\u2019s looted assets\u2014including human remains that are still on display in European museums. \u2014 Faustine Ngila, Quartz , 22 June 2022",
"The historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin estimates that at least twenty million people died in Cold War conflicts, the equivalent of 1,200 deaths a day for forty-five years. \u2014 Daniel Bessner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Because of an editing error, an article on Sunday about a photo essay project in which photographers selected objects that represented their family histories misstated the item that is the focus of a book written by the historian Tiya Miles. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"Inspired by the memoir of gay historian Martin Duberman, the 1996 film is a fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 20 June 2022",
"As historian Keri Leigh Merritt notes, more than 270 million acres of land were given almost exclusively to White households, including to immigrants. \u2014 Malaika Jabali, Essence , 19 June 2022"
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"It's wonderful to see so many people here on this historic occasion.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Stonehenge is believed to have been built around 5,000 years ago, according to English Heritage, which cares for Stonehenge and more than 400 other historic sites across England. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 21 June 2022",
"Plenty of outdoor recreation and historic sites are also in the vicinity. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 17 June 2022",
"Historic England, a public body of the British government that oversees England's historic sites, will protect the shipwreck. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"The expo, along with a parade, bus tours of historic sites in Waukegan, North Chicago and Gurnee; a gospel concert; a prayer breakfast and more are all part of a three-day celebration of Juneteenth Saturday, Sunday and Monday around the county. \u2014 Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"In addition to the Army-Navy Game at Gillette Stadium, a number of events will be held at historic sites throughout the Greater Boston region on Friday, Dec. 8, including the Patriot Games, the Army-Navy Gala, and Radio Row. \u2014 Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"Plus new cabins, improving campgrounds and upgrading nature centers and historic sites. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 15 June 2022",
"He also was slated to meet with the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides; pay a Memorial Day visit to Israel\u2019s 9/11 memorial in Jerusalem; meet with the city\u2019s mayor; and visit some historic sites. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"Ducey will pay a Memorial Day visit to Israel's 9/11 memorial in Jerusalem, meet with the city's mayor and visit some historic sites. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 29 May 2022"
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"He strove for historical accuracy in the movie.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The busiest and best TV week of the summer kicks off today with Becoming Elizabeth, Starz's newest historical drama which spares no expense at bringing the young life of Elizabeth Tudor to the screen. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 12 June 2022",
"Alicia von Rittberg and Romola Garai stars in a new historical drama about the young Elizabeth, and events following the death of her father, King Henry VIII. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 June 2022",
"Going by historical performance, there is a high chance of a rise for MDT stock over the next month. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Of course, as is the nature of creating a historical drama, particularly one about the famously private royal family, there are many details of conversations and circumstances that are impossible to know. \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 24 May 2022",
"Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis has his mind on your milkshake and your milkshake on his mind in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s epic 2007 historical drama about a ruthless oil baron in turn-of-the-last-century California. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Strong will additionally be recognized for their starring roles in James Gray's historical drama, Armageddon Time. \u2014 Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 May 2022",
"As Deadline reports, Spacey is set to star in the historical drama, 1242, which is a joint U.K., Hungarian, and Mongolian production. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 11 May 2022",
"The reformatted group stage has been reduced from 10 rounds to eight, and backup places for teams based on historical performance have been removed. \u2014 Rob Harris, ajc , 10 May 2022"
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"I studied history in college.",
"a professor of medieval history",
"They were one of the greatest teams in history .",
"It was one of the most destructive storms in modern history .",
"It was a period in American history when most people lived and worked on farms.",
"The history of space exploration is a fascinating topic.",
"He wrote a well-known history of the British empire.",
"The book begins with a brief history of the Internet.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Already well on its way to becoming a mainstay for top-tier food and downtown vibes, Time is staking its own claim to New York\u2019s storied history of stellar dining experiences. \u2014 Roxanne Fequiere, Vogue , 24 June 2022",
"Graham Robb writes history on two wheels and in four dimensions. \u2014 Boyd Tonkin, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"Hartlaub writes Bay Area culture stories, produces podcasts and digs through the Chronicle archives for his work authoring the Our San Francisco history column. \u2014 Total Sf Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 June 2022",
"The speed with which her career took off can be illustrated by Jones\u2019 early San Diego concert history . \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"Where others see history as a relentless parade of wars and upheavals, Richtel sees lessons. \u2014 Eric Weiner, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"Smith\u2019s criminal history includes state felony convictions for larceny and drug offenses, prosecutors said. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 24 June 2022",
"But, as history has shown, this small, youthful nation can do it by looking first towards each other, then outwards to the world. \u2014 Maureen O'hare And Richard Quest, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"For most of human history , the only way to reduce body fat was through diet and exercise\u2014and then, beginning in the 1980s, liposuction. \u2014 April Long, Town & Country , 24 June 2022"
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"a penchant for dish throwing, door slamming, and other histrionic displays of temper",
"we never tired of his histrionic reenactment of how he found money under the floorboards of a house he was renovating",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These were not histrionic Very Special Episodes, despite being on network TV. \u2014 Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
"Shannon Curry, a psychologist hired by Depp's team, diagnosed Heard with borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder and alleged she exaggerated symptoms of PTSD. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 27 May 2022",
"This testimony contradicts the expert called by Depp\u2019s legal team, Dr. Shannon Curry, who said Heard has borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. \u2014 Melissa Locker, Time , 23 May 2022",
"Curry diagnosed Heard with borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder, which Hughes disagreed with. \u2014 NBC News , 4 May 2022",
"That contradicted the assessment of Depp witness, Dr. Shannon Curry, who had evaluated Heard and diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. \u2014 Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone , 4 May 2022",
"Hughes' testimony contradicts that of a psychologist hired by Depp's lawyers, who said Heard was faking her symptoms of PTSD and suffered from borderline and histrionic personality disorders. \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"Hughes' testimony contradicts that of a psychologist hired by Depp's lawyers, who said Heard was faking her symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and suffered from borderline and histrionic personality disorders. \u2014 CBS News , 4 May 2022",
"The Thoughts rattle around in Usher\u2019s brain in hilariously histrionic ways \u2014 the self-dramatizing manifestations of a self-doubting solitary worker in the creative economy. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2022"
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"The triggers may be some kind of strategic corporate action (like M&A activity), external macroeconomic trends (like the pandemic or global supply chain breakdowns) or a simple failure to hit your own performance targets for any number of reasons. \u2014 Prateek Chakravarty, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The story of how D.C. pop-rockers Pretty Bitter recorded their new album is an increasingly familiar one to any band that hoped to hit the studio during the last two-plus pandemic-squeezed years. \u2014 Chris Kelly, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"After dipping earlier in the week, the average price of a gallon of regular in metro Atlanta edged back up as getaway time approached, rising several cents through the morning Wednesday to hit $4.44 at mid-day. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 29 June 2022",
"Turner, according to prosecutors, got in her car and tried to hit the man during an argument. \u2014 Adam Ferrise, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
"Summer is in full force, which means there are about to be a ton of fun events and parties to hit up with your besties. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 29 June 2022",
"Eve of Judgement is set to hit stores July 13, with Judgment Day #1 following on July 20. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 29 June 2022",
"McBryde, who recently performed at Spotify House at CMA Fest, has shows scheduled through October, and is also set to hit the road with Wynonna Judd in the fall. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Tomatoes need at least 8 hours of sunlight to hit their leaves daily for the best growth and fruiting. \u2014 Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Except then the pandemic hit and labor wasn\u2019t so cheap anymore. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 1 July 2022",
"But Thursday night was concrete proof a viral hit does not equal superstardom. \u2014 Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
"The scans showed Pinch had been killed by a precise hit to the skull that went into her brain. \u2014 Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star , 1 July 2022",
"No one has gotten a hit or a run off him in his last six games. \u2014 Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"As so often seems to be the case with the hero\u2019s journey of famous groups, Eurythmics\u2019 first hit might have been its last chance. \u2014 Allison Stewart, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Later that day, officers went to the address listed with the car\u2019s registration, where the owner of the car admitted to the hit -skip. \u2014 cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"Ross\u2019s first hit on any Billboard airplay chart since 2006 and her first as a lead artist since 1999. \u2014 Melinda Newman, Billboard , 30 June 2022",
"Jamie suspects his biological father of ordering the hit on the other members of the Dutton family. \u2014 oregonlive , 30 June 2022"
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"She hit him hard with her purse.",
"The boxers hit each other with their fists.",
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"The ball hit the house.",
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"Noun",
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"The torpedo made a direct hit .",
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"The triggers may be some kind of strategic corporate action (like M&A activity), external macroeconomic trends (like the pandemic or global supply chain breakdowns) or a simple failure to hit your own performance targets for any number of reasons. \u2014 Prateek Chakravarty, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The story of how D.C. pop-rockers Pretty Bitter recorded their new album is an increasingly familiar one to any band that hoped to hit the studio during the last two-plus pandemic-squeezed years. \u2014 Chris Kelly, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"After dipping earlier in the week, the average price of a gallon of regular in metro Atlanta edged back up as getaway time approached, rising several cents through the morning Wednesday to hit $4.44 at mid-day. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 29 June 2022",
"Turner, according to prosecutors, got in her car and tried to hit the man during an argument. \u2014 Adam Ferrise, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
"Summer is in full force, which means there are about to be a ton of fun events and parties to hit up with your besties. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 29 June 2022",
"Eve of Judgement is set to hit stores July 13, with Judgment Day #1 following on July 20. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 29 June 2022",
"McBryde, who recently performed at Spotify House at CMA Fest, has shows scheduled through October, and is also set to hit the road with Wynonna Judd in the fall. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Tomatoes need at least 8 hours of sunlight to hit their leaves daily for the best growth and fruiting. \u2014 Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Except then the pandemic hit and labor wasn\u2019t so cheap anymore. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 1 July 2022",
"But Thursday night was concrete proof a viral hit does not equal superstardom. \u2014 Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
"The scans showed Pinch had been killed by a precise hit to the skull that went into her brain. \u2014 Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star , 1 July 2022",
"No one has gotten a hit or a run off him in his last six games. \u2014 Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"As so often seems to be the case with the hero\u2019s journey of famous groups, Eurythmics\u2019 first hit might have been its last chance. \u2014 Allison Stewart, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Later that day, officers went to the address listed with the car\u2019s registration, where the owner of the car admitted to the hit -skip. \u2014 cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"Ross\u2019s first hit on any Billboard airplay chart since 2006 and her first as a lead artist since 1999. \u2014 Melinda Newman, Billboard , 30 June 2022",
"Jamie suspects his biological father of ordering the hit on the other members of the Dutton family. \u2014 oregonlive , 30 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Rahm\u2019s first shot from a fairway bunker hit the lip and nearly rolled into his footprint. \u2014 Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"Neno\u2019s energy after punching a two-run double to score sisters Ava and Lena Tsonis percolated across the diamond, her hit scoring what would amount to the game-winning runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. \u2014 Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"Taira and a colleague were taken prisoner by Russian forces on March 16, the same day a Russian airstrike hit a theater in the city center, killing around 600 people, according to an Associated Press investigation. \u2014 Ella Lee, USA TODAY , 18 June 2022",
"An inning later, Mancini hit a groundball to shortstop with two outs but reached on an error. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 18 June 2022",
"When wild vegetation dies off due to lack of rain, yellow jackets and other insects hit up other sources of food. \u2014 Bethany Brookshire, Good Housekeeping , 18 June 2022",
"After a mound visit, Manoah hit Jose Trevino with a pitch and the Yankees catcher was awarded first base. \u2014 Ian Harrison, Hartford Courant , 18 June 2022",
"Castro and B\u00e1ez hit singles to reach safely, but just like in the fourth, the next two batters were retired consecutively: Robbie Grossman (strikeout) and Jonathan Schoop (flyout). \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 18 June 2022",
"New daily infections hit a high of 94,855 in late May and have averaged around 50,000 a day over the past two months, resulting in a surge of claims from insured individuals. \u2014 Joyu Wang, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Also, a hit to real estate prices could ripple through the economy by eroding how much Chinese shoppers are willing to spend on appliances, clothes, jewelry or cars. \u2014 New York Times , 20 June 2022",
"The beef, soft from low, slow cooking, benefits from the house green seasoning and a hit of culantro. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 20 June 2022",
"Two men are facing felony charges after police recovered a handgun from a vehicle that had been involved in a hit and run crash in Evanston, police said Friday in a release. \u2014 Brian L. Cox, Chicago Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"Yepez's double in the second stood as the lone hit for St. Louis against Burnes until Yepez singled with two outs in the seventh. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
"Iran blamed Israel for last month\u2019s killing in Tehran of a top Iranian military officer that the Israelis suspected of running overseas hit teams targeting Israelis. \u2014 Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"In the ninth, a throwing error put a runner on base and another reliever gave up a two-out hit to knock him in, putting an unearned run on Hunter\u2019s ledger. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 19 June 2022",
"Greene's hit was the fourth of the inning for the Tigers, who had an offensive explosion by their standards to start the game. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 19 June 2022",
"Cathedral did not get another hit until the sixth inning. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 19 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Hot springs on the McKenzie River Trail are really hit or miss . \u2014 oregonlive , 9 June 2022",
"But Zverev\u2019s finishing skills, particularly in the forecourt and at the net, are still hit or miss . \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2022",
"As trials began in humans, however, the process was hit or miss . \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"But even that material is hit or miss , with some character arcs getting more attention than others. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 24 May 2022",
"At the time, there were hit or miss opportunities for girls to compete \u2014 some AAU all-comer track meets (Lanin was president of the Minnesota AAU in the late-1960s), some road races. \u2014 Sarah Barker, Outside Online , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Mermaid gowns can be frustratingly hit or miss , but with a smattering of multi-sized sequins doing the heavy lifting, this corset gown on Precious Lee pulls off a win. \u2014 ELLE , 4 May 2022",
"The Texas Longhorns have been hit or miss all season long, and their offense can really struggle for long stretches. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 15 Mar. 2022",
"In the nature of such risky stage business, the playful interludes are hit or miss : Stunts are arranged to draw audience members into the play, which embroider the carnival atmosphere but feel a bit halfhearted. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Number one in his legacy hit parade , of course, is the deaths at the jail and the poor contingent conditions at the jail. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 15 Mar. 2022",
"But aside from the odd song here or there, none of their new music spurred such a host of older material onto the charts, much less a double-digit hit parade all from the excitement of one new song. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 26 Oct. 2021",
"And some of them may even keep the service\u2019s hit parade going. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Green dots are especially thick on the ground in Western Europe, where Paris\u2019s 472 stations make the French capital No. 1 with a bullet on Radio Garden\u2019s hit parade . \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Feb. 2021",
"This is the first and finest of their live releases, featuring the four original Ramones \u2014 Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy \u2014 racing through a 28-song punk-rock hit parade . \u2014 Ed Masley, azcentral , 5 June 2020",
"The Glucksteins and Salmons founded Lyons, a firm that shaped British tastes, catered for Buckingham Palace and owned a hit parade of mega-brands. \u2014 The Economist , 29 Aug. 2019",
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"The Glucksteins and Salmons founded Lyons, a firm that shaped British tastes, catered for Buckingham Palace and owned a hit parade of mega-brands. \u2014 The Economist , 29 Aug. 2019"
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"Hot springs on the McKenzie River Trail are really hit or miss . \u2014 oregonlive , 9 June 2022",
"But Zverev\u2019s finishing skills, particularly in the forecourt and at the net, are still hit or miss . \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2022",
"As trials began in humans, however, the process was hit or miss . \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"But even that material is hit or miss , with some character arcs getting more attention than others. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 24 May 2022",
"At the time, there were hit or miss opportunities for girls to compete \u2014 some AAU all-comer track meets (Lanin was president of the Minnesota AAU in the late-1960s), some road races. \u2014 Sarah Barker, Outside Online , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Mermaid gowns can be frustratingly hit or miss , but with a smattering of multi-sized sequins doing the heavy lifting, this corset gown on Precious Lee pulls off a win. \u2014 ELLE , 4 May 2022",
"The Texas Longhorns have been hit or miss all season long, and their offense can really struggle for long stretches. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 15 Mar. 2022",
"In the nature of such risky stage business, the playful interludes are hit or miss : Stunts are arranged to draw audience members into the play, which embroider the carnival atmosphere but feel a bit halfhearted. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2022"
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"The triggers may be some kind of strategic corporate action (like M&A activity), external macroeconomic trends (like the pandemic or global supply chain breakdowns) or a simple failure to hit your own performance targets for any number of reasons. \u2014 Prateek Chakravarty, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The story of how D.C. pop-rockers Pretty Bitter recorded their new album is an increasingly familiar one to any band that hoped to hit the studio during the last two-plus pandemic-squeezed years. \u2014 Chris Kelly, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"After dipping earlier in the week, the average price of a gallon of regular in metro Atlanta edged back up as getaway time approached, rising several cents through the morning Wednesday to hit $4.44 at mid-day. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 29 June 2022",
"Turner, according to prosecutors, got in her car and tried to hit the man during an argument. \u2014 Adam Ferrise, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
"Summer is in full force, which means there are about to be a ton of fun events and parties to hit up with your besties. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 29 June 2022",
"Eve of Judgement is set to hit stores July 13, with Judgment Day #1 following on July 20. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 29 June 2022",
"McBryde, who recently performed at Spotify House at CMA Fest, has shows scheduled through October, and is also set to hit the road with Wynonna Judd in the fall. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Tomatoes need at least 8 hours of sunlight to hit their leaves daily for the best growth and fruiting. \u2014 Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Except then the pandemic hit and labor wasn\u2019t so cheap anymore. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 1 July 2022",
"But Thursday night was concrete proof a viral hit does not equal superstardom. \u2014 Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
"The scans showed Pinch had been killed by a precise hit to the skull that went into her brain. \u2014 Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star , 1 July 2022",
"No one has gotten a hit or a run off him in his last six games. \u2014 Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"As so often seems to be the case with the hero\u2019s journey of famous groups, Eurythmics\u2019 first hit might have been its last chance. \u2014 Allison Stewart, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Later that day, officers went to the address listed with the car\u2019s registration, where the owner of the car admitted to the hit -skip. \u2014 cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"Ross\u2019s first hit on any Billboard airplay chart since 2006 and her first as a lead artist since 1999. \u2014 Melinda Newman, Billboard , 30 June 2022",
"Jamie suspects his biological father of ordering the hit on the other members of the Dutton family. \u2014 oregonlive , 30 June 2022"
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"She hit him hard with her purse.",
"The boxers hit each other with their fists.",
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"The ball hit the house.",
"The plate shattered when it hit the floor.",
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"He was hit by a car.",
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"The triggers may be some kind of strategic corporate action (like M&A activity), external macroeconomic trends (like the pandemic or global supply chain breakdowns) or a simple failure to hit your own performance targets for any number of reasons. \u2014 Prateek Chakravarty, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The story of how D.C. pop-rockers Pretty Bitter recorded their new album is an increasingly familiar one to any band that hoped to hit the studio during the last two-plus pandemic-squeezed years. \u2014 Chris Kelly, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"After dipping earlier in the week, the average price of a gallon of regular in metro Atlanta edged back up as getaway time approached, rising several cents through the morning Wednesday to hit $4.44 at mid-day. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 29 June 2022",
"Turner, according to prosecutors, got in her car and tried to hit the man during an argument. \u2014 Adam Ferrise, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
"Summer is in full force, which means there are about to be a ton of fun events and parties to hit up with your besties. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 29 June 2022",
"Eve of Judgement is set to hit stores July 13, with Judgment Day #1 following on July 20. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 29 June 2022",
"McBryde, who recently performed at Spotify House at CMA Fest, has shows scheduled through October, and is also set to hit the road with Wynonna Judd in the fall. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Tomatoes need at least 8 hours of sunlight to hit their leaves daily for the best growth and fruiting. \u2014 Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Except then the pandemic hit and labor wasn\u2019t so cheap anymore. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 1 July 2022",
"But Thursday night was concrete proof a viral hit does not equal superstardom. \u2014 Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
"The scans showed Pinch had been killed by a precise hit to the skull that went into her brain. \u2014 Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star , 1 July 2022",
"No one has gotten a hit or a run off him in his last six games. \u2014 Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"As so often seems to be the case with the hero\u2019s journey of famous groups, Eurythmics\u2019 first hit might have been its last chance. \u2014 Allison Stewart, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Later that day, officers went to the address listed with the car\u2019s registration, where the owner of the car admitted to the hit -skip. \u2014 cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"Ross\u2019s first hit on any Billboard airplay chart since 2006 and her first as a lead artist since 1999. \u2014 Melinda Newman, Billboard , 30 June 2022",
"Jamie suspects his biological father of ordering the hit on the other members of the Dutton family. \u2014 oregonlive , 30 June 2022"
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"So, the answer is to hitch a ride on Wall Street's wagon. \u2014 John S. Tobey, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"Just as some human viruses spread when humans reproduce, plant viruses can use pollen to hitch a ride from flower to flower. \u2014 Saima May Sidik, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"In 2013, Hunter was permitted to hitch a ride to Beijing on Air Force Two, where his father was to represent President Obama for meetings with Xi and his underlings. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 8 Apr. 2022",
"He is scheduled to hitch a ride on a Russian spaceship amid ongoing tensions stemming from the war in Ukraine. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s an evacuation site from the nonprofit UkraineNow that connects volunteer drivers with people looking to hitch a ride. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Some invite you to hitch your star to their wagon, and then the wheels come off. \u2014 Karla L. Miller, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"Nadia doesn\u2019t hitch a ride in a DeLorean, but hops on a magical subway that takes her back to the East Village in 1982, the year she was born, to stop her pregnant mom from making the biggest mistake of her\u2014and Nadia\u2019s\u2014life. \u2014 Shannon Carlin, Time , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Or marines might hitch a ride on a civilian vessel. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Fourth-and-3: The Ravens send five pass rushers after Herbert, who goes after Humphrey again, now defending a quick-hitting hitch route. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Bryant jumped a hitch route by UCF tight end Jake Hescock and returned his pick 76 yards for the first touchdown of his five-year career. \u2014 Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer , 17 Oct. 2021",
"Two plays later Hunt scored versus zone coverage on a hitch route. \u2014 Ellis L. Williams, cleveland , 15 Dec. 2020",
"The painting, overseen by the Mobile Arts Council, went off without a hitch . \u2014 al , 8 June 2022",
"William caught a glimpse of the situation and immediately waved in acknowledgement for the extra elbow grease being exerted to ensure the festivities for his grandmother went off without a hitch . \u2014 Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure , 6 June 2022",
"The plan went off without a hitch , resulting in an even faster time than the year before (3:24.57). \u2014 J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal , 4 June 2022",
"Director of Event Operations Alvin Huggins and Charnissa Richardson, director of catering and private events, made sure the festivities went off without a hitch . \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022",
"The hitch is that these drugs must be used throughout life, much like diabetes medications, or else the benefits are lost. \u2014 Claudia Wallis, Scientific American , 26 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"So, the answer is to hitch a ride on Wall Street's wagon. \u2014 John S. Tobey, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"Just as some human viruses spread when humans reproduce, plant viruses can use pollen to hitch a ride from flower to flower. \u2014 Saima May Sidik, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"In 2013, Hunter was permitted to hitch a ride to Beijing on Air Force Two, where his father was to represent President Obama for meetings with Xi and his underlings. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 8 Apr. 2022",
"He is scheduled to hitch a ride on a Russian spaceship amid ongoing tensions stemming from the war in Ukraine. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s an evacuation site from the nonprofit UkraineNow that connects volunteer drivers with people looking to hitch a ride. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Some invite you to hitch your star to their wagon, and then the wheels come off. \u2014 Karla L. Miller, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"Nadia doesn\u2019t hitch a ride in a DeLorean, but hops on a magical subway that takes her back to the East Village in 1982, the year she was born, to stop her pregnant mom from making the biggest mistake of her\u2014and Nadia\u2019s\u2014life. \u2014 Shannon Carlin, Time , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Or marines might hitch a ride on a civilian vessel. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Fourth-and-3: The Ravens send five pass rushers after Herbert, who goes after Humphrey again, now defending a quick-hitting hitch route. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Bryant jumped a hitch route by UCF tight end Jake Hescock and returned his pick 76 yards for the first touchdown of his five-year career. \u2014 Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer , 17 Oct. 2021",
"Two plays later Hunt scored versus zone coverage on a hitch route. \u2014 Ellis L. Williams, cleveland , 15 Dec. 2020",
"The painting, overseen by the Mobile Arts Council, went off without a hitch . \u2014 al , 8 June 2022",
"William caught a glimpse of the situation and immediately waved in acknowledgement for the extra elbow grease being exerted to ensure the festivities for his grandmother went off without a hitch . \u2014 Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure , 6 June 2022",
"The plan went off without a hitch , resulting in an even faster time than the year before (3:24.57). \u2014 J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal , 4 June 2022",
"Director of Event Operations Alvin Huggins and Charnissa Richardson, director of catering and private events, made sure the festivities went off without a hitch . \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022",
"The hitch is that these drugs must be used throughout life, much like diabetes medications, or else the benefits are lost. \u2014 Claudia Wallis, Scientific American , 26 Apr. 2022"
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"Black also refused to give the officer any identification and continued walking down the street attempting to hitchhike , the report said. \u2014 Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online , 9 June 2022",
"Arrange a car shuttle or hitchhike to get back to your vehicle. \u2014 Carey Kish, Outside Online , 18 June 2020",
"Charlotte was accused of influencing girls to hitchhike with her \u2014 and maybe even seducing them. \u2014 Jillian Eugenios, NBC News , 10 May 2022",
"Though coronavirus impacts at USPS, FedEx, and the like have been negligible so far, Velasquez aimed to hike to post offices rather than hitchhike to them\u2014a choice that would add mileage and time but limit exposure with strangers in close quarters. \u2014 Outside Online , 20 Mar. 2020",
"Once, when a train strike left them stranded in Eastern Germany, they were forced to hitchhike at night\u2014but Otto helped Sims keep her cool. \u2014 Kathryn Hymes, The Atlantic , 14 Apr. 2022",
"After the elder Hazel bought a farm in McLean with hopes of raising crops to feed the family during the Depression, Til would often bicycle or hitchhike the eight miles from Arlington after school to plow the fields. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Wildfire managers also try to avoid transferring mussels, fungi or non-native plants that might hitchhike in helicopter buckets by carefully choosing water sources or disinfecting buckets, Camp said. \u2014 Felicia Fonseca, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Oct. 2021",
"Wildfire managers also try to avoid transferring mussels, fungi or non-native plants that might hitchhike in helicopter buckets by carefully choosing water sources or disinfecting buckets, Camp said. \u2014 Felicia Fonseca, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Oct. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"When approaching the speaker, the interface gently lights up using light-trough aluminum technology and positively invites the user to come hither and interact with it. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"That enormous increase of money beginning to flow hither and yon, once started, will be unstoppable without drastic actions being taken. \u2014 John S. Tobey, Forbes , 26 Dec. 2021",
"But as director Christopher Ashley sends the columns gliding hither and thither to create various interiors and exteriors, the structures often \u2026 wobble. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Delays occur there as well, due to shortages of shipping containers \u2014 and of dockworkers to unload the cargo, and truck drivers to bring the books hither and yon. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Oct. 2021",
"The mPOA tosses long nerve fibers, called axons, like lassos hither and yon to network with other important brain clumps. \u2014 Dina Litovsky, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 Apr. 2021",
"In exhibition planning, original artworks sit safely in packing crates, or hang elsewhere, while models of them are moved hither and yon with relatively little care so curators and designers can determine their layout in a gallery. \u2014 Peter Libbey, New York Times , 12 Mar. 2021",
"Making these objects both large and small was not an activity conducive for a hobo riding the rails hither and yon with few possessions. \u2014 Helaine Fendelman And Joe Rosson, Star Tribune , 13 Oct. 2020",
"Get turned on and then come hither to fondle my mostly flat chest? \u2014 Nicole Walker, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Wearing a bold floral print dress, Clarkson flawlessly captured the track\u2019s come hither arrangement and Morris\u2019 ready-for-amour vibe. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 21 June 2022",
"The iteration Bradshaw wore to the date was designed by Karan, but in the photoshoot scene\u2014according to Haroutounian and Jimenez\u2014Bradshaw is wearing Jimenez\u2019s dress with a laptop propped on her lap, staring at the camera with those come- hither eyes. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Same with Sitake, a man seemingly mystified, searching high and low, wide and far, hither and thither, hunting, scratching, grasping for the right conclusion. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Aug. 2021",
"And she was captured adoringly by Cecil Beaton\u2019s camera in come- hither beauty. \u2014 Callahan Tormey, Town & Country , 28 Nov. 2020",
"In his motions, Henry contends that Eckhart pursued him by sending him come- hither text messages. \u2014 Maria Puente, USA TODAY , 20 Oct. 2020",
"And the effect works to signal danger warnings to would-be predators and come- hither messages to potential mates. \u2014 Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 July 2020"
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"at the talent show Kyle revealed his hitherto unknown gift for doing impressions",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In terms of story, the new season aims for a larger narrative scope hitherto unseen in previous outings of the show. \u2014 Josh Weiss, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"So, who knows, there may still be hitherto undiscovered equalities\u2014involving more than two characteristics\u2014hidden in the diagram. \u2014 Martin Goldstern, Scientific American , 16 Aug. 2021",
"Conversely, only a minority of adults are talented musicians; even fewer are skilled composers of new, hitherto unheard works. \u2014 The Economist , 30 May 2020",
"Further improvement and development of hitherto uneconomical technologies like carbon capture (also called sequestration) are essential to hit global targets. \u2014 Jeremy Hodges | Bloomberg, Washington Post , 6 Nov. 2019",
"Obama had enabled the federal government to seize hitherto unimagined powers in the global war on terrorism. \u2014 Saul Elbein, The New Republic , 23 Mar. 2020",
"That\u2019s left disappointed fans with nothing but refunds \u2014 and a consolation prize from Lin-Manuel Miranda: a hitherto -unheard Hamilton/Washington tune called I Have This Friend, offered via a tweet. \u2014 Jonathan Handel, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2020",
"This psychic entropy is not just compactness but also organization, hitherto unseen connections, and the sense of things fitting together without loose ends. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 17 Jan. 2020",
"So thank you, fall, because if this season's runways are any indication, color is everywhere: yellows, reds, pastels\u2014and a whole bunch of hitherto unheard-of shades. \u2014 Lisa Armstrong, Harper's BAZAAR , 3 June 2015"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But a woman \u2014 and all the women in the audience \u2014 will endorse her decision to hightail it in the opposite direction. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 9 May 2022",
"Families with little kids often hightail it out, but the native of Spain wanted to settle down in a walkable city with a European flair. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Additionally, this totalitarian system produces only poverty and hunger, and these poor, hungry people hightail it to the United States. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 19 Apr. 2021",
"Fox hired two drivers to hightail it from the port to the festival. \u2014 Margaret Littman, Fortune , 24 Apr. 2020",
"Once Ratzinger has been elected, Bergoglio hightails it back to Argentina and never looks back. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 26 Nov. 2019",
"Living in Stockholm since her split from husband Mattias (Sverrir Gudnason), Alice (Ane Dahl Torp) hightails it to a small far-northern community after receiving an alarming phone call from young son Vincent (Troy Lundkvist). \u2014 Todd Mccarthy, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 Feb. 2020",
"The culprit, a 31-year-old woman, allegedly followed up on the attack by snatching the man\u2019s phone off the table and hightailing it out of the restaurant. \u2014 Josh Koehn, SFChronicle.com , 4 Nov. 2019",
"Forget all the conditions, just book a JetBlue flight to LaGuardia and hightail it to Katz\u2019s itself (be prepared to wait in line and tip your slicer). \u2014 Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com , 22 Aug. 2019"
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"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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"definitions":{
": a temple or altar used by the ancient Semites and built usually on a hill or elevation":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Make no mistake, patent leather still holds a high place in a well-rounded wardrobe. \u2014 Blake Newby, Essence , 19 Oct. 2021",
"The closest thing to one of my favorite places in Los Angeles would be a view from a high place , preferably a mountain or hilltop. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2021",
"Does Graham really mean to place Donald Trump in the same high place as Jesus in this comparison? \u2014 Star Tribune , 18 Jan. 2021",
"So when the Feds came for him, Mr Milken had few friends in high places and a lot of enemies. \u2014 The Economist , 20 Feb. 2020",
"Use it with the telescoping wand for floors and high places or as a handheld for stairs, the sofa and the car. \u2014 Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping , 8 Apr. 2020",
"But Project Veritas maintains friends in high places : that Erik Prince, the security-contractor brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has recruited ex-spies to help Project Veritas infiltrate Democratic groups. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Mar. 2020",
"At Division 1 All-States, Jacobs was the highest placing sophomore, taking 10th in 16 minutes, 42.62 seconds. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2019",
"In years past, when city investigations into his behavior arose, Nuru could count on friends in high places \u2014 including mayors and supervisors \u2014 to come to his aide. \u2014 Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com , 10 Feb. 2020"
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"Higgs boson":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an elementary particle that has zero spin and large mass and that is required by some gauge theories to account for the masses of other elementary particles":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8higz-"
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"Peter W. Higgs born 1929 British physicist":""
},
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"1974, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142942"
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"type":[
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],
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"high-octane coffee"
]
},
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"1931, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143329"
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
": the largest integer or polynomial of highest degree that is an exact divisor of each of two or more integers or polynomials respectively":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1830, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143416"
}
}
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