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{
"whack":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to strike with a smart or resounding blow":[
"whack the ball"
],
": to cut with or as if with a whack : chop":[],
": to get the better of : defeat":[],
": murder , kill":[],
": to strike a smart or resounding blow":[],
": a critical attack":[],
": portion , share":[],
": condition , state":[],
": an opportunity or attempt to do something":[
"take a whack at it"
],
": a single action or occasion":[
"borrowed $50 all at one whack"
],
": out of proper order or shape":[
"threw his knee out of whack"
],
": not in accord":[
"feeling out of whack with her contemporaries",
"\u2014 S. E. Rubin"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hwak",
"\u02c8(h)wak",
"\u02c8wak"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whale",
"zap"
],
"antonyms":[
"assay",
"attempt",
"bash",
"bid",
"crack",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"fling",
"go",
"offer",
"pass",
"shot",
"stab",
"trial",
"try",
"whirl"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"She whacked the pi\u00f1ata with a stick.",
"The old man lifted his cane and whacked the mugger on the head.",
"They were whacking through the jungle with their machetes.",
"He got whacked by mobsters.",
"Noun",
"The pile of books hit the floor with a whack .",
"took a whack at solving the math problem",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But as built, this generation of vaccines is unable to control a pandemic characterized by a whack -a-mole supply of new variants. \u2014 Kent Sepkowitz, CNN , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But while a tennis player may try to whack the ball as hard as possible, a skilled pickleballer will use slight movements to control the lighter, plastic ball. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"This news, delivered by Fed Chair Jerome Powell yesterday, teamed up with Omicron jitters to whack the markets\u2014though futures are looking up today. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 1 Dec. 2021",
"One by one, whack each egg all over with the spoon and return it to the ice water. \u2014 Andy Baraghani, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Coaxing sound from it looks like playing whack -a-mole. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 May 2022",
"The war could whack a full percentage point off global GDP growth this year, the OECD calculates, and push the global inflation rate up by a further 2.5%. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 29 Mar. 2022",
"These felt weak: the combat in Pok\u00e9mon has been honed over many generations; these parts felt akin to stopping a game of Halo to play whack a mole. \u2014 Will Bedingfield, Wired , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Even Andy Roddick, the former world No. 1, got cheeky on the subject, taking to Twitter last week with a tongue-in-cheek tutorial on how to safely smash a racket and whack a ball without endangering anyone. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the rapid evolution of the coronavirus has turned variant-specific vaccine development into a game of whack -a-mole, and drug companies are losing. \u2014 Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"Keeping extremist content off of social platforms will always be a necessary game of whack -a-mole. \u2014 The New Yorker , 19 May 2022",
"But ProPublica found that the company\u2019s moderation efforts can amount to little more than a game of whack -a-mole. \u2014 Cezary Podkul, ProPublica , 28 Mar. 2022",
"But comparable sources of methane emissions are often more sporadic\u2014a pipeline leak here, a landfill plume there\u2014a game of whack -a-mole for environmental watchdogs inhibited by limited surveillance. \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 17 Feb. 2022",
"But Baric does say the variant-chasing strategy might turn into a game of whack -a-mole: as one variant is vanquished by a new vaccine formula, another variant rises to take its place. \u2014 Charles Schmidt, Scientific American , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Burry\u2019s social media presence is akin to a game of whack -a-mole. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 15 Nov. 2021",
"The labor market for young people to scoop ice cream, wait tables, and watch over a pool from a lifeguard chair is, like so many things, out of whack in the wake of the pandemic. \u2014 Annie Probert, BostonGlobe.com , 22 May 2022",
"The traditional upfronts were thrown out the window, and scheduling thrown out of whack due to production starts and stops. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 16 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably imitative of the sound of a blow":"Verb"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1719, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1736, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-002239"
},
"whacking":{
"antonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
"definitions":{
": very":[
"a whacking good story"
],
": very large : whopping":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"harvested a whacking number of zucchini from the garden",
"Adverb",
"the clown wore a whacking big pair of shoes"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1806, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1853, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8(h)wa-ki\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"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",
"whopping"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171923",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"whacko":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": wacky":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091532",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"whacky":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": absurdly or amusingly eccentric or irrational : crazy":[
"wacky ideas",
"a wacky comedian"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050243",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"whae":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of whae Scottish and dialectal English variant of who"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u00a6)(h)w\u0101"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-155212",
"type":[]
},
"whahoo":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of whahoo variant of wahoo:1"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-003055",
"type":[]
},
"whaisle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of whaisle Scottish variant of wheezle"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-040644",
"type":[]
},
"whakapapa":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Maori genealogy":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Maori":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8f\u00e4k-",
"\u00a6(h)w\u00e4k\u0259\u00a6p\u00e4p\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233850",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"whale":{
"antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"midget",
"mite",
"peewee",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"runt",
"shrimp"
],
"definitions":{
": lash , thrash":[],
": one that is impressive especially in size":[
"a whale of a difference",
"a whale of a good time"
],
": to defeat soundly":[],
": to engage in whale fishing":[],
": to strike or hit vigorously":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a whale of a pickup truck",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Bitcoin whale has long supported the cryptocurrency, even during the latest market downturn. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 29 June 2022",
"Despite Nathaniel Philbrick\u2019s persuasive essay on the virtue of the text, that whale just keeps eluding me. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"These guppies are small enough for little fingers to hold, and the whale has an easy-squeeze trigger. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 26 May 2022",
"Yanni and Jones departed June 8 from Old Comfort Point Marina in Hampton and set sail for the Azores, an archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean known for dolphin and whale watching. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 16 May 2022",
"Culture Editor Sean Means and Culture Reporter Palak Jayswal join the podcast to break down how the whale got there and the controversy surrounding its debut. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Supply chain issues impact whale protection rules, feds say The federal government is acknowledging that supply chain issues will prevent all lobstermen from having gear needed to protect North Atlantic right whales before a May 1 deadline. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Lobster shacks stud the sandy shores, emanating tantalizing smells of crustaceans, while stops for whale watching and boating adventures are equal temptations. \u2014 Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure , 2 Apr. 2022",
"One trader likened buying Russian oil to an instance when he was asked to sell oil to a Japanese whale -hunting fleet. \u2014 Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ , 27 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1700, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"circa 1790, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English hw\u00e6l ; akin to Old High German hwal whale and perhaps to Latin squalus sea fish":"Noun",
"origin unknown":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8(h)w\u0101l",
"\u02c8hw\u0101l",
"\u02c8w\u0101l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"behemoth",
"blockbuster",
"colossus",
"dinosaur",
"dreadnought",
"elephant",
"giant",
"Goliath",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"mastodon",
"monster",
"titan",
"whopper"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-121016",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"whale's-tongue":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a marine worm of the genus Balanoglossus":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054726",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"whale-backed":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": shaped like or resembling a whale's back":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191412",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"whaleback":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": something shaped like the back of a whale":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Eventually, wreckage from the S.S. Clifton, began drifting ashore on the Canadian side of Lake Huron, indicating that the whaleback freighter sank. \u2014 Brent Ashcroft, Detroit Free Press , 21 Sep. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8(h)w\u0101l-\u02ccbak"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062135",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"whaleback roof":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": rainbow roof":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115857",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wham":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a solid blow":[],
": the loud sound of a hard impact":[],
": to hit or explode with a loud impact":[],
": to propel, strike, or beat so as to produce a loud impact":[],
": with violent abruptness":[
"everything was going well; then wham the deal fell through"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"gave the TV a good wham with her fist, and suddenly the picture came back on",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno and company made their wham -bam-glam debut on \u2018Roxy Music\u2019 50 years ago. \u2014 Jill Krajewski, SPIN , 8 June 2022",
"Perhaps my overall disappointment stems from this pilot stiffness, but the more likely culprit is the standard brashness of American reality television, which is less cinema v\u00e9rit\u00e9 and more wham -bam-thank-you-ma'am. \u2014 Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 Feb. 2020",
"But the movie, for all its retrograde politics and wham -bam machismo, can also be slick, silly fun \u2014 a giddy exercise in freewheeling nihilism, played to the hilt. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 23 Jan. 2020",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Goalscorer Asamoah Gyan took the resulting penalty, only to wham it off the top of the bar. \u2014 SI.com , 21 June 2019",
"Goalscorer Asamoah Gyan took the resulting penalty, only to wham it off the top of the bar. \u2014 SI.com , 21 June 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1739, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1924, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"1925, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"imitative":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8(h)wam"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"whop",
"whap"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035959",
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"whammy":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a magic curse or spell : jinx , hex":[],
": a supernatural power bringing bad luck":[]
},
"examples":[
"if you tell anyone about this, I swear I'll put the whammy on you",
"put the whammy on herself by publicly predicting that she would win the tennis tournament",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its closure was seen as an economic double- whammy for Doraville coupled with the Great Recession. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 1 June 2022",
"Stress is kind of a double- whammy trigger, according to a study published in the journal Acta Dermato-Venereologica. \u2014 Kathryn Watson, SELF , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The news from Rakoff\u2019s chambers confirms that Palin isn\u2019t backing away from her defamation claims, despite the double- whammy decisions from a sitting federal judge and a nine-person jury. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Also Thursday, a triple- whammy of strong winds, hail and possible tornadoes is threatening parts of North Carolina, Virginia and Florida, the Storm Prediction Center warned. \u2014 Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"What this means is that U.S. exporters are faced with the double- whammy of a stronger dollar and higher fuel costs. \u2014 Frank Holmes, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Monday and Tuesday brought a double- whammy of severe storms and dozens of tornado reports across Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama -- downing trees and power lines as well as damaging homes and businesses. \u2014 Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Two years ago, the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas suffered a triple whammy . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022",
"In the South and Midwest, a triple whammy of snow, ice and sleet is hammering the region and could leave many without power. \u2014 Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 3 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1940, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from wham entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8(h)wa-m\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"abracadabra",
"bewitchment",
"charm",
"conjuration",
"enchantment",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"hex",
"incantation",
"invocation",
"spell"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162530",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"whammy bar":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a lever attached by the bridge or tailpiece of an electric guitar that can be depressed to increase the tension of the strings and produce such effects as vibrato, portamento, and dive bomb":[
"\u2026 he was also a distinctive guitarist with a biting, nasty tone, and was one of the first to make the whammy bar an integral part of his sound.",
"\u2014 Vladimir Bogdanov , All Music Guide to Soul , 2003"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1979, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063335",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"whamp":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": wasp":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8(h)w\u0227mp"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063638",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"whample":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": blow , stroke":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8(h)wamp\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222426",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"whan":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of whan dialectal variant of when"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u00a6)(h)w\u00e4n",
"(\u00a6)(h)wan"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-035105",
"type":[]
},
"whang":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a large piece : chunk":[],
": a loud sharp vibrant or resonant sound":[],
": beat , thrash":[],
": penis":[],
": rawhide":[],
": thong":[],
": to beat or work with force or violence":[],
": to make a whang":[],
": to propel or strike with force":[],
": to strike with a whang":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1685, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1770, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1854, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"circa 1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of Middle English thong, thwang":"Noun",
"imitative":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8(h)wa\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055705",
"type":[
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"origin unknown":""
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"(\u02c8)(h)wa\u014b\u00a6d\u00fcd\u1d4al",
"-wai\u014b-"
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"1776, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"probably modification of Chinese (Beijing) hu\u00e1ng bamboo":""
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"(h)wa\u014b-\u02c8\u0113",
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"tied the rowboat up at the wharf",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ship\u2019s golden cargo was loaded in Skagway at a wharf built by Moore. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 12 June 2022",
"From there the ships sail down the San Joaquin River to the Levin terminal where the ships are topped off at Richmond\u2019s deepwater wharf . \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 June 2022",
"By 1877, the outdated steamer was rotting away unused at a Seattle wharf , even sinking in 1882 and left resting on the mud for a year. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, has become really popular because of new chefs opening restaurants. \u2014 Lea Lane, Forbes , 14 May 2022",
"Officials haven\u2019t found any dead birds next to the dam itself or the fishing wharf , Constellation said. \u2014 Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun , 10 May 2022",
"In the Houston Ship Channel, the Port of Houston Authority used $10 million in program funds in 2013 to extend the Baytown wharf . \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Within view was the wharf at which Kader arrived in 2019. \u2014 Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Republic , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Many tourists rushing through Bergen take a quick snap of the iconic Bryggen wharf buildings and move on. \u2014 David Nikel, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English, from Old English hwearf embankment, wharf; akin to Old English hweorfan to turn, Old High German hwerban , Greek karpos wrist":""
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"\u02c8hw\u022frf",
"\u02c8(h)w\u022frf",
"\u02c8w\u022frf"
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"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
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"pier",
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"quay"
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"\u2014 usually used with the other words of a question between what and for What did you do that for "
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"\u2026 gave him what for in violent Spanish \u2026",
"\u2014 New Yorker"
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"\u2014 sometimes used in reference to a clause or phrase that is yet to come or is not yet complete gave also, what is more valuable, understanding"
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],
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],
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"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
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"novels, plays, short stories, travelogues, and what have you",
"\u2014 Haldeen Braddy"
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"\u2014 used as an interrogative expressing inquiry about the identity of a person"
],
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Read his full remarks from the Phoenix rally below: TRUMP: What a crowd. \u2014 Time , 23 Aug. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who's still traveling in Europe, says that schools will open September 5, no matter what Rauner does about funding. \u2014 Kate Shepherd, Chicago Reader , 20 July 2017",
"Senior Matt Boyle, the biggest newcomer on offense as Jack Sznajder's successor at quarterback, knows what a Cooney brings to the table. \u2014 Blake Baumgartner, Naperville Sun , 18 July 2017",
"IndyStar: What stands out to you in Matt Balis\u2019 workouts",
"The costumes were incredible, and a highlight for the kids was guessing what kinds of insects were performing. \u2014 Jennifer Jhon, South Florida Parenting , 14 July 2017",
"Customers over 65 years old will be asked additional questions to catch any discrepancies between what they were told by contractors and what contractors submit to the lender. \u2014 Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com , 13 July 2017",
"In what ways does this distinct setting influence the story",
"If our medieval predecessors felt it important enough to create and save these texts centuries ago, there\u2019s no telling what discoveries could be revealed under the light of the Manuscript Illuminator. \u2014 Ken Krebs, Scientific American Blog Network , 7 July 2017",
"Francona has been undergoing tests to determine what has been causing lightheadedness and increasing his heart rate. \u2014 New York Times , 5 July 2017"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Adverb"
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"Middle English, from Old English hw\u00e6t , neuter of hw\u0101 who \u2014 more at who":"Pronoun"
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"\u02c8hw\u0259t",
"\u02c8w\u0259t",
"\u02c8(h)w\u0259t",
"\u02c8hw\u00e4t",
"\u02c8w\u00e4t",
"\u02c8(h)w\u00e4t"
],
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"pronoun"
]
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"What she says goes . She's the boss."
]
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": whatnot":[]
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"the book was about family, social differences, and I don't know what all else"
],
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"1702, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8(h)w\u00e4-\u02ccd\u022fl",
"\u02c8(h)w\u0259-"
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"pronoun"
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"what price glory/fame":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062510",
"type":[
"idiom"
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]
},
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"there's always one random whatsit left over every time I put a bookcase together",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Disaster strikes when Loretta is kidnaped by eccentric zillionaire Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes to use her anthropological knowhow to recover an ancient whatsit from a remote jungle island. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 24 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s nothing if not a unique premise, but writer-director Cesar Cabral\u2019s animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Equal parts art-house whatsit and car-fetish classic, the film works so well thanks to director Sarafian\u2019s ability to shoot a chase, as well as his feel for the landscape. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 2 July 2021",
"The numbers of whosits and the intensity of the whatsits really does depend on who is running. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018",
"Thirty-seven percent of whosits voting at a greater intensity than 41 percent of whatsits , etc. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018"
],
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"circa 1882, in the meaning defined above":""
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"whatsit & whatsis contraction of what-is-it":""
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"\u02c8(h)w\u00e4t-s\u0259t",
"\u02c8(h)w\u0259t-"
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"dingus",
"doodad",
"doohickey",
"hickey",
"thingamabob",
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"thingumajig",
"thingummy",
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"whatnot"
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"noun"
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": something that is hard to classify or whose name is unknown or forgotten : thingamajig":[
"\u2026 dozens of multi-colored plastic thingies, metal gizmos in various shapes and a rubber whatchamacallit with a hole in the middle.",
"\u2014 Dick Wolfsie",
"Joni had reached the point in her life when the wrong words flew out of her mouth. And when she tried to find the correct word, it inexplicably vanished. \"Where's the whatchamacallit ",
"\u2014 PRWeb.com"
]
},
"examples":[
"I can't find the whatchamacallit that holds the door open.",
"I need one of those whatchamacallits to connect the two patch cords.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ranking only includes the 193 breeds that the AKC recognizes, so unfortunately, mixed breeds like maltipoos, goldendoodles and whatchamacallits aren't on it. \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 9 May 2020",
"Fired on Wednesday by Toronto, Mike Babcock will have plenty of time to rest and recharge before the Totems, er, the whatchamacallits , drop the puck for their inaugural season in 2021. \u2014 Ross Mckeon, SFChronicle.com , 22 Nov. 2019"
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"1910, in the meaning defined above":""
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"alteration of what you may call it":""
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"\u02c8(h)w\u00e4-ch\u0259-m\u0259-\u02cck\u022f-l\u0259t",
"\u02c8(h)w\u0259-"
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"hickey",
"thingamabob",
"thingamajig",
"thingumajig",
"thingummy",
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"whatsit",
"whatsis",
"what-is-it"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211740",
"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"anyways",
"regardless"
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": any \u2026 that : all \u2026 that":[
"buy peace \u2026 on whatever terms could be obtained",
"\u2014 C. S. Forester"
],
": anything or everything that":[
"take whatever you want"
],
": in any case : whatever the case may be":[
"\u2014 sometimes used interjectionally to suggest the unimportance of an issue or decision between alternatives go see a movie, watch TV,\u2014 whatever"
],
": no matter what":[
"money, in whatever hands, will confer power",
"\u2014 Samuel Johnson"
],
": of any kind at all":[
"\u2014 used after the substantive it modifies with any or with an expressed or implied negative in any order whatever \u2014 W. G. Moulton no food whatever"
],
": what sense 1a(1)":[
"\u2014 used to express astonishment or perplexity whatever do you mean by that"
],
": whatnot":[
"enjoys skiing, hiking, or whatever"
]
},
"examples":[
"Pronoun",
"\u201cWhat's that smell",
"Whatever you do , don't press that button!",
"Adjective",
"She will buy the painting at whatever price.",
"There's no evidence whatever to support your theory.",
"Adverb",
"whatever the reviews say, I still think it was a great play",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Central to whatever the answer might be is the issue of race and policing \u2013 the same as when Watts exploded in 1965 and then in 1992, with south Los Angeles again the epicenter of violence that spread to other parts of Southern California. \u2014 Theresa Walker, Orange County Register , 30 Apr. 2017",
"The symptoms, for whatever reason, took a turn for the worse maybe five days ago. \u2014 Anthony Slater, The Mercury News , 23 Apr. 2017",
"Whatever spoils of tour come back with them are to be conscientiously invested. \u2014 Joe Rubino, The Know , 30 Mar. 2017",
"Basically helping out with whatever needed to be done. \u2014 Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities , 25 Jan. 2017",
"The show often has a little segment on the history of whatever pile of carbohydrates the contestants have to construct. \u2014 The Washington Post, The Denver Post , 3 Jan. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Wants to be sure her friends notice her new whatever -she's-wearing. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 8 May 2021",
"And so the Administration of Harvard, by its own admission, has taken no action whatever . \u2014 William F. Buckley Jr., National Review , 23 Oct. 2017",
"Obviously nobody is going to listen to me on the subject of clowns, so whatever . \u2014 Marc Snetiker, EW.com , 17 Oct. 2017",
"Most fares are less than $330, which is whatever -the-Norwegian-word-for-remarkable-is for flights that usually cost at least $750. \u2014 Meredith Carey, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 15 Mar. 2017"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1870, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
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"(h)w\u00e4t-\u02c8e-v\u0259r",
"(h)w\u0259t-",
"w\u00e4t-",
"hw\u00e4t-\u02c8e-v\u0259r",
"hw\u0259t-",
"w\u0259t-"
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"whatnot"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062715",
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"adverb",
"pronoun"
]
},
"whatever one damn/damned well pleases":{
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"I'll do whatever I damn/damned well please ."
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},
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"type":[
"idiom"
]
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"doodad",
"doohickey",
"hickey",
"thingamabob",
"thingamajig",
"thingumajig",
"thingummy",
"whatchamacallit",
"whatsit",
"whatsis",
"what-is-it"
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"definitions":{
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": any of various other things that might also be mentioned":[
"paper clips, pins, and whatnot"
]
},
"examples":[
"Pronoun",
"You can use the container to hold paper clips, pins, and whatnot .",
"the drawer is full of spare pens, paper clips, stray elastics and whatnot",
"Noun",
"the store sells an array of whatnots for the do-it-yourself plumber",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"To go to the movies or to buy something and buy food or whatnot . \u2014 Jingnan Peng, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 June 2022",
"But some projects have been talked about, [involving] some of his upcoming scripts and whatnot . \u2014 Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"The set appears to consist of the aforementioned easel and sewing table complete with tiny sewing implements inside, plus a bookcase/cabinet filled with books and whatnot , a sofa, two side chairs, a table and a piano with sheet music. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 1 June 2022",
"There are certainly enough big-name sequels and prequels and whatnot coming up between now and September to make that a possibility. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 15 May 2022",
"Death isn\u2019t necessarily an obstacle, with flashbacks and fantasies and whatnot . \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Definitely taking it to the next level with them flowers and whatnot . \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Definitely taking it to the next level with them flowers and whatnot . \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 3 Mar. 2022",
"People would slowly go off to get water and whatnot . \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1540, in the meaning defined above":"Pronoun",
"1602, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
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"\u02c8(h)w\u00e4t-\u02ccn\u00e4t",
"\u02c8(h)w\u0259t-"
],
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"whatever"
],
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"pronoun"
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"from the query what reck":""
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": thingamajig":[]
},
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"there's always one random whatsit left over every time I put a bookcase together",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Disaster strikes when Loretta is kidnaped by eccentric zillionaire Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes to use her anthropological knowhow to recover an ancient whatsit from a remote jungle island. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 24 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s nothing if not a unique premise, but writer-director Cesar Cabral\u2019s animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Equal parts art-house whatsit and car-fetish classic, the film works so well thanks to director Sarafian\u2019s ability to shoot a chase, as well as his feel for the landscape. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 2 July 2021",
"The numbers of whosits and the intensity of the whatsits really does depend on who is running. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018",
"Thirty-seven percent of whosits voting at a greater intensity than 41 percent of whatsits , etc. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018"
],
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"circa 1882, in the meaning defined above":""
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"whatsit & whatsis contraction of what-is-it":""
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"\u02c8(h)w\u00e4t-s\u0259t",
"\u02c8(h)w\u0259t-"
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"doodad",
"doohickey",
"hickey",
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"thingamajig",
"thingumajig",
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"whatnot"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113631",
"type":[
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"That\u2019s nothing if not a unique premise, but writer-director Cesar Cabral\u2019s animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
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"In the 1800s, Black seamen built cities through work in the whaling industry. \u2014 Nyeema C. Harris, Scientific American , 17 June 2022",
"After a trek across the unforgiving landscape, Shackleton reached a Norwegian whaling station on South Georgia Island and from there coordinated the rescue of the remaining sailors. \u2014 Lilit Marcus, CNN , 25 May 2022",
"On Friday the ship stopped at Grytviken, a former whaling station on the island of South Georgia. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"More than three centuries of whaling killed at least 5,500 right whales in the western Atlantic, according to one conservative estimate from biologists. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Keratin is durable and flexible, which made baleen a popular by-product of 19th-century whaling . \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Several Massachusetts towns\u2014especially New Bedford\u2014operated as hubs for the whaling industry. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Built in 1815 in Westport, Massachusetts, the whaling brig mainly hunted sperm whales across the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico for about 20 years. \u2014 Maxime Tamsett, CNN , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Commercial whaling was outlawed by the 1980s, but nearly 3 million whales had already been wiped out around the world. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 11 Mar. 2022"
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"\u2014 Liam Bryce",
"\" Whataboutery \" is deployed by people who are themselves accused of a charge, and who wish to distract rather than defend themselves\u2014it is a misdirection technique of the guilty.",
"\u2014 Kate Maltby",
"\u2026 there was always the lurking suspicion that the promised new approach could not be sustained and that old whatabouteries would inevitably surface \u2026",
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"The Bitcoin whale has long supported the cryptocurrency, even during the latest market downturn. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 29 June 2022",
"Despite Nathaniel Philbrick\u2019s persuasive essay on the virtue of the text, that whale just keeps eluding me. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"These guppies are small enough for little fingers to hold, and the whale has an easy-squeeze trigger. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 26 May 2022",
"Yanni and Jones departed June 8 from Old Comfort Point Marina in Hampton and set sail for the Azores, an archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean known for dolphin and whale watching. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 16 May 2022",
"Culture Editor Sean Means and Culture Reporter Palak Jayswal join the podcast to break down how the whale got there and the controversy surrounding its debut. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Supply chain issues impact whale protection rules, feds say The federal government is acknowledging that supply chain issues will prevent all lobstermen from having gear needed to protect North Atlantic right whales before a May 1 deadline. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Lobster shacks stud the sandy shores, emanating tantalizing smells of crustaceans, while stops for whale watching and boating adventures are equal temptations. \u2014 Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure , 2 Apr. 2022",
"One trader likened buying Russian oil to an instance when he was asked to sell oil to a Japanese whale -hunting fleet. \u2014 Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ , 27 Mar. 2022"
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"Sharks were first included in Appendix II of CITES in 2003, after decision makers decided to include the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) and whale shark (Rhincodon typus) in Appendix II. \u2014 Melissa Cristina M\u00e1rquez, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
"One of the largest aquariums in the world, this Atlanta attraction has thousands of animals, including beluga whales, dolphins, penguins, sea lions, and even a whale shark . \u2014 Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure , 23 Jan. 2022",
"The tourism money means too much, with whale shark encounters bringing some $3.5 million into the area in 2019. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Oct. 2021",
"Visitors posted their whale shark selfies on social media. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Oct. 2021",
"One thing to keep in mind as shark tourism opens to international travelers is the fact that the whale shark tourism industry here is presently unregulated. \u2014 Melissa Cristina M\u00e1rquez, Forbes , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Today\u2019s photos include pink sheep in England, a hyena in Nigeria, salmon in California, a whale shark in Thailand, Shetland ponies in Scotland, a wild boar in Rome, animals rescued from wildfires in Greece, and much more. \u2014 Alan Taylor, The Atlantic , 5 Oct. 2021"
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"Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836. \u2014 Jay Reeves, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836. \u2014 Jay Reeves, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836. \u2014 Jay Reeves, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836. \u2014 Jay Reeves, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836. \u2014 Jay Reeves, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836. \u2014 Jay Reeves, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836. \u2014 Jay Reeves, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022"
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"Panniers, those underskirt structures that exaggerated hips, were a 16th-century version of shapewear; so were steel or whalebone and canvas corsets. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Made using materials like whalebone and metal, corsets contained and constrained women\u2019s bodies, keeping them in place (literally and figuratively). \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The town\u2019s oldest buildings are clustered together near the Utqia\u0121vik Presbyterian Church, marked with a whalebone sign dated 1898. \u2014 Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine , 17 Aug. 2021",
"Later iterations included girdles and corsets made of whalebone , iron and leather. \u2014 Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post , 8 May 2021",
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"That particular task was messy; the harvesting of whale parts \u2014 oil to light lamps and use in cosmetics, baleen for whalebone corsets, tongue for food \u2014 was hard labor. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Jan. 2021",
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"Mitch Brown, 27, and his girlfriend Yanna Xian, 24, were swimming on a whaleboat tour when a baby humpback approached them. \u2014 People Staff, PEOPLE.com , 10 Jan. 2022"
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