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985 lines
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{
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"spume":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": froth , foam":[],
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": frothy matter on liquids : foam , scum":[
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"ocean spume"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"spume floating on the ocean",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Standing on these beaches creates a sense of natural infinity \u2013 of white sand, of frothy spume , of blue-green water. \u2014 Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2021",
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"In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume . \u2014 Brett Berk, Car and Driver , 2 Mar. 2018"
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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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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin spuma \u2014 more at foam":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8spy\u00fcm"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"foam",
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"froth",
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"head",
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"lather",
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"suds",
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"surf"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072402",
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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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"spun glass":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": blown glass that has slender threads of glass incorporated in it":[],
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": fiberglass":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"This seems to be more stable than for a non- spinning glass ball, which is pretty cool. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 27 June 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1779, 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":"20220707-174834",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"spun hay":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage":[]
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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":"20220707-180730",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"spung":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": purse":[],
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": rob":[]
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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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"probably alteration of Middle English punge , from Old English pung ; akin to Middle Low German punge purse, Old High German scaz fung , Old Norse pungr , Gothic pungs purse, and perhaps to Old English pocca, pohha bag, pocket":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\"",
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"\u02c8sp\u0259\u014b"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133130",
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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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"spunge":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":[
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"Definition of spunge variant spelling of sponge"
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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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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-082045",
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"type":[]
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},
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"spunk":{
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"antonyms":[
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"spinelessness"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a woody tinder : punk":[],
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": any of various fungi used to make tinder":[],
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": mettle , pluck":[],
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": spirit , liveliness":[],
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": to show spirit":[
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"\u2014 usually used with up"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"That little girl has a lot of spunk .",
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"had the spunk to overcome a severe physical disability",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Other chicks, just a few days older, are full of spunk . \u2014 Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
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"Stars embraced glitz and glamour\u2014a Cannes signature\u2014but infused their looks with a sense of spunk . \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 30 May 2022",
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"Torns lives up to her billing as the star of the show, bringing equal parts vulnerability and spunk to the role of Jenna. \u2014 cleveland , 1 June 2022",
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"Riley has performed in local plays as well, and has a spunk about her which is perfect for the role of Marian, said Harding. \u2014 Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com , 15 Mar. 2022",
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"Jack admires her spunk , but nevertheless, carries her in and tries several tactics of persuasion. \u2014 Amanda Ostuni, EW.com , 23 Mar. 2022",
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"As a kid, Draper was drawn to female characters with spunk and determination, like Melody. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Nov. 2021",
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"That recent Blue Origin spaceflight, combining science and spunk , was a blast. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Dec. 2021",
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"Cashier was respected for his marksmanship and his spunk . \u2014 Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com , 16 Dec. 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"The Wild already had spunk , but Deslauriers has crafted a nice brand in the pest-nuisance-and-hitting market. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 26 Mar. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1582, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"1840, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Scottish Gaelic spong sponge, tinder, from Middle Irish spongc , from Latin spongia sponge":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8sp\u0259\u014bk"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"backbone",
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"constancy",
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"fiber",
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"fortitude",
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"grit",
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"grittiness",
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"guts",
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"intestinal fortitude",
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"pluck"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212530",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"spunkie":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": ignis fatuus sense 1":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1727, 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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"\u02c8sp\u0259\u014b-k\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112620",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"spunky":{
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"antonyms":[
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"halfhearted",
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"leaden",
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"spiritless"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": full of spunk : spirited":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a spunky determination to make the best of a bad situation",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"With the help of spunky passenger Annie (Sandra Bullock), Jack and his partner Harry (Jeff Daniels) try to save the people on the bus before the bomb goes off, while also trying to figure out how Payne is monitoring them. \u2014 Travis Bean, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
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"Serve a sweet yet spunky look as Ash and Brock's best gal pal. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
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"For its second and final generation (1988\u20131991), the spunky two-door adopted a more sophisticated suspension setup that independently flexes at all four corners. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 13 June 2022",
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"Her true personality was spunky , earthy and self-deprecating. \u2014 Tim Greiving, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
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"Leslie Ruiz, who identified herself as a friend of Mathis' mother, told The Washington Post that Mathis was a bright girl who was fun and spunky . \u2014 Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 29 May 2022",
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"What spark the show has mostly comes from the reliably spunky Newton, the reliably gruff Sampson and LisaGay Hamilton, having a scene-stealing spring with this and The Dropout, as a judge sternly monitoring Mickey\u2019s legal comeback. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 May 2022",
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"Schniers, who makes one spunky balloon dog and other balloon animals filled with personality, raised his prices as the cost of balloons went up. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 4 May 2022",
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"Nimona\u2019s always been a spunky little story that just wouldn\u2019t stop. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 11 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1786, 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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"\u02c8sp\u0259\u014b-k\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"fiery",
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"gingery",
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"high-spirited",
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"mettlesome",
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"peppery",
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"spirited"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005305",
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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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"spur":{
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"antonyms":[
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"dig",
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"goad",
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"prod"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a gaff for a gamecock":[],
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": a goad to action : stimulus":[],
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": a hollow projecting appendage of a corolla or calyx (as in larkspur or columbine)":[],
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": a pointed device secured to a rider's heel and used to urge on the horse":[],
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": a projecting root or branch of a tree, shrub, or vine":[],
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": a railroad track that branches off from a main line":[],
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": a reinforcing buttress of masonry in a fortification":[],
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": bone spur":[],
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": climbing iron":[],
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": on impulse : suddenly":[],
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": recognition and reward for achievement":[
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"won his academic spurs as the holder of a chair in a university",
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"\u2014 James Mountford"
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],
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": something projecting like or suggesting a spur: such as":[],
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": to incite to action or accelerated growth or development : stimulate":[],
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": to put spurs on":[],
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": to spur one's horse on":[],
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": to urge (a horse) on with spurs":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"the threat of losing its only sports franchise was the spur the city council needed to finally do something about the rising crime rate",
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"a weak wall that might need a spur",
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"Verb",
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"The reward spurred them to work harder.",
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"Lower interest rates should spur economic growth.",
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"He spurred the horse onward.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"New social networks formed as digital technologies develop and are embraced spur dialogs that reinforce corporate goals. \u2014 Joe Mckendrick, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
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"At the 2-mile point, a short spur path leads to Taliesin Overlook, a scenic ledge with views of the north and West Valley. \u2014 Mare Czinar, USA TODAY , 10 Apr. 2022",
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"At the other end, a rail spur stood empty, awaiting a shipment. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 9 June 2022",
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"Perhaps that conceit served a deeper purpose, helping spur on some of her most playful and satisfying material. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 7 June 2022",
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"Some cyclists add an eight-mile spur , using the Old Colony Rail Trail from Harwich to Chatham. \u2014 Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
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"This talented filly dominated the Arkansas spur of the Kentucky Oaks trail before running a credible third running wide and without her best effort against males in the Arkansas Derby. \u2014 Jay Ginsbach, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
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"Details were not available Wednesday, but the economic incentives -- such as property and sales tax abatements and agreements to reconstruct roads and a rail spur into and out of the Mega Site \u2013 still need to be worked on and approved. \u2014 al , 11 May 2022",
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"For millions of Americans, the biggest spur to finish their tax returns every spring is the prospect of getting a big chunk of cash at the end of the process. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"Immunotherapy is when people take drugs or intravenous infusions that spur their own immune systems to fight cancer. \u2014 Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun , 21 June 2022",
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"Moreover, the pack had been getting big and unwieldy, conditions that spur the urge to disperse. \u2014 New York Times , 20 June 2022",
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"After successfully fighting off the fever that would spur her being turned in a zombie herself, Alicia decides to head off to help others. \u2014 Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 May 2022",
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"Harrison emphasized the medicinal and other beneficial effects of cannabis, a growth industry that can spur employment and investment. \u2014 Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant , 14 May 2022",
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"Andy Pekosz of Johns Hopkins University worries that could spur mutations that are resistant to the drug. \u2014 Matthew Perrone, ajc , 9 May 2022",
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"With the global shift towards renewable and green energy sources, the energy market is going through a significant transformation that will only further spur growth. \u2014 Rhett Power, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
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"Last month the Kentucky General Assembly voted to override Gov. Andy Beshear\u2019s veto of an unemployment indexing bill that should spur more Kentuckians to join the workforce and begin to fill the more than 160,000 job openings in the state. \u2014 Bryan Sunderland, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"In the 1960s, county officials made the gamble to put Metro lines underground, a prescient move that would spur business activity along transit-rich corridors in Arlington. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"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 spure , from Old English spura ; akin to Old English spurnan to kick \u2014 more at spurn entry 1":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8sp\u0259r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for spur Noun motive , impulse , incentive , inducement , spur , goad mean a stimulus to action. motive implies an emotion or desire operating on the will and causing it to act. a motive for the crime impulse suggests a driving power arising from personal temperament or constitution. buying on impulse incentive applies to an external influence (such as an expected reward) inciting to action. a bonus was offered as an incentive inducement suggests a motive prompted by the deliberate enticements or allurements of another. offered a watch as an inducement to subscribe spur applies to a motive that stimulates the faculties or increases energy or ardor. fear was a spur to action goad suggests a motive that keeps one going against one's will or desire. thought insecurity a goad to worker efficiency",
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"synonyms":[
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"boost",
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"encouragement",
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"goad",
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"impetus",
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"impulse",
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"incentive",
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"incitation",
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"incitement",
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"instigation",
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"momentum",
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"motivation",
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"provocation",
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"stimulant",
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"stimulus",
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"yeast"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063114",
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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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"spur-heeled":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": having a spur on the heel":[],
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": having the claw of the hind toe elongated and straight":[
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"the larks are spur-heeled"
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]
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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":"20220707-091129",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"spur-of-the-moment":{
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"antonyms":[
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"considered",
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"planned",
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"premeditated",
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"premeditative",
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"prepared",
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"rehearsed"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": occurring or developing without premeditation : hastily extemporized":[
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"a spur-of-the-moment decision"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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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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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8sp\u0259r-\u0259(v)-\u1e6fh\u0331\u0259-\u02c8m\u014d-m\u0259nt"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"ad hoc",
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"ad-lib",
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"down and dirty",
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"extemporaneous",
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"extemporary",
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"extempore",
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"impromptu",
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"improvisational",
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"improvised",
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"off-the-cuff",
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"offhand",
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"offhanded",
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"snap",
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"unconsidered",
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"unplanned",
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"unpremeditated",
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"unprepared",
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"unrehearsed",
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"unstudied"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033842",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"spurge laurel":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a low-growing Eurasian shrub ( Daphne laureola ) with oblong evergreen leaves and axillary racemes of yellowish flowers":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1597, 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":"20220708-104618",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"spurge nettle":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a stinging American herb ( Jatropha stimulosus )":[]
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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":"20220706-133234",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"spurge olive":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a daphne ( Daphne oleoides ) of southern Europe related to the mezereon":[],
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": mezereon":[]
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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":"20220707-112232",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"spuriae":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the feathers of the bastard wing of a bird":[]
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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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"New Latin, from Late Latin, feminine plural of spurius false":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-pu\u0307r\u0113\u02cc\u012b",
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"One reiterated theme of his book is that the electoral process can be the most dangerous of delusions, tending to confer a spurious legitimacy on those most willing to corrupt it. \u2014 Hilary Mantel , New York Review , 21 Sept. 2006",
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"Of all the potentially spurious phrases regularly found lurking on book jackets, none should be approached with greater wariness than \"This is his first novel.\" \u2014 Tony Early , New York Times Book Review , 30 Apr. 2000",
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"I have no special interest in defending modern finance theory, but I think it is important to get this straight, lest Soros's own ideas acquire spurious validity as a practical corrective to academic moonshine. \u2014 Robert M. Solow , New Republic , 12 Apr. 1999",
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"a spurious Picasso painting that wouldn't have fooled an art expert for a second",
|
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"claimed that the governor's election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious , since he had cut funding for state parks",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Rosen: Trump claims of election fraud 'debunked' Jeffrey Rosen served as acting attorney general for the final month of the Trump administration, after former Attorney General Bill Barr resigned in part over president's spurious claims of fraud. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
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"But direct evidence for WIMPs has been elusive, despite decades of looking for them in particle accelerators and exquisitely sensitive detectors buried deep underground to minimize spurious signals from cosmic rays and other sources. \u2014 Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American , 8 June 2022",
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"Since the first $2,500 is payable this month, the description of them as retention bonuses was spurious , Stefanowski said. \u2014 Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant , 19 May 2022",
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"Decadent, spurious and yet well executed \u2014 a concise summation of the weaknesses and strengths of Neo-Romanticism. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
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"The whole thing sounds like a long, convoluted game of telephone, making for ripe conditions for spurious theories. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Apr. 2022",
|
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"That spurious figure, still touted by some politicians, traces back to misleading data from the 1990s, according to a 2015 Washington Post fact-check. \u2014 ELLE , 4 Apr. 2022",
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"As Gervais alludes to in his typically blunt style, the state would be awash with spurious claims for financial assistance based on people\u2019s feelings and body image. \u2014 Gus Alexiou, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2022",
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"Lawmakers investigating the Capitol attack have argued that spurious claims of election fraud helped raise money and fueled the mob that ransacked the building. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin spurius false, from Latin, of illegitimate birth, from spurius , noun, bastard":""
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"examples":[
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"One reiterated theme of his book is that the electoral process can be the most dangerous of delusions, tending to confer a spurious legitimacy on those most willing to corrupt it. \u2014 Hilary Mantel , New York Review , 21 Sept. 2006",
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"Of all the potentially spurious phrases regularly found lurking on book jackets, none should be approached with greater wariness than \"This is his first novel.\" \u2014 Tony Early , New York Times Book Review , 30 Apr. 2000",
|
|
"I have no special interest in defending modern finance theory, but I think it is important to get this straight, lest Soros's own ideas acquire spurious validity as a practical corrective to academic moonshine. \u2014 Robert M. Solow , New Republic , 12 Apr. 1999",
|
|
"a spurious Picasso painting that wouldn't have fooled an art expert for a second",
|
|
"claimed that the governor's election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious , since he had cut funding for state parks",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Rosen: Trump claims of election fraud 'debunked' Jeffrey Rosen served as acting attorney general for the final month of the Trump administration, after former Attorney General Bill Barr resigned in part over president's spurious claims of fraud. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"But direct evidence for WIMPs has been elusive, despite decades of looking for them in particle accelerators and exquisitely sensitive detectors buried deep underground to minimize spurious signals from cosmic rays and other sources. \u2014 Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"Since the first $2,500 is payable this month, the description of them as retention bonuses was spurious , Stefanowski said. \u2014 Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Decadent, spurious and yet well executed \u2014 a concise summation of the weaknesses and strengths of Neo-Romanticism. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The whole thing sounds like a long, convoluted game of telephone, making for ripe conditions for spurious theories. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"That spurious figure, still touted by some politicians, traces back to misleading data from the 1990s, according to a 2015 Washington Post fact-check. \u2014 ELLE , 4 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"As Gervais alludes to in his typically blunt style, the state would be awash with spurious claims for financial assistance based on people\u2019s feelings and body image. \u2014 Gus Alexiou, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Lawmakers investigating the Capitol attack have argued that spurious claims of election fraud helped raise money and fueled the mob that ransacked the building. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin spurius false, from Latin, of illegitimate birth, from spurius , noun, bastard":""
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|
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": to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn":[],
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"Verb",
|
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"fiercely independent, the elderly couple spurned all offers of financial help",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
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"Across the internet landscape, Michigan loyalists struggled to understand how a legacy with such deep ties could spurn their beloved Wolverines. \u2014 Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press , 10 June 2022",
|
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"If and when there is a ceasefire in Ukraine, many European nations that agreed to spurn Russian oil this week won't be eager to restart trade relations with Putin, Vincent said. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 1 June 2022",
|
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"Experts had worried that a Moscow default could trigger investors to spurn other emerging markets, economies that rely on a steady flow of capital. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2022",
|
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"But analysts say that vote, while an important signal of international revulsion over Russia\u2019s attack, does not really serve as a barometer of intent to fully spurn Moscow. \u2014 Laura King, Los Angeles Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The Justice Department urged the court to spurn the challengers' request to reconsider the last major high-court endorsement of affirmative action, in the 2003 University of Michigan case known as Grutter v. Bollinger. \u2014 Joan Biskupic, CNN , 9 Dec. 2021",
|
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"Recently, Advance Peace and a similar pilot program received blowback in New York and San Francisco, from people who spurn their idea to offer stipends to participants who agree to engage, lay down their guns and stay out of trouble. \u2014 Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Our American pretensions spurn such prescriptive tendencies. \u2014 Daniel Buck, National Review , 18 July 2021",
|
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"Some of those who spurn their existing teams to enter the transfer portal will find no one else wants them. \u2014 Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com , 2 June 2021",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Lessons from watching JC Latham spurn Columbus in favor of Tuscaloosa seemed more appropriate as time went on. \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 17 Apr. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Noun",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2a":"Verb"
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},
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"Middle English, from Old English spurnan ; akin to Old High German spurnan to kick, Latin spernere to spurn, Greek spairein to quiver":"Verb"
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},
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for spurn Verb decline , refuse , reject , repudiate , spurn mean to turn away by not accepting, receiving, or considering. decline often implies courteous refusal especially of offers or invitations. declined his party's nomination refuse suggests more positiveness or ungraciousness and often implies the denial of something asked for. refused to lend them the money reject implies a peremptory refusal by sending away or discarding. rejected the manuscript as unpublishable repudiate implies a casting off or disowning as untrue, unauthorized, or unworthy of acceptance. teenagers who repudiate the values of their parents spurn stresses contempt or disdain in rejection or repudiation. spurned his overtures of friendship",
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|
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|
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|
|
"the faucet spurts water"
|
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"1644, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1664, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
|
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"circa 1591, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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|
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"origin unknown":"Noun",
|
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"perhaps akin to Middle High German sp\u00fcrzen to spit, Old English -spr\u016btan to sprout \u2014 more at sprout":"Verb"
|
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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":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"The motor sputtered and died.",
|
|
"He was sputtering with rage.",
|
|
"She sputtered an angry protest.",
|
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"\u201cYou, you have to be kidding!\u201d he sputtered .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"As a wave of recent laser sensor SPACs sputter on the stock market, new startup Red Leader is making a play on the industry with a different approach: focus on software, not hardware. \u2014 Kenrick Cai, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Top 10 in the late Seventies, but began to sputter as the decade came to a close. Enter John Travolta. \u2014 Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone , 7 May 2022",
|
|
"The home crowd was at its loudest on Moran\u2019s foul line drive in the fifth inning as the Reds offense continued to sputter . \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 23 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In the race to the bottom of the valley aquifers, growers can pump so much that thousands of residential wells sputter and die. \u2014 Susie Cagle, Wired , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Meanwhile, as negotiations sputter on between Ukraine and Russia, the issue of sanctions\u2014whether or when to halt them\u2014is being discussed by the Western powers. \u2014 Jo-ann Mort, The New Republic , 31 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"At that point, many prosecutions sputter out or are pleaded down to misdemeanors. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The company also said production in Wolfsburg would begin to sputter next week and stop the following week because of a lack of parts. \u2014 William Boston, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"With a jeep and five soldiers in his C-47 Skytrain, one of the plane\u2019s two engines began to sputter . \u2014 Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News , 28 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"As wings shrink, air friction overwhelms flight power\u2014that\u2019s why dragonflies soar as houseflies sputter . \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 21 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Hope and optimism are huge areas of need for a skeptical fanbase watching a Kliff Kingsbury team sputter toward the finish line \u2014 again. \u2014 Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic , 19 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"That obstacle seemed likely to prove more unyielding than ever in 2021, when the return from a 60-game to a 162-game season raised the specter of a dramatic late-summer sputter . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Palou, who has looked every bit the part of a Dixon-esque champion for so much of 2021, saw his engine sputter in smoke and drop from 4th to 27th with 20 laps to go last month on the IMS road course. \u2014 Nathan Brown, USA TODAY , 18 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"That has seen its basketball team sputter in postseason after postseason. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 31 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Because of this, Dallas\u2019 offense and defense sputter all season with the Mavericks limping into the playoffs, staring down another first-round exit. \u2014 Doyle Rader, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Palou, who has looked every bit the part of a Dixon-esque champion for so much of 2021, saw his engine sputter in smoke and drop from 4th to 27th with 20 laps to go last month on the IMS road course. \u2014 Nathan Brown, USA TODAY , 18 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Anyone who has followed U.S. climate policy is familiar with the cycle of bold attempts to enact climate rules that eventually sputter , followed by years of inaction. \u2014 Justin Worland, Time , 5 Oct. 2021"
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"1598, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
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"1673, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"akin to Dutch sputteren to sputter":"Verb"
|
|
},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8sp\u0259-t\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"babble",
|
|
"bumble",
|
|
"chat",
|
|
"chatter",
|
|
"drivel",
|
|
"drool",
|
|
"gabble",
|
|
"gibber",
|
|
"jabber",
|
|
"prattle"
|
|
],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073017",
|
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|
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|
|
"verb"
|
|
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|
|
},
|
|
"spun sugar":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": sugar boiled to long threads and gathered up and shaped into desired forms or heaped on a stick as a candy":[
|
|
"\u2026 thin shells of chocolate filled with caramel and white chocolate mousse and cradled in a nest of spun sugar .",
|
|
"\u2014 Jeff Book"
|
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|
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|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Perfect for warmer months, this light and sweet Lanc\u00f4me fragrance features bright, effervescent notes of white iris, patchouli, vanilla and spun sugar . \u2014 April Franzino, Good Housekeeping , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The pastry cook to hire for spun sugar and chocolate towers",
|
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"Entranced, Simard watched as leaf litter\u2014shed by birches, hemlocks, cedars, and firs\u2014was raked back to expose a swath of fungal tendrils glistening like spun sugar . \u2014 Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic , 17 June 2021",
|
|
"Her Emma is pure spun sugar with a tart sour-candy center \u2014 and some of the best not-strictly-historical costumes since Sofia Coppola\u2019s Marie Antoinette. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 29 June 2020",
|
|
"First lady Nancy Reagan commissioned him to craft desserts in the shape of cellos, their strings fashioned from spun sugar , in honor of the Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. \u2014 Emily Heil, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2020",
|
|
"First lady Nancy Reagan commissioned him to craft , their strings fashioned from spun sugar , in honor of the Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 June 2020",
|
|
"This accurate scale model made of chocolate fondant and spun sugar \u2014which must have involved hours of collaboration with the Pei office\u2014was greeted with shrieks of delight by the architect\u2019s guest. \u2014 Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books , 24 May 2019"
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"1846, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"spun silk":{
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|
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|
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": a yarn or fabric made from short unreelable silk fibers that have been degummed \u2014 compare reeled silk":[]
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"spur bit":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a boring bit having one or more spurs which scribe the periphery of the hole in advance of the cutting lips to guide the bit in the proper direction \u2014 compare twist bit":[]
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},
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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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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-094717"
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},
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"spud":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to dig with a spud":[],
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": to begin to drill (an oil well)":[],
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": to use a spud":[],
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": a tool or device (as for digging, lifting, or cutting) having the characteristics of a spade and a chisel":[],
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": potato sense 2b":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8sp\u0259d"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"When the ice is thicker than four to five inches, nobody wants to keep spudding or drilling new holes every time the fish move on. \u2014 The Editors, Field & Stream , 22 Nov. 2019",
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"The old days of spudding a hole in a foot of ice and huddling and freezing over it for hours on an upturned five-gallon pail are just that\u2014the old days. \u2014 The Editors, Field & Stream , 22 Nov. 2019",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Like the cover of the soundtrack album, the Elvis spud holds a ukulele and wears a red Hawaiian shirt and yellow lei. \u2014 Ken Budd, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
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"Rather than a spud , the results stipulated that the sample was a tuber \u2014 the underground stem of a plant. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Jan. 2022",
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"State\u2019s deep roots with tubers pay off as demand sprouts; \u2018this spud \u2019s for you\u2019 Gil LaJoie, co-owner of LaJoie Growers, uses a forklift to move potatoes onto a refrigerated boxcar at the company\u2019s packing house in Van Buren, Maine. \u2014 Jennifer Levitz, WSJ , 23 Mar. 2022",
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"Others thought its shape looked more like a chicken than a spud . \u2014 Jennifer Calfas, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022",
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"The steak entr\u00e9e options include: steak and white cheddar sandwich, steak and gorgonzola salad or loaded steak spud . \u2014 Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com , 11 Feb. 2022",
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"Still, the Craig-Brown family is proud of their spud . \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Nov. 2021",
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"Georgia grows five varieties of the spud including the Beauregard, the Evangeline and the most popular one, the Covington. \u2014 Kiersten Willis, ajc , 9 Nov. 2020",
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"So the couple made the difficult choice of wrapping Dough in plastic resigning the spud to their freezer. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Nov. 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English spudde dagger":"Noun"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1652, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
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"1667, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110736"
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},
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"spud casing":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a well in the hull of a dredge through which a spud can be raised or lowered":[]
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},
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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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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-135748"
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},
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"spurge":{
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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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"\u02c8sp\u0259rj"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The same plantings from the courtyard\u2014including Jerusalem sage, upright myrtle spurge , and lavender\u2014were repeated throughout the property. \u2014 Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine , 2 Feb. 2022",
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"Be careful not to confuse mountain spurge with similar-looking Japanese pachysandra (Pachysandra terminalis), which is invasive. \u2014 Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens , 20 Oct. 2021",
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"Flowering spurge , a great baby\u2019s-breath accent by itself, can turn a wonderful orange or scarlet. \u2014 Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com , 30 Sep. 2021",
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"Readers immediately identified the culprit in several small clusters of yellow flowers over rubbery, succulent stems and leaves: Myrtle spurge . \u2014 Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2021",
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"Myrtle spurge also is banned in Colorado and Oregon, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. \u2014 Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2021",
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"The Natural History Museum had in its records from the 1980s a plant, rolled leaf spurge , that emerged after monsoonal rains on Whale Peak. \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Oct. 2020",
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"Or a basic-but-not-boring trench and a totally out-of-this-world, definition-of- spurge -worthy bag",
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"Casting aside the holiday glow, the poinsettia is nothing but a fancy spurge with a very descriptive scientific name. \u2014 Dave Taft, New York Times , 12 Dec. 2017"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French espurge, spurge , from espurger to clean out, purge, from Latin expurgare \u2014 more at expurgate":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-200429"
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},
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"spudder":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": one that sets up and operates a well-drilling machine":[],
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": a light duty drilling rig used primarily to start a new well":[],
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": peeler sense 1b":[],
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": a tool that removes bark from timber : barker , bark spud":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8sp\u0259d\u0259(r)"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005120"
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},
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"spun rayon":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a yarn or fabric made wholly or chiefly of rayon staple":[
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"butcher linen made of spun rayon"
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]
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},
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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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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024051"
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}
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} |