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3540 lines
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{
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"Fat Tuesday":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": mardi gras sense 1a":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1866, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111928",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"Father":{
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"antonyms":[
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"beget",
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"get",
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"sire"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a male parent":[],
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": a pre-Scholastic (see scholastic sense 1a ) Christian writer accepted by the church as an authoritative witness to its teaching and practice":[],
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": an old man":[
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"\u2014 used as a respectful form of address"
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],
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": beget":[],
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": foist , impose":[],
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": forefather":[
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"the founding fathers"
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],
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": god sense 1":[],
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": one of the leading men (as of a city)":[
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"\u2014 usually used in plural a council of the city fathers"
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],
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": one related to another in a way suggesting that of father to child":[],
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": one that originates or institutes":[
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"the father of modern science"
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],
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": prototype":[
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"the father of all libraries in the country"
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],
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": source":[
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"\u2026 the sun, the father of warmth and light.",
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"\u2014 Lena M. Whitney"
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],
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": the first person of the Trinity (see Trinity sense 1 )":[],
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": to accept responsibility for":[],
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": to be the founder, producer, or author of":[
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"fathered the improvement plan"
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],
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": to care for or look after someone as a father might":[],
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": to fix the paternity or origin of":[],
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": to place responsibility for the origin or cause of":[
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"collected gossip and fathered it on responsible men",
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"\u2014 J. A. Williamson"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"He became a father when he was 30.",
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"He's the father of three small children.",
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"He has been like a father to me.",
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"He was a father to me after my own father died.",
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"Verb",
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"He was praised for fathering a plan to improve the city's schools.",
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"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Last month, a Georgia father was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 8-month-old daughter, who was left in a hot car while he was being arrested at a police station. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 29 June 2022",
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"Even his 11-year-old daughter has launched an Etsy business, bringing him pride as a father . \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
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"Rian Troth, a 47-year-old father of four in Sacramento, California, recently attended a high school graduation with his family. \u2014 Dakin Andone, CNN , 26 June 2022",
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"Urban also mused about how he's changed and stopped partying since marrying Kidman and becoming a father to their two daughters. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 26 June 2022",
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"What matters is what the game of golf means for a father and son \u2014 in fact, for three generations. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
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"The change brought less stress and more time to focus on being a father . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
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"Defense attorneys described him as a doting father and said the boy\u2019s death was a tragic accident. \u2014 Kate Brumback, ajc , 22 June 2022",
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"Obviously, as Ray isn't Claire's father , this begs some questions. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"Nabil\u2019s mother, Louise Braufman, met Roy in 1970 and soon asked him to have a child with an understanding: The musician would never have to father the boy emotionally or financially. \u2014 Geoff Edgers, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
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"Bowing to that reality, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in May that men who father a child during an affair with a married woman have the right to seek a role in the child's life. \u2014 Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal , 10 May 2022",
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"According to the paper, the bounciest males might father more spiderlings by mating with the same female multiple times without being eaten, or by seeking out additional mates. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Apr. 2022",
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"The younger child, in particular, didn\u2019t want to let her father out of her sight. \u2014 Molly Parker, ProPublica , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"The total included three offspring of Nish, one of Monty and Rose\u2019s 2020 chicks who went on to father the first Ohio nest in more than 80 years. \u2014 Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
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"Putting the motivations into sharper focus and throwing the scenario even father back in time are the suspects in Florida. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
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"Some can even be multigenerational: A recent study in the Congo that was published in The Lancet found that men who worked in mines were more likely to father children with birth defects than those who did not. \u2014 Michael Holtz, The Atlantic , 24 Jan. 2022",
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"How C\u2019mon C\u2019mon director Mike Mills convinced Joaquin Phoenix to father his movie son. \u2014 Rachel Handler, Vulture , 20 Nov. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English fader , from Old English f\u00e6der ; akin to Old High German fater father, Latin pater , Greek pat\u0113r":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8f\u00e4-t\u035fh\u0259r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"dad",
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"daddy",
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"old man",
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"pa",
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"papa",
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"poppa",
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"pater",
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"pop",
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"sire"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111011",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adjective or adverb",
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"Father Christmas":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": santa claus":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1646, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124729",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"Father Time":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": time personified especially as a bearded old man holding a scythe and an hourglass":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1559, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130926",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"Father's Day":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the third Sunday in June appointed for the honoring of fathers":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-180959",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"Fathometer":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"fa-\u02c8t\u035fh\u00e4-m\u0259-t\u0259r",
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"\u02c8fa-t\u035fh\u0259-\u02ccm\u0113-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215631",
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"type":[
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"trademark"
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]
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},
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"fat":{
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"antonyms":[
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"A-list",
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"aristocracy",
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"best",
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"choice",
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"corps d'elite",
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"cream",
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"cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me",
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"elect",
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"elite",
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"flower",
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"illuminati",
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"pick",
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"pink",
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"pride",
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"priesthood",
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"prime",
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"royalty",
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"upper crust"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a solid or semisolid fat as distinguished from an oil":[],
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": animal tissue consisting chiefly of cells distended with greasy or oily matter":[],
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": any of various compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that are glycerides of fatty acids, are the chief constituents of plant and animal fat, are a major class of energy-rich food, and are soluble in organic solvents but not in water":[],
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": being substantial and impressive":[
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"a fat bank account"
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],
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": being swollen":[
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"got a fat lip from the fight"
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],
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": easy to hit":[],
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": fattened for market":[],
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": full in tone and quality : rich":[
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"a gorgeous fat bass voice",
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"\u2014 Irish Digest"
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],
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": having excessive body fat":[
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"\u2026 a woman of medium height, a little plump but not fat \u2026",
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"\u2014 Mary McCarthy"
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],
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": notable for having an unusual amount of fat:":[],
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": obesity":[],
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": oily , greasy":[
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"a fat , rich cheese"
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],
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": oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of adipose tissue and often abundant in seeds":[],
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": plump":[
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"a cute, fat little baby"
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],
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": practically nonexistent":[
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"a fat chance"
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],
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": productive , fertile":[
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"a fat year for crops"
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],
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": prosperous , wealthy":[
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"grew fat on the war",
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"\u2014 Time"
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],
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": richly rewarding or profitable":[
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"a fat part in a movie",
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"a fat contract"
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],
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": something in excess : superfluity":[
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"trim the fat from the news operation",
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"\u2014 Ray Olson"
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],
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": stupid , foolish":[
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"\" \u2026 if he had had any sense in his fat head, he would have done it long ago, dash him!\"",
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"\u2014 P. G. Wodehouse"
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],
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": the best or richest part":[],
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": to make fat : fatten":[],
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": well filled out : thick , big":[
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"a fat book"
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],
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": well stocked":[
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"a fat larder"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"The dog is getting fat because you feed him too much.",
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"I can't believe I've let myself get so fat .",
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"a fat book of poems",
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"a truck with fat tires",
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"Noun",
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"people with excess body fat",
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"a diet and exercise program to help you gain muscle and lose fat",
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"Nuts contain a lot of fat .",
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"Trim the fat from the meat before you cook it.",
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"a diet low in fats",
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"fats like butter and olive oil",
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"trim the fat off the budget",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"Subjecting fat cells to extreme heat or cold is not the only way to smooth the silhouette. \u2014 April Long, Town & Country , 24 June 2022",
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"For women whose goal is to burn fat , this study did demonstrate a clear benefit to a morning workout. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
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"The party makes a fat Democratic target in left-leaning California. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
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"Consider adding high-fiber grains and vegetables, more protein, and a little fat \u2014like olive oil or nuts\u2014to your dinner to keep your stomach sated during the night. \u2014 Ali Francis, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
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"As standard, 22-inch machined alloy wheels will be equipped, along with fat off-road tires for plenty of grip. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 20 June 2022",
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"For instance, while a traditional push-pull workout is great for building muscle, it's not especially optimized towards fat loss. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 20 June 2022",
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"This bike offers nice fat tires, a great design, and a ton of helpful features. \u2014 Maren Estrada, BGR , 26 Apr. 2022",
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"There will be a 25K, 40K, and 50K race in each freestyle and classic cross-country skiing and in fat biking. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 3 Mar. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Limited research published in the journal Nutrients in 2019 found that subjects who were considered overweight or clinically obese and ate watermelon instead of low- fat cookies experienced greater satiety, as an example. \u2014 Erica Sweeney, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
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"At this Wicklow coastal farm, salty breezes from the Irish Sea wash over the pasture, giving a rich flavor to the full- fat milk and double cream used to make this cheese. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
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"The pizza probably has a whole grain crust, lower- fat cheese and vegetables on it. \u2014 Marlene B. Schwartz, The Conversation , 7 June 2022",
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"Besides being a large cut, pork shoulder is more forgiving than lower- fat cuts like pork chops, which can become dry quickly. \u2014 Jennifer Mcclellan, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
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"The price of whole milk rose more than 12%, while low- fat milk jumped 16%. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 18 May 2022",
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"Filling: 4 gelatine sheets, 500g fat-free quark, 400g Philadelphia Lightest cream cheese (or other low- fat cream cheese), 100g zero-calorie granulated white sugar replacer, 45g Lotus Biscoff smooth spread, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 100ml soy milk. \u2014 Elijah Rawls, Men's Health , 10 May 2022",
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"But when it is diagnosed early, parents know to wake and feed the child regularly and continue a low- fat diet throughout life. \u2014 jsonline.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"Research has also shown that high- fat diets delay the healing of skin by promoting skin oxidative stress, which is associated with aging and skin disease and has a direct correlation to inflammaging. \u2014 Naosha Gregg, Glamour , 28 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Old English f\u01e3tt , past participle of f\u01e3tan to cram; akin to Old High German feizit fat":"Adjective, Verb, and Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8fat"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"blubbery",
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"chubby",
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"corpulent",
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"fleshy",
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"full",
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"gross",
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"lardy",
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"obese",
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"overweight",
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"plump",
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"podgy",
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"portly",
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"pudgy",
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"replete",
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"roly-poly",
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"rotund",
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"round",
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"tubby"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113346",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"fat acid":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": fatty acid sense 2":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001646",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"fat body":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a fatty tissue especially of nearly mature insect larvae that serves as a food reserve":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Would the regulars watch me on the elliptical machine, judging the ways a fat body jiggles and sways",
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"The Analogue Pocket follows the first Game Boy concept: screen on top, buttons below, and a fat body that rests in your palms. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 13 Dec. 2021",
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"Particularly when considering the fact that existing in a fat body means experiencing marginalisation in a much broader sense than just shopping. \u2014 Olivia Muenter, refinery29.com , 1 Dec. 2021",
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"That fat bodies are a necessary failure, even as 70 percent of Americans have BMIs that are higher than recommended. \u2014 Your Fat Friend, SELF , 30 Sep. 2019",
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"Despite this fact, designers have notoriously excluded designs and representation for fat bodies , which ultimately shuts out a large percentage of potential customers. \u2014 Scarlett Newman, Teen Vogue , 3 Apr. 2019",
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"Despite the inroads being made by fat-positivity activists like Tess Holliday or Naomi Watanabe, popular culture already provides incessant commentary about the importance of weight loss and the unacceptability of fat bodies . \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartzy , 4 Sep. 2019",
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"The pool party is just one scene in a series that is sprinkled with the realities of living in a fat body . \u2014 Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Teen Vogue , 22 Mar. 2019",
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"Her character challenges stereotypes of fat bodies as inherently unfit or unhealthy. 5. \u2014 Mariana Viera, Teen Vogue , 5 Sep. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1869, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121433",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"fat cat":{
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"antonyms":[
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"have-not",
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"pauper"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a lethargic complacent person":[],
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": a wealthy and privileged person":[],
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": a wealthy contributor to a political campaign fund":[],
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": big shot":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"The best seats in the theater were reserved for the fat cats .",
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"that last recession was particularly hard on the poor, but the fat cats barely noticed a dip in their bank accounts",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Pulled in by the promise of thrills or the guarantee of glamour, readers will stay for the game of survivor(s), and finish the book as satisfied as a fat cat in the Serengeti. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 May 2022",
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"More monthly and energy bills to bail out their fat cat friends who fund their little. \u2014 cleveland , 11 Apr. 2022",
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"There has been music and dancing and marching and a giant inflatable fat cat perched atop a red car. \u2014 Rebecca Nathanson, The New Republic , 14 Dec. 2021",
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"Second, earnings rise enormously for most workers over their career, and the low paying history major of 2021 might be a plutocratic fat cat executive 25 years later. \u2014 Richard Vedder, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
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"Every fat cat in America will be calling up his accountant today asking for one of those Thiel IRAs. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 25 June 2021",
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"Elsewhere, Olivia\u2019s friend Lucy, a business and science consultant, is flying in from New York to London to meet a fat cat called Hunter Sterling who has recruited her to head Digitas, his venture capital firm. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, WSJ , 4 June 2021",
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"The young angler did have a few pounds on the fat cat , but not many. \u2014 Matt Williams, Dallas News , 19 Mar. 2021",
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"Speakers addressed the crowd from a Teamsters Local 25 flatbed adorned with an inflatable fat cat , depicted smoking a cigar and holding a moneybag. \u2014 Lucas Phillips, BostonGlobe.com , 8 Mar. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1928, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"capitalist",
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"Croesus",
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"deep pocket",
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"have",
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"money",
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"moneybags",
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"plutocrat",
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"silk stocking"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024506",
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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},
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"fat city":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a very comfortable condition or situation in life":[
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"He thinks he's going to win the lottery, and then he'll be in fat city ."
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},
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123249",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"fat depot":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": adipose tissue":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8dep-(\u02cc)\u014d also -\u02c8d\u0113p-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120411",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"fat liquor":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a liquor made of an emulsion of soap and fat (as castor oil or degras) or of sulfonated oil and used in tanning leather":[],
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": to fill the fiber of (a leather) with oil or fat : treat (leather) with fat liquor":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"fat entry 4 + liquor":"Noun",
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"fat liquor":"Transitive verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105543",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"transitive verb"
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]
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},
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"fat mouse":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": any of several silky furred tropical and southern African short-tailed mice (genus Steatomys ) regarded as a great delicacy by the natives":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"so called from its accumulation of oily fat before hibernation":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184010",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"fat paint":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": fatty paint":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062044",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"fat pine":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": any of several trees (as the longleaf pine) abounding in pitchy heartwood":[],
|
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": kindling wood":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172105",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"fat pork":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": the fruit of a wild fig ( Clusia flava )":[],
|
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": the fruit of the coco plum":[]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140051",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"fat-cat":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"have-not",
|
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"pauper"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a lethargic complacent person":[],
|
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": a wealthy and privileged person":[],
|
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": a wealthy contributor to a political campaign fund":[],
|
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": big shot":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"The best seats in the theater were reserved for the fat cats .",
|
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"that last recession was particularly hard on the poor, but the fat cats barely noticed a dip in their bank accounts",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Pulled in by the promise of thrills or the guarantee of glamour, readers will stay for the game of survivor(s), and finish the book as satisfied as a fat cat in the Serengeti. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"More monthly and energy bills to bail out their fat cat friends who fund their little. \u2014 cleveland , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"There has been music and dancing and marching and a giant inflatable fat cat perched atop a red car. \u2014 Rebecca Nathanson, The New Republic , 14 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Second, earnings rise enormously for most workers over their career, and the low paying history major of 2021 might be a plutocratic fat cat executive 25 years later. \u2014 Richard Vedder, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Every fat cat in America will be calling up his accountant today asking for one of those Thiel IRAs. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 25 June 2021",
|
|
"Elsewhere, Olivia\u2019s friend Lucy, a business and science consultant, is flying in from New York to London to meet a fat cat called Hunter Sterling who has recruited her to head Digitas, his venture capital firm. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, WSJ , 4 June 2021",
|
|
"The young angler did have a few pounds on the fat cat , but not many. \u2014 Matt Williams, Dallas News , 19 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"Speakers addressed the crowd from a Teamsters Local 25 flatbed adorned with an inflatable fat cat , depicted smoking a cigar and holding a moneybag. \u2014 Lucas Phillips, BostonGlobe.com , 8 Mar. 2021"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1928, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"capitalist",
|
|
"Croesus",
|
|
"deep pocket",
|
|
"have",
|
|
"money",
|
|
"moneybags",
|
|
"plutocrat",
|
|
"silk stocking"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041607",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"fat-shame":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": to subject (someone) to fat-shaming":[
|
|
"The author, a doctoral student therapist, discusses her experience with a clinical supervisor who fat-shamed a client during supervision.",
|
|
"\u2014 Melissa A. Meulman"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"2009, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fat-\u02ccsh\u0101m"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122447",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fat-witted":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": stupid , idiotic":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1596, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fat-\u02ccwi-t\u0259d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122826",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fatal":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": bringing ruin":[
|
|
"a fatal attraction to gambling"
|
|
],
|
|
": causing death":[
|
|
"a fatal crash",
|
|
"a fatal disease",
|
|
"a fatal wound"
|
|
],
|
|
": causing failure":[
|
|
"a fatal design flaw",
|
|
"Lack of sufficient support was fatal to his campaign."
|
|
],
|
|
": determining one's fate":[
|
|
"the fatal flaw in this dazzling woman: a total lack of taste",
|
|
"\u2014 Marya Mannes"
|
|
],
|
|
": fated":[],
|
|
": fateful":[
|
|
"a fatal hour"
|
|
],
|
|
": of or relating to fate":[
|
|
"\u2026 this science sets a fatal necessity on things \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 H. O. Taylor"
|
|
],
|
|
": resembling fate in proceeding according to a fixed sequence":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a disease that is often fatal",
|
|
"a chemical that can be fatal to birds",
|
|
"She made a fatal mistake.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The area was the scene of another fatal shooting just two days earlier. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Baldwin\u2019s controversial interview of Allen comes amid the actor\u2019s own legal issues stemming from the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the western Rust in October 2021. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Veteran music producer Chaka Zulu was reportedly shot Sunday during a fatal triple shooting in Atlanta. \u2014 al , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Data files released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office in April included a video of investigators debriefing Baldwin within hours of the fatal shooting, talking with him inside a compact office. \u2014 Pamela Avila, USA TODAY , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"He was freed 18 days shy of the fifth anniversary of the July 15, 2017, fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old dual U.S.-Australian citizen and yoga teacher who was engaged to be married. \u2014 Fox News , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Cincinnati police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened in Evanston Monday evening. \u2014 Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Veteran music producer Chaka Zulu was reportedly shot Sunday during a fatal triple shooting in Atlanta. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"About 18 hours after the fatal shooting, a Maryland Transportation Authority Police officer pulled over the burgundy Lexus and arrested Clinton, who was allegedly driving the SUV, according to charging documents. \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Latin fatalis , from fatum fate":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8f\u0101t-\u1d4al",
|
|
"\u02c8f\u0101-t\u1d4al"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fatal deadly , mortal , fatal , lethal mean causing or capable of causing death. deadly applies to an established or very likely cause of death. a deadly disease mortal implies that death has occurred or is inevitable. a mortal wound fatal stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction. fatal consequences lethal applies to something that is bound to cause death or exists for the destruction of life. lethal gas",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"calamitous",
|
|
"cataclysmal",
|
|
"cataclysmic",
|
|
"catastrophic",
|
|
"damning",
|
|
"destructive",
|
|
"disastrous",
|
|
"fateful",
|
|
"ruinous",
|
|
"unfortunate"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161402",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fatality":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": death resulting from a disaster":[],
|
|
": fatalism":[],
|
|
": fate sense 1":[],
|
|
": one that experiences a fatal outcome":[],
|
|
": something established by fate":[],
|
|
": the agent or agency of fate":[],
|
|
": the quality or condition of being destined for disaster":[],
|
|
": the quality or state of causing death or destruction":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The car crash caused one fatality and several serious injuries.",
|
|
"the grim reminder that every holiday weekend inevitably results in a slew of highway fatalities",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The Associated Press saw one fatality : A man\u2019s body lay hunched over a car door frame, his blood pooling onto the ground from chest and head wounds. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau And Francesca Ebel, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"The Associated Press saw one fatality : A man\u2019s body lay hunched over a car door frame, his blood pooling onto the ground from chest and head wounds. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"The incident apparently resulted in at least one fatality . \u2014 Stephanie Casanova, Chicago Tribune , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"Officers were on the scene of a shooting with one fatality in the 2400 block of Alicia Court, the post stated. \u2014 Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online , 20 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The other civilian deaths, according to the medical examiner and the state report, included three suicides, nine accidents that led to 10 deaths, two deaths by natural causes and one undetermined fatality . \u2014 Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun , 18 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In bridge work, one life lost for every million dollars spent was considered normal, yet in February 1937, with just three months of work left before the $35 million bridge was finished, there had been only one fatality . \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Officials provided no immediate details about the one fatality in St. Bernard Parish. \u2014 Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY , 23 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"During the 16 months that the district has been negotiating with Del Mar, there have been 1,828 incidents, including one fatality , involving trespassers on the rail line in the city, according to the district\u2019s most recent update. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle French fatalit\u00e9 , from Late Latin fatalitat-, fatalitas , from Latin fatalis":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"f\u0101-\u02c8tal-\u0259t-\u0113, f\u0259-",
|
|
"f\u0259-",
|
|
"f\u0101-\u02c8ta-l\u0259-t\u0113"
|
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],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"casualty",
|
|
"loss",
|
|
"prey",
|
|
"victim"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085056",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fate":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": the will or principle or determining cause by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do : destiny":[
|
|
"\u2026 fate sometimes deals a straight flush \u2026 he had no idea that he would become the right man in the right place at the right time \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 June Goodfield"
|
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],
|
|
": an inevitable and often adverse outcome, condition, or end":[
|
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"Her fate was to remain in exile."
|
|
],
|
|
": final outcome":[
|
|
"Congress decided the bill's fate by a single vote."
|
|
],
|
|
": the expected result of normal development":[
|
|
"prospective fate of embryonic cells"
|
|
],
|
|
": the circumstances that befall someone or something":[
|
|
"did not know the fate of her former classmates"
|
|
],
|
|
": the three goddesses, Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis, who determine the course of human life in classical mythology":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8f\u0101t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"circumstance",
|
|
"destiny",
|
|
"doom",
|
|
"fortune",
|
|
"kismet",
|
|
"lot",
|
|
"portion"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"destine",
|
|
"doom",
|
|
"foredoom",
|
|
"foreordain",
|
|
"ordain",
|
|
"predestine",
|
|
"predetermine",
|
|
"preordain"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fate Noun fate , destiny , lot , portion , doom mean a predetermined state or end. fate implies an inevitable and usually an adverse outcome. the fate of the submarine is unknown destiny implies something foreordained and often suggests a great or noble course or end. the country's destiny to be a model of liberty to the world lot and portion imply a distribution by fate or destiny, lot suggesting blind chance it was her lot to die childless , portion implying the apportioning of good and evil. remorse was his daily portion doom distinctly implies a grim or calamitous fate. if the rebellion fails, his doom is certain",
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Noun",
|
|
"\u2026 the fate of our species is bound up with those of countless others, with which we share a habitat that we cannot long dominate \u2026 \u2014 John Gray , Times Literary Supplement , 11 Sept. 1992",
|
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"So what went wrong",
|
|
"Often there is a specified character on whom a work hinges and whose fate we follow, a Raskolnikov or a Hamlet \u2026 \u2014 Robert Penn Warren , Democracy and Poetry , 1975",
|
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"The money goes down one-two-three on the table, fives and tens and twenties, and the wheel begins to spin. Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows. It's up to fate . Kismet, as they say. \u2014 Mordecai Richler , The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz , 1959",
|
|
"They thought they would never see each other again, but fate brought them back together.",
|
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"a surprising turn of fate",
|
|
"One company went bankrupt, and a similar fate befell the other.",
|
|
"Her fate was sealed by the marriage arrangement made in her youth.",
|
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"Verb",
|
|
"Given what was going on when the magazine was started, Utne Reader seems fated to have happened\u2014it was simply an idea that fit the times. \u2014 Eric Utne , Utne Reader , March/April 1994",
|
|
"It was during this interregnum between the acquisition of regional power and the actual use of it that Henderson was fated to enter the picture. \u2014 Robert D. Kaplan , The Arabists , 1993",
|
|
"Who are my viewing companions at this hour",
|
|
"the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
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"OneCoin\u2019s fate eventually came to mirror its founder\u2019s. \u2014 Mar\u00eda Luisa Pa\u00fal, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"Then, each villain must try to conquer the heroes using their own skills and abilities, while a shared fate deck affects all the players. \u2014 Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances. \u2014 Travis Bean, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"But ultimately, its fate rests primarily with this weekend's honored guest. \u2014 Clay Chandler, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"The move is the latest twist in a monthslong battle over Spirit\u2019s fate and is the second time Spirit has delayed the vote to continue discussions with Frontier and JetBlue JBLU -6.58%\u25bc. \u2014 Alison Sider, WSJ , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"The fate of the boys, ranging from 11-16 years old in age garnered international media coverage, with many glued to the harrowing mission. \u2014 Justine Browning, EW.com , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"The show\u2019s second and third seasons were less well received, however, and the show\u2019s fate was uncertain after the show\u2019s last episodes aired in 2019. \u2014 James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"The prosecution would take many years to conclude, would last through and deeply affect the next election and would leave Mr. Trump's ultimate fate to the next administration, which could be headed by Mr. Trump. \u2014 Richard Galant, CNN , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Bohjalian tracks his players as keenly as a leopard does its prey, matching psychology to fate with an almost pathological precision. \u2014 Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"The effort was too much and the young animal succumbed to fate , sliding down the snow into the abyss. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Donald Trump cut a deal with the Taliban that left the future of the Afghan government, Afghan women, and al\u2011Qaeda to fate . \u2014 George Packer, The Atlantic , 31 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Well, that\u2019s a little bit up to them, a little bit up to fate . \u2014 Hayden Grove, cleveland , 7 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Kyland volunteers, the Aces leave their nomination to fate , and Christian is down to compete knowing that Frenchie is probably targeting him. \u2014 Kyle Fowle, EW.com , 12 July 2021",
|
|
"To be a baker, Lidgus explains, is to be half control freak, half submissive to fate ; to embrace a life of eternal adjustments. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Mar. 2021",
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"Trump, in a statement from Walter Reed hospital on Saturday, chalked up his diagnosis to fate and his desire to be seen leading the country. \u2014 Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com , 4 Oct. 2020",
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"About one-third of the metropolis\u2019s 460 deaths to fate were reported this month alone. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 July 2020"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin fatum , literally, what has been spoken, from neuter of fatus , past participle of fari to speak \u2014 more at ban entry 1":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"1601, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-200853"
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},
|
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"fateful":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": controlled by fate : foreordained":[],
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": deadly , catastrophic":[],
|
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": having a quality of ominous prophecy":[
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"a fateful remark"
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],
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": involving momentous consequences : decisive":[
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"made his fateful decision to declare war",
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"\u2014 W. L. Shirer"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"His life changed on that fateful November evening.",
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"Hundreds perished on that fateful day.",
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"Her campaign took a fateful turn.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Which brings us to that fateful Thursday night in 2002. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
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"When the news first broke about that fateful night in summer 2020, details about the police stop were unclear, but what was certain was that Megan was injured before the LAPD arrived on the scene. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"No one knows which path O\u2019Sullivan took that fateful morning. \u2014 Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Apr. 2022",
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"Twenty years since that fateful Tuesday morning, this is how the SEC navigated a sobering 12 days and helped bring light to a nation in its darkest days. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 7 Sep. 2021",
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"But everything changed that fateful morning, and the future didn't seem so bright anymore. \u2014 Alaa Elassar, CNN , 7 Sep. 2021",
|
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"The reporters and editors on the firing line that fateful morning in 1944 went on to greater things in the postwar world. \u2014 Jim Minter, ajc , 6 June 2018",
|
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"The victim's mother, Kristen Swann, was arrested days after the family's fateful restaurant visit. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
|
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"The artifacts, which the archaeologists said may be some form of ancient correspondence, date to the Middle Assyrian period, shortly after the fateful earthquake. \u2014 Denise Chow, NBC News , 2 June 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1720, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8f\u0101t-f\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fateful ominous , portentous , fateful mean having a menacing or threatening aspect. ominous implies having a menacing, alarming character foreshadowing evil or disaster. ominous rumblings from the volcano portentous suggests being frighteningly big or impressive but now seldom definitely connotes forewarning of calamity. an eerie and portentous stillness fateful suggests being of momentous or decisive importance. the fateful conference that led to war",
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"synonyms":[
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"calamitous",
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"cataclysmal",
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"cataclysmic",
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"catastrophic",
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"damning",
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"destructive",
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"disastrous",
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"fatal",
|
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"ruinous",
|
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"unfortunate"
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182959",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
|
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"fathead":{
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"antonyms":[
|
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"brain",
|
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"genius"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a stupid person":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Don't be such a fathead !",
|
|
"so who's the fathead who messed around with my movie collection",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Walleye, Northern pike, largemouth bass, channel catfish, fathead minnows, green sunfish and bluegill are found in the lake. \u2014 Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The best presentation was a 2- to 3-inch-long fathead minnow live-hooked through the top of its back and fished within a foot of the bottom. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The typical January 6 insurrectionist is a delusional fathead with anger management issues who abandoned the revolution the second the price exceeded that of a round-trip bus ticket to Washington, D.C. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 18 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Topics include the impact of lead on the reproductive behavior of fathead minnows and the deleterious effects of alcohol on zebrafish embryo development. \u2014 David H. Petering, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Into Lake Yahou went 8,000 coppernose bluegill and 16,000 fathead minnows, Moss said. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 11 July 2021",
|
|
"Few states, or even countries, can match Minnesota's variety and quality of fish, many of which are dependent on smaller fish \u2014 fathead minnows especially \u2014 to eat. \u2014 Matt Delong, Star Tribune , 30 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"There are bluegill, yellow perch, channel catfish, hybrid bluegill, redear shellcrackers, fathead minnows, white amur and koi. \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 16 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"Red-tails are a favorite among Minnesota anglers whereas shiners and fathead minnows, work just about anywhere. \u2014 Brian Bashore, Outdoor Life , 21 Dec. 2020"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"1842, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fat-\u02cched"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"airhead",
|
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"birdbrain",
|
|
"blockhead",
|
|
"bonehead",
|
|
"bubblehead",
|
|
"chowderhead",
|
|
"chucklehead",
|
|
"clodpoll",
|
|
"clodpole",
|
|
"clot",
|
|
"cluck",
|
|
"clunk",
|
|
"cretin",
|
|
"cuddy",
|
|
"cuddie",
|
|
"deadhead",
|
|
"dim bulb",
|
|
"dimwit",
|
|
"dip",
|
|
"dodo",
|
|
"dolt",
|
|
"donkey",
|
|
"doofus",
|
|
"dope",
|
|
"dork",
|
|
"dullard",
|
|
"dum-dum",
|
|
"dumbbell",
|
|
"dumbhead",
|
|
"dummkopf",
|
|
"dummy",
|
|
"dunce",
|
|
"dunderhead",
|
|
"gander",
|
|
"golem",
|
|
"goof",
|
|
"goon",
|
|
"half-wit",
|
|
"hammerhead",
|
|
"hardhead",
|
|
"idiot",
|
|
"ignoramus",
|
|
"imbecile",
|
|
"jackass",
|
|
"know-nothing",
|
|
"knucklehead",
|
|
"lamebrain",
|
|
"loggerhead",
|
|
"loon",
|
|
"lump",
|
|
"lunkhead",
|
|
"meathead",
|
|
"mome",
|
|
"moron",
|
|
"mug",
|
|
"mutt",
|
|
"natural",
|
|
"nimrod",
|
|
"nincompoop",
|
|
"ninny",
|
|
"ninnyhammer",
|
|
"nit",
|
|
"nitwit",
|
|
"noddy",
|
|
"noodle",
|
|
"numskull",
|
|
"numbskull",
|
|
"oaf",
|
|
"pinhead",
|
|
"prat",
|
|
"ratbag",
|
|
"saphead",
|
|
"schlub",
|
|
"shlub",
|
|
"schnook",
|
|
"simpleton",
|
|
"stock",
|
|
"stupe",
|
|
"stupid",
|
|
"thickhead",
|
|
"turkey",
|
|
"woodenhead",
|
|
"yahoo",
|
|
"yo-yo"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162350",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"father":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"beget",
|
|
"get",
|
|
"sire"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a male parent":[],
|
|
": a pre-Scholastic (see scholastic sense 1a ) Christian writer accepted by the church as an authoritative witness to its teaching and practice":[],
|
|
": an old man":[
|
|
"\u2014 used as a respectful form of address"
|
|
],
|
|
": beget":[],
|
|
": foist , impose":[],
|
|
": forefather":[
|
|
"the founding fathers"
|
|
],
|
|
": god sense 1":[],
|
|
": one of the leading men (as of a city)":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used in plural a council of the city fathers"
|
|
],
|
|
": one related to another in a way suggesting that of father to child":[],
|
|
": one that originates or institutes":[
|
|
"the father of modern science"
|
|
],
|
|
": prototype":[
|
|
"the father of all libraries in the country"
|
|
],
|
|
": source":[
|
|
"\u2026 the sun, the father of warmth and light.",
|
|
"\u2014 Lena M. Whitney"
|
|
],
|
|
": the first person of the Trinity (see Trinity sense 1 )":[],
|
|
": to accept responsibility for":[],
|
|
": to be the founder, producer, or author of":[
|
|
"fathered the improvement plan"
|
|
],
|
|
": to care for or look after someone as a father might":[],
|
|
": to fix the paternity or origin of":[],
|
|
": to place responsibility for the origin or cause of":[
|
|
"collected gossip and fathered it on responsible men",
|
|
"\u2014 J. A. Williamson"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"He became a father when he was 30.",
|
|
"He's the father of three small children.",
|
|
"He has been like a father to me.",
|
|
"He was a father to me after my own father died.",
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"He was praised for fathering a plan to improve the city's schools.",
|
|
"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Last month, a Georgia father was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 8-month-old daughter, who was left in a hot car while he was being arrested at a police station. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"Even his 11-year-old daughter has launched an Etsy business, bringing him pride as a father . \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Rian Troth, a 47-year-old father of four in Sacramento, California, recently attended a high school graduation with his family. \u2014 Dakin Andone, CNN , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"Urban also mused about how he's changed and stopped partying since marrying Kidman and becoming a father to their two daughters. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"What matters is what the game of golf means for a father and son \u2014 in fact, for three generations. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The change brought less stress and more time to focus on being a father . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Defense attorneys described him as a doting father and said the boy\u2019s death was a tragic accident. \u2014 Kate Brumback, ajc , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Obviously, as Ray isn't Claire's father , this begs some questions. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Nabil\u2019s mother, Louise Braufman, met Roy in 1970 and soon asked him to have a child with an understanding: The musician would never have to father the boy emotionally or financially. \u2014 Geoff Edgers, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
|
|
"Bowing to that reality, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in May that men who father a child during an affair with a married woman have the right to seek a role in the child's life. \u2014 Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal , 10 May 2022",
|
|
"According to the paper, the bounciest males might father more spiderlings by mating with the same female multiple times without being eaten, or by seeking out additional mates. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The younger child, in particular, didn\u2019t want to let her father out of her sight. \u2014 Molly Parker, ProPublica , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The total included three offspring of Nish, one of Monty and Rose\u2019s 2020 chicks who went on to father the first Ohio nest in more than 80 years. \u2014 Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Putting the motivations into sharper focus and throwing the scenario even father back in time are the suspects in Florida. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Some can even be multigenerational: A recent study in the Congo that was published in The Lancet found that men who worked in mines were more likely to father children with birth defects than those who did not. \u2014 Michael Holtz, The Atlantic , 24 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"How C\u2019mon C\u2019mon director Mike Mills convinced Joaquin Phoenix to father his movie son. \u2014 Rachel Handler, Vulture , 20 Nov. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English fader , from Old English f\u00e6der ; akin to Old High German fater father, Latin pater , Greek pat\u0113r":"Noun and Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8f\u00e4-t\u035fh\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"dad",
|
|
"daddy",
|
|
"old man",
|
|
"pa",
|
|
"papa",
|
|
"poppa",
|
|
"pater",
|
|
"pop",
|
|
"sire"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194543",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adjective or adverb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"father image":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an idealization of one's father often projected onto someone to whom one looks for guidance and protection":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1912, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-203115",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"father right":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": descent and inheritance in the male line":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113707",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"father-in-law":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": stepfather":[],
|
|
": the father of one's spouse":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8f\u00e4-t\u035fh\u0259-r\u0259n-\u02ccl\u022f",
|
|
"-t\u035fh\u0259rn-\u02ccl\u022f",
|
|
"\u02c8f\u00e4-t\u035fh\u0259r-\u0259n-\u02ccl\u022f"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112415",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"father-lasher":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": either of two small darkly mottled sculpins ( Cottus bubalis and C. scorpius ) found chiefly along the coasts of northwestern Europe and the British Isles":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"so called from the fact that the male guards the eggs and that it defends itself by lashing out with its tail and spines":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004304",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fatherland":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": one's native land or country":[],
|
|
": the native land or country of one's father or ancestors":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"though they had lived in their adopted country for many years, the immigrant families never broke their ties with the fatherland entirely",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The Allies turned the highways against the Germans late in the war, quickly flooding the fatherland with men and equipment. \u2014 Fox News , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"There are many that have to pay a debt to the fatherland . \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 16 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"There is a strong element of it in the Nazi emphasis on \u2018\u2018blood and soil,\u2019\u2019 and the fatherland , and the need for a living space purified of alien and undesirable elements. \u2014 Joel Achenbach, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"At one point there\u2019s an extravagant expiration montage, as one fictional, suffering Reich martyr after another dies on camera, for the fatherland . \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 10 May 2018",
|
|
"The bond between America\u2019s most substantial ethnic minority and the national sport of their fatherland is as tight as El Tri\u2019s backline. \u2014 Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News , 30 Jan. 2018",
|
|
"Cincinnati was virtually bilingual, with news from the fatherland at one time printed in the native tongue sold to nearly half of the city. \u2014 Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com , 27 Sep. 2017",
|
|
"Ever since the Holocaust, generations of Germans have come to uncomfortable terms with their fatherland \u2019s history. \u2014 Henry Porter, vanityfair.com , 25 Sep. 2017",
|
|
"At the altar of the fatherland , Bishop Talleyrand led a mass. \u2014 Merrill Fabry, Time , 13 July 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8f\u00e4-t\u035fh\u0259r-\u02ccland"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"country",
|
|
"home",
|
|
"homeland",
|
|
"mother country",
|
|
"motherland",
|
|
"sod"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184129",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fatherless":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"beget",
|
|
"get",
|
|
"sire"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a male parent":[],
|
|
": a pre-Scholastic (see scholastic sense 1a ) Christian writer accepted by the church as an authoritative witness to its teaching and practice":[],
|
|
": an old man":[
|
|
"\u2014 used as a respectful form of address"
|
|
],
|
|
": beget":[],
|
|
": foist , impose":[],
|
|
": forefather":[
|
|
"the founding fathers"
|
|
],
|
|
": god sense 1":[],
|
|
": one of the leading men (as of a city)":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used in plural a council of the city fathers"
|
|
],
|
|
": one related to another in a way suggesting that of father to child":[],
|
|
": one that originates or institutes":[
|
|
"the father of modern science"
|
|
],
|
|
": prototype":[
|
|
"the father of all libraries in the country"
|
|
],
|
|
": source":[
|
|
"\u2026 the sun, the father of warmth and light.",
|
|
"\u2014 Lena M. Whitney"
|
|
],
|
|
": the first person of the Trinity (see Trinity sense 1 )":[],
|
|
": to accept responsibility for":[],
|
|
": to be the founder, producer, or author of":[
|
|
"fathered the improvement plan"
|
|
],
|
|
": to care for or look after someone as a father might":[],
|
|
": to fix the paternity or origin of":[],
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": to place responsibility for the origin or cause of":[
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"collected gossip and fathered it on responsible men",
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"\u2014 J. A. Williamson"
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"He became a father when he was 30.",
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"He's the father of three small children.",
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"He has been like a father to me.",
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"He was a father to me after my own father died.",
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"Verb",
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"He was praised for fathering a plan to improve the city's schools.",
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"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Last month, a Georgia father was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 8-month-old daughter, who was left in a hot car while he was being arrested at a police station. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 29 June 2022",
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"Even his 11-year-old daughter has launched an Etsy business, bringing him pride as a father . \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
|
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"Rian Troth, a 47-year-old father of four in Sacramento, California, recently attended a high school graduation with his family. \u2014 Dakin Andone, CNN , 26 June 2022",
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"Urban also mused about how he's changed and stopped partying since marrying Kidman and becoming a father to their two daughters. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 26 June 2022",
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"What matters is what the game of golf means for a father and son \u2014 in fact, for three generations. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
|
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"The change brought less stress and more time to focus on being a father . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
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"Defense attorneys described him as a doting father and said the boy\u2019s death was a tragic accident. \u2014 Kate Brumback, ajc , 22 June 2022",
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"Obviously, as Ray isn't Claire's father , this begs some questions. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"Nabil\u2019s mother, Louise Braufman, met Roy in 1970 and soon asked him to have a child with an understanding: The musician would never have to father the boy emotionally or financially. \u2014 Geoff Edgers, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
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"Bowing to that reality, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in May that men who father a child during an affair with a married woman have the right to seek a role in the child's life. \u2014 Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal , 10 May 2022",
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"According to the paper, the bounciest males might father more spiderlings by mating with the same female multiple times without being eaten, or by seeking out additional mates. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Apr. 2022",
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"The younger child, in particular, didn\u2019t want to let her father out of her sight. \u2014 Molly Parker, ProPublica , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"The total included three offspring of Nish, one of Monty and Rose\u2019s 2020 chicks who went on to father the first Ohio nest in more than 80 years. \u2014 Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
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"Putting the motivations into sharper focus and throwing the scenario even father back in time are the suspects in Florida. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
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"Some can even be multigenerational: A recent study in the Congo that was published in The Lancet found that men who worked in mines were more likely to father children with birth defects than those who did not. \u2014 Michael Holtz, The Atlantic , 24 Jan. 2022",
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"How C\u2019mon C\u2019mon director Mike Mills convinced Joaquin Phoenix to father his movie son. \u2014 Rachel Handler, Vulture , 20 Nov. 2021"
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"Middle English fader , from Old English f\u00e6der ; akin to Old High German fater father, Latin pater , Greek pat\u0113r":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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|
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|
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"examples":[
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"He took a fatherly interest in the careers of younger writers.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Raising Raffi recounts are ones that are, not coincidentally, related to the imperfect passing-down of fatherly wisdom. \u2014 Phillip Maciak, The New Republic , 27 June 2022",
|
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"YouTube series and Bo Petterson's DadAdviceFromBo on TikTok, who provide fatherly advice, how-to instructions, moral support and dad jokes. \u2014 Faith Karimi, CNN , 19 June 2022",
|
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"His stepfather, Troy Rambo, who Tyrone Sanders credits, along with his grandfather, as being one of his fatherly roles, came into his life three years after his mother and biological father divorced. \u2014 Scott Talley, Freep.com , 19 June 2022",
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"Every year since then my fatherly pride has grown substantially watching my beautiful daughters grow. \u2014 Chris Mckeown, The Enquirer , 18 June 2022",
|
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"At the feather-light conclusion of the second movement, the uninvited melody of a ringtone cried out, and the whole hall cringed as Goodyear cast a look of fatherly disappointment over the rows. \u2014 Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
|
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"Luckily, the unexpected downtime has offered Watson a chance to catch up on some fatherly duties, such as building a playpen for his daughter's bunny. \u2014 Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
|
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"McGraw faced those fatherly feelings even early on in prep. \u2014 Daron James, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
|
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"The Mooch put a fatherly hand on Mr. Bankman-Fried\u2019s shoulder. \u2014 New York Times , 14 May 2022"
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|
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|
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|
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"\u02c8fat\u035fh\u0259\u02ccgram"
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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"the themes display a newer fathom than the technical modernism of the composer's earlier works",
|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"The water here is five fathoms deep.",
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Musk\u2019s tumble only underscores the hard-to- fathom velocity of his ascent. \u2014 Devon Pendleton, Fortune , 6 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"But in today\u2019s world of restrictions on size, quantity and season, releasing reef fish has become part of our new reality\u2014as are the challenges of ensuring postrelease survival for an animal pulled up from 20 fathoms . \u2014 Popular Science , 11 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"That impulse, growing out of one pivotal song, eventually pointed the way to the fathoms of Ocean, the group\u2019s new album, their seventh, which debuts Friday. \u2014 Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com , 15 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"The lines were marked at two, three, five, seven, 10, 13, 15, 17 and 20 fathoms . \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"The submarine is recorded in 1,805 fathoms of water, or 8,310 feet, and makes a test dive. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 7 Jan. 2019",
|
|
"Leadbetter Point to Cape Falcon - Nearshore (inside 40 fathoms ) opens May 7; Mondays to Wednesdays until 500 pounds are caught or Sept. 30. \u2014 Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com , 20 Apr. 2018",
|
|
"Get ready to be terrified by the mysterious fathoms below! \u2014 Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan , 27 Jan. 2018",
|
|
"More than 200 years later, our low tide was at the same time Cook's high had been, and 4 fathoms \u2014 24 feet \u2014 was an understatement. \u2014 Erin Mckittrick, Alaska Dispatch News , 15 Sep. 2017",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"But the emotion was palpable from both sides: Goff would give anything to beat the Rams, and McVay and the Rams\u2019 front office could not fathom the embarrassment of losing to Goff. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"As with most leaders who are comfortably embedded in their roles at the top of their fields and become disconnected from the rank-and-file, many leaders enact a way of living that most of us cannot even fathom . \u2014 Anthony Silard, Fortune , 10 May 2022",
|
|
"Democrats are still in shock about that, and can\u2019t fathom why so many Latinos are pro-recall. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Orban spoke to the broader political issue, in that left-wing politicians like Biden cannot fathom a nationalistic or conservative alternative ideology. \u2014 Fox News , 6 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"But Orthodox Jews have a level of community and ritual practices so endlessly meaningful that people in the secular world simply cannot fathom it. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 14 July 2021",
|
|
"The Biden administration often touts this progress as hard to fathom when the pandemic began. \u2014 Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"The way that society pressures young couples to get married but can\u2019t fathom two best friends making that same commitment never fails to baffle me. \u2014 April Lee, refinery29.com , 9 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"One young executive worked at a movie channel that had 800 million viewers, a scale beyond what any of his Hollywood instructors could fathom . \u2014 Erich Schwartzel, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022"
|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"The water here is five fathoms deep.",
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Musk\u2019s tumble only underscores the hard-to- fathom velocity of his ascent. \u2014 Devon Pendleton, Fortune , 6 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"But in today\u2019s world of restrictions on size, quantity and season, releasing reef fish has become part of our new reality\u2014as are the challenges of ensuring postrelease survival for an animal pulled up from 20 fathoms . \u2014 Popular Science , 11 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"That impulse, growing out of one pivotal song, eventually pointed the way to the fathoms of Ocean, the group\u2019s new album, their seventh, which debuts Friday. \u2014 Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com , 15 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"The lines were marked at two, three, five, seven, 10, 13, 15, 17 and 20 fathoms . \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"The submarine is recorded in 1,805 fathoms of water, or 8,310 feet, and makes a test dive. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 7 Jan. 2019",
|
|
"Leadbetter Point to Cape Falcon - Nearshore (inside 40 fathoms ) opens May 7; Mondays to Wednesdays until 500 pounds are caught or Sept. 30. \u2014 Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com , 20 Apr. 2018",
|
|
"Get ready to be terrified by the mysterious fathoms below! \u2014 Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan , 27 Jan. 2018",
|
|
"More than 200 years later, our low tide was at the same time Cook's high had been, and 4 fathoms \u2014 24 feet \u2014 was an understatement. \u2014 Erin Mckittrick, Alaska Dispatch News , 15 Sep. 2017",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"But the emotion was palpable from both sides: Goff would give anything to beat the Rams, and McVay and the Rams\u2019 front office could not fathom the embarrassment of losing to Goff. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"As with most leaders who are comfortably embedded in their roles at the top of their fields and become disconnected from the rank-and-file, many leaders enact a way of living that most of us cannot even fathom . \u2014 Anthony Silard, Fortune , 10 May 2022",
|
|
"Democrats are still in shock about that, and can\u2019t fathom why so many Latinos are pro-recall. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Orban spoke to the broader political issue, in that left-wing politicians like Biden cannot fathom a nationalistic or conservative alternative ideology. \u2014 Fox News , 6 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"But Orthodox Jews have a level of community and ritual practices so endlessly meaningful that people in the secular world simply cannot fathom it. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 14 July 2021",
|
|
"The Biden administration often touts this progress as hard to fathom when the pandemic began. \u2014 Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"The way that society pressures young couples to get married but can\u2019t fathom two best friends making that same commitment never fails to baffle me. \u2014 April Lee, refinery29.com , 9 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"One young executive worked at a movie channel that had 800 million viewers, a scale beyond what any of his Hollywood instructors could fathom . \u2014 Erich Schwartzel, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022"
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry",
|
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"\u2014 R. W. Emerson"
|
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|
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|
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"examples":[
|
|
"impresses everyone with her fathomless knowledge of wildcats",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Just visible on top of Monte Sant'Angelo, directly south, was the first-century B.C. Temple of Jupiter Anxur, its stone arches solid and elemental against a fathomless sky. \u2014 Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"Without a breath of explanation, the two pieces radiate emotion, somber and fathomless ; but their precedent, an 1882 photograph by James A. Palmer, binds them together. \u2014 Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
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"The water\u2019s silver surface seems serene and fathomless , but the wind is starting to pick up. \u2014 Lauren Mechling, Vogue , 21 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Heirs first to genocide and then to decades of a shadowy half-life, these speakers let slip not just sorrow and confusion but a fathomless loneliness\u2014the solitude of a private and communal shipwreck. \u2014 Boyd Tonkin, WSJ , 11 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Having grown up among the unimaginably wealthy, Farrah is stunned to learn the difference between her parents\u2019 relatively new money and the fathomless cushion of white generational wealth. \u2014 Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"But his Cold War spy stories remain relevant and readable today, thanks to a combination of genuine literary talent and a fathomless cynicism about political and military maneuvering (including that of Le Carr\u00e9's own country). \u2014 Jeff Dunn And Ars Staff, Ars Technica , 10 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"But to study the deep future is to recognize that flora and fauna, human fauna included, may be bit players in the fathomless intergalactic drama of chemicals. \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 26 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"In the brooding opening section, Muti and the CSO peered into the depths therein \u2014 miserable, dank, unnervingly fathomless . \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 8 Oct. 2021"
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
"burn out",
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"do up",
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
"\u2026 a super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton launched within days of Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration. Voter fatigue is just one drawback to the long campaigns, though.",
|
|
"\u2014 Martin Wisckol",
|
|
"Most of the Romney voters they visited were fairly chipper, but there is an air of election fatigue in a state where most television commercial breaks are dominated by attack ads and the phone rings off the hook with campaign calls.",
|
|
"\u2014 Daniel Malloy and Katie Leslie",
|
|
"Waning media coverage of a humanitarian crisis is usually a precursor to \"donor fatigue ,\" in which assistance from other nations fades.",
|
|
"\u2014 Christian Science Monitor"
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
": the tendency of a material to break under repeated stress":[
|
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"metal fatigue"
|
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|
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": the uniform or work clothing worn on fatigue and in the field":[],
|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
": weariness or exhaustion from labor, exertion, or stress":[
|
|
"We were overcome by fatigue after the long hike."
|
|
],
|
|
"\u2014 see also compassion fatigue":[
|
|
"\u2026 a super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton launched within days of Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration. Voter fatigue is just one drawback to the long campaigns, though.",
|
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"\u2014 Martin Wisckol",
|
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"Most of the Romney voters they visited were fairly chipper, but there is an air of election fatigue in a state where most television commercial breaks are dominated by attack ads and the phone rings off the hook with campaign calls.",
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"\u2014 Daniel Malloy and Katie Leslie",
|
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"Waning media coverage of a humanitarian crisis is usually a precursor to \"donor fatigue ,\" in which assistance from other nations fades.",
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"\u2014 Christian Science Monitor"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
|
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"We were overcome by fatigue after the long journey.",
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"The drug's side effects include headache and fatigue .",
|
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"soldiers wearing combat boots and fatigues",
|
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"The cracks in the engine were caused by metal fatigue .",
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"Verb",
|
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"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
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"People with long-haul COVID-19 experience symptoms such as fatigue , headaches and dizziness for an average of 15 months after the onset of the illness, according to a recent study, published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. \u2014 Paula Morgan, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"Before vaccination, the odds of experiencing long Covid changed little over time, the researchers said, based on symptoms such as fatigue , shortness of breath, and brain fog. \u2014 Elizabeth Cooney, STAT , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Beyond the threat of hospitalizing vulnerable people who get infected, there is the possibility of contracting long COVID following an infection, in which symptoms such as chronic fatigue or brain fog can persist for months or years. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"In August, the regulator for taxis and hire vehicles in Australia\u2019s New South Wales\u2014home to Sydney\u2014fined Uber and issued 13 improvement notices after a safety audit found concerns such as driver fatigue and passenger complaints. \u2014 Alice Uribe, WSJ , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"However, some people may experience side effects, such as fatigue , diarrhea, and changes in appetite. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"On the flip side, a CDC study published in March shows the vaccine is safe in children 5 to 11, reporting no serious adverse events and only mild side effects such as fatigue , headache and fever after 8 million doses were administered. \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 23 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Patients in the study reported common symptoms, such as fatigue and headache, after vaccination, according to the authors. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Research indicates that up to 40% of people who have recovered from the initial coronavirus infection continue to suffer for weeks or months from sometimes-debilitating symptoms, such as fatigue , muddled memory and joint pain. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
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"For example, Staiano and his colleagues suggest that coping with pain demands inhibitory control, a cognitive process that may fatigue your brain in ways that increase perception of effort. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 21 July 2020",
|
|
"Patients in her clinic also have similar symptoms, with sleeping difficulties and fatigue the most common. \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"But solid metal can fatigue and break, and the more that\u2019s added to a soft material, the more inflexible the material becomes. \u2014 Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 May 2022",
|
|
"Staffing shortages have contributed to fatigue as workers take on ever more patients. \u2014 Ruben Vives, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"In exercise science, this is called training to fatigue . \u2014 Brad Stulberg, Outside Online , 19 Mar. 2019",
|
|
"Staffing shortages have contributed to fatigue as workers take on ever more patients. \u2014 Ruben Vives, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Furthermore, video chats fatigue humans for a variety of reasons. \u2014 Raj Verma, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Staffing shortages have contributed to fatigue as workers take on ever more patients. \u2014 Ruben Vives, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"This cream mixes the two active ingredients, carnosine and Fagus sylvatica to create an anti-aging and anti- fatigue effect. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 May 2022",
|
|
"This anti- fatigue eye treatment from Tom Ford is top quality and looks sleek in its functional packaging. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Some are small yet impactful, like the installation of anti- fatigue mats to cover the hard warehouse floor and improve the working conditions of people standing for long periods of time. \u2014 Caitlin Harrington, Wired , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
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"An anti- fatigue mat will take the sting out of standing on hard surfaces like concrete, hardwood and tile. \u2014 Sal Vaglica, WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"This anti- fatigue mat is designed to relieve pressure on your joints, improve posture, and boost circulation. \u2014 Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Or place cushioned anti- fatigue mats at high-risk spots like the shower entrance and in front of the sink. \u2014 Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Anti- fatigue mats also combat joint and muscle pain. \u2014 Samantha Driscoll, Better Homes & Gardens , 12 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"Anti- fatigue floor mats can reduce discomfort and provide support while standing at a desk. \u2014 Kristina Mcguirk, Better Homes & Gardens , 25 Feb. 2021"
|
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"1669, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"1693, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
|
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"1774, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, from Middle French, from fatiguer to fatigue, from Latin fatigare ; akin to Latin af fatim sufficiently":"Noun, Verb, and Adjective"
|
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"f\u0259-\u02c8t\u0113g"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fatigue Verb tire , weary , fatigue , exhaust , jade mean to make or become unable or unwilling to continue. tire implies a draining of one's strength or patience. the long ride tired us out weary stresses tiring until one is unable to endure more of the same thing. wearied of the constant arguing fatigue suggests great lassitude from excessive strain or undue effort. fatigued by the day's chores exhaust implies complete draining of strength by hard exertion. shoveling snow exhausted him jade suggests the loss of all freshness and eagerness. appetites jaded by overindulgence",
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"synonyms":[
|
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"burnout",
|
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"collapse",
|
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"exhaustion",
|
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"frazzle",
|
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"lassitude",
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"prostration",
|
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"tiredness",
|
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"weariness"
|
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105500",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"fatigue call":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": a bugle call warning those detailed for fatigue duty to report to a designated place":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111012",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"fatigued":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"unwearied"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": drained of strength and energy : affected by fatigue":[
|
|
"fatigued leg muscles",
|
|
"It occurred to her that the tourists all looked blowsy and fatigued because they were headed back east at the end of their vacations.",
|
|
"\u2014 Jim Harrison",
|
|
"We drank the Chardonnay boisterously; it seemed to ignite and rejuvenate our fatigued minds and bodies.",
|
|
"\u2014 Glen Martin"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1682, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"f\u0259-\u02c8t\u0113gd"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"all in",
|
|
"aweary",
|
|
"beat",
|
|
"beaten",
|
|
"bleary",
|
|
"burned-out",
|
|
"burnt-out",
|
|
"bushed",
|
|
"dead",
|
|
"done",
|
|
"drained",
|
|
"exhausted",
|
|
"jaded",
|
|
"knackered",
|
|
"limp",
|
|
"logy",
|
|
"loggy",
|
|
"played out",
|
|
"pooped",
|
|
"prostrate",
|
|
"spent",
|
|
"tapped out",
|
|
"tired",
|
|
"tuckered (out)",
|
|
"washed-out",
|
|
"wearied",
|
|
"weary",
|
|
"wiped out",
|
|
"worn",
|
|
"worn-out"
|
|
],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180201",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fatigues":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"break",
|
|
"burn out",
|
|
"bust",
|
|
"do in",
|
|
"do up",
|
|
"drain",
|
|
"exhaust",
|
|
"fag",
|
|
"frazzle",
|
|
"harass",
|
|
"kill",
|
|
"knock out",
|
|
"outwear",
|
|
"tire",
|
|
"tucker (out)",
|
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"wash out",
|
|
"wear",
|
|
"wear out",
|
|
"weary"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a state or attitude of indifference or apathy brought on by overexposure (as to a repeated series of similar events or appeals)":[
|
|
"\u2026 a super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton launched within days of Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration. Voter fatigue is just one drawback to the long campaigns, though.",
|
|
"\u2014 Martin Wisckol",
|
|
"Most of the Romney voters they visited were fairly chipper, but there is an air of election fatigue in a state where most television commercial breaks are dominated by attack ads and the phone rings off the hook with campaign calls.",
|
|
"\u2014 Daniel Malloy and Katie Leslie",
|
|
"Waning media coverage of a humanitarian crisis is usually a precursor to \"donor fatigue ,\" in which assistance from other nations fades.",
|
|
"\u2014 Christian Science Monitor"
|
|
],
|
|
": belonging to fatigues":[
|
|
"a fatigue cap"
|
|
],
|
|
": consisting of, done, or used in fatigue":[
|
|
"fatigue detail"
|
|
],
|
|
": labor":[],
|
|
": manual or menial work (such as the cleaning up of a camp area) performed by military personnel":[],
|
|
": the temporary loss of power to respond that is induced in a sensory receptor (see receptor sense a ) or motor (see motor entry 2 sense 1 ) end organ by continued stimulation":[],
|
|
": the tendency of a material to break under repeated stress":[
|
|
"metal fatigue"
|
|
],
|
|
": the uniform or work clothing worn on fatigue and in the field":[],
|
|
": to induce a condition of fatigue in":[],
|
|
": to suffer fatigue":[],
|
|
": to weary with labor or exertion":[],
|
|
": weariness or exhaustion from labor, exertion, or stress":[
|
|
"We were overcome by fatigue after the long hike."
|
|
],
|
|
"\u2014 see also compassion fatigue":[
|
|
"\u2026 a super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton launched within days of Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration. Voter fatigue is just one drawback to the long campaigns, though.",
|
|
"\u2014 Martin Wisckol",
|
|
"Most of the Romney voters they visited were fairly chipper, but there is an air of election fatigue in a state where most television commercial breaks are dominated by attack ads and the phone rings off the hook with campaign calls.",
|
|
"\u2014 Daniel Malloy and Katie Leslie",
|
|
"Waning media coverage of a humanitarian crisis is usually a precursor to \"donor fatigue ,\" in which assistance from other nations fades.",
|
|
"\u2014 Christian Science Monitor"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"We were overcome by fatigue after the long journey.",
|
|
"The drug's side effects include headache and fatigue .",
|
|
"soldiers wearing combat boots and fatigues",
|
|
"The cracks in the engine were caused by metal fatigue .",
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"People with long-haul COVID-19 experience symptoms such as fatigue , headaches and dizziness for an average of 15 months after the onset of the illness, according to a recent study, published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. \u2014 Paula Morgan, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"Before vaccination, the odds of experiencing long Covid changed little over time, the researchers said, based on symptoms such as fatigue , shortness of breath, and brain fog. \u2014 Elizabeth Cooney, STAT , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Beyond the threat of hospitalizing vulnerable people who get infected, there is the possibility of contracting long COVID following an infection, in which symptoms such as chronic fatigue or brain fog can persist for months or years. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"In August, the regulator for taxis and hire vehicles in Australia\u2019s New South Wales\u2014home to Sydney\u2014fined Uber and issued 13 improvement notices after a safety audit found concerns such as driver fatigue and passenger complaints. \u2014 Alice Uribe, WSJ , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"However, some people may experience side effects, such as fatigue , diarrhea, and changes in appetite. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"On the flip side, a CDC study published in March shows the vaccine is safe in children 5 to 11, reporting no serious adverse events and only mild side effects such as fatigue , headache and fever after 8 million doses were administered. \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 23 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Patients in the study reported common symptoms, such as fatigue and headache, after vaccination, according to the authors. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Research indicates that up to 40% of people who have recovered from the initial coronavirus infection continue to suffer for weeks or months from sometimes-debilitating symptoms, such as fatigue , muddled memory and joint pain. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"For example, Staiano and his colleagues suggest that coping with pain demands inhibitory control, a cognitive process that may fatigue your brain in ways that increase perception of effort. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 21 July 2020",
|
|
"Patients in her clinic also have similar symptoms, with sleeping difficulties and fatigue the most common. \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"But solid metal can fatigue and break, and the more that\u2019s added to a soft material, the more inflexible the material becomes. \u2014 Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 May 2022",
|
|
"Staffing shortages have contributed to fatigue as workers take on ever more patients. \u2014 Ruben Vives, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"In exercise science, this is called training to fatigue . \u2014 Brad Stulberg, Outside Online , 19 Mar. 2019",
|
|
"Staffing shortages have contributed to fatigue as workers take on ever more patients. \u2014 Ruben Vives, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Furthermore, video chats fatigue humans for a variety of reasons. \u2014 Raj Verma, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Staffing shortages have contributed to fatigue as workers take on ever more patients. \u2014 Ruben Vives, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"This cream mixes the two active ingredients, carnosine and Fagus sylvatica to create an anti-aging and anti- fatigue effect. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 May 2022",
|
|
"This anti- fatigue eye treatment from Tom Ford is top quality and looks sleek in its functional packaging. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Some are small yet impactful, like the installation of anti- fatigue mats to cover the hard warehouse floor and improve the working conditions of people standing for long periods of time. \u2014 Caitlin Harrington, Wired , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"An anti- fatigue mat will take the sting out of standing on hard surfaces like concrete, hardwood and tile. \u2014 Sal Vaglica, WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"This anti- fatigue mat is designed to relieve pressure on your joints, improve posture, and boost circulation. \u2014 Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Or place cushioned anti- fatigue mats at high-risk spots like the shower entrance and in front of the sink. \u2014 Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Anti- fatigue mats also combat joint and muscle pain. \u2014 Samantha Driscoll, Better Homes & Gardens , 12 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"Anti- fatigue floor mats can reduce discomfort and provide support while standing at a desk. \u2014 Kristina Mcguirk, Better Homes & Gardens , 25 Feb. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1669, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
|
|
"1693, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
|
|
"1774, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French, from Middle French, from fatiguer to fatigue, from Latin fatigare ; akin to Latin af fatim sufficiently":"Noun, Verb, and Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"f\u0259-\u02c8t\u0113g"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fatigue Verb tire , weary , fatigue , exhaust , jade mean to make or become unable or unwilling to continue. tire implies a draining of one's strength or patience. the long ride tired us out weary stresses tiring until one is unable to endure more of the same thing. wearied of the constant arguing fatigue suggests great lassitude from excessive strain or undue effort. fatigued by the day's chores exhaust implies complete draining of strength by hard exertion. shoveling snow exhausted him jade suggests the loss of all freshness and eagerness. appetites jaded by overindulgence",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"burnout",
|
|
"collapse",
|
|
"exhaustion",
|
|
"frazzle",
|
|
"lassitude",
|
|
"prostration",
|
|
"tiredness",
|
|
"weariness"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115623",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fatless":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"A-list",
|
|
"aristocracy",
|
|
"best",
|
|
"choice",
|
|
"corps d'elite",
|
|
"cream",
|
|
"cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me",
|
|
"elect",
|
|
"elite",
|
|
"flower",
|
|
"illuminati",
|
|
"pick",
|
|
"pink",
|
|
"pride",
|
|
"priesthood",
|
|
"prime",
|
|
"royalty",
|
|
"upper crust"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a solid or semisolid fat as distinguished from an oil":[],
|
|
": animal tissue consisting chiefly of cells distended with greasy or oily matter":[],
|
|
": any of various compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that are glycerides of fatty acids, are the chief constituents of plant and animal fat, are a major class of energy-rich food, and are soluble in organic solvents but not in water":[],
|
|
": being substantial and impressive":[
|
|
"a fat bank account"
|
|
],
|
|
": being swollen":[
|
|
"got a fat lip from the fight"
|
|
],
|
|
": easy to hit":[],
|
|
": fattened for market":[],
|
|
": full in tone and quality : rich":[
|
|
"a gorgeous fat bass voice",
|
|
"\u2014 Irish Digest"
|
|
],
|
|
": having excessive body fat":[
|
|
"\u2026 a woman of medium height, a little plump but not fat \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Mary McCarthy"
|
|
],
|
|
": notable for having an unusual amount of fat:":[],
|
|
": obesity":[],
|
|
": oily , greasy":[
|
|
"a fat , rich cheese"
|
|
],
|
|
": oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of adipose tissue and often abundant in seeds":[],
|
|
": plump":[
|
|
"a cute, fat little baby"
|
|
],
|
|
": practically nonexistent":[
|
|
"a fat chance"
|
|
],
|
|
": productive , fertile":[
|
|
"a fat year for crops"
|
|
],
|
|
": prosperous , wealthy":[
|
|
"grew fat on the war",
|
|
"\u2014 Time"
|
|
],
|
|
": richly rewarding or profitable":[
|
|
"a fat part in a movie",
|
|
"a fat contract"
|
|
],
|
|
": something in excess : superfluity":[
|
|
"trim the fat from the news operation",
|
|
"\u2014 Ray Olson"
|
|
],
|
|
": stupid , foolish":[
|
|
"\" \u2026 if he had had any sense in his fat head, he would have done it long ago, dash him!\"",
|
|
"\u2014 P. G. Wodehouse"
|
|
],
|
|
": the best or richest part":[],
|
|
": to make fat : fatten":[],
|
|
": well filled out : thick , big":[
|
|
"a fat book"
|
|
],
|
|
": well stocked":[
|
|
"a fat larder"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"The dog is getting fat because you feed him too much.",
|
|
"I can't believe I've let myself get so fat .",
|
|
"a fat book of poems",
|
|
"a truck with fat tires",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"people with excess body fat",
|
|
"a diet and exercise program to help you gain muscle and lose fat",
|
|
"Nuts contain a lot of fat .",
|
|
"Trim the fat from the meat before you cook it.",
|
|
"a diet low in fats",
|
|
"fats like butter and olive oil",
|
|
"trim the fat off the budget",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"Subjecting fat cells to extreme heat or cold is not the only way to smooth the silhouette. \u2014 April Long, Town & Country , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"For women whose goal is to burn fat , this study did demonstrate a clear benefit to a morning workout. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The party makes a fat Democratic target in left-leaning California. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Consider adding high-fiber grains and vegetables, more protein, and a little fat \u2014like olive oil or nuts\u2014to your dinner to keep your stomach sated during the night. \u2014 Ali Francis, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"As standard, 22-inch machined alloy wheels will be equipped, along with fat off-road tires for plenty of grip. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"For instance, while a traditional push-pull workout is great for building muscle, it's not especially optimized towards fat loss. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"This bike offers nice fat tires, a great design, and a ton of helpful features. \u2014 Maren Estrada, BGR , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"There will be a 25K, 40K, and 50K race in each freestyle and classic cross-country skiing and in fat biking. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 3 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Limited research published in the journal Nutrients in 2019 found that subjects who were considered overweight or clinically obese and ate watermelon instead of low- fat cookies experienced greater satiety, as an example. \u2014 Erica Sweeney, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
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"At this Wicklow coastal farm, salty breezes from the Irish Sea wash over the pasture, giving a rich flavor to the full- fat milk and double cream used to make this cheese. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
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"The pizza probably has a whole grain crust, lower- fat cheese and vegetables on it. \u2014 Marlene B. Schwartz, The Conversation , 7 June 2022",
|
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"Besides being a large cut, pork shoulder is more forgiving than lower- fat cuts like pork chops, which can become dry quickly. \u2014 Jennifer Mcclellan, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
|
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"The price of whole milk rose more than 12%, while low- fat milk jumped 16%. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 18 May 2022",
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"Filling: 4 gelatine sheets, 500g fat-free quark, 400g Philadelphia Lightest cream cheese (or other low- fat cream cheese), 100g zero-calorie granulated white sugar replacer, 45g Lotus Biscoff smooth spread, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 100ml soy milk. \u2014 Elijah Rawls, Men's Health , 10 May 2022",
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"But when it is diagnosed early, parents know to wake and feed the child regularly and continue a low- fat diet throughout life. \u2014 jsonline.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Research has also shown that high- fat diets delay the healing of skin by promoting skin oxidative stress, which is associated with aging and skin disease and has a direct correlation to inflammaging. \u2014 Naosha Gregg, Glamour , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Old English f\u01e3tt , past participle of f\u01e3tan to cram; akin to Old High German feizit fat":"Adjective, Verb, and Noun"
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8fat"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"blubbery",
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"chubby",
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"corpulent",
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"fleshy",
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"full",
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"gross",
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"lardy",
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"obese",
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"overweight",
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"plump",
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"podgy",
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"portly",
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"pudgy",
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"replete",
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"roly-poly",
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"rotund",
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"round",
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"tubby"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120551",
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"austerely",
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"humbly",
|
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"modestly",
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"plainly",
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"simply"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": in a smug manner : complacently":[
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"snickered fatly"
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],
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": in the manner of one that is fat":[
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"waddled fatly"
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],
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": richly":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a television evangelist who lives fatly on a steady stream of donations from viewers of moderate means and immoderate gullibility"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"\u02c8fat-l\u0113"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"expensively",
|
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"extravagantly",
|
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"grandly",
|
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"high",
|
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"large",
|
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"lavishly",
|
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"luxuriously",
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"opulently",
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"palatially",
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"plushly",
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"richly",
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"sumptuously"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161959",
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},
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"type":[
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"noun",
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": plump":[
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|
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],
|
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": having excessive body fat":[
|
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"\u2026 a woman of medium height, a little plump but not fat \u2026",
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"\u2014 Mary McCarthy"
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],
|
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": oily , greasy":[
|
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"a fat , rich cheese"
|
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],
|
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": well filled out : thick , big":[
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"a fat book"
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],
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": full in tone and quality : rich":[
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"a gorgeous fat bass voice",
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"\u2014 Irish Digest"
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],
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": well stocked":[
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"a fat larder"
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],
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": prosperous , wealthy":[
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"grew fat on the war",
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"\u2014 Time"
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],
|
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": being substantial and impressive":[
|
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"a fat bank account"
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],
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": richly rewarding or profitable":[
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"a fat part in a movie",
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"a fat contract"
|
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],
|
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": practically nonexistent":[
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"a fat chance"
|
|
],
|
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": productive , fertile":[
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"a fat year for crops"
|
|
],
|
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": stupid , foolish":[
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"\" \u2026 if he had had any sense in his fat head, he would have done it long ago, dash him!\"",
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|
"\u2014 P. G. Wodehouse"
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],
|
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": being swollen":[
|
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"got a fat lip from the fight"
|
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],
|
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": easy to hit":[],
|
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": to make fat : fatten":[],
|
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": animal tissue consisting chiefly of cells distended with greasy or oily matter":[],
|
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": oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of adipose tissue and often abundant in seeds":[],
|
|
": any of various compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that are glycerides of fatty acids, are the chief constituents of plant and animal fat, are a major class of energy-rich food, and are soluble in organic solvents but not in water":[],
|
|
": a solid or semisolid fat as distinguished from an oil":[],
|
|
": the best or richest part":[],
|
|
": obesity":[],
|
|
": something in excess : superfluity":[
|
|
"trim the fat from the news operation",
|
|
"\u2014 Ray Olson"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fat"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"blubbery",
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|
"chubby",
|
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"corpulent",
|
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"fleshy",
|
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"full",
|
|
"gross",
|
|
"lardy",
|
|
"obese",
|
|
"overweight",
|
|
"plump",
|
|
"podgy",
|
|
"portly",
|
|
"pudgy",
|
|
"replete",
|
|
"roly-poly",
|
|
"rotund",
|
|
"round",
|
|
"tubby"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"A-list",
|
|
"aristocracy",
|
|
"best",
|
|
"choice",
|
|
"corps d'elite",
|
|
"cream",
|
|
"cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me",
|
|
"elect",
|
|
"elite",
|
|
"flower",
|
|
"illuminati",
|
|
"pick",
|
|
"pink",
|
|
"pride",
|
|
"priesthood",
|
|
"prime",
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"royalty",
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"upper crust"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"The dog is getting fat because you feed him too much.",
|
|
"I can't believe I've let myself get so fat .",
|
|
"a fat book of poems",
|
|
"a truck with fat tires",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"people with excess body fat",
|
|
"a diet and exercise program to help you gain muscle and lose fat",
|
|
"Nuts contain a lot of fat .",
|
|
"Trim the fat from the meat before you cook it.",
|
|
"a diet low in fats",
|
|
"fats like butter and olive oil",
|
|
"trim the fat off the budget",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"Subjecting fat cells to extreme heat or cold is not the only way to smooth the silhouette. \u2014 April Long, Town & Country , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"For women whose goal is to burn fat , this study did demonstrate a clear benefit to a morning workout. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The party makes a fat Democratic target in left-leaning California. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Consider adding high-fiber grains and vegetables, more protein, and a little fat \u2014like olive oil or nuts\u2014to your dinner to keep your stomach sated during the night. \u2014 Ali Francis, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"As standard, 22-inch machined alloy wheels will be equipped, along with fat off-road tires for plenty of grip. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"For instance, while a traditional push-pull workout is great for building muscle, it's not especially optimized towards fat loss. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"This bike offers nice fat tires, a great design, and a ton of helpful features. \u2014 Maren Estrada, BGR , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"There will be a 25K, 40K, and 50K race in each freestyle and classic cross-country skiing and in fat biking. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 3 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Limited research published in the journal Nutrients in 2019 found that subjects who were considered overweight or clinically obese and ate watermelon instead of low- fat cookies experienced greater satiety, as an example. \u2014 Erica Sweeney, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"At this Wicklow coastal farm, salty breezes from the Irish Sea wash over the pasture, giving a rich flavor to the full- fat milk and double cream used to make this cheese. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The pizza probably has a whole grain crust, lower- fat cheese and vegetables on it. \u2014 Marlene B. Schwartz, The Conversation , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"Besides being a large cut, pork shoulder is more forgiving than lower- fat cuts like pork chops, which can become dry quickly. \u2014 Jennifer Mcclellan, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
|
|
"The price of whole milk rose more than 12%, while low- fat milk jumped 16%. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"Filling: 4 gelatine sheets, 500g fat-free quark, 400g Philadelphia Lightest cream cheese (or other low- fat cream cheese), 100g zero-calorie granulated white sugar replacer, 45g Lotus Biscoff smooth spread, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 100ml soy milk. \u2014 Elijah Rawls, Men's Health , 10 May 2022",
|
|
"But when it is diagnosed early, parents know to wake and feed the child regularly and continue a low- fat diet throughout life. \u2014 jsonline.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Research has also shown that high- fat diets delay the healing of skin by promoting skin oxidative stress, which is associated with aging and skin disease and has a direct correlation to inflammaging. \u2014 Naosha Gregg, Glamour , 28 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English f\u01e3tt , past participle of f\u01e3tan to cram; akin to Old High German feizit fat":"Adjective, Verb, and Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-164509"
|
|
},
|
|
"fatten":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to become fat":[],
|
|
": to make fertile":[],
|
|
": to make more substantial":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"They are put on an intensive feeding program to fatten them up before release, and fed fish twice a day. \u2014 CNN , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"Unlike salmon that spawn and die, the steelhead trout will fatten up this summer on Lake Erie baitfish and return year after year. \u2014 D'arcy Egan, cleveland , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"These are teams and conferences that cannot afford to miss a single game that could fatten their ranking in the NET, a critical tournament-deciding metric. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"For the past decade, the company has spent freely to fatten its library, eventually making hundreds of shows and movies a year, with the goal of staying ahead of its many online rivals. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Alabama lawmakers have given final approval to a bill intended to stop cities and towns from using traffic fines in an excessive way to fatten their budgets. \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 5 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Parents also should pay attention to the rules for claiming the child tax credit for a child born in 2021, which could further fatten a refund and be worth up to $3,600 per child. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"But sound waves also flow up through the jaw, turning the bones of the head into resonators that fatten the experience, especially for low notes. \u2014 David George Haskell, Wired , 8 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"But much of that Great Resignation is really just the Great Early Retirement, brought on by workers in their 50s seeing their retirement accounts fatten and deciding to call it a day. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 14 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1552, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fa-t\u1d4an"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114306",
|
|
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|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fattiness":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"defatted",
|
|
"lean"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
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|
|
": greasy":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"I try to avoid fatty foods.",
|
|
"fatty ground beef that was the cheapest available",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"Lymphedema is swelling caused by lymph fluid building up in the fatty tissue under the skin, often in response to cancer treatment. \u2014 Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"In other words, these weight cutoffs are the best indicators of vaccine efficacy at different needle lengths, regardless of how much fatty tissue a person has around their deltoid muscles. \u2014 Sarah Stark, SELF , 6 June 2022",
|
|
"Livers are often discarded for simply being too fatty , but with more time, surgeons could surgically reduce fat content. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"So where do the fatty deposits in our liver come from in the first place",
|
|
"Named boeuf Bourguignon after the famed red wine from the Burgundy region of France, this dish combines a nice, fatty cut of beef with a dry pinot noir and plenty of fresh vegetables to create a hearty and indulgent stew. \u2014 Foren Clark, CNN , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"Sea Buckthorn Berry, infused with fatty -acid omega 7, clarifies and cleanses the hair, removing impurities and adding shine. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"The rich, fatty salmon is tempered by the comfortingly bland white rice, the latter absorbing what the former renders in excess. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"Warm the buns as instructed in the oven and the pork and mayonnaise melt as one into a glorious, crumbly, porky, fatty mess on top of the buns. \u2014 Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"In recent years, coconut oil had been given a pass because of its unique fatty profile. \u2014 Ashley Weatherford, The Cut , 19 June 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
|
|
"1797, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"\u02c8fat-\u0113",
|
|
"\u02c8fa-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"adipose"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234211",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fattish":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": somewhat fat":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fa-tish"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135155",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
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|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fattrels":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": ends of ribbons":[
|
|
"the fattrels on a lady's bonnet"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"origin unknown":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fa\u2027tr\u0259lz"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005330",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"plural noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fatty":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"defatted",
|
|
"lean"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": derived from or chemically related to fat":[],
|
|
": greasy":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"I try to avoid fatty foods.",
|
|
"fatty ground beef that was the cheapest available",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"Lymphedema is swelling caused by lymph fluid building up in the fatty tissue under the skin, often in response to cancer treatment. \u2014 Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"In other words, these weight cutoffs are the best indicators of vaccine efficacy at different needle lengths, regardless of how much fatty tissue a person has around their deltoid muscles. \u2014 Sarah Stark, SELF , 6 June 2022",
|
|
"Livers are often discarded for simply being too fatty , but with more time, surgeons could surgically reduce fat content. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"So where do the fatty deposits in our liver come from in the first place",
|
|
"Named boeuf Bourguignon after the famed red wine from the Burgundy region of France, this dish combines a nice, fatty cut of beef with a dry pinot noir and plenty of fresh vegetables to create a hearty and indulgent stew. \u2014 Foren Clark, CNN , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"Sea Buckthorn Berry, infused with fatty -acid omega 7, clarifies and cleanses the hair, removing impurities and adding shine. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"The rich, fatty salmon is tempered by the comfortingly bland white rice, the latter absorbing what the former renders in excess. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"Warm the buns as instructed in the oven and the pork and mayonnaise melt as one into a glorious, crumbly, porky, fatty mess on top of the buns. \u2014 Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"In recent years, coconut oil had been given a pass because of its unique fatty profile. \u2014 Ashley Weatherford, The Cut , 19 June 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
|
|
"1797, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fat-\u0113",
|
|
"\u02c8fa-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"adipose"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112738",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fatty acid":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": any of numerous saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acids C n H 2 n +1 COOH (such as acetic acid) including many that occur naturally usually in the form of esters in fats, waxes, and essential oils":[],
|
|
": any of the saturated or unsaturated monocarboxylic acids (such as palmitic acid) usually with an even number of carbon atoms that occur naturally in the form of glycerides in fats and fatty oils":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Cupuacu butter is a fatty acid that dives deep into the skin to nourish and moisturize. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Corn contributes vitamins and minerals and is a rich source of linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid that dogs must get in their diets, according to the Cummings Veterinary Medical Center at Tufts University. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 22 May 2022",
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"Shea butter has a high fatty acid content that is easy for the skin to absorb, providing effective hydration without leaving your face with an oily sheen. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 May 2022",
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"That\u2019s why we\u2019re thrilled to use actual hemp plants with a low percentage of full spectrum CBD and a more balanced ratio of other components, as well as a fatty acid backbone heavier than pure hemp extracts. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"The authors found that a daily dose of one gram of omega-3 fatty acid was associated with a significant improvement in depressive symptoms. \u2014 Christine Byrne, Outside Online , 21 Oct. 2021",
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"Grape-seed oil is high in moisturizing vitamin E and linoleic acid, also known as omega-6 fatty acid , which acts as an anti-inflammatory agent that calms blemishes and retains moisture. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, SELF , 28 Mar. 2022",
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"Specifically, the microbes make a short-chain fatty acid called butyrate that facilitates this particular conversation. \u2014 Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
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"Rosehip and grapeseed are also rich in linoleic acid, an essential omega-6 fatty acid that acts as a building block for ceramides, an important moisturizing element that fortifies our skin's barrier. \u2014 Megan Mcintyre, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1838, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-081502",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"fatty liver":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Diagnosed with fatty liver disease in June 2019 a worried Bruehl began skipping breakfast \u2013 except for coffee \u2013 to cut down on calories and lost a little weight. \u2014 Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022",
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"Many patients have medical problems related to severe obesity, including diabetes, fatty liver disease, hypertension, polycystic ovary syndrome, sleep apnea and painful arthritic joints. \u2014 Claudia Wallis, Scientific American , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
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"My blood pressure back to healthy levels, no more random bouts of falling over and no sign of fatty liver disease! \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 20 Mar. 2022",
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"The analysis, which compared data from more than 800 participants two years before and after Maria, also found that more than twice as many participants reported eye disease, fatty liver disease and osteoporosis following the hurricane. \u2014 Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY , 17 Jan. 2022",
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"Talking about diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, can be addressed more effectively. \u2014 Alejandra Reyes-velarde Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 15 Oct. 2021",
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"The study, which included 494,585 U.K. Biobank participants over 10.7 years, also found that coffee drinkers are 21% less likely to develop CLD and 20% less likely to develop CLD or fatty liver disease. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2021",
|
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"Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is most common in people who are overweight, have diabetes, high cholesterol or high triglycerides. \u2014 Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY , 22 June 2021",
|
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"Risk factors for liver disease include drinking alcohol, obesity, diabetes, smoking, hepatitis B and C infections, and having nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which is the buildup of extra fat in liver cells that is not caused by alcohol. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 21 June 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1839, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190554"
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},
|
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"fatuity":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": something foolish or stupid":[],
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": stupidity , foolishness":[],
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": the condition of being affected with intellectual disability or dementia":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"the fatuity of these policies",
|
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"politicians exchanging fatuities about the need for campaign reform",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Moli\u00e8re escapes fatuity with his candor that what restores a universe unbalanced by intellectual obsession is, most often, normal erotic appetite. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 1 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Their work, in and out of power, is to dress up the atavistic avarice and self-serving fatuity of the wealthy people who fund and shape conservative politics as an ideology. \u2014 David Roth, The New Republic , 9 June 2020"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle French fatuit\u00e9 foolishness, from Latin fatuitat-, fatuitas , from fatuus":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"fa-",
|
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"f\u0259-\u02c8t\u00fc-\u0259t-\u0113",
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"-\u02c8ch\u00fc-",
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"-\u02c8ty\u00fc-"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
|
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"absurdity",
|
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"asininity",
|
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"b\u00eatise",
|
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"folly",
|
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"foolery",
|
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"foppery",
|
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"idiocy",
|
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"imbecility",
|
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"inanity",
|
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"insanity",
|
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"lunacy",
|
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"stupidity"
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092720",
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"fatuous":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
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"apt",
|
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"brainy",
|
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"bright",
|
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"brilliant",
|
|
"clever",
|
|
"fast",
|
|
"hyperintelligent",
|
|
"intelligent",
|
|
"keen",
|
|
"nimble",
|
|
"quick",
|
|
"quick-witted",
|
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"sharp",
|
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"sharp-witted",
|
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"smart",
|
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"supersmart",
|
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"ultrasmart"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": complacently or inanely foolish : silly":[
|
|
"a fatuous remark",
|
|
"a fatuous socialite with a near-pathological love of parties and shopping",
|
|
"\u2014 Janet Maslin"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the fatuous questions that the audience members asked after the lecture suggested to the oceanographer that they had understood little",
|
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"ignoring the avalanche warnings, the fatuous skiers continued on their course",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Director Angus MacLane follows orders like a toy soldier, repeating Toy Story\u2019s fatuous tone in the way Buzz (now voiced by Chris Evans) accentuates the goofy hollow heroism. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"His play, which might have been smashed by the insensitive or botched by the fatuous , has fallen into expert hands. \u2014 Claudia Cassidy, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Her involvement personalizes developments that are otherwise divided in collective memory between arid art history and fatuous mythologizing. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Un chant d\u2019amour, a film the Moonlight generation knows nothing about but that Meise relates to for its individual morality \u2014 a lost idea in this era of fatuous political conformity. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 11 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Russian President Vladimir Putin and his mouthpieces are weaving the most audacious and fatuous alternative reality surrounding any 21st-century conflict -- one that renders current diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war meaningless and futile. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 11 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Al Qaeda was a relatively minor threat magnified into an existential menace, including by intellectuals conversant in fatuous historical analogies. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Belgian detective, was delightfully fatuous in his enchantment with his own intellect. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Moli\u00e8re is not our contemporary in some facile and fatuous way. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 1 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1633, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin fatuus foolish":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-ty\u00fc-",
|
|
"\u02c8fa-ch\u00fc-\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fatuous simple , foolish , silly , fatuous , asinine mean actually or apparently deficient in intelligence. simple implies a degree of intelligence inadequate to cope with anything complex or involving mental effort. considered people simple who had trouble with computers foolish implies the character of being or seeming unable to use judgment, discretion, or good sense. foolish stunts silly suggests failure to act as a rational being especially by ridiculous behavior. the silly antics of revelers fatuous implies foolishness, inanity, and disregard of reality. fatuous conspiracy theories asinine suggests utter and contemptible failure to use normal rationality or perception. an asinine plot",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"airheaded",
|
|
"birdbrained",
|
|
"bonehead",
|
|
"boneheaded",
|
|
"brain-dead",
|
|
"brainless",
|
|
"bubbleheaded",
|
|
"chuckleheaded",
|
|
"dense",
|
|
"dim",
|
|
"dim-witted",
|
|
"doltish",
|
|
"dopey",
|
|
"dopy",
|
|
"dorky",
|
|
"dull",
|
|
"dumb",
|
|
"dunderheaded",
|
|
"empty-headed",
|
|
"gormless",
|
|
"half-witted",
|
|
"knuckleheaded",
|
|
"lamebrain",
|
|
"lamebrained",
|
|
"lunkheaded",
|
|
"mindless",
|
|
"oafish",
|
|
"obtuse",
|
|
"opaque",
|
|
"pinheaded",
|
|
"senseless",
|
|
"simple",
|
|
"slow",
|
|
"slow-witted",
|
|
"soft",
|
|
"softheaded",
|
|
"stupid",
|
|
"thick",
|
|
"thick-witted",
|
|
"thickheaded",
|
|
"unintelligent",
|
|
"unsmart",
|
|
"vacuous",
|
|
"weak-minded",
|
|
"witless"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063856",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fatuousness":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"apt",
|
|
"brainy",
|
|
"bright",
|
|
"brilliant",
|
|
"clever",
|
|
"fast",
|
|
"hyperintelligent",
|
|
"intelligent",
|
|
"keen",
|
|
"nimble",
|
|
"quick",
|
|
"quick-witted",
|
|
"sharp",
|
|
"sharp-witted",
|
|
"smart",
|
|
"supersmart",
|
|
"ultrasmart"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": complacently or inanely foolish : silly":[
|
|
"a fatuous remark",
|
|
"a fatuous socialite with a near-pathological love of parties and shopping",
|
|
"\u2014 Janet Maslin"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the fatuous questions that the audience members asked after the lecture suggested to the oceanographer that they had understood little",
|
|
"ignoring the avalanche warnings, the fatuous skiers continued on their course",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Director Angus MacLane follows orders like a toy soldier, repeating Toy Story\u2019s fatuous tone in the way Buzz (now voiced by Chris Evans) accentuates the goofy hollow heroism. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"His play, which might have been smashed by the insensitive or botched by the fatuous , has fallen into expert hands. \u2014 Claudia Cassidy, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Her involvement personalizes developments that are otherwise divided in collective memory between arid art history and fatuous mythologizing. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Un chant d\u2019amour, a film the Moonlight generation knows nothing about but that Meise relates to for its individual morality \u2014 a lost idea in this era of fatuous political conformity. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 11 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Russian President Vladimir Putin and his mouthpieces are weaving the most audacious and fatuous alternative reality surrounding any 21st-century conflict -- one that renders current diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war meaningless and futile. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 11 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Al Qaeda was a relatively minor threat magnified into an existential menace, including by intellectuals conversant in fatuous historical analogies. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Belgian detective, was delightfully fatuous in his enchantment with his own intellect. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Moli\u00e8re is not our contemporary in some facile and fatuous way. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 1 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1633, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin fatuus foolish":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-ty\u00fc-",
|
|
"\u02c8fa-ch\u00fc-\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fatuous simple , foolish , silly , fatuous , asinine mean actually or apparently deficient in intelligence. simple implies a degree of intelligence inadequate to cope with anything complex or involving mental effort. considered people simple who had trouble with computers foolish implies the character of being or seeming unable to use judgment, discretion, or good sense. foolish stunts silly suggests failure to act as a rational being especially by ridiculous behavior. the silly antics of revelers fatuous implies foolishness, inanity, and disregard of reality. fatuous conspiracy theories asinine suggests utter and contemptible failure to use normal rationality or perception. an asinine plot",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"airheaded",
|
|
"birdbrained",
|
|
"bonehead",
|
|
"boneheaded",
|
|
"brain-dead",
|
|
"brainless",
|
|
"bubbleheaded",
|
|
"chuckleheaded",
|
|
"dense",
|
|
"dim",
|
|
"dim-witted",
|
|
"doltish",
|
|
"dopey",
|
|
"dopy",
|
|
"dorky",
|
|
"dull",
|
|
"dumb",
|
|
"dunderheaded",
|
|
"empty-headed",
|
|
"gormless",
|
|
"half-witted",
|
|
"knuckleheaded",
|
|
"lamebrain",
|
|
"lamebrained",
|
|
"lunkheaded",
|
|
"mindless",
|
|
"oafish",
|
|
"obtuse",
|
|
"opaque",
|
|
"pinheaded",
|
|
"senseless",
|
|
"simple",
|
|
"slow",
|
|
"slow-witted",
|
|
"soft",
|
|
"softheaded",
|
|
"stupid",
|
|
"thick",
|
|
"thick-witted",
|
|
"thickheaded",
|
|
"unintelligent",
|
|
"unsmart",
|
|
"vacuous",
|
|
"weak-minded",
|
|
"witless"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031324",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"fat farm":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a health spa that specializes in weight reduction":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fat-\u02ccf\u00e4rm"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1969, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142615"
|
|
},
|
|
"fat scab":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": rain rot":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143101"
|
|
},
|
|
"fat-tailed sheep":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a coarse-wooled mutton sheep that has great quantities of fat on each side of the tail bones":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fat-\u02cct\u0101ld-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1842, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144241"
|
|
},
|
|
"fatigate":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"transitive verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": tired , weary , fatigued":[],
|
|
": fatigue , tire":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English fatigat , from Latin fatigatus , past participle of fatigare":"Adjective",
|
|
"Latin fatigatus , past participle of fatigare":"Transitive verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151311"
|
|
},
|
|
"fatwood":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": lightwood":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fat-\u02ccwu\u0307d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The catalog also included etched whiskey tumblers, telephones shaped like duck decoys, and even fatwood kindling, inspired by the trees on Mr. Perkins\u2019s Florida property. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2021",
|
|
"Split fatwood into pencil-size sticks, then shave off small pieces using a standard pencil sharpener or your knife. \u2014 The Editors, Field & Stream , 17 Aug. 2020",
|
|
"Commercial fatwood is the exact same thing, but neatly packaged in stick form. \u2014 The Editors, Outdoor Life , 21 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Stored in a cool and dry location, a box of commercial fatwood will last year after year. \u2014 The Editors, Outdoor Life , 21 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Wedge fatwood splints or a couple of pine knots into these forks, all the way to the top. \u2014 T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream , 9 Jan. 2017",
|
|
"The fuel source in fatwood is simply pine resin that has become concentrated and hardened over time. \u2014 The Editors, Outdoor Life , 21 Aug. 2019"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153445"
|
|
},
|
|
"fatigable":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": susceptible to fatigue":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fa-ti-g\u0259-",
|
|
"f\u0259-\u02c8t\u0113-g\u0259-b\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1556, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153636"
|
|
},
|
|
"fat-choy":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an edible blue-green alga ( Nostoc commune variety flagelliforme )":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8f\u00e4t\u02c8-",
|
|
"\u02c8fat\u02c8ch\u022fi"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Chinese (Cantonese) fa\u00e0t ts'o\u00ec , from fa\u00e0t hair + ts'o\u00ec vegetable":""
|
|
},
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": causing or tending to cause an increase in body fat":[
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"fattening foods",
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"\u2026 at about 45 calories in a three-and-a-half-ounce portion, it's no more fattening than other starchy vegetables.",
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"\u2014 Mary-Ellen Banashek"
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"type":[
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": the act or practice of subjecting someone perceived as fat or overweight to criticism or mockery":[
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"\u2026 wasn't aware \u2026 that the designers had also been embroiled in controversies over fat-shaming and same-sex families.",
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"\u2014 Vanessa Friedman",
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"As much as it focuses on other aspects of Annie's life, \"Shrill\" includes instances of bullying and fat shaming . A scene in which a trainer accosts Annie and tries to guilt her into signing up for workouts was inspired by Bryant's life.",
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"\u2014 Kelly Lawler"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8fat-\u02ccsh\u0101-mi\u014b"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"2007, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-160935"
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},
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],
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"definitions":{
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": chatting":[
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"endless shoptalk and fat-chewing with many authors",
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"\u2014 Laura Z. Hobson"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161658"
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},
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"fat dormouse":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": edible dormouse":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172834"
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a graph showing the rate of decline of strength or speed in long-continued work":[]
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173355"
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},
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"type":[
|
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"adverb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": in a fatty manner":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8fat|\u1d4al\u0113",
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"-at|",
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"|\u1d4ali"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183652"
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},
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"fatwa":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a legal opinion or decree handed down by an Islamic religious leader":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8f\u0259t-w\u0259",
|
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"\u02c8f\u00e4t-w\u00e4"
|
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Many want to believe that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei\u2019s fatwa against the production and use of nuclear weapons will keep Iran a threshold state. \u2014 Reuel Marc Gerecht And Ray Takeyh, WSJ , 19 Oct. 2021",
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"In 2015, one person was killed in Copenhagen, Denmark, at a meeting meant to mark the 25th anniversary of an Iranian fatwa against British writer Salman Rushdie, which Vilks attended. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Oct. 2021",
|
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"But the president should also be steeling his countrymen for a prolonged encounter with, and battle against, militant Islamic groups who aim, as in bin Laden\u2019s 1998 fatwa , to kill Americans. \u2014 John Hillen, National Review , 10 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Sistani issues his second political fatwa , urging the Iraqi people to remain neutral and not to interfere with the US forces. \u2014 Cnn Editorial Research, CNN , 18 July 2021",
|
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"Once again, Rushdie attempts to trace the expansion of the fanaticism that stifled free speech in other parts of the world, and led to the fatwa against his own life, into domains hitherto thought immune to repression and censorship. \u2014 Michael Washburn, National Review , 13 June 2021",
|
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"Zawahiri and bin Laden issue a fatwa , published in an Arab newspaper, stating that Muslims should kill Americans around the world. \u2014 Cnn Editorial Research, CNN , 10 June 2021",
|
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"Those same groups, strengthened after al-Sistani\u2019s fatwa , are accused of terrorizing Christians and preventing them from returning home. \u2014 Fox News , 3 Mar. 2021",
|
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"Those same groups, strengthened after al-Sistani's fatwa , are accused of terrorizing Christians and preventing them from returning home. \u2014 Star Tribune , 3 Mar. 2021"
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],
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"Arabic fatw\u0101":""
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],
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"definitions":{
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": containing no fat":[
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"The cereal is fat-free .",
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"fat-free milk"
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]
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],
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": of or relating to prophecy":[]
|
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"f\u0101-\u02c8ti-dik",
|
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"f\u0259-"
|
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],
|
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"Latin fatidicus , from fatum fate + dicere to say \u2014 more at diction":""
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"1607, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201240"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201346"
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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|
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|
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},
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"Italian phrase"
|
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|
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"definitions":{
|
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": deeds are males, words are females : strong deeds, gentle words":[
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"\u2014 motto of Maryland"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccf\u00e4t-t\u0113-\u02c8m\u00e4s-\u02cck\u0113 p\u00e4-\u02ccr\u022f-l\u0101-\u02c8f\u0101-m\u0113-\u02ccn\u0101"
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},
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|
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|
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"definitions":{
|
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": any of several Malagasy mouse lemurs (genus Cheirogaleus ) with much-thickened tails sometimes regarded as constituting a separate genus ( Atililemur or Opolemur )":[]
|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221558"
|
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},
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|
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"type":[
|
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"idiom"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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|
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"fat-burning exercises"
|
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]
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014502"
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|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a crab that soon will shed its shell":[]
|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014736"
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},
|
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|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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|
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"definitions":{
|
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": decreed, controlled, or marked by fate":[]
|
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|
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|
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"\u02c8f\u0101-t\u0259d"
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"examples":[
|
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"He felt he was fated to be famous.",
|
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"a character fated to die young"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1542, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-020504"
|
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},
|
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"fate line":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": line of fate":[
|
|
"a double Fate line denotes an eventful life",
|
|
"\u2014 Alice D. Jennings"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-024249"
|
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},
|
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"fatbird":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": oilbird":[],
|
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": pectoral sandpiper":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-055741"
|
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},
|
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"fatcake":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": doughnut , friedcake":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-063250"
|
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},
|
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"fatberg":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a large mass of fat and solid waste that collects in a sewer system":[
|
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"The toxic lump of congealed fat and household waste\u2014known as a fatberg \u2014was 40 metres long and so heavy that it broke the 1940s-era sewer.",
|
|
"\u2014 Rebecca Ratcliffe",
|
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"Restaurants are a big contributor to fatbergs : Thames Water, the London utilities company, found nine out of 10 fast-food eateries lacked adequate grease traps to stop fat from entering the sewers.",
|
|
"\u2014 Eve Watling"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8fat-\u02ccb\u0259rg"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"fat entry 3 + (ice)berg":""
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"2008, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083035"
|
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|
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"fat cell":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a specialized cell of adipose tissue that stores excess energy in the form of triglyceride droplets : adipocyte":[
|
|
"When food is not available and insulin levels fall, the fat cells release triglycerides back into the bloodstream, where they are transported to the liver and broken down into ketones, which can serve as fuel for muscle and the brain.",
|
|
"\u2014 Jeffrey S. Flier et al.",
|
|
"Cellulite is formed by a collection of fat cells around the fibrous cords that attach skin to muscle.",
|
|
"\u2014 Jeannie Ralston"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Additionally, since muscle cells have a higher concentration of water than fat cells , someone with more lean muscle mass will have higher water needs \u2014 and may need to consume more water \u2014 than someone with more fat mass. \u2014 Lisa Drayer, CNN , 14 May 2020",
|
|
"Researchers Marleen van Baak and Edwin Mariman of Maastricht University, for example, have proposed that the compensatory reflex begins with changes to the shape of fat cells . \u2014 Daniel Engber, Scientific American , 13 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"The little chambers in our skin that house fat cells look different between the sexes. \u2014 Sara Chodosh, Popular Science , 30 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Liposuction: During surgery, a doctor can remove fat cells from specific spots to reshape your neck and chin. \u2014 Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping , 7 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"Not to be forgotten are treatments like cool sculpting, a technique that freezes fat cells to death, giving someone the appearance of a slimmer, fitter physique. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"SculpSure\u00ae body contouring is a laser treatment that helps eliminate fat cells from a targeted area. \u2014 Ashleigh Morley, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 Jan. 2019",
|
|
"Foods rich in these healthful fats also lower the inflammatory response that\u2019s thought to enlarge fat cells and raise the risk of health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, memory problems and cancer. \u2014 Samantha Cassetty, NBC News , 31 Oct. 2018",
|
|
"Lipid bilayers, made up of two sheets of fat cells , form the cell membrane. \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 7 Nov. 2019"
|
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],
|
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|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1840, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-084245"
|
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},
|
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"fate drama":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a play especially popular in early 19th century Germany in which a malignant destiny drives the protagonist to commit a horrible crime often unsuspectingly":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-084310"
|
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},
|
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"fat-shamer":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a person who subjects someone to fat-shaming":[
|
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"Gorgeous celebrities are turning to Twitter and gleefully shaming the fat-shamers .",
|
|
"\u2014 Vogue"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8fat-\u02ccsh\u0101-m\u0259r"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"2008, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105250"
|
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},
|
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"fathom line":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a usually sinuous line on a nautical chart joining all points having the same depth of water and thereby indicating the contour of the ocean floor":[]
|
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},
|
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|
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"synonyms":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-152030"
|
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},
|
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"fatshedera":{
|
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"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an ornamental foliage plant (\u00d7 Fatshedera lizei ) with lobed glossy palmate leaves that is a hybrid between plants of two different genera of the ginseng family":[]
|
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},
|
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"fats-\u02c8he-d(\u0259-)r\u0259",
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"\u02c8fat-\u02c8se-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"New Latin Fatsia , genus of shrubs + Hedera , genus of vines (from Latin, ivy)":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1948, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-154118"
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},
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"fatsia":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": devil's club":[],
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": a prickly tree ( Aralia elata ) with immense leaves and large flower clusters":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8fats\u0113\u0259",
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"\""
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],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-170627"
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},
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"fathead minnow":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a widely distributed North American cyprinid fish ( Pimephales promelas ) occurring from southern Canada and New York westward down the Mississippi valley and into Mexico and in some areas esteemed as a panfish":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203215"
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},
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"fatback":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the strip of fat from the back of a hog carcass usually cured by drying and salting":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8fat-\u02ccbak"
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],
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In school, the other children and teachers ridiculed him\u2014for his accent, his coveralls, his lunches of fatback and collard greens. \u2014 Francesca Mari, The New Yorker , 30 Nov. 2020",
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"Cut the boar meat and pork fatback into 2-inch cubes. \u2014 Jean-paul Bourgeois, Field & Stream , 12 Nov. 2019",
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"The dumplings are a Chinese-Korean hybrid, says Lee, steamed to preserve the delicate wrapper and stuffed with ground pork, buttered kimchi and emulsified fatback . \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2019",
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"Likely a result of a diet of corn, fatback and molasses, the condition can cause dementia-like symptoms. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 May 2018",
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"Those who use Rick Bragg\u2019s latest meander into Southern life as a cookbook will need to gird their culinary loins \u2014 and not be a scared of liberal doses of Crisco, fatback drippings, lard, bacon grease, cracklin\u2019 meat and such. \u2014 David Holahan, USA TODAY , 23 Apr. 2018",
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"Likely a result of a diet of corn, fatback and molasses, the condition can cause dementia-like symptoms. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 May 2018",
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"Those who use Rick Bragg\u2019s latest meander into Southern life as a cookbook will need to gird their culinary loins \u2014 and not be a scared of liberal doses of Crisco, fatback drippings, lard, bacon grease, cracklin\u2019 meat and such. \u2014 David Holahan, USA TODAY , 23 Apr. 2018",
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"This Italian pork preparation is light pink and studded with cubes of fatback (literally, the fat from the back of the pig) as well as peppercorns and the occasional pistachio. \u2014 Kyle Frischkorn, GQ , 23 Dec. 2017"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1903, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205336"
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},
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"father confessor":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a person who is one's intimate spiritual guide and counselor":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210027"
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},
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"father family":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": patrilineal family : patrilineal sib or gens":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011229"
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},
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"father figure":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a person often of particular power or influence who serves as an emotional substitute for a father":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8f\u00e4t\u035fh-\u0259r-"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"The coach was a stern, wise father figure to his players.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Over time, Brown became a father figure to Al and inspired him to style his hair just like the musician. \u2014 Mark Elibert, Billboard , 25 June 2022",
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"The pilot of the Zaku II is a Zeon deserter called Cucuruz Doan, who is now a makeshift father figure for a gang of children on the island. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
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"Butcher struggled to accept Becca's son, while Homelander tried to be a father figure and teach Ryan how to use his powers. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 12 Mar. 2022",
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"Adam, in cynical movie terms, needs a buddy who can be a father figure . \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 9 Mar. 2022",
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"After eight seasons playing sage father figure /detective Joe West on The Flash, the actor is stepping down from being a series regular to star in a new NBC pilot. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
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"Of course there is a strong father figure , Rapha\u00ebl. \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 18 May 2022",
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"Epps was living in Argentina at the time and Cabrera caddied for some of his friends, leading the two to begin a relationship with Epps serving as an instructor and father figure to the young player. \u2014 Tim Dahlberg, ajc , 7 Apr. 2022",
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"Myshaun Rice-Nichols, a cousin and father figure to Rice, was killed in a car accident when Rice was 11 years old. \u2014 CNN , 13 Jan. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1916, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045507"
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}
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} |