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"Inca magic flower":{
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": cantuta":[]
},
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"noun"
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"incalculable":{
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"definitions":{
": not capable of being calculated: such as":[],
": not predictable : uncertain":[
"an incalculable outcome"
],
": very great":[
"did incalculable damage"
]
},
"examples":[
"The extent of the damage is incalculable .",
"The collection is of incalculable value to historians.",
"The future consequences of their decision are incalculable .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As for Elvis, the number of imitators is all but incalculable . \u2014 Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"The will to persevere coupled with an intense work ethic play an incalculable role in achievement. \u2014 Dennis Victory, al , 27 June 2022",
"Life was made up of these little hassles\u2014and of big tragedies, too, incalculable cruelties, things that no right-thinking person should abide. \u2014 Joshua Ferris, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Namely, this includes the ability to prevent over-supply or under-supply to a degree of accuracy incalculable by the human brain. \u2014 Michael Feindt, Forbes , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Either humans change the park, or nature will, at an incalculable cost. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Dec. 2021",
"As recently as 2018, a couple of aerospace companies were ordered to pay millions to scrub the land of contaminants, but damage to groundwater and soil is often incalculable and monstrously expensive to undo. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Thirty-seven dollars and an incalculable expectation of adventures to come \u2013 in Korea, and beyond. \u2014 Annie Rogers, The Christian Science Monitor , 4 Oct. 2021",
"And the impact is going to be incalculable on the lives of women. \u2014 ABC News , 8 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1795, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8kal-ky\u0259-l\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-204109",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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": a growing warm or ardent":[]
},
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"1646, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Latin incalescere to become warm, from in- + calescere to become warm, inchoative of cal\u0113re to be warm \u2014 more at lee":""
},
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259-\u02c8le-s\u1d4an(t)s",
"\u02cci\u014b-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084334",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
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": having no calyculus":[
"incaliculate corals"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"in- entry 1 + caliculate":""
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"\u00a6in+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105925",
"type":[
"adjective"
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"Definition of incamp obsolete variant of encamp"
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"incandesce":{
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": to be or become incandescent":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1874, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Latin incandescere":""
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259n-\u02c8des",
"also -(\u02cc)kan-"
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"verb"
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"incandescence":{
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"candles made from whale oil were once highly prized because they burned with an incandescence superior to that of other candles",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The performances reached lofty heights, technically and interpretively, with the final one in particular conveying an incandescence seldom heard in the concert hall. \u2014 David Mermelstein, WSJ , 31 May 2022",
"One marvels at the dead father\u2019s incandescence , the widow\u2019s frankness and courage, the survivor\u2019s taciturnity and inner turmoil. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 22 Jan. 2022",
"David bathes the condemned philosopher in incandescence , left hand raised in salute as his right reaches for the cup of hemlock; his students and friends turn away, distraught, some weeping in disbelief. \u2014 Hamilton Cain, WSJ , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Its incandescence was inspired by the works of Dan Flavin and James Turrell, installation artists who work in abstractions of color and light; Ob\u00e9 is actually an acronym for Our Body Electric, a Walt Whitman reference. \u2014 Brennan Kilban, Allure , 27 July 2021",
"Then Drew Barrymore showed up, and the entire movie seemed to reshape itself, as though energized by her incandescence . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2021",
"The show\u2019s one flaw, at least for me, was Celeste\u2019s efforts to find and combine three different sources of light \u2014 phosphorescence, incandescence and iridescence \u2014 in order to create luminescence, which isn\u2019t really how that works. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Apr. 2021",
"The night offers its own solace \u2014 the hard, familiar stars, the oceanic incandescence of the aurora borealis. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Nov. 2020",
"The ad reads, KEEP IT CLEAN, with Kebede issuing a mix of Hepburn\u2019s incandescence and Janelle Mona\u0301e\u2019s dapper, easy style. \u2014 Harper's BAZAAR , 20 Oct. 2020"
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"circa 1656, in the meaning defined above":""
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"also -(\u02cc)kan-",
"\u02ccin-k\u0259n-\u02c8de-s\u1d4an(t)s"
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"blaze",
"flare",
"fluorescence",
"glare",
"gleam",
"glow",
"illumination",
"light",
"luminescence",
"radiance",
"shine"
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"dim",
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"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant"
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": characterized by glowing zeal : ardent":[
"incandescent affection"
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"incandescent wit"
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": of, relating to, or being light produced by incandescence":[],
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": white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat":[]
},
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"Adjective",
"sitting in darkness, except for the incandescent coals of our campfire",
"a speaker incandescent with righteous anger over the treatment of the refugees",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"This week, the Department of Energy announced new rules to phase incandescent light bulbs out of production and sale in the United States before a ban takes effect in 2023. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Bloom\u2019s matter-of-fact confidence plays off Whitehead\u2019s childlike angst in a pair of quietly incandescent performances. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2021",
"There are 10 incandescent light fixtures placed 9 inches apart on a 9-foot-long white wire, with an 18-inch lead before the first bulb. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 24 May 2022",
"The performer\u2019s songs consistently glowed with romantic possibility, thanks primarily to the warm, lovely undertones of their incandescent voice, and their ability to find nuance in even the most destructive dalliances. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 5 May 2022",
"Looking at her photos and videos, one description which comes to mind is incandescent . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"Much of the country is already lit by LED lights, which the Department of Energy estimates last as much as 50 times as long as incandescent bulbs and use a fraction of the electricity. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Two rules setting stricter efficiency standards will effectively phase out sales of incandescent bulbs, in an effort to save consumers money and cut greenhouse gas emissions. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Some people rushed to buy large quantities of incandescent light bulbs and hoarded them. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Like so many things, the fight over incandescent bulbs became partisan. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"This set has a weather-resistant wire that\u2019s 24 feet long, with 25 incandescent glass Edison bulbs spaced 1 foot apart. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 24 May 2022",
"But environmental groups praise the move, saying incandescent bulbs waste energy and harm the environment. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Apr. 2022",
"For a small, two-person campsite, look for a lantern with at least 500 lumens, while 1000 lumens (about as bright as a 60-watt incandescent bulb) is enough to illuminate the entire site. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 13 May 2022",
"This is what the unsuspecting incandescent light bulb has wrought. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The average incandescent bulb produces 15 lumens per watt, reports Gizmodo\u2019s Kevin Hurler. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Apr. 2022",
"On Tuesday, the Biden administration increased federal efficiency standards for lightbulbs, effectively consigning the century-old incandescent lightbulb\u2014the type with a luminating filament\u2014to U.S. history. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The end has come for the old-fashioned incandescent lightbulb. \u2014 Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1794, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1900, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"probably from French, from Latin incandescent-, incandescens , present participle of incandescere to become hot, from in- + candescere to become hot, from cand\u0113re to glow \u2014 more at candid":"Adjective"
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"also -(\u02cc)kan-",
"\u02ccin-k\u0259n-\u02c8de-s\u1d4ant"
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"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
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"fulgent",
"glowing",
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"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shining",
"shiny",
"splendid"
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"incandescent lamp":{
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": light bulb sense a":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The business traces its roots to 1879, when Edison created the first practical commercial incandescent lamp . \u2014 Rick Clough, Bloomberg.com , 7 June 2020",
"The 60-watt standard also takes effect nationwide Wednesday for many types of light bulbs, but not for five types: three-way incandescent lamps , shatter-resistant bulbs, floodlights, candelabra bulbs and incandescent reflector lamps. \u2014 Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com , 31 Dec. 2019",
"In 1880: Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp . \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Jan. 2020",
"The suit challenges the rollbacks for five types of light bulbs: three-way incandescent lamps , shatter-resistant bulbs, floodlights, candelabra bulbs and incandescent reflector lamps. \u2014 Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com , 15 Jan. 2020",
"On President Barack Obama\u2019s last day in office, the Energy Department issued regulations that widened standards for general service lamps and general service incandescent lamps . \u2014 The Washington Post, Twin Cities , 6 Sep. 2019",
"On President Barack Obama\u2019s last day in office, the Energy Department issued regulations that widened standards for general service lamps and general service incandescent lamps . \u2014 The Washington Post, Twin Cities , 6 Sep. 2019",
"Fact: Edison invented a low volt DC system to power incandescent lamps , but there were drawbacks. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 21 Oct. 2019",
"On President Barack Obama\u2019s last day in office, the Energy Department issued regulations that widened standards for general service lamps and general service incandescent lamps . \u2014 The Washington Post, Twin Cities , 6 Sep. 2019"
],
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"1881, in the meaning defined above":""
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": light from a source of incandescence":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132250",
"type":[
"noun"
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"incantation":{
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"examples":[
"trying to produce a miracle by incantation",
"hovering over the sick child, the witch doctor muttered mysterious incantations",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In high, tremulous voices, the Sisters of the Holy Family were chanting their midday prayers when a child\u2019s gleeful shout echoed from a nearby corridor, punctuating the solemn incantation . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"Its stretches of incantation turn into something like a sacred rite. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2022",
"Metta meditation is a practice, not a magical incantation . \u2014 Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day , 6 May 2022",
"And the word that Zelensky repeats like an incantation ",
"The state of the union address is something of an incantation , offering the president an annual opportunity to argue that his leadership has righted the nation\u2019s course. \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 1 Mar. 2022",
"In addition to celestial charts, the book also contains instructions for meditations and rituals, including an incantation to Venus that is said to summon love. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s power in the recitation of ancient names and the act of incantation , karakia, is central to M\u0101ori culture. \u2014 Stacey Morrison, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 15 Nov. 2021",
"The song\u2014balena, balena, balena, balena\u2014rose to a new pitch, a new intensity, half incantation , half ululation. \u2014 Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books , 19 Aug. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle English incantacioun , from Middle French incantation , from Late Latin incantation-, incantatio , from Latin incantare to enchant \u2014 more at enchant":""
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"\u02ccin-\u02cckan-\u02c8t\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"abracadabra",
"bewitchment",
"charm",
"conjuration",
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"glamour",
"glamor",
"hex",
"invocation",
"spell",
"whammy"
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"expert",
"fit",
"qualified",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"ultracompetent"
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": not receptive":[]
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"hired a supremely incapable assistant who only made a mess of things",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Thus, a female manager who is blunt and self-confident may be judged incapable of creating consensus. \u2014 Caterina Bulgarella, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The legislation would not remove the exemptions for a spouse raping his or her partner while that person is younger than 16 or if that person is mentally incapable . \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 21 June 2022",
"If vaccinating everyone is off the table, that leaves us with blocking the outbreak upstream\u2014with testing, education, and behavioral change, the exact tactics the U.S. has proved itself, time and time again, incapable of sustaining. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"In the case of POTUS, a raucous feminist farce about seven extremely capable women tasked with keeping a very incapable commander-in-chief out of trouble, all hell breaks loose in the White House. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 12 June 2022",
"Lamplighter Community Theatre presents Michael Madden\u2019s new play about a woman with breast cancer embarking on a romance with a man who is both charming and awkwardly incapable of saying the right thing about her health battle. \u2014 Sara Butler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"The hovercraft handled about two dozen evacuations for several years before being abandoned in 2010 as too costly and incapable of operating in high seas or winds. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"Domino is incapable of the former and beyond the latter \u2014 alert to it, but beyond it. \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Steam catapults are also incapable of fine-tuning their power to allow smaller, lighter uncrewed aircraft to safely launch. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 15 June 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle French, from in- + capable capable":""
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u0101-p\u0259-b\u0259l",
"in-\u02c8k\u0101-p\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"inexpert",
"unable",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
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"noun"
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": not receptive":[]
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"hired a supremely incapable assistant who only made a mess of things",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Thus, a female manager who is blunt and self-confident may be judged incapable of creating consensus. \u2014 Caterina Bulgarella, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The legislation would not remove the exemptions for a spouse raping his or her partner while that person is younger than 16 or if that person is mentally incapable . \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 21 June 2022",
"If vaccinating everyone is off the table, that leaves us with blocking the outbreak upstream\u2014with testing, education, and behavioral change, the exact tactics the U.S. has proved itself, time and time again, incapable of sustaining. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"In the case of POTUS, a raucous feminist farce about seven extremely capable women tasked with keeping a very incapable commander-in-chief out of trouble, all hell breaks loose in the White House. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 12 June 2022",
"Lamplighter Community Theatre presents Michael Madden\u2019s new play about a woman with breast cancer embarking on a romance with a man who is both charming and awkwardly incapable of saying the right thing about her health battle. \u2014 Sara Butler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"The hovercraft handled about two dozen evacuations for several years before being abandoned in 2010 as too costly and incapable of operating in high seas or winds. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"Domino is incapable of the former and beyond the latter \u2014 alert to it, but beyond it. \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Steam catapults are also incapable of fine-tuning their power to allow smaller, lighter uncrewed aircraft to safely launch. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 15 June 2022"
],
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"1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u0101-p\u0259-b\u0259l",
"in-\u02c8k\u0101-p\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"fit",
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": not receptive":[]
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"hired a supremely incapable assistant who only made a mess of things",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Thus, a female manager who is blunt and self-confident may be judged incapable of creating consensus. \u2014 Caterina Bulgarella, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The legislation would not remove the exemptions for a spouse raping his or her partner while that person is younger than 16 or if that person is mentally incapable . \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 21 June 2022",
"If vaccinating everyone is off the table, that leaves us with blocking the outbreak upstream\u2014with testing, education, and behavioral change, the exact tactics the U.S. has proved itself, time and time again, incapable of sustaining. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"In the case of POTUS, a raucous feminist farce about seven extremely capable women tasked with keeping a very incapable commander-in-chief out of trouble, all hell breaks loose in the White House. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 12 June 2022",
"Lamplighter Community Theatre presents Michael Madden\u2019s new play about a woman with breast cancer embarking on a romance with a man who is both charming and awkwardly incapable of saying the right thing about her health battle. \u2014 Sara Butler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"The hovercraft handled about two dozen evacuations for several years before being abandoned in 2010 as too costly and incapable of operating in high seas or winds. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"Domino is incapable of the former and beyond the latter \u2014 alert to it, but beyond it. \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Steam catapults are also incapable of fine-tuning their power to allow smaller, lighter uncrewed aircraft to safely launch. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 15 June 2022"
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"1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u0101-p\u0259-b\u0259l",
"in-\u02c8k\u0101-p\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
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"inapt",
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"inexpert",
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"unqualified",
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"adverb",
"noun"
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": having little or insufficient size or capacity : cramped , narrow , strait":[],
": mentally weak : lacking perception, insight, or understanding":[]
},
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"Late Latin incapac-, incapax (from Latin in- in- entry 1 + capac-, capax capacious) + English -ious":""
},
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"\u00a6in+"
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"type":[
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": to make legally incapable or ineligible":[]
},
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"The class teaches you how to incapacitate an attacker.",
"The stroke left her completely incapacitated .",
"He was incapacitated by the pain.",
"a computer system incapacitated by software problems",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The company is also emphasizing the drones will be designed to incapacitate targets, as opposed to using lethal force from police firearms. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 3 June 2022",
"Tear gas is used by law enforcement to incapacitate people by provoking overwhelming irritation to the eyes, mouth and lungs. \u2014 Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News , 10 Apr. 2022",
"The building is designed to handle natural disasters like earthquakes and king tides, which could incapacitate other fire stations and prevent them from getting to the scene of a blaze. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Agents could use the drones to interrogate unauthorized travelers from a distance and to incapacitate subjects who refused to comply with their demands. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Officers used bean-bag rounds and a Taser on Schild before firing live rounds when non-lethal methods failed to incapacitate him. \u2014 Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic , 3 Jan. 2022",
"The investigation also found that Millete made multiple searches online for drugs that can be used to incapacitate people. \u2014 Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Many in law enforcement are skeptical shooting to incapacitate could work broadly. \u2014 Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Writing sanctifies the ugly feelings that threaten to incapacitate her. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Sep. 2021"
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"1657, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259-\u02c8pa-s\u0259-\u02cct\u0101t"
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"cripple",
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"prostrate"
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"potency"
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"I'm aware of my weaknesses and incapacities .",
"her entrenched incapacity for decision-making doesn't make her a very good boss",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Barring the senator\u2019s obvious incapacity , one individual shouldn\u2019t have the power to pick California\u2019s two senators. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"These benefits ensure that the financial burden of incapacity won\u2019t derail all your other plans for your estate. \u2014 Joseph Milano, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Who wants to talk about their own death, incapacity , even retirement",
"Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity ; when active, inactivity. \u2014 Moran Zavdi, Forbes , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Political and economic incapacity in many fledgling nation-states also forced their leaders to seek help from their former overlords. \u2014 Pankaj Mishra, The New Yorker , 29 Nov. 2021",
"That is exceptionally dangerous because many doctors are reluctant to get involved in a legal question of incapacity . \u2014 Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes , 15 Nov. 2021",
"In court, Superior Court Judge Cheri Pham told the victims\u2019 family members that Gonzalez\u2019 incapacity forced her to halt proceedings. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Voters can be determined ineligible for a variety of reasons, including a felony conviction, legal determination of mental incapacity and failing to list a valid Florida residence. \u2014 Logan Dragone, orlandosentinel.com , 2 Nov. 2021"
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"1611, in the meaning defined above":""
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"French incapacit\u00e9 , from Middle French, from in- + capacit\u00e9 capacity":""
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"-\u02c8pa-st\u0113",
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"discharge",
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"release"
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"the state incarcerated over 1900 people last year",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The War on Drugs proved cannabis was used as a prop to incarcerate Black and Brown people, and to this day is still being weaponized against BIPOC. \u2014 Red Rodriguez, Rolling Stone , 13 June 2022",
"But of course, the best way to stop overcrowding in prisons and jails is to simply incarcerate fewer people\u2014with more diversionary programs, drug treatment and mental health services. \u2014 Morgan Simon, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
"The judge's decision to incarcerate Armbruster for 24 months was between the government request of 144 months and his defense's request for home confinement. \u2014 Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 1 Dec. 2021",
"But David Sielaff, an attorney with the office, had asked the court to lift the stay and incarcerate Brooks at the hearing, court records show. \u2014 Stephanie Pagones, Fox News , 1 Dec. 2021",
"In wrongful-conviction cases, there are often secondary victims: individuals who, having helped incarcerate an innocent person, must confront their own culpability once that person is freed. \u2014 Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker , 25 Oct. 2021",
"At sentencing the following month, Jennifer and Tracy urged Waukesha Judge Michael P. Maxwell to incarcerate Ryan for the maximum time possible. \u2014 Megan O\u2019matz, ProPublica , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Southern states incarcerate all racial groups at such high rates that the ratio for Black incarceration compared with other racial groups is actually lower than in some other regions. \u2014 Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 June 2021",
"And since Wisconsin and the U.S. disproportionately incarcerate people of color \u2014 with the disparity most pronounced among African Americans \u2014 the long-lasting stigma of having a criminal record disproportionately burdens them as well. \u2014 Sonya Chechik And Kirien Sprecher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 June 2021"
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"1575, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Latin incarceratus , past participle of incarcerare , from in- + carcer prison":""
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"in-\u02c8k\u00e4r-s\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t"
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"Michigan law allows convicted felons to vote and run for office unless they are currently incarcerated , or if their offenses are fraud-related or constitute a breach of public trust.",
"\u2014 The Hartford (Connecticut) Courant",
"\u2026 whatever was needed for her programs combating domestic violence and aiding incarcerated women, ex-offenders, and their children.",
"\u2014 Peter Steinfels",
"Comparing the responses of incarcerated boys with nondelinquent adolescents, Scarpitti (1980) describes the three most probable identity resolutions \u2026",
"\u2014 Judith Steven-Long et al."
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"in-\u02c8k\u00e4r-s\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101-t\u0259d",
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"Despite the drop in crime in past decades, rates of arrest and incarceration in New York City have not gone down.",
"\u2014 Robin Steinberg",
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"\u2014 George Takei"
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"circa 1540, in the meaning defined above":""
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02cck\u00e4r-s\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259n",
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"the general view that Hitler incarnated extreme egotism and indeed evil itself",
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"An eight-episode horror/comedy about a woman who\u2019s hesitant to join her friends in motherhood but ends up giving birth to a baby who might be evil incarnate . \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The two are joy incarnate on this song with just the right hint of something sultry. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 13 July 2020",
"Stymied by the opposition of New York City public works czar Robert Moses, O'Malley finally yielded to the siren song of the City of Angels -- instantly becoming the devil incarnate whom many Brooklynites despise to this day. \u2014 CBS News , 8 Oct. 2017",
"Fresno State Schedule: vs. Incarnate Word (9/2), at Alabama (9/9), at Washington (9/16), vs. Brigham Young (11/4) Not one but two members of last year\u2019s College Football Playoff field",
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"Despite his affable personality and gruff coffeehouse croon, DeWyze lacked the undeniable spark and grit of Crystal Bowersox, the Janis Joplin incarnate who outrageously only placed second that season. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 2 May 2022",
"Over time, his explanation of himself moved from prophet to Jesus Christ incarnate to God. \u2014 Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com , 2 Feb. 2022",
"At first glance, the brothers seem to incarnate the classic western divide between wilderness and civilization, a split that films have long represented as a series of endless white-and-black hat struggles. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Nov. 2021",
"Six-foot-1 and twice the Oklahoma Gatorade Player of the Year, Moore is post dominance incarnate . \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 9 Nov. 2021",
"Over Halloweekend, the Saturday Night Live comedian was photographed sharing a roller coaster car at an amusement park near L.A. with Kim Kardashian, fame incarnate . \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 3 Nov. 2021",
"That this strange new arrival is actually the Lord incarnate ",
"Her rollout was a tour de force of political action incarnate . \u2014 Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books , 9 Apr. 2020",
"The Toyota Camry has long been hailed as reliability incarnate , along with the Honda Accord, the Toyota Corolla, and the Honda Civic. \u2014 Steven Lang, Car and Driver , 26 July 2017"
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"in-\u02c8k\u00e4r-n\u0259t",
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"\u2014 Walter Teller",
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"the doctrine of the Incarnation",
"she is the very incarnation of grace and tactfulness",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All these frames have a distinct gravity, drawn from the American icons who wore them in an earlier incarnation . \u2014 Alexander Freeling, Robb Report , 15 June 2022",
"McLarens have become far more passionate in behavior and appearance since the MP4-12C kicked off the company's contemporary incarnation in 2011. \u2014 Brett Berk, Car and Driver , 14 June 2022",
"The Peacock incarnation is built around a shooting at a gay bar, similar to the 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that killed 49 people. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 June 2022",
"Cannes wins are also vindication for Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM, which was partly responsible for Korean culture\u2019s modern incarnation , and which has been in the Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho business for more than twenty years. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 29 May 2022",
"Dylan\u2019s new recording will exist only on this solitary Ionic Original incarnation and has been estimated at a value of between 600,000 and 1 million pounds, according to Christie\u2019s. \u2014 Jonathan Cohen, SPIN , 25 May 2022",
"This may take time with the new Post Pub: Its staff includes no holdovers from the first incarnation , and its owner makes infrequent appearances, unlike Beaulieu, who was a daily presence at his bar. \u2014 Tim Carman, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
"But the big-screen version of the secretive group contained a member who hadn't been in the comic incarnation : Captain Carter (Hayley Atwell). \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 12 May 2022",
"The 2022 incarnation is about being covered up, but revealing yourself in a powerful way at the same time. \u2014 ELLE , 10 May 2022"
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": lack of caution : heedlessness":[]
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"examples":[
"as a result of an agent's colossal incaution , a laptop filled with top-secret intelligence was missing",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Doctors and hospitals, eyeing the bottom line, also veered towards incaution when handing out pills. \u2014 The Economist , 29 Aug. 2019"
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"circa 1720, in the meaning defined above":""
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u022f-sh\u0259n"
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"noun"
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"safe",
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"an incautious remark"
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"He offended several people with his incautious remarks.",
"Their incautious behavior is going to get them into trouble someday.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Spanish field commander, a famously incautious general named Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez Silvestre, perished in the melee, possibly by suicide. \u2014 Frederic Wehrey, The New York Review of Books , 18 Dec. 2021",
"As the vaccinated and the incautious head out on vacation there has been a run on rental cars in Hawaii that has pushed rates for rental cars above $200 per day. \u2014 Annie White, Car and Driver , 30 Apr. 2021",
"Pence has far more practice, and a rare gift at translating some of the president\u2019s more callous, inflammatory or incautious statements into ordinary GOP-speak. \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 8 Oct. 2020",
"And while the easing varied country to country, many leaders made clear that things could be shut down again \u2014 if citizens grew suddenly too incautious . \u2014 Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com , 4 May 2020",
"President Trump, confined to the Rose Garden a short while later, conducted a news conference heavy on characteristic self-congratulation, periodic misrepresentation and medically incautious handshakes. \u2014 Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times , 15 Mar. 2020",
"The route from Porto to Lisbon presented nary a patch of dry pavement and more than a few incautious sheep wandering out of the fog. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Boris Johnson, a charismatic and incautious politician with scant public views on science, became U.K. prime minister last week. \u2014 Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS , 29 July 2019",
"Image If nothing else, Mr. Tester is incautious , at least compared to most of the other Senate Democrats up for re-election this fall in states that Mr. Trump won big. \u2014 Nicholas Fandos, New York Times , 3 June 2018"
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"He offended several people with his incautious remarks.",
"Their incautious behavior is going to get them into trouble someday.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Spanish field commander, a famously incautious general named Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez Silvestre, perished in the melee, possibly by suicide. \u2014 Frederic Wehrey, The New York Review of Books , 18 Dec. 2021",
"As the vaccinated and the incautious head out on vacation there has been a run on rental cars in Hawaii that has pushed rates for rental cars above $200 per day. \u2014 Annie White, Car and Driver , 30 Apr. 2021",
"Pence has far more practice, and a rare gift at translating some of the president\u2019s more callous, inflammatory or incautious statements into ordinary GOP-speak. \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 8 Oct. 2020",
"And while the easing varied country to country, many leaders made clear that things could be shut down again \u2014 if citizens grew suddenly too incautious . \u2014 Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com , 4 May 2020",
"President Trump, confined to the Rose Garden a short while later, conducted a news conference heavy on characteristic self-congratulation, periodic misrepresentation and medically incautious handshakes. \u2014 Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times , 15 Mar. 2020",
"The route from Porto to Lisbon presented nary a patch of dry pavement and more than a few incautious sheep wandering out of the fog. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 10 Feb. 2020",
"Boris Johnson, a charismatic and incautious politician with scant public views on science, became U.K. prime minister last week. \u2014 Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS , 29 July 2019",
"Image If nothing else, Mr. Tester is incautious , at least compared to most of the other Senate Democrats up for re-election this fall in states that Mr. Trump won big. \u2014 Nicholas Fandos, New York Times , 3 June 2018"
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"\u2014 Josh O'Kane",
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"\u2014 Julie Bosman et. al"
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"Adjective",
"While visual effects experts work with images, mechanical effects experts work with machinery, tools, incendiary devices, and other equipment to manipulate physical events during live-action filming. \u2014 Patricia D. Netzley , Encyclopedia of Movie Special Effects , 2000",
"In the mid-Eighties, heavy-metal music was the incendiary genre being demonized \u2026 \u2014 Alan Light , Rolling Stone , 18 Feb. 1993",
"The only caveat \u2026 is to know one's own sensitivity to chili pepper heat. If a small or moderate dose of capsicum (the incendiary chemical component in chilies) makes you dash for a glass of ice water, this menu is not going to be fun for you. \u2014 Harvey Steiman , Wine Spectator , 15 Mar. 1991",
"The fire was started by an incendiary bomb.",
"recklessly made incendiary remarks during a period of heightened racial tensions",
"Noun",
"He was convinced that the arsonist was not at all what the town imagined: not brazen, but callow; not an expert incendiary noiselessly plying deer paths, but someone who was driving right up to his targets and fumbling with matches \u2026 \u2014 Barry Werth , New England Monthly , February 1989",
"White phosphorus, an incendiary , is normally packed in thin-walled casings; the casing is effective for dispersing chemical agents as well. \u2014 Stephen Budiansky , Nature , 5\u201311 Apr. 1984",
"The British had also made jellied gasoline with rubber, and it was generally recognized to be an excellent incendiary because of its easy ignition, high heat of combustion, and controlled burning rate. \u2014 B. & F. M. Brodie , From Crossbow to H-Bomb , 1973",
"firefighters caught the incendiary , who was watching the effects of his handiwork",
"blamed the protests on outside incendiaries who were intent on overthrowing the government",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The allegation was potentially incendiary because the 2016 election was less than two months away. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"The Illinois Republican has also condemned several members of his own party and was one of the 11 House Republicans who voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from her committees due to her previous incendiary social media posts. \u2014 Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"Cedillo easily prevailed in Round 2, after his opponent\u2019s campaign imploded over incendiary social media posts. \u2014 David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"In 2020, for example, Facebook faced a major pressure campaign by dozens of advertisers called #StopHateForProfit over its decision to not take action against incendiary posts by then-President Donald Trump. \u2014 Clare Duffy And Sara O'brien, CNN , 18 May 2022",
"Chad Jennings was the first to report on his release following his incendiary posts. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Feb. 2022",
"In 2020, when Mr. Trump\u2019s incendiary Facebook posts were put under the microscope, critics cited Mr. Thiel\u2019s board seat as a reason for Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s continued insistence that Mr. Trump\u2019s posts be left standing. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The expulsion resolution pushed by Democrats comes after the House voted in February to remove Greene from both of her committees, citing her history of incendiary social media posts. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Mar. 2021",
"The expulsion resolution pushed by Democrats comes after the House voted in February to remove Greene from both of her committees, citing her history of incendiary social media posts. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 19 Mar. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The handful of structures that survived the inferno, including the doctors\u2019 wood-frame residences, were torched the next night, after the incendiaries came back and took a battering ram to the Women\u2019s Hospital. \u2014 John Freeman Gill, New York Times , 8 May 2020",
"After two nights of intensive bombing with high explosives and incendiaries , several square miles burn for hours at hundreds of degrees Centigrade, an inferno consuming every living creature. \u2014 Matthew Sturgis, The New York Review of Books , 21 Mar. 2019",
"Hamas, in turn, has staged weekly riots at the Gaza barrier and unleashed flying incendiaries that have wreaked massive ecological damage. \u2014 WSJ , 6 Nov. 2018",
"Among the authors were right-wing incendiaries like Michael Savage, Mark Levin and Ann Coulter. \u2014 John Sharp, AL.com , 4 Feb. 2018",
"White phosphorus, along with other incendiaries , has been used by Syrian government forces battling insurgents in Aleppo and elsewhere. \u2014 Anne Barnard, New York Times , 10 June 2017",
"The bombardier dropped four incendiaries , setting the factory ablaze. \u2014 National Geographic , 15 Apr. 2017",
"But incendiaries , barrel bombs and missiles can do just as much damage to civilians as gas \u2014 which Assad didn\u2019t necessarily use or intend to use in the future, anyway. \u2014 Leonid Bershidsky, The Denver Post , 22 Apr. 2017"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Adjective"
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"-\u02c8sen-d\u0259-r\u0113",
"in-\u02c8sen-d\u0113-\u02ccer-\u0113",
"-dy\u0259-"
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]
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": to cause (a passion or emotion) to become aroused":[],
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"the heavenly incense of spring flowers",
"count on the office manager to spread the incense whenever there's a visiting VIP from the head office"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
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"Middle English encens , from Anglo-French, from Late Latin incensum , from Latin, neuter of incensus , past participle of incendere to set on fire, from in- + -cendere to burn; akin to Latin cand\u0113re to glow \u2014 more at candid":"Noun",
"Middle English encensen , probably from Latin incensus , past participle of incendere to set on fire, provoke":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8in-\u02ccsens",
"\u02c8in-\u02ccsen(t)s",
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"noun",
"verb"
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"noun"
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},
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"Noun",
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"count on the office manager to spread the incense whenever there's a visiting VIP from the head office"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English encens , from Anglo-French, from Late Latin incensum , from Latin, neuter of incensus , past participle of incendere to set on fire, from in- + -cendere to burn; akin to Latin cand\u0113re to glow \u2014 more at candid":"Noun",
"Middle English encensen , probably from Latin incensus , past participle of incendere to set on fire, provoke":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8in-\u02ccsens",
"\u02c8in-\u02ccsen(t)s",
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"attar",
"otto",
"balm",
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"perfume",
"redolence",
"scent",
"spice"
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"noun",
"verb"
]
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"incenseless churches"
]
},
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"adjective"
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": the state of being incensed : intense anger or indignation":[]
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"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8sen(t)sm\u0259nt"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": censer , thurible":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin incensorium , from neuter of Late Latin incensorius having burning power, from Latin incensus (past participle of incendere to kindle) + -orius -ory":""
},
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"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8s-",
"\u02c8in\u02ccsen(t)s(\u0259)r\u0113",
"\u02c8ins\u0259n\u02ccs\u014dr\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191906",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"incent":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": incentivize":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That said, people previously engaged with frequent flier programs represent the most likely candidates to proactively incent to travel again soon. \u2014 Ben Baldanza, Forbes , 14 June 2021",
"The editorial board writes that unlimited student loan forgiveness encourages student loan borrowers to enroll in expensive degree programs and doesn\u2019t incent colleges and universities to lower tuition. \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The goal here is to incent short-term cooperation among industry participants to induce long-term thinking, irrespective of corporate capital allocation. \u2014 Kevin Lynch, Forbes , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Companies will incent these affluent consumers to share their personal data in exchange for high-quality on-the-go experiences. \u2014 Forrester, Forbes , 2 Nov. 2021",
"But does your performance measurement system incent managers to lay the foundations for fast shifts when the circumstances call for them",
"Maryland was one of the first states to offer incentives with Governor Larry Hogan announcing a $100 payment to incent state employees to get the vaccine. \u2014 Shahar Ziv, Forbes , 2 June 2021",
"Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland announced a $100 payment to incent state employees to get the vaccine. \u2014 Shahar Ziv, Forbes , 13 May 2021",
"Attaching funding to this metric would incent the type of behavior the governor is hoping for. \u2014 Tim Foster, The Denver Post , 4 Dec. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1981, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"back-formation from incentive":""
},
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"in-\u02c8sent"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074415",
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"verb"
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},
"incenter":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the single point in which the three bisectors of the interior angles of a triangle intersect and which is the center of the inscribed circle":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bake until a toothpick inserted incenter comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. \u2014 Torie Cox, Country Living , 11 Feb. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1890, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"in scribe + center entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8in-\u02ccsen-t\u0259r"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082829",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"incentive":{
"antonyms":[
"counterincentive",
"disincentive"
],
"definitions":{
": something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action":[]
},
"examples":[
"The rising cost of electricity provides a strong incentive to conserve energy.",
"The government offers special tax incentives for entrepreneurs.",
"The company is offering a special low price as an added incentive for new customers.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So far, that hasn\u2019t been enough of an incentive to break the impasse. \u2014 Karen Kaplanscience And Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"Whether coaxed or cajoled, oil executives don\u2019t have much of an incentive to either reduce prices or stem their steady flow of carbon and methane into the atmosphere. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 17 June 2022",
"According to one estimate by several aid agencies, more than 120,000 children have been bartered for some sort of financial incentive in the eight months since the Taliban captured Kabul. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 1 June 2022",
"While Biden is not the first president to propose this kind of incentive , his plan would allocate the largest amount of federal funds to encourage denser zoning. \u2014 Nate Dicamillo, Quartz , 25 May 2022",
"For example, energy production from trash incineration is not clean enough, in my opinion, to meet the purpose of this tax incentive . \u2014 Eric Ebersole, Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"Details of the incentive will be available on the FFO website imminently. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 18 May 2022",
"What is clear is that removing recreational hunting from the equation eliminates much of the incentive for most Africans to tolerate wildlife in the first place. \u2014 Chris Dorsey, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Later this year, the department expects to amend existing city ordinance on another type of incentive , a payment-in-lieu of taxes or PILOT agreement, that affordable housing developers may use. \u2014 The Indianapolis Star , 26 Apr. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle English, from Late Latin incentivum , from neuter of incentivus stimulating, from Latin, setting the tune, from incentus , past participle of incinere to play (a tune), from in- + canere to sing \u2014 more at chant":""
},
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"in-\u02c8sen-tiv"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for incentive 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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"encouragement",
"goad",
"impetus",
"impulse",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"momentum",
"motivation",
"provocation",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"yeast"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224358",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": a wage based on the number of units produced by a factory pieceworker \u2014 compare bonus system":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"incentivize":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to provide with an incentive":[
"would incentivize employees with stock options"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a matter of fact, using external rewards to incentivize productivity tends to backfire a lot of the time. \u2014 Shayne Skaff, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The funding, meant to incentivize the enactment of such measures, would also support the creation of crisis intervention court programs. \u2014 Emily Cochrane, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"The Senate hastily passed a bill to incentivize better record-keeping among federal agencies. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"Programs such as the one implemented in New Britain have aimed to incentivize attendance. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 17 June 2022",
"The purpose of the penalties is to incentivize the various players in the supply chain to keep goods flowing. \u2014 John Francis Peters, ProPublica , 16 June 2022",
"According to recent reports, only around 500,000 properties in the entire state of California would qualify under SB 9, and there are no significant subsidies to incentivize homeowners to take advantage of it. \u2014 Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"Another approach would be to incentivize gun owners to store their firearms more safely. \u2014 Eric W. Fleegler, Scientific American , 2 June 2022",
"Particularly since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, the nation has struggled with the question of how to incentivize fair and ethical law enforcement. \u2014 Emily Davies, Washington Post , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1960, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"in-\u02c8sen-t\u0259-\u02ccv\u012bz"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202952",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"incept":{
"antonyms":[],
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": anlage":[],
": begin , commence , undertake":[],
": ingest":[
"phagocytes incepting foreign particles"
],
": to obtain an advanced degree and therewith the right to teach or practice a learned profession":[
"\u2014 now used only at Cambridge University"
],
": to receive as a member":[],
": to take in: such as":[]
},
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"Latin inceptus , past participle of incipere":"Verb"
},
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"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8sept",
"\u02c8in\u02ccsept"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230212",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"close",
"conclusion",
"end",
"ending",
"omega"
],
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": an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement":[]
},
"examples":[
"The project has been shrouded in controversy from its inception .",
"Since its inception , the business has expanded to become a national retail chain.",
"We'll assist you at every stage from inception to completion.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Our City has developed and grown in many ways since its inception in 2012. \u2014 Douglas Hook, Hartford Courant , 8 June 2022",
"Those fears were unfounded, as Mignonne Gavigan has grown steadily since its inception in 2014. \u2014 Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR , 8 June 2022",
"On top of bringing superstar and up-and-coming musicians alike to Philly, Made In America also generated over $150 million in economic impact for the city since its inception in 2012. \u2014 Neena Rouhani, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
"According to a statement from the festival, Made in America has generated over $150 million in economic impact for the city of Philadelphia since its inception in 2012. \u2014 Thania Garcia, Variety , 7 June 2022",
"Since its inception in the 1970s, the S.I.U. had pursued student leftists, outlaw motorcycle gangs and white supremacists. \u2014 New York Times , 26 May 2022",
"Franklin is a professor of law and public policy, and director of the Marquette Law School poll since its inception in 2012. \u2014 Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 May 2022",
"Since its inception in 2011, the Big Ten\u2019s title game has been dominated by programs in what is now its East Division. \u2014 Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star , 26 May 2022",
"Since its inception in 2019, when Tigers Woods met old rival Phil Mickelson on Thanksgiving weekend, the event has raised more than $33 million for charity. \u2014 Sal Maiorana, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle English incepcion , from Latin inception-, inceptio , from incipere to begin, from in- + capere to take":""
},
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"in-\u02c8sep-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for inception origin , source , inception , root mean the point at which something begins its course or existence. origin applies to the things or persons from which something is ultimately derived and often to the causes operating before the thing itself comes into being. an investigation into the origin of baseball source applies more often to the point where something springs into being. the source of the Nile the source of recurrent trouble inception stresses the beginning of something without implying causes. the business has been a success since its inception root suggests a first, ultimate, or fundamental source often not easily discerned. the real root of the violence",
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"baseline",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"start",
"threshold"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214706",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"incertitude":{
"antonyms":[
"assurance",
"belief",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"conviction",
"sureness",
"surety",
"trust"
],
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": uncertainty :":[]
},
"examples":[
"a growing incertitude about the honesty of the housekeeper they had just hired",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And yet the actor spent much of a recent conversation candidly admitting to ambivalence and incertitude . \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2021",
"In an offseason of inactivity and incertitude , Bloom\u2019s marquee move will be hiring a new manager. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 Jan. 2020",
"But underneath the skepticism, something else nagged at me: the sense that my incertitude was a metastasis of our jittery, gaslit world, where baseline reality is increasingly in dispute. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Aug. 2019",
"The difficulty for me in pinning the city down geographically is reflected in a broader ideological incertitude ; a current questioning of the state\u2019s identity and place. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 23 Nov. 2018",
"Like him, these TPS recipients will now how to live in incertitude . \u2014 Fabienne Josaphat, Teen Vogue , 11 Dec. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin incertitudo , from Latin in- + Late Latin certitudo certitude":""
},
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"-\u02ccty\u00fcd",
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8s\u0259r-t\u0259-\u02cct\u00fcd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"distrust",
"distrustfulness",
"doubt",
"dubiety",
"dubitation",
"misdoubt",
"misgiving",
"mistrust",
"mistrustfulness",
"query",
"reservation",
"skepticism",
"suspicion",
"uncertainty"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102802",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"incessant":{
"antonyms":[
"discontinuous",
"noncontinuous"
],
"definitions":{
": continuing or following without interruption : unceasing":[]
},
"examples":[
"Much of the early motor development of the child depends on learning and refining such procedures, through play, imitation, trial and error, and incessant rehearsal. \u2014 Oliver Sacks , New Yorker , 24 Sept. 2007",
"Magna Carta also stipulated that the shire courts should meet as royal courts under the itinerant justices more often than twice a year\u2014a change, convenient to the landed classes and their incessant civil actions, that was not implemented because of the cost to the Crown. \u2014 Norman F. Cantor , Imagining the Law , 1997",
"Whatever Stalin's ancestry, his biographers, Robert Tucker in particular, have concluded that his unfortunate childhood experiences, including incessant , murderous beatings by his drunken father, were probably what caused his pathological behaviour. \u2014 Amy Knight , Times Literary Supplement , 26 Apr. 1991",
"the incessant noise from an outside repair crew was a real distraction during the test",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hanks\u2019 admission comes weeks after the Sussexes\u2019 bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which Meghan opened up about the toll incessant tabloid harassment took on her mental health upon joining the royal family. \u2014 Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times , 19 Mar. 2021",
"The hills, too steep, clear my mind of the incessant expectation of perfect splits, freeing me to race. \u2014 Peter Bromka, Outside Online , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Ukrainian forces in and around northern Donetsk appear to be holding the line for now, offering poor prospects for a Russian achievement there, despite Russia\u2019s incessant hammering at Ukrainian military positions and towns. \u2014 New York Times , 5 May 2022",
"My now 19-year-old daughter nearly pushed us over the edge with her incessant crying during the first three months of her life. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The fighting was incessant , transforming swaths of the city into a gantlet of bullets, tank shells and artillery. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The horses that survived had run wild through the suburb, crazed by the incessant shelling. \u2014 Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Why put up with incessant taunts and threats from out-of-control parents",
"Overexposure to the internet and the incessant noise of our pandemic world had left me feeling frustrated and uninspired. \u2014 Sage Anderson, Rolling Stone , 23 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English incessaunt , from Late Latin incessant-, incessans , from Latin in- + cessant-, cessans , present participle of cessare to delay \u2014 more at cease":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8se-s\u1d4ant",
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8se-s\u1d4ant"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for incessant continual , continuous , constant , incessant , perpetual , perennial mean characterized by continued occurrence or recurrence. continual often implies a close prolonged succession or recurrence. continual showers the whole weekend continuous usually implies an uninterrupted flow or spatial extension. football's oldest continuous rivalry constant implies uniform or persistent occurrence or recurrence. lived in constant pain incessant implies ceaseless or uninterrupted activity. annoyed by the incessant quarreling perpetual suggests unfailing repetition or lasting duration. a land of perpetual snowfall perennial implies enduring existence often through constant renewal. a perennial source of controversy",
"synonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"continual",
"continued",
"continuing",
"continuous",
"nonstop",
"perpetual",
"running",
"unbroken",
"unceasing",
"uninterrupted",
"unremitting"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235213",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"incessantly":{
"antonyms":[
"ne'er",
"never"
],
"definitions":{
": in an unceasing manner : without interruption or relief : continually":[
"talking incessantly",
"\u2026 still lived at home with his mother, who pestered him incessantly to get married \u2026",
"\u2014 Walter Karp"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8se-s\u1d4ant-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"always",
"aye",
"ay",
"consistently",
"constantly",
"continually",
"ever",
"forever",
"invariably",
"night and day",
"perpetually",
"unfailingly"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063351",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"inch":{
"antonyms":[
"creep",
"encroach",
"worm"
],
"definitions":{
": a degree of atmospheric or other pressure sufficient to balance the weight of a column of liquid (such as mercury) one inch high in a barometer or manometer":[],
": a fall (as of rain or snow) sufficient to cover a surface or to fill a gauge to the depth of one inch":[],
": a small advantage especially from lenient or compassionate treatment":[
"\u2014 usually used in the phrase give an inch"
],
": a small amount, distance, or degree":[
"is like cutting a dog's tail off by inches",
"\u2014 Milton Friedman"
],
": a unit of length equal to \u00b9/\u2083\u2086 yard \u2014 see Weights and Measures Table":[],
": almost to the point of":[
"came within an inch of succeeding"
],
": island":[],
": stature , height":[],
": to cause to move slowly":[
"sooner or later they begin inching prices back up",
"\u2014 Forbes"
],
": to move by small degrees : progress slowly":[
"the long line of people inching up the stairs"
],
": to the utmost degree":[
"looks every inch a winner"
],
": very gradually or slowly":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"We inched along in heavy traffic.",
"As she neared the finish line, she inched ahead of the other racers.",
"Gas prices are inching up again.",
"I inched the car into the garage."
],
"first_known_use":{
"1599, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English (Scots), from Scottish Gaelic innis":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English ynce , from Latin uncia \u2014 more at ounce":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8inch"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"hair",
"hairbreadth",
"hairsbreadth",
"hairline",
"hop, skip, and jump",
"neck",
"shouting distance",
"step",
"stone's throw"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021408",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"inches":{
"antonyms":[
"creep",
"encroach",
"worm"
],
"definitions":{
": a degree of atmospheric or other pressure sufficient to balance the weight of a column of liquid (such as mercury) one inch high in a barometer or manometer":[],
": a fall (as of rain or snow) sufficient to cover a surface or to fill a gauge to the depth of one inch":[],
": a small advantage especially from lenient or compassionate treatment":[
"\u2014 usually used in the phrase give an inch"
],
": a small amount, distance, or degree":[
"is like cutting a dog's tail off by inches",
"\u2014 Milton Friedman"
],
": a unit of length equal to \u00b9/\u2083\u2086 yard \u2014 see Weights and Measures Table":[],
": almost to the point of":[
"came within an inch of succeeding"
],
": island":[],
": stature , height":[],
": to cause to move slowly":[
"sooner or later they begin inching prices back up",
"\u2014 Forbes"
],
": to move by small degrees : progress slowly":[
"the long line of people inching up the stairs"
],
": to the utmost degree":[
"looks every inch a winner"
],
": very gradually or slowly":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"We inched along in heavy traffic.",
"As she neared the finish line, she inched ahead of the other racers.",
"Gas prices are inching up again.",
"I inched the car into the garage."
],
"first_known_use":{
"1599, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English (Scots), from Scottish Gaelic innis":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English ynce , from Latin uncia \u2014 more at ounce":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8inch"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"hair",
"hairbreadth",
"hairsbreadth",
"hairline",
"hop, skip, and jump",
"neck",
"shouting distance",
"step",
"stone's throw"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212810",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"incident":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an accompanying minor occurrence or condition : concomitant":[],
": an action likely to lead to grave consequences especially in diplomatic matters":[
"a serious border incident"
],
": an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening":[],
": dependent on or relating to another thing in law":[],
": falling or striking on something":[
"incident light rays"
],
": occurring or likely to occur especially as a minor consequence or accompaniment":[
"the confusion incident to moving day"
],
": something dependent on or subordinate to something else of greater or principal importance":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We just want to put that embarrassing incident behind us.",
"Two people were shot yesterday in two separate incidents .",
"Aside from a few isolated incidents , the crowd was well-behaved.",
"Many such incidents go unreported.",
"The bombing caused an international incident .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Khalil spoke with investigators about the incident before fleeing the country and attempting to enter Jordan, WPVI reported. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 29 June 2022",
"The department is directing anyone with more information about the incident to contact Captain Charles Silvia or email csilvis@cityofnewport.com. \u2014 Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"Assad wasn't there at the time and reportedly did not learn about the incident until a few days later. \u2014 Paul Iddon, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Lone Star State politicians began weighing in on the loss of life in San Antonio hours after the first reports emerged about the incident . \u2014 Dan Carson, Chron , 28 June 2022",
"No other details about the incident have been released by police, and the extent of the damage to the hospital was unknown. \u2014 Rosana Hughes, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"The victim was not cooperative and police have little information about the incident , Braucht said. \u2014 Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Giffey\u2019s office, which went public about the incident later on Friday, said the call was terminated early, and the Ukrainians subsequently confirmed Berlin's mayor had not spoken with the real Klitschko. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 27 June 2022",
"Cleveland Public Power spokeswoman Shelly Shockley refused to say if Pelton was still an employee or answer any questions about the incident . \u2014 Adam Ferrise, cleveland , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"If a pre- incident crew had ever been assigned to a ski area, this was the first time Lannon had heard of it. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Finally, the modern cloud improves auditing capabilities and provides logs and analytics for any post- incident analysis and compliance. \u2014 Vipin Jain, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2021",
"In addition, the panel recommends the City of Aurora overhaul its post- incident review process. \u2014 Erin Donaghue, CBS News , 23 Feb. 2021",
"An Oregon Department of Transportation incident response worker was hit by a car while answering a call on the roadway around 7:30 p.m., according to Don Hamilton, an agency spokesman. \u2014 Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com , 20 Feb. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin incident-, incidens , from Latin, present participle of incidere to fall into, from in- + cadere to fall \u2014 more at chance":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8in(t)-s\u0259-d\u0259nt",
"\u02c8in-s\u0259-d\u0259nt, -\u02ccd\u0259nt",
"\u02c8in-s\u0259-d\u0259nt",
"\u02c8in(t)-s\u0259d-\u0259nt, -s\u0259-\u02ccdent",
"-\u02ccdent"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for incident Noun occurrence , event , incident , episode , circumstance mean something that happens or takes place. occurrence may apply to a happening without intent, volition, or plan. an encounter that was a chance occurrence event usually implies an occurrence of some importance and frequently one having antecedent cause. the events following the assassination incident suggests an occurrence of brief duration or secondary importance. a minor wartime incident episode stresses the distinctiveness or apartness of an incident. a brief romantic episode in a life devoted to work circumstance implies a specific detail attending an action or event as part of its setting or background. couldn't recall the exact circumstances",
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"circumstance",
"episode",
"event",
"hap",
"happening",
"occasion",
"occurrence",
"thing"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214659",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"incidental":{
"antonyms":[
"calculated",
"deliberate",
"intended",
"intentional",
"planned",
"premeditated",
"premeditative",
"prepense",
"set"
],
"definitions":{
": being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence":[
"social obligations incidental to the job"
],
": minor items (as of expense) that are not particularized":[],
": minor sense 1":[],
": occurring merely by chance or without intention or calculation":[],
": something that is incidental":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"You may incur some incidental expenses on the trip.",
"an incidental part of the job",
"He writes incidental music for plays.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Officials note that many of these patients are incidental , meaning they were admitted to the hospital for something other than covid, then tested positive upon arrival. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 19 May 2022",
"That many of them happen to be white men is incidental . \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"His exposure to other horses had been incidental , and not intimate. \u2014 Andr\u00e9 Alexis, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"The problems that have occurred have been incidental , though still very important. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"Battle scars aren\u2019t normally collected during NFL minicamps, where defenders pretty much must keep their hands to themselves, and any contact is incidental . \u2014 Jim Mcbride, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"Officials note that many of those are incidental cases, in which people were admitted to a hospital for other reasons and then tested positive upon arrival. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 2 June 2022",
"Goldman Sachs \u2014 which recorded a record profit of $21.6 billion last year \u2014 said any cost savings were incidental . \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Around 20 percent of global cases have tested positive for active infections, but that, too, could be incidental given that the pandemic is ongoing. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 20 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The various forms of content disorientingly overlap\u2014the professional with the amateur, the intentional with the incidental . \u2014 Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Additional perks: In the event of a travel delay, the CSP offers $500-a-day coverage for hotels, meals, and incidentals . \u2014 Emily Long, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 3 Feb. 2020",
"The exact cost of the trip for the Secret Service is unclear, since the DHS IG could not calculate how much was spent on meals and incidentals and did not say how many Secret Service employees accompanied the president. \u2014 Kathryn Watson, CBS News , 24 Mar. 2020",
"This total doesn\u2019t include most meals, in-city transportation or incidentals (such as college sweatshirts). \u2014 cleveland , 23 Feb. 2020",
"This total doesn\u2019t include most meals, in-city transportation or incidentals (such as college sweatshirts). \u2014 Liz Weston, Dallas News , 8 Feb. 2020",
"This total doesn\u2019t include most meals, in-city transportation or incidentals (such as college sweatshirts). \u2014 cleveland , 23 Feb. 2020",
"Additional perks: The Gold card comes with a $100 annual credit toward incidentals on a single airline plus a $10-per-month credit on dining via GrubHub, Seamless, and a small selection of restaurants. \u2014 Emily Long, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 3 Feb. 2020",
"This total doesn\u2019t include most meals, in-city transportation or incidentals (such as college sweatshirts). \u2014 cleveland , 23 Feb. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1644, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1707, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin(t)-s\u0259-\u02c8den-t\u1d4al",
"\u02ccin-s\u0259-\u02c8den-t\u1d4al",
"\u02ccin-s\u0259-\u02c8dent-\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"inadvertent",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"unwitting"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164210",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"incipience":{
"antonyms":[
"close",
"conclusion",
"end",
"ending",
"omega"
],
"definitions":{
": incipiency":[]
},
"examples":[
"since its incipience , the show has been on the cutting edge of comedy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience domestically. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Oct. 2021",
"Yet this modest drama invokes the power of incipience \u2014fear of what will happen next\u2014and amplifies it with lean writing in the service of flawless acting. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 15 Mar. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1864, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8sip-\u0113-\u0259n(t)s",
"in-\u02c8si-p\u0113-\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"alpha",
"baseline",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"start",
"threshold"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034912",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"incipiency":{
"antonyms":[
"close",
"conclusion",
"end",
"ending",
"omega"
],
"definitions":{
": the state or fact of being incipient : beginning":[]
},
"examples":[
"from its incipiency the city's monthlong festival of the performing arts has been a great success",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The incipiency of our polarization was evident during the Watergate years. \u2014 Jane Greenway Carr, CNN , 12 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1817, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u0259n-s\u0113",
"in-\u02c8si-p\u0113-\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"alpha",
"baseline",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipience",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"start",
"threshold"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181510",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"incise":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to carve (something, such as an inscription) into a surface":[],
": to carve figures, letters, or devices into : engrave":[],
": to cut into":[]
},
"examples":[
"The design is incised into the clay.",
"The clay is incised to create a design.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There is a plication procedure and there are procedures to incise the plaque out. \u2014 Jeff Forward, Chron , 23 Nov. 2020",
"Of all the successes among heritage brands, few have exceeded that of the traditional boat shoe with white soles incised in a pattern of chevron grooves. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Feb. 2020",
"It was incised on eleven tablets, back and front, with roughly three hundred lines on each tablet. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 7 Oct. 2019",
"Yet humans continue to intrude, as illustrated by Michael Marks\u2019s print of mountaintop-removal mining and Laura Ahola-Young\u2019s drawing, incised into a sea-and-sky scene, of undersea oil-drilling gear. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2019",
"And thousands of noncorroding Frisbee-size discs, incised with images of human horror, will be buried all around for any inquisitive diggers to find. \u2014 Tim Heffernan, Popular Mechanics , 10 May 2012",
"Among other astonishments here are numerous gorgeous plasters\u2014penciled, incised and painted. \u2014 Lance Esplund, WSJ , 19 June 2018",
"After the Yankees incised Duffy on May 19, his ERA hovered near seven. \u2014 Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle , 16 June 2018",
"Twenty-eight days ago in Houston, Severino incised the Astros. \u2014 Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle , 30 May 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1567, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French or Latin; Middle French inciser , from Latin incisus , past participle of incidere , from in- + caedere to cut":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8s\u012bs",
"in-\u02c8s\u012bz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"engrave",
"etch",
"grave",
"inscribe",
"insculp"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020129",
"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"incision":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a marginal notch (as in a leaf)":[],
": an act of incising something":[],
": the quality or state of being incisive":[]
},
"examples":[
"the surgeon made a thin incision with the scalpel",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The incision itself a bit bigger than the tip of a pen. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 July 2022",
"Doctors removed Wilson\u2019s kidney using an incision made in his belly button. \u2014 Fox News , 17 May 2022",
"When the tomatoes are cooled, peel them by pinching a bit of the skin at the incision point and gently pulling it back and down, peeling it away from the flesh of the tomato. \u2014 Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Even if the surgeon moves around the operating room, the markings for details such as an incision point or device placement remain anchored in place for the surgeon. \u2014 Jennifer Esposito, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"In Dixon\u2019s case, media witnesses described how the execution team struggled to insert IVs into Dixon\u2019s body, eventually resorting to making an incision into his femoral vein. \u2014 Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic , 23 May 2022",
"The movie\u2019s extended trailer shows Seydoux making an incision into someone\u2019s stomach before sucking on the wound. \u2014 Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 May 2022",
"Instead, Zhao suggests placing the dumpling in a soup spoon, making a tiny incision in the dough with your teeth and allowing the steaming broth to escape into the spoon. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 20 Apr. 2022",
"One is a laparotomy, otherwise known as open surgery, where the surgeon makes a five to 10 cm incision to access the area. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8sizh-\u0259n",
"in-\u02c8si-zh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"gash",
"laceration",
"rent",
"rip",
"slash",
"slit",
"tear"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093357",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"incitation":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an act of inciting : stimulation":[],
": something that incites to action : incentive":[]
},
"examples":[
"the rabble-rousing speech was seen by many as an incitation to ethnic violence",
"a mild heart attack was all the incitation he needed to adopt an exercise regimen and a healthy diet",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Between these voices of reason and incitation , between these two seemingly different men, lie 22 years of power and five American presidents. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Bolsonaro will still have to stand trial for accusations of slander and incitation to rape. \u2014 Mauricio Savarese, Fox News , 12 Sep. 2018",
"Bolsonaro will still have to stand trial for accusations of slander and incitation to rape. \u2014 Mauricio Savarese, Fox News , 12 Sep. 2018",
"Bolsonaro will still have to stand trial for accusations of slander and incitation to rape. \u2014 Mauricio Savarese, Fox News , 12 Sep. 2018",
"Bolsonaro will still have to stand trial for accusations of slander and incitation to rape. \u2014 Mauricio Savarese, Fox News , 12 Sep. 2018",
"Bolsonaro will still have to stand trial for accusations of slander and incitation to rape. \u2014 Mauricio Savarese, Fox News , 12 Sep. 2018",
"Bolsonaro will still have to stand trial for accusations of slander and incitation to rape. \u2014 Mauricio Savarese, Fox News , 12 Sep. 2018",
"Bolsonaro will still have to stand trial for accusations of slander and incitation to rape. \u2014 Mauricio Savarese, Fox News , 12 Sep. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin(t)-s\u0259-",
"\u02ccin-\u02ccs\u012b-\u02c8t\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"excitement",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"provocation"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025938",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"incite":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on":[]
},
"examples":[
"The news incited widespread fear and paranoia.",
"the rock band's failure to show up incited a riot, as the crowd had waited for hours",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gold attorney Dickson Young had asked for a sentence of community medical service, saying his client did not commit or incite violence. \u2014 Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"The organizers of the protest\u2014including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale\u2014were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"Cheney warns that Trump may incite further violence. \u2014 John Harwood, CNN , 23 May 2021",
"In the streaming age, such instances were liable to incite wonderment from other art-rock bands. \u2014 Zach Schonfeld, Billboard , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Any excuse to incite conflict will do, from COVID lockdowns to protests for racial justice. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Mar. 2022",
"The same goes for messaging campaigns designed to incite fear among employees. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Several Democratic congressmen have accused Trump and Giuliani of conspiring with far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to incite the attacks. \u2014 Dan Berman, CNN , 12 Feb. 2022",
"After the bottom of the first inning, Bellino appeared to use a standard foreign-substance spot check with Bumgarner as a chance to incite a reaction from the Diamondbacks\u2019 pitcher. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, USA TODAY , 7 May 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle French inciter , from Latin incitare , from in- + citare to put in motion \u2014 more at cite":""
},
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"in-\u02c8s\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for incite incite , instigate , abet , foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating. inciting a riot instigate definitely implies responsibility for initiating another's action and often connotes underhandedness or evil intention. instigated a conspiracy abet implies both assisting and encouraging. aiding and abetting the enemy foment implies persistence in goading. fomenting rebellion",
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"abet",
"brew",
"ferment",
"foment",
"instigate",
"pick",
"provoke",
"raise",
"stir (up)",
"whip (up)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195137",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on":[]
},
"examples":[
"The news incited widespread fear and paranoia.",
"the rock band's failure to show up incited a riot, as the crowd had waited for hours",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gold attorney Dickson Young had asked for a sentence of community medical service, saying his client did not commit or incite violence. \u2014 Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"The organizers of the protest\u2014including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale\u2014were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"Cheney warns that Trump may incite further violence. \u2014 John Harwood, CNN , 23 May 2021",
"In the streaming age, such instances were liable to incite wonderment from other art-rock bands. \u2014 Zach Schonfeld, Billboard , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Any excuse to incite conflict will do, from COVID lockdowns to protests for racial justice. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Mar. 2022",
"The same goes for messaging campaigns designed to incite fear among employees. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Several Democratic congressmen have accused Trump and Giuliani of conspiring with far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to incite the attacks. \u2014 Dan Berman, CNN , 12 Feb. 2022",
"After the bottom of the first inning, Bellino appeared to use a standard foreign-substance spot check with Bumgarner as a chance to incite a reaction from the Diamondbacks\u2019 pitcher. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, USA TODAY , 7 May 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French inciter , from Latin incitare , from in- + citare to put in motion \u2014 more at cite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8s\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for incite incite , instigate , abet , foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating. inciting a riot instigate definitely implies responsibility for initiating another's action and often connotes underhandedness or evil intention. instigated a conspiracy abet implies both assisting and encouraging. aiding and abetting the enemy foment implies persistence in goading. fomenting rebellion",
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"abet",
"brew",
"ferment",
"foment",
"instigate",
"pick",
"provoke",
"raise",
"stir (up)",
"whip (up)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044730",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
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},
"inciter":{
"antonyms":[],
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": to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on":[]
},
"examples":[
"The news incited widespread fear and paranoia.",
"the rock band's failure to show up incited a riot, as the crowd had waited for hours",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gold attorney Dickson Young had asked for a sentence of community medical service, saying his client did not commit or incite violence. \u2014 Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"The organizers of the protest\u2014including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale\u2014were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"Cheney warns that Trump may incite further violence. \u2014 John Harwood, CNN , 23 May 2021",
"In the streaming age, such instances were liable to incite wonderment from other art-rock bands. \u2014 Zach Schonfeld, Billboard , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Any excuse to incite conflict will do, from COVID lockdowns to protests for racial justice. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Mar. 2022",
"The same goes for messaging campaigns designed to incite fear among employees. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Several Democratic congressmen have accused Trump and Giuliani of conspiring with far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to incite the attacks. \u2014 Dan Berman, CNN , 12 Feb. 2022",
"After the bottom of the first inning, Bellino appeared to use a standard foreign-substance spot check with Bumgarner as a chance to incite a reaction from the Diamondbacks\u2019 pitcher. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, USA TODAY , 7 May 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French inciter , from Latin incitare , from in- + citare to put in motion \u2014 more at cite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8s\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for incite incite , instigate , abet , foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating. inciting a riot instigate definitely implies responsibility for initiating another's action and often connotes underhandedness or evil intention. instigated a conspiracy abet implies both assisting and encouraging. aiding and abetting the enemy foment implies persistence in goading. fomenting rebellion",
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"abet",
"brew",
"ferment",
"foment",
"instigate",
"pick",
"provoke",
"raise",
"stir (up)",
"whip (up)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061047",
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"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
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},
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235731",
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"adverb"
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},
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": tending to incite : expressive of incitement":[]
},
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"(\u02c8)in\u00a6s\u012btiv",
"\u0259n\u02c8s-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084728",
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"adjective"
]
},
"incitory":{
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": serving to excite : stimulatory":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"-t\u0259r\u0113"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114727",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"incivility":{
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"civility",
"considerateness",
"consideration",
"courtesy",
"genteelness",
"gentility",
"graciousness",
"politeness",
"politesse",
"thoughtfulness"
],
"definitions":{
": a rude or discourteous act":[],
": the quality or state of being uncivil":[]
},
"examples":[
"We chose to ignore their little insults and incivilities .",
"I won't tolerate incivility , and that includes text messaging while I'm speaking.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the spectacle that was the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial, which recently concluded, incivility was on full display. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"One that tells its tale of general incivility being the very essence of love in between detours through underwear nights at clubs and cruising at the Pines Pantry is mining a very particular locale\u2019s culture, however. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 3 June 2022",
"The survey\u2019s conclusions, completed in December 2020, found that among the 137 respondents, the majority of whom were staff, 116 people experienced some form of incivility in the building. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"It\u2019s not a place where incivility has become part of daily life. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"The study didn\u2019t place any moral judgments on Twitter incivility , Willer said. \u2014 Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The increase in incivility was most pronounced among liberal Democrats, especially in the first half of President Trump\u2019s term. \u2014 Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Many launched within the past six years as a reaction to the divisiveness and extreme incivility of President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. \u2014 Jennifer Miller, The Atlantic , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The few remedial powers that the federal courts possess over their own judges are not designed to address rudeness or incivility . \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 31 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1584, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle French incivilit\u00e9 , from Late Latin incivilitat-, incivilitas , from incivilis , from Latin in- + civilis civil":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin(t)-s\u0259-\u02c8vi-l\u0259-t\u0113"
],
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"dis",
"diss",
"discourteousness",
"discourtesy",
"disrespect",
"disrespectfulness",
"impertinence",
"impertinency",
"impoliteness",
"impudence",
"inconsiderateness",
"inconsideration",
"insolence",
"rudeness",
"ungraciousness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213921",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inclement":{
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"clear",
"clement",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"unclouded"
],
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": lacking mildness: such as":[],
": physically severe : stormy":[
"inclement weather"
],
": severe in temper or action : unmerciful":[]
},
"examples":[
"The game was postponed due to inclement weather.",
"the weather report warned that the holiday weekend would be spoiled by inclement weather",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And there are rules about how to properly count the number of days when the deadline falls on a holiday (or even on a day when the Tax Court is closed due to inclement weather). \u2014 Amber Gray-fenner, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"In case of inclement weather, food trucks will park near the front doors of the Dwyer Senior Center, 300 Bryson Lane in Bay Village. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"They were postponed from Sunday to Monday because of inclement weather. \u2014 Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
"Bash must draw on his war zone experience when inclement weather causes the hospital to lose power. \u2014 Olivia Mccormack, Washington Post , 19 June 2022",
"Monday\u2019s inclement weather could start around lunch time, National Weather Service hydrologist Scott Lincoln said. \u2014 Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"In case of inclement weather, walks will be canceled. \u2014 cleveland , 12 June 2022",
"Of course, the inclement weather merely delayed the inevitable, because there have been two other constants in high school softball over the past two seasons: National Player of the Year Keagan Rothrock and the Roncalli Royals. \u2014 Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star , 12 June 2022",
"The jet stream is diverting north of the high, carrying all inclement weather and storminess with it. \u2014 Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post , 9 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1621, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin inclement-, inclemens , from in- + clement-, clemens clement":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8kle-m\u0259nt",
"\u02c8in-kl\u0259-",
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8kle-m\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"bleak",
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"raw",
"rough",
"squally",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200154",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"inclination":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a tendency to a particular aspect, state, character, or action":[
"the clutch has an inclination to slip"
],
": a tilting of something":[],
": an act or the action of bending or inclining : such as":[],
": an inclined surface : slope":[],
": bow , nod":[],
": natural disposition : character":[],
": the angle determined by two lines or planes":[],
": the angle made by a line with the x-axis measured counterclockwise from the positive direction of that axis":[]
},
"examples":[
"She shows no inclination to give in to their demands.",
"He's a loner by inclination .",
"My first inclination was to say no, but I finally decided to do what she asked.",
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to learn about such matters.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With her flinty glare and sharp delivery, Rodriguez is an excellent foil as Sofia, who has no time nor inclination to deal with the tone-deaf meddling of a billionaire dilettante. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 21 June 2022",
"But who has the time or inclination to do a full face on a hot summer day",
"For the host without the time or inclination to cook for a crowd, assembling a lavish snack spread is easier now than ever. \u2014 Kathleen Squires, WSJ , 4 Mar. 2022",
"With October glory on the line, La Russa doesn\u2019t have the time or inclination to rehash old war stories of heated battles with Baker, like the time in 2003 they were caught on WGN-TV swearing at each other from the dugouts at Wrigley Field. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 6 Oct. 2021",
"The pandemic kept people close to home, and many who had wanted a pet before COVID now had the time and inclination to follow through. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 July 2021",
"Most businesses wouldn\u2019t have had the time or inclination to do this if life had carried on as before. \u2014 Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes , 18 June 2021",
"These dynamics have served to flatten our political identities, weakening our ability or inclination to find compromise. \u2014 The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
"So far, there appears not to be any immediate inclination to officially remove her from balloting that\u2019s already in progress, since either honoring or ignoring her stated desire to be taken out of contention would be fraught with separate problems. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 15 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4b":""
},
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"\u02ccin-kl\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u02cci\u014b-",
"\u02ccin-kl\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n, \u02cci\u014b-"
],
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"affection",
"affinity",
"aptitude",
"bent",
"bias",
"bone",
"devices",
"disposition",
"genius",
"habitude",
"impulse",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"turn"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184922",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"incline":{
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"cant",
"diagonal",
"grade",
"gradient",
"inclination",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"slant",
"slope",
"upgrade"
],
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": to bend the head or body forward : bow":[],
": to cause to stoop or bow : bend":[],
": to give a bend or slant to":[],
": to have influence on : persuade":[
"his love of books inclined him toward a literary career"
],
": to lean, tend, or become drawn toward an opinion or course of conduct":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"She listened with her eyes closed and her head inclined .",
"The road inclines at an angle of about 12 degrees.",
"His love of books inclined him toward a literary career.",
"Noun",
"We drove up a steep incline to the summit.",
"You can adjust the incline of the ramp.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The ProForm Pro 2000 has solid speed, topping out at 12 MPH, a weight capacity of 300 pounds, and the ability to incline quickly up to a 12% grade. \u2014 Heath Owens, Men's Health , 9 May 2022",
"Load space in the five-seat version ranges from 23 to 31 cubic feet behind the second row, and the middle bench seatback can incline 14 degrees forward to make room for bulky cargo without having to be completely lowered. \u2014 Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver , 19 Apr. 2022",
"In some cases, standardized tests can be a useful part of a student\u2019s application, but requiring them will probably always incline a college toward admitting more rich kids and fewer low-income ones. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The beach used to gradually incline into the water. \u2014 Mario Koran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Dec. 2021",
"The Dolphins, although improving of late in this category, have had their struggles in run defense, which doesn\u2019t incline teams to have to throw as often or have difficult third-down situations that lead to turnovers. \u2014 David Furones, sun-sentinel.com , 5 Nov. 2021",
"The propensity on the part of these men \u2014 and much of humankind, for that matter \u2014 to incline toward the light is no surprise. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Mar. 2021",
"But charity should incline us to be more willing to take other considerations into account. \u2014 Paul Bloom, WSJ , 12 Mar. 2021",
"Dorador thought telling people about the diverse ecology would incline others to protect the area. \u2014 Ian Morse, Quartz , 22 Dec. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The next, they were being dumped onto a stainless steel table set on an incline . \u2014 ProPublica , 24 May 2022",
"Beshore skidded around a turn, then stopped on an incline . \u2014 Oliver Whang, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Romance fraud has proliferated alongside a steady incline in usership of online dating platforms. \u2014 Orlando Sentinel , 18 May 2022",
"There is a steady incline moving to the highest point in Ohio, Bellefontaine. \u2014 John Pana, cleveland , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Like Elliott Gould in that picture, Lyonne\u2019s Nadia moves through life as if at a perpetual incline , terminally laid back, the cigarette dangling from her lips occasionally jerking upward to register either cool surprise or cool amusement. \u2014 Philippa Snow, The New Republic , 18 Apr. 2022",
"As well as nearly 200 rooms, the hotel has a deluxe Presidential Suite on the 33rd floor which straddles the dramatic 18-degree incline . \u2014 Alice Mccool, CNN , 31 May 2022",
"With two outs in the seventh, Gio Urshela scorched a ground ball up the middle that somehow split Kershaw\u2019s legs, bounced off the incline of the mound, and was fielded by Lux to preserve the perfect game. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"As Tiger Woods limped up the steep incline of the 18th fairway Sunday afternoon at Augusta National, Scottie Scheffler was striding in the opposite direction down the first fairway, just starting his round. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1798, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French incliner, encliner , from Latin inclinare , from in- + clinare to lean \u2014 more at lean":"Verb"
},
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"in-\u02c8kl\u012bn",
"\u02c8in-\u02cckl\u012bn"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for incline Verb incline , bias , dispose , predispose mean to influence one to have or take an attitude toward something. incline implies a tendency to favor one of two or more actions or conclusions. I incline to agree bias suggests a settled and predictable leaning in one direction and connotes unfair prejudice. the experience biased him against foreigners dispose suggests an affecting of one's mood or temper so as to incline one toward something. her nature disposes her to trust others predispose implies the operation of a disposing influence well in advance of the opportunity to manifest itself. does fictional violence predispose them to accept real violence",
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"angle",
"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"lean",
"list",
"pitch",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111539",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"disinclined",
"unamenable",
"unwilling"
],
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": making an angle with a line or plane":[]
},
"examples":[
"people who are inclined toward volunteering",
"a special school for children who are inclined toward the arts",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Any plea would require Kelly to publicly admit wrongdoing, Block noted, which he might not be inclined to do. \u2014 Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune , 1 July 2022",
"The agency\u2019s commissioner noted the risk of inclined surfaces for infant sleep. \u2014 Dan Hurley, Anchorage Daily News , 22 June 2022",
"No inclined baby rocker should ever be used as a sleeping surface, federal safety officials said. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"The agency\u2019s commissioner noted the risk of inclined surfaces for infant sleep. \u2014 Dan Hurley, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"Simple triangle tops are a minimalist\u2019s favorite, whereas bustier tops lend themselves to the more daring and print- inclined styles. \u2014 Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"In Robin\u2019s exclusive Eden, time stops and the healing power of the island\u2019s mana\u2014or, for those less inclined to magical thinking, of the sea and sky\u2014does its work. \u2014 April Long, Town & Country , 13 June 2022",
"Other African countries have been more inclined to Central Bank Digital Currencies, which however, according to the Kenyan Central Bank are being held back from full adoption by limited smartphone penetration. \u2014 Tawanda Karombo, Quartz , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Krejcikova will face someone more inclined to Plan A in the quarterfinals on Tuesday: the huge-hitting American Madison Keys, a longtime top-10 player who arrived in Melbourne unseeded after struggling in 2021. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"sense 2 also \u02c8in-\u02cckl\u012bnd",
"in-\u02c8kl\u012bnd"
],
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"amenable",
"disposed",
"fain",
"game",
"glad",
"minded",
"ready",
"willing"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212526",
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"adjective"
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},
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": inclination":[],
": party , following":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"in-\u02c8kl\u012b-ni\u014b"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093555",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inclip":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": clasp , enclose":[]
},
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"circa 1616, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8klip"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112850",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"incln":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"inclusion":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-181144",
"type":[
"abbreviation"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of incloister obsolete variant of encloister"
],
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-174503",
"type":[]
},
"inclose":{
"antonyms":[],
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": to close in : surround":[
"enclose a porch with glass"
],
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": to hold in : confine":[],
": to include along with something else in a parcel or envelope":[
"a check is enclosed herewith"
]
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"omit"
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"The speakers will include several experts on the subject.",
"The price of dinner includes dessert.",
"Admission to the museum is included in the tour package.",
"The results came in too late for us to include them in the study.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Under the compromise, background checks for gun buyers age 18 to 20 will now include an examination of their local juvenile records. \u2014 Alan Fram, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"The foundation called Phoenix Life Project will have its inaugural gala the day after the anniversary of the collapse and will include families of victims and first responders who dug through the rubble. \u2014 Adriana Gomez Licon, Orlando Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"Monday\u2019s concert, which is technically one of two pre-season shows, will also include works by women. \u2014 Beth Woodcontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"That strategic plan will also for the first time include China as a potential adversary, administration officials said. \u2014 Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times , 24 June 2022",
"The witnesses will include Jeffrey Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. \u2014 Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"The cast will include Goldwyn and Berenson, and tickets, which run from $250 to $2,000, are already sold out. \u2014 Marshall Heyman, Town & Country , 23 June 2022",
"This year\u2019s presenters will include names like Idris Elba, Daniel Kaluuya, Janelle Mon\u00e1e, Keke Palmer, and more. \u2014 Essence , 23 June 2022",
"The opening will include in-person performances and an exhibition tour. \u2014 Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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"in-\u02c8kl\u00fcd"
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"carry",
"comprehend",
"contain",
"embrace",
"encompass",
"entail",
"involve",
"number",
"subsume",
"take in"
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"adjective",
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"The traditional system groups organisms \u2026 and places them in a hierarchy of ever more inclusive categories \u2026",
"\u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi",
"He wanted more inclusive histories that told the lives of all humankind, not just an elite few.",
"\u2014 Brook Thomas"
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"\u2014 Ian Keown"
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"Supporters of so-called \" inclusive education\" say that letting students with and without severe disabilities learn side-by-side helps to undo the stigma associated with special education.",
"\u2014 Associated Press",
"There are three inclusive classrooms, where kids who do not need special education services learn alongside students with autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, learning delays or other disabilities. The students are taught the same curriculum, and the special education students generally receive services, such as occupational therapy, inside the classroom instead of being pulled out.",
"\u2014 Erin Duffy"
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"\u2014 see also all-inclusive":[
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"\u2014 Ian Keown"
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"a butterfly expert with an inclusive knowledge of his subject",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This is creativity at its broadest and most inclusive , encompassing everything from the coronavirus (the novel coronavirus) to Bono to the guy who invented Velcro. \u2014 Eric Weiner, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"Great workplaces happen when teams are inclusive , intentional and thoughtful about other backgrounds and ways of seeing things. \u2014 Cate Rubenstein, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2022",
"The purpose of the Greater Together Community Funds program is to support the community in taking ownership around the needs in their towns; encourage broad and inclusive civic engagement and anchor the Hartford Foundation in each town. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
"An encouraging finding of the Advancing more women study is that, across all geographies, women who experience a truly respectful and inclusive workplace culture are more engaged, productive, and loyal to their organizations. \u2014 Bob Contri, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"This graphic novel is a comprehensive and inclusive guide to gender identity, sexuality and many other subjects on teens\u2019 minds. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"This idea of India posed a direct challenge to the secular and inclusive vision of the country championed by Gandhi and India\u2019s other founding fathers. \u2014 Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic , 2 June 2022",
"While one inclusive and affirming teacher can make a difference, six can change the course of a young person's trajectory in school, Willingham-Jaggers explained. \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"Over the past two decades, the Nigerian-American instructor, trainer, and motivational speaker has built an intentional platform that makes fitness a more accessible and inclusive space. \u2014 Vogue , 12 May 2022"
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"complete",
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"embracive",
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"\u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi",
"He wanted more inclusive histories that told the lives of all humankind, not just an elite few.",
"\u2014 Brook Thomas"
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"\u2014 Ian Keown"
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"Supporters of so-called \" inclusive education\" say that letting students with and without severe disabilities learn side-by-side helps to undo the stigma associated with special education.",
"\u2014 Associated Press",
"There are three inclusive classrooms, where kids who do not need special education services learn alongside students with autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, learning delays or other disabilities. The students are taught the same curriculum, and the special education students generally receive services, such as occupational therapy, inside the classroom instead of being pulled out.",
"\u2014 Erin Duffy"
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"\u2014 Ian Keown"
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"a butterfly expert with an inclusive knowledge of his subject",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This is creativity at its broadest and most inclusive , encompassing everything from the coronavirus (the novel coronavirus) to Bono to the guy who invented Velcro. \u2014 Eric Weiner, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"Great workplaces happen when teams are inclusive , intentional and thoughtful about other backgrounds and ways of seeing things. \u2014 Cate Rubenstein, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2022",
"The purpose of the Greater Together Community Funds program is to support the community in taking ownership around the needs in their towns; encourage broad and inclusive civic engagement and anchor the Hartford Foundation in each town. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
"An encouraging finding of the Advancing more women study is that, across all geographies, women who experience a truly respectful and inclusive workplace culture are more engaged, productive, and loyal to their organizations. \u2014 Bob Contri, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"This graphic novel is a comprehensive and inclusive guide to gender identity, sexuality and many other subjects on teens\u2019 minds. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"This idea of India posed a direct challenge to the secular and inclusive vision of the country championed by Gandhi and India\u2019s other founding fathers. \u2014 Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic , 2 June 2022",
"While one inclusive and affirming teacher can make a difference, six can change the course of a young person's trajectory in school, Willingham-Jaggers explained. \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"Over the past two decades, the Nigerian-American instructor, trainer, and motivational speaker has built an intentional platform that makes fitness a more accessible and inclusive space. \u2014 Vogue , 12 May 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":""
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"cover-all",
"cyclopedic",
"embracive",
"encyclopedic",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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"first_known_use":{
"1628, in the meaning defined above":""
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"(\u02c8)in",
"\u0259n+"
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"\u2014 used only of a woman"
]
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"1638, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccin-\u02cck\u00e4g-\u02c8n\u0113-t\u0259",
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"noun"
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"baptized",
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"dubbed",
"named",
"termed"
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": one appearing or living incognito":[],
": the state or assumed identity of one living or traveling incognito or incognita":[],
": with one's identity concealed":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb or adjective",
"So, without a Brazil jersey, my sister-in-law was incognito , until the game stared. \u2014 Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com , 2 July 2018",
"Around her chest, a Gucci fanny pack gave her look that subtle edge, while her trucker hat\u2014from the Dogfish Head brewery!\u2014and large sunglasses made the case for going incognito . \u2014 Vogue , 16 Apr. 2019",
"So, without a Brazil jersey, my sister-in-law was incognito , until the game stared. \u2014 Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com , 2 July 2018",
"Meanwhile, Rufus and Wyatt go incognito at a nearby plantation to find the sleeper and destroy the Confederate version of Gray\u2019s Sports Almanac. \u2014 Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian , 13 May 2018",
"The entire visa appointment apparently only took ten minutes, and Markle seemingly tried to go incognito by wearing sunglasses and a White Sox cap the entire time. \u2014 Lisa Ryan, The Cut , 12 Apr. 2018",
"So bad was secession fervor by then that Lincoln traveled incognito , Crofts writes, lest assassins kill him on the way. \u2014 Avi Selk, Washington Post , 31 Oct. 2017",
"But after months of remaining relatively incognito , as his supporters continue to push for the arrest of the other men involved in his attack, Harris became one of the men charged with a crime. \u2014 Trymaine Lee, NBC News , 10 Oct. 2017",
"Go incognito Every major web browser \u2014 Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera \u2014 has private, or incognito, browsing. \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 6 Oct. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That includes our bedrooms and our incognito web browsers. \u2014 Molly Longman, refinery29.com , 13 Mar. 2020",
"Tap or click here to learn about Chrome\u2019s incognito mode. \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 30 Jan. 2020",
"In the same holistic vein, the incognito search brought up an ad for a book on herbal antibiotics and four people were shown ads for essential oils. \u2014 Olivia Goldhill, Quartz , 12 Mar. 2020",
"Outside of work, Joe keeps a low profile with his still-effective incognito hat. \u2014 Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2019",
"Celine Dion took couture by storm back in July with her Titanic necklace, and this season Paris has Cardi B. The Hustlers star reigned over Fashion Week in her most iconic look yet, posing under the Eiffel Tower incognito . \u2014 Rhonda Richford, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Sep. 2019",
"Lively attempted to stay incognito in a bobble hat and gingham scarf, while her husband hid under a baseball cap. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 30 Oct. 2019",
"He'd been introduced to the family, somewhat incognito , by his girlfriend at the time \u2014 now his wife of more than 20 years \u2014 who was already tutoring the boy in English. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Nov. 2019",
"Users who go incognito won\u2019t get the same personalized experience they would otherwise based on what Google knows about them. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Oct. 2019"
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"1635, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb or adjective",
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"Italian, from Latin incognitus unknown, from in- + cognitus , past participle of cognoscere to know \u2014 more at cognition":"Adverb or adjective"
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"also in-\u02c8k\u00e4g-n\u0259-\u02cct\u014d",
"\u02ccin-\u02cck\u00e4g-\u02c8n\u0113-(\u02cc)t\u014d",
"in-\u02c8k\u00e4g-n\u0259-\u02cct\u014d",
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"unnamed",
"untitled"
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": incapable of being recognized, known, or distinguished":[]
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"knowing",
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"a bunch of loud partygoers who seemed utterly incognizant of the disturbance they were creating"
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"1837, in the meaning defined above":""
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"uninformed",
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"a bunch of loud partygoers who seemed utterly incognizant of the disturbance they were creating"
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"innocent",
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"nescient",
"oblivious",
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"noun"
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"\u02ccin\u02cck\u00e4g\u02ccn\u00e4s\u0259\u02c8bil\u0259t\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171851",
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"noun"
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"Late Latin incognoscibilis , from Latin in- in- entry 1 + Late Latin cognoscibilis cognoscible":""
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"(\u00a6)in",
"\u0259n+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072446",
"type":[
"adjective"
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": the quality or state of being incoherent":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some of this incoherence points to the plight of female ambition, its endless negotiations between egoism and self-effacement, toughness and delicacy. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Another week, another example of the Biden Administration\u2019s energy incoherence . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"If the shifts in Julia\u2019s personality are perhaps too sudden, compacted into the course of one weekend, that slight incoherence is one of the play\u2019s pleasures. \u2014 New York Times , 8 May 2022",
"Ideological incoherence is the main threat to the Western alliance, but a close second can be found in the West\u2019s imperial center\u2014the U.S. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Unfortunately, this incoherence carries real-life consequences. \u2014 Madeleine Kearns, National Review , 12 Mar. 2022",
"The poetic is not merely beauty in language, but beauty in incoherence , in resistance to common sense. \u2014 Elisa Gabbert, New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The school ban also signals incoherence in the Taliban\u2019s policy toward girls\u2019 education. \u2014 NBC News , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The city\u2019s rule on this matter persists despite patent incoherence . \u2014 Jack Butler, National Review , 7 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccin-k\u014d-\u02c8hir-\u0259n(t)s",
"-\u02c8her-",
"\u02ccin-k\u014d-\u02c8hir-\u0259ns"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013340",
"type":[
"noun"
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"coherent",
"connected"
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": lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought":[
"incoherent with grief"
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": lacking orderly continuity, arrangement, or relevance : inconsistent":[
"an incoherent essay"
]
},
"examples":[
"The fever made her incoherent .",
"He was very upset and practically incoherent after the accident.",
"The memo is completely incoherent .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sobol, who investigators say was hired as the girl's night nurse, was discovered lying next to the child, incoherent and mumbling, WBND-TV reports. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s team has so far put in what appears to be a convincing case, and Sussmann\u2019s defense seems incoherent . \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 21 May 2022",
"Sure, some of the usual problems are there\u2014some overlong training montages and a bit of incoherent CGI\u2014but ultimately the movie is really, really, fun, and should probably be even more fun upon rewatch. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 5 May 2022",
"The incoherent direction, by Vivienne Benesch, left me with a number of questions. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022",
"That's an ideologically incoherent platform united solely by its rejection of the far right. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 12 Apr. 2022",
"One fundamental development contributed to the fractured, incoherent nature of the election. \u2014 Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Far worse are the washed-out, smartphone-esque cinematography and incoherent screenplay, neither of which are done any favors by a series of jarring edits. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The largely incoherent plot concerns two miserable couples in an insane world. \u2014 Richard B. Woodward, WSJ , 12 Mar. 2022"
],
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"1599, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"-\u0259nt",
"\u02ccin-k\u014d-\u02c8hir-\u0259nt",
"-\u02c8her-"
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"choppy",
"disconnected",
"disjointed",
"unconnected"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001644",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
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"definitions":{
": lacking physical coherence":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"in- entry 1 + cohering , present participle of cohere":""
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"\"+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182715",
"type":[
"adjective"
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"in- entry 1 + cohesion":""
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"\u00a6in+"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012004",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
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": tending to disrupt":[
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"in- entry 1 + cohesive":""
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"\u00a6in+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054729",
"type":[
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"The Tribune claimed its four-story building constructed of stone, brick and iron at the southeast corner of Dearborn and Madison streets was incombustible . \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"The Chicago Tribune claimed its four-story building constructed of stone, brick and iron at the southeast corner of Dearborn and Madison streets was incombustible . \u2014 Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com , 1 Oct. 2021",
"In October, scientists announced a new prototype of a lithium-ion battery that\u2019s flexible and incombustible , eliminating in one fell swoop two of the biggest safety complaints about these batteries. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 2 Dec. 2019",
"Omnis said combustible Reynobond PE material was safe to use on high rise buildings if the insultation material usually put behind the panels was made of incombustible material such as mineral fibre. \u2014 Reuters, Fortune , 26 June 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Issues related to child care and education, work-life balance, early retirements and households moving to a single sustainable income are some of the reasons people have left the workforce. \u2014 Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star , 15 June 2022",
"Soaring mortgage rates means many would-be borrowers, who must meet banks' required debt-to- income ratios, have lost their mortgage eligibility. \u2014 Fortune , 15 June 2022",
"The last one, reached nearly a decade ago, was an agreement that cut red tape on goods clearing borders and was billed as a boost to lower- income countries. \u2014 Jamey Keaten, ajc , 12 June 2022",
"This calculator takes into account the debt-to- income ratio. \u2014 Time , 10 June 2022",
"High- income countries have access to post-exposure prophylaxis with vaccination or immunoglobulin. \u2014 Vinay Kampalath, STAT , 8 June 2022",
"So far, only 14 percent of people in low- income countries have been fully vaccinated. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"Those living in lower income countries, the elderly and women will be most affected. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 June 2022",
"Homeowners interested in having separate guest houses or income -producing rentals on their city lot can learn about new zoning rules and see a variety of designs during a tour of Portland\u2019s accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on Saturday, June 25. \u2014 oregonlive , 30 May 2022"
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"The bottom fifth of households by income account for just 9% of total consumption, Ian Shepherdson, chief economist of Pantheon Macroeconomics, said. \u2014 Medora Lee, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"Your race or family income account for at least 20 percent of your health status. \u2014 Robert Pearl, Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021",
"But, income accounts for less than half the difference in spending on children between married parents and unmarried parents who live together. \u2014 Daniel Schneider, The Conversation , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Last year saw music sales rise by 8.1 percent to $17.3 billion and total digital income account for more than half of all trade revenue (54 percent) for the first time. \u2014 Richard Smirke, Billboard , 24 Apr. 2018",
"The $64 billion highlighted in the report comprised $48.7 billion in the principal portion of the fund and $15.3 billion in the earnings reserve income account . \u2014 Author: Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Feb. 2018"
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"Income levels for Arizona\u2019s low- income tax credit program could be expanded so more renters qualify. \u2014 Amy Qin, The Arizona Republic , 8 June 2022",
"The state\u2019s revenues comprised $21.8 million individual income tax , $11.4 million sales tax, and $1.8 million property tax. \u2014 Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al , 7 June 2022",
"The city offers a tax incentive for businesses that relocate to an outer borough, with up to $3,000 in annual business- income tax credits per employee. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"Should all American corporations pay income tax , Senator Scott",
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"Data from Rich States, Poor States confirms positive migration patterns toward low-tax states \u2014 and particularly the nine states that go without a personal income tax altogether. \u2014 Jonathan Williams, National Review , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Additional funds would be set aside for low-income Californians who don\u2019t owe state income tax . \u2014 Taryn Lunastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Tax reform advocates had argued for a recurring credit of as much as $600 per child \u2014 up to a maximum of $1,800 per household \u2014 against the state income tax to help counter inflation and other pressures against poor and middle-income households. \u2014 Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant , 9 June 2022"
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"Loeb also hopes to design\u2014in collaboration with space agencies or companies--a launch-ready space mission to study an incomer at close quarters. \u2014 Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS , 26 July 2021",
"In an overwhelmingly conservative state long dominated by the coal and timber industries, Fred Schaufeld wasn\u2019t a typical corporate incomer . \u2014 Peter Jamison, Washington Post , 17 Feb. 2020",
"But the idea that such privileges might be under threat from incomers , either Hindu or Muslim, has now made Assam fertile ground for the BJP\u2019s anti-Muslim drum-beat. \u2014 Joseph Allchin, The New York Review of Books , 6 Jan. 2020",
"Among the missiles in its launch tubes are some designed to shoot down incomers . \u2014 The Economist , 14 Nov. 2019",
"Other projects, like rent control, are clearly magic carpets that won\u2019t fly: with the best intentions in the world, all rent control does is to reward the incumbents and punish the incomers . \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 21 Oct. 2019",
"As for whether the potential incomer is married or single",
"By 1964 the population had jumped to 7.44 million, with Uyghurs still in the majority at 54%, but the growth was largely driven by Han incomers , who now stood at 33% of the total. \u2014 James Griffiths, CNN , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The news is certainly something of a respite for Arsenal fans, however, as the ever-reliable David Ornstein has stated that Unai Emery's side will pip late incomers Tottenham to the signing of AS Saint-Etienne centre half Saliba. \u2014 SI.com , 17 July 2019"
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"Then the ominous whistle and crackle of incoming shells, which landed within 50 feet of a Ukrainian tank position, sending dirt and rocks flying and shards of deadly metal slashing through the air. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 4 June 2022",
"Then the ominous whistle and crackle of incoming shells, which landed within 50 feet of a Ukrainian tank position, sending dirt and rocks flying and shards of deadly metal slashing through the air. \u2014 Paul Sonne, Washington Post , 4 June 2022",
"The objective was to handle incoming requests for support as cheaply as possible. \u2014 Wai Wong, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
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"But incoming data have confirmed that employers are still struggling to hire even as consumer prices are rising at the fastest clip in nearly 40 years. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Dec. 2021",
"So at Dots, Paul and I had this special email language, a system where incoming meeting requests would be prioritized based on what would make the most impact to the company at that moment. \u2014 Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune , 12 Dec. 2021",
"But Powell has committed to a data-dependent approach, and Omicron will certainly affect the incoming data. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Just last year, Dartmouth had eliminated loans for incoming students from families earning less than $125,000 per year. \u2014 Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
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"All of the residential units are reserved for individuals and families who make less than $40,500, or 50% of the average incoming in King County, according to the release. \u2014 Alaa Elassar, CNN , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Search Party spoiler incoming , besties (well, not really, but sort of). \u2014 Wolfgang Ruth, Vulture , 21 Dec. 2021",
"There is, of course, an incoming spoke in the wheel. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Avila faced in 2017, when J.D. Martinez was destroying baseballs, the Tigers were bent on rebuilding and yet Avila\u2019s outgoing calls far outnumbered his incoming . \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 26 July 2021",
"With more supply incoming , vaccinators should be able to ramp up fairly quickly, according to Hartford HealthCare\u2019s director of infection prevention Keith Grant. \u2014 Emily Brindley, courant.com , 15 Mar. 2021",
"In a third photo, Lopez gleefully poses in front of the Capitol, showing off her excitement for her performance and the incoming of a new administration for America. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 20 Jan. 2021",
"The Justice Department moved to dismiss the case but with the presiding judge resisting such a move and a Biden administration incoming , Trump pardoned Flynn last month. \u2014 Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner , 5 Dec. 2020",
"The pressure on incomings and outgoings could change the way the funds invest. \u2014 The Economist , 23 May 2020"
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"Then the ominous whistle and crackle of incoming shells, which landed within 50 feet of a Ukrainian tank position, sending dirt and rocks flying and shards of deadly metal slashing through the air. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 4 June 2022",
"Then the ominous whistle and crackle of incoming shells, which landed within 50 feet of a Ukrainian tank position, sending dirt and rocks flying and shards of deadly metal slashing through the air. \u2014 Paul Sonne, Washington Post , 4 June 2022",
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"But incoming data have confirmed that employers are still struggling to hire even as consumer prices are rising at the fastest clip in nearly 40 years. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Dec. 2021",
"So at Dots, Paul and I had this special email language, a system where incoming meeting requests would be prioritized based on what would make the most impact to the company at that moment. \u2014 Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune , 12 Dec. 2021",
"But Powell has committed to a data-dependent approach, and Omicron will certainly affect the incoming data. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Just last year, Dartmouth had eliminated loans for incoming students from families earning less than $125,000 per year. \u2014 Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
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"All of the residential units are reserved for individuals and families who make less than $40,500, or 50% of the average incoming in King County, according to the release. \u2014 Alaa Elassar, CNN , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Search Party spoiler incoming , besties (well, not really, but sort of). \u2014 Wolfgang Ruth, Vulture , 21 Dec. 2021",
"There is, of course, an incoming spoke in the wheel. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Avila faced in 2017, when J.D. Martinez was destroying baseballs, the Tigers were bent on rebuilding and yet Avila\u2019s outgoing calls far outnumbered his incoming . \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 26 July 2021",
"With more supply incoming , vaccinators should be able to ramp up fairly quickly, according to Hartford HealthCare\u2019s director of infection prevention Keith Grant. \u2014 Emily Brindley, courant.com , 15 Mar. 2021",
"In a third photo, Lopez gleefully poses in front of the Capitol, showing off her excitement for her performance and the incoming of a new administration for America. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 20 Jan. 2021",
"The Justice Department moved to dismiss the case but with the presiding judge resisting such a move and a Biden administration incoming , Trump pardoned Flynn last month. \u2014 Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner , 5 Dec. 2020",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The progression suggests that one way fiction might approach the depiction of capitalist totality and its impossible forms is by presenting it, however futilely, through incommensurable shards. \u2014 Jane Hu, The Atlantic , 26 May 2022",
"This meant that the sacred and the profane lived cheek by jowl\u2014intimately connected and yet incommensurable with each other. \u2014 Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"This was inimical to long-term functional currency status just as over-abundant incommensurable dialects and over-frequent meaning-changes would be inimical to a functional lingua franca. \u2014 Robert Hockett, Forbes , 28 June 2021",
"Children are both sources of incommensurable joy and inefficient engines of need; careers, particularly athletic careers, can also be capricious and make uncompromising demands. \u2014 Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker , 18 Feb. 2020"
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"the innkeeper tried to hide how much the request incommoded them",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 10 Jan. 2020",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 10 Jan. 2020",
"They were all charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding , a spokesperson for the department told CNN. \u2014 Leah Asmelash, CNN , 10 Jan. 2020",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 10 Jan. 2020",
"All were booked on charges of crowding, obstructing, or incommoding at the offices. \u2014 Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner , 16 Jan. 2020",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 10 Jan. 2020",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 14 Dec. 2019",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 14 Dec. 2019"
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"the innkeeper tried to hide how much the request incommoded them",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 10 Jan. 2020",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 10 Jan. 2020",
"They were all charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding , a spokesperson for the department told CNN. \u2014 Leah Asmelash, CNN , 10 Jan. 2020",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 10 Jan. 2020",
"All were booked on charges of crowding, obstructing, or incommoding at the offices. \u2014 Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner , 16 Jan. 2020",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 10 Jan. 2020",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 14 Dec. 2019",
"All were charged with crowding and obstructing or incommoding , Malecki said. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 14 Dec. 2019"
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"cited reduced privacy as one of the incommodities of apartment living"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259-\u02c8m\u00e4-d\u0259-t\u0113"
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"debit",
"disadvantage",
"disbenefit",
"downside",
"drawback",
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"noun"
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"speakable"
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"the vastness of the universe is incommunicable",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Abstract artists, including Alberto Burri, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jack Whitten and Mark Bradford, all found unique ways to use such materials to conjure the weight of incommunicable things. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2021",
"After more than a decade away, the author is back with Piranesi, a way to communicate the incommunicable . \u2014 Jason Kehe, Wired , 21 Sep. 2020",
"But the works test, in the depths of the incommunicable , the degree of anyone\u2019s courage to envisage the bad in life, the worse, and the almost inconceivably abysmal. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 14 Sep. 2020",
"In one panel, Mary, at the foot of the cross, makes a recognizable gesture \u2014 suggesting grief or astonishment so great, so fundamentally incommunicable , that one covers one\u2019s mouth \u2014 similar to that made by Matisse\u2019s central bather. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Feb. 2020",
"What surprised me was the poetic potential of scurvy, with its awfulness and that terrible sense of isolation, when the possibility of ecstatic delights was inconceivable and incommunicable . \u2014 National Geographic , 15 Jan. 2017",
"Lucy Barton\u2019s story is, in meaningful ways, about loneliness, about an individual\u2019s isolation when her past \u2014 all that has formed her \u2014 is invisible and incommunicable to those around her. \u2014 Claire Messud, New York Times , 4 Jan. 2016"
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"1568, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French, from Late Latin incommunicabilis , from Latin in- + Late Latin communicabilis communicable":""
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259-\u02c8my\u00fc-ni-k\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"indefinable",
"indescribable",
"ineffable",
"inenarrable",
"inexpressible",
"nameless",
"uncommunicable",
"unspeakable",
"unutterable"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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": without means of communication : in a situation or state not allowing communication":[
"a prisoner held incommunicado",
"remained incommunicado while working on her book"
]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most of those detained during and after the demonstrations are young people from the poorest corners of the country who have been held incommunicado , relatives say. \u2014 Santiago P\u00e9rez, WSJ , 20 July 2021"
],
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"1844, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Spanish incomunicado , from past participle of incomunicar to deprive of communication, from in- (from Latin) + comunicar to communicate, from Latin communicare":""
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259-\u02ccmy\u00fc-n\u0259-\u02c8k\u00e4-(\u02cc)d\u014d"
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"adverb or adjective"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185821",
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"adjective"
]
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"antonyms":[
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"mutable",
"variable"
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": not commutable: such as":[],
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},
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"a traditionalist and staunch opponent of relativism, she argues that there is indeed a timeless and incommutable moral code by which all must abide"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle English, from Latin incommutabilis , from in- + commutabilis commutable":""
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259-\u02c8my\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"fixed",
"hard-and-fast",
"immutable",
"inalterable",
"inflexible",
"invariable",
"unalterable",
"unchangeable"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202537",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
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": eminent beyond comparison : matchless":[],
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"The quality of their products is incomparable .",
"an incomparable view of the valley",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Muni Metro N line, is a couple of blocks from San Francisco\u2019s incomparable Golden Gate Park. \u2014 Robert Krier, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"His incomparable range, glitzy ball-handling, and spellbinding scoring prowess would not be of human form. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"Lil Wayne is highlighting Missy Elliott and her incomparable music legacy. \u2014 Darlene Aderoju, Billboard , 5 May 2022",
"Others contend that accounting changes make earnings calculations from previous decades incomparable with today\u2019s. \u2014 Mark Hulbert, WSJ , 4 June 2022",
"A dozen jewels may not sound like much, but when the jewels in question are by the incomparable Joel Arthur Rosenthal, revered by jewelry connoisseurs as this century\u2019s answer to Peter Carl Faberg\u00e9, the calculus shifts dramatically. \u2014 Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report , 3 June 2022",
"The 24-seat vessel, which can reach depths of up to 100 meters (328 feet), features a transparent acrylic hull, providing an incomparable underwater experience for those on board. \u2014 Tamara Hardingham-gill, CNN , 3 June 2022",
"Back then, Coriolanus Snow\u2014the white-haired president of Panem, played with elegant malevolence by the incomparable Donald Sutherland in the four cinematic adaptations of Suzanne Collins\u2019s best-selling trilogy\u2014was only an ambitious teenager. \u2014 Radhika Seth, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
"Shout out to the incomparable Susan Kelechi Watson. \u2014 Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 May 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin incomparabilis , from in- + comparabilis comparable":""
},
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u00e4m-p(\u0259-)r\u0259-b\u0259l",
"-\u02c8per-\u0259-",
"in-\u02c8k\u00e4m-p\u0259-r\u0259-b\u0259l",
"also \u02ccin-k\u0259m-\u02c8pa-r\u0259-"
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"inimitable",
"matchless",
"nonpareil",
"only",
"peerless",
"unequaled",
"unequalled",
"unexampled",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unrivaled",
"unrivalled",
"unsurpassable",
"unsurpassed"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041233",
"type":[
"adjective",
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"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[
"accordant",
"agreeing",
"compatible",
"concordant",
"conformable (to)",
"congruent",
"congruous",
"consistent",
"consonant",
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"incompatible drugs"
]
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"This printer is incompatible with some PCs.",
"the committee's incompatible goals\u2014develop new projects and cut costs\u2014meant that they got very little accomplished",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Experimental photographer Colby Caldwell has two interests that might seem incompatible : nature and digital distortion. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Nike joins an expanding list of international media and tech companies that are pulling out of China, where consumer, financial, tech and media regulations are increasingly incompatible with those elsewhere in the world. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 8 June 2022",
"The side marker lights may not function due to an incompatible tail light assembly wiring harness. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 3 June 2022",
"The side marker lights may not function due to an incompatible taillight assembly wiring harness. \u2014 National Highway Traffic & Safety Administration, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"This type of financial fear is the reason why many women don't leave violent, incompatible , or miserable relationships. \u2014 refinery29.com , 1 June 2022",
"Most angle-adjust headsets are creaky and incompatible with many popular headtube configurations. \u2014 Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"By the late 2000s, major labels and indie rockers seemed increasingly incompatible . \u2014 Zach Schonfeld, Billboard , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The fact that the Earth is, geologically, billions of years old seemed incompatible with the Sun\u2019s current power levels sustaining itself over billions of years. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 29 June 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"Middle English, from Medieval Latin incompatibilis , from Latin in- + Medieval Latin compatibilis compatible":""
},
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259m-\u02c8pat-\u0259-b\u0259l",
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"clashing",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093333",
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"adjective",
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"antonyms":[
"ability",
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"capability",
"capacity",
"competence",
"competency",
"potency"
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": the state or fact of being incompetent":[]
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"Because of his incompetence , we won't make our deadline.",
"She was fired for gross incompetence .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There\u2019s little security in the dugout, even if \u2013 perhaps especially if \u2013 many of your problems are created by dysfunction or incompetence at higher levels. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"The decision marked the second time in six months that an incompetence finding led to dropped charges against 33-year-old Corey Ahkivgak, who is accused of having attacked three people since December. \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 9 June 2022",
"Miller, who Alsobrooks (D) appointed as chair in January 2021, was recently issued a notice of charges of misconduct in office, willful neglect of duty and incompetence by the state board. \u2014 Nicole Asbury, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"Initial Russian incompetence and heavy losses are not followed by Russian capitulation. \u2014 Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News , 25 May 2022",
"On the other hand, Tommy Hicks Jr., a Republican National Committee co-chairman and close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, saw incompetence not courage. \u2014 New York Times , 23 May 2022",
"He was 12th in Saturday morning practice for Alpine, accused the FIA of incompetence in race control, and was penalized during one of Friday's practices. \u2014 Joseph Wilson, ajc , 21 May 2022",
"There are a multitude of examples in Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine to suggest that, if the Russian Navy is of similar incompetence , the ship could have been lost due to ineptness on the part of the crew. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 9 May 2022",
"But in Nagorno-Karabakh the drones seemed to evade enemy reconnaissance, either through radar jamming or through technical incompetence . \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 May 2022"
],
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"1663, in the meaning defined above":""
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"in-\u02c8k\u00e4m-p\u0259-t\u0259ns",
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u00e4m-p\u0259-t\u0259n(t)s",
"(\u02c8)in-\u02c8k\u00e4m-p\u0259t-\u0259n(t)s"
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"impotence",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214340",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"ability",
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"the incompetency of the secretary was revealed only after she had left the company, and her successor discovered years of filing left undone",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The man accused of tackling Dave Chappelle onstage at the Hollywood Bowl is weighing an offer from prosecutors in his misdemeanor case and has made no claim of mental incompetency , Rolling Stone has learned. \u2014 Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone , 2 June 2022",
"Voters in February recalled three school board members for incompetency and focusing on the wrong priorities during the pandemic, but the ineptitude certainly wasn\u2019t limited to just them. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 Apr. 2022",
"After the last home game, a 30-28 loss to Atlanta where nine points were left on the field as a result of pure incompetency , Miami left six more points out there after three sacks of Brissett. \u2014 Steve Svekis, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Nov. 2021",
"In Arizona, the Department of Homeland Security must file any evidence of incompetency in its records to a judge. \u2014 Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic , 30 Oct. 2021",
"Members of the Michigan defense waved their arms to encourage the irascible Wisconsin fans to stay peeved as the Wolverines reveled in their opponent\u2019s incompetency . \u2014 Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press , 3 Oct. 2021",
"In a web of corruption, self-protection, incompetency , delays, minimization, favor-trading and a gross power imbalance. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 Sep. 2021",
"But there is no excuse for incompetency or a bad attitude. \u2014 Jacob M. Engel, Forbes , 7 Sep. 2021",
"The brother is referred to as a co-conspirator in the indictment against Ma, but prosecutors didn't charge him because of his incompetency due to Alzheimer's, the motion said. \u2014 Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Star Tribune , 29 July 2021"
],
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"1611, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-\u0259n-s\u0113",
"in-\u02c8k\u00e4m-p\u0259-t\u0259n-s\u0113",
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u00e4m-p\u0259-t\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081232",
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"noun"
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"antonyms":[
"able",
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"incompetent heart valves"
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"He is too incompetent to be trusted with such an important responsibility.",
"The patient is mentally incompetent .",
"The defendant was declared incompetent to stand trial.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Four doctors have now determined that Alissa, who was 21 at the time of the shooting, is currently mentally incompetent to stand trial, the district attorney's office said in a statement. \u2014 Victoria Albert, CBS News , 3 Dec. 2021",
"On Tuesday, Judge Adam Ryan ruled that Souverneva was mentally incompetent to stand trial and put the prosecution on indefinite hold, according to Briona Haney, spokesperson with the Shasta County district attorney\u2019s office. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Justice Sharon Kennedy, a Republican writing for the court, held that none of those things, by themselves, was enough to indicate that Lawson was mentally incompetent to stand trial. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 7 Oct. 2021",
"There are some exceptions, such as those who have served more than a year in prison or been declared mentally incompetent . \u2014 Devon Link, USA TODAY , 12 July 2021",
"Instead, it's shown that NYC's BOE is too incompetent to be trusted with counting the votes. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 30 June 2021",
"In August 2018, a psychiatrist again found Villase\u00f1or incompetent to stand trial and ordered him committed to Patton State Hospital for a maximum three years. \u2014 Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 May 2022",
"His trial judge has tentatively set court dates several times but has continually delayed the case because Suliman has been determined to be mentally incompetent to face criminal charges. \u2014 Meleah Lyden, Orlando Sentinel , 7 May 2022",
"Often, skin conditions specific to BIPOC patients are not primarily treated by dermatologists and sometimes skin specialists are culturally incompetent . \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 26 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1595, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"Middle French incomp\u00e9tent , from in- + comp\u00e9tent competent":""
},
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"in-\u02c8k\u00e4m-p\u0259-t\u0259nt",
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u00e4m-p\u0259-t\u0259nt",
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"inapt",
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"unqualified",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070857",
"type":[
"adjective",
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": characterized by the absence of a pupal stage between the immature stages and the adult of an insect in which the young usually resemble the adult \u2014 compare complete sense 6":[],
": deficient in one or more essential amino acids":[
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"\u2014 Katherine Hobson"
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": not legally caught":[]
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"an incomplete set of encyclopedias",
"She handed in an incomplete assignment.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Possible changes to college football include running the clock after first downs and after incomplete passes. \u2014 Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
"Starting this week, the clock will keep running on incomplete passes in the first and third quarters. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 6 May 2022",
"His defense stuffed the Tide on the first play of its next drive before two incomplete passes meant a three-and-out punt with blood in the water. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 11 Jan. 2022",
"In the first half, Mayfield threw 10 straight incomplete passes, going nearly 25 minutes without a completion. \u2014 Ashley Bastock, cleveland , 3 Jan. 2022",
"After two incomplete passes, Matt Araiza put SDSU ahead with a 33-yard field goal. UPDATE 7:46 p.m. \u2014 Dennis Rudner, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Dec. 2021",
"But after four incomplete passes, Serra had turned the tables on the Lancers, who three weeks earlier had beaten the Padres 44-21 in a game that decided the West Catholic Athletic League title. \u2014 Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Nov. 2021",
"After a 5-yard penalty on the Cowboys and two incomplete passes from the Trojans, Johnson was sent out for MHS to attempt a 41-yard field goal. \u2014 Emily Miller | Special To The Tribune, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Nov. 2021",
"One there, though, two incomplete passes led to another 32-yard field goal attempt from Robinson, but his kick slid wide right. \u2014 Randy Mcroberts, baltimoresun.com , 13 Nov. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English incompleet , from Late Latin incompletus , from Latin in- + completus complete":""
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"an incomplete set of encyclopedias",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Possible changes to college football include running the clock after first downs and after incomplete passes. \u2014 Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
"Starting this week, the clock will keep running on incomplete passes in the first and third quarters. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 6 May 2022",
"His defense stuffed the Tide on the first play of its next drive before two incomplete passes meant a three-and-out punt with blood in the water. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 11 Jan. 2022",
"In the first half, Mayfield threw 10 straight incomplete passes, going nearly 25 minutes without a completion. \u2014 Ashley Bastock, cleveland , 3 Jan. 2022",
"After two incomplete passes, Matt Araiza put SDSU ahead with a 33-yard field goal. UPDATE 7:46 p.m. \u2014 Dennis Rudner, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Dec. 2021",
"But after four incomplete passes, Serra had turned the tables on the Lancers, who three weeks earlier had beaten the Padres 44-21 in a game that decided the West Catholic Athletic League title. \u2014 Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Nov. 2021",
"After a 5-yard penalty on the Cowboys and two incomplete passes from the Trojans, Johnson was sent out for MHS to attempt a 41-yard field goal. \u2014 Emily Miller | Special To The Tribune, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Nov. 2021",
"One there, though, two incomplete passes led to another 32-yard field goal attempt from Robinson, but his kick slid wide right. \u2014 Randy Mcroberts, baltimoresun.com , 13 Nov. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English incompleet , from Late Latin incompletus , from Latin in- + completus complete":""
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259m-\u02c8pl\u0113t"
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"a perpetually incompliant employee who seemed to think that the rules did not apply to him",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Financial regulators often use such orders to compel reforms at undercapitalized or incompliant banks. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 8 Dec. 2020"
],
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"1647, in the meaning defined above":""
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"I found his behavior utterly incomprehensible .",
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"Processing vast amounts of actionable data requires advances in AI which will leverage the nearly incomprehensible potential of quantum computers. \u2014 Denis Mandich, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Likewise, many caucuses, notably the one in Iowa, have nearly incomprehensible vote-allocation systems; Iowa's bizarre rules led to the fiasco of 2020, when Democratic officials took several weeks to count the votes. \u2014 Jeffrey Toobin, CNN , 14 Mar. 2022",
"To Leonard Sandoval, 54, Xavier\u2019s grandfather, the boy\u2019s death was incomprehensible . \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"People pay to get their tax returns prepared because the 1040 form \u2014 and most IRS schedules and forms \u2014 are incomprehensible to a normal person. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2022",
"The amount of plastic in the world is incomprehensible . \u2014 Clarisa Diaz, Quartz , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The rate at which lives were lost was incomprehensible . \u2014 Emilie Miller, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Apr. 2022",
"The scenes of carnage and cruelty in Ukraine are incomprehensible . \u2014 Mark Kimmitt, WSJ , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Present-day Ukraine, which also lived through alternating Nazi and Stalinist occupations, is incomprehensible without understanding their mutual permeations. \u2014 Marci Shore, The Atlantic , 11 Mar. 2022"
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"She gave me a look of complete incomprehension .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Dabo Swinney\u2019s incomprehension of capitalism and his lousy metaphors won\u2019t derail Clemson football. \u2014 Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Her parents battled their own depression and anxiety, their initial incomprehension of the situation, and a years-long succession of crises and demands on their moral, material and emotional resources. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Feb. 2022",
"What writer does not, at some point, endure the opposite\u2014the awful vulnerability of her words in the world, and her inability to defend them from being misread, even mutilated, by those goblin rats of malice, envy, laziness, mere incomprehension ",
"Benedict Cumberbatch plays a man who exhibits rage, jealousy, and incomprehension when his brother marries. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
"And Squibb\u2019s Momo, who has Alzheimer\u2019s, gives poignant expression to the best and worst of her experience, showing us how moments of lucidity fight for dominance amid a blur of incomprehension and pain. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Nov. 2021",
"At root, the violence of May was born of mutual incomprehension . \u2014 New York Times , 1 Aug. 2021",
"But now it\u2019s young millennial men and fathers who are suffering inter-generational incomprehension . \u2014 Avivah Wittenberg-cox, Forbes , 15 June 2021",
"The series does lean a little hard at first into gags about intergenerational mutual incomprehension and Liza almost blowing her cover by forgetting not to act her age. \u2014 Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2021"
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"Professor Ramdas presented \u2018Achieving the inconceivable \u2019 at TEDxLondonBusinessSchool on 29 April 2022. \u2014 London Business School, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"War between France and Germany, bitter enemies for centuries, has become as inconceivable as war between the U.S. and Canada. \u2014 John Horgan, Scientific American , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The idea of directly working with players on the field was inconceivable . \u2014 Jared Diamond, WSJ , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Most striking of all have been the many reversals of national defense, energy, and financial policies that would have been inconceivable the day before the invasion. . . . \u2014 WSJ , 30 Mar. 2022",
"But, more realistic now \u2014 and inconceivable four games ago \u2014 is a winning season at 9-8. \u2014 Kenny Rosarion, sun-sentinel.com , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Emma Raducanu of England had done the unthinkable, the inconceivable , at the U.S. Open in mid-September. \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Many, however, are taking linguistic sensitivity to a level that addresses every conceivable (or virtually inconceivable ) slight. \u2014 Jason Korman, Forbes , 10 Sep. 2021",
"Much has happened since then to dampen his aspirations \u2014 to the point that the website is shutting down, a reality that seemed inconceivable in the heady days after his first public foray. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 Apr. 2022"
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"The results of the test were inconclusive .",
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"An initial autopsy of the remains produced inconclusive results, and the case was handed over to a forensic anthropologist for further evaluation. \u2014 Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Efforts by The Hollywood Reporter to further investigate Johnson\u2019s killing have proved inconclusive . \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"But the effects of these compounds are so far inconclusive . \u2014 Madeleine Watts, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"Three Israeli government inquiries, the first in the 1960s and the last in the early 2000s, have been largely inconclusive . \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"The episodes were deeply bingeable, inconclusive , and controversially sympathetic to Peterson who never stopped proclaiming his innocence, all the way to prison (he was released on an Alford plea of manslaughter in 2017). \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 5 May 2022",
"The examinations of the portable drive by Green and Williams were largely inconclusive . \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Most of the allegations were ruled inconclusive , a common finding when no witness comes forward, and it\u2019s the officer\u2019s word against the person who complained. \u2014 Dallas News , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Bennett formed the coalition last June after four inconclusive elections that underscored the fissures in society over key issues as well as the polarizing effects of Netanyahu's 12-year rule. \u2014 Josef Federman, ajc , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"Efforts by The Hollywood Reporter to further investigate Johnson\u2019s killing have proved inconclusive . \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"But the effects of these compounds are so far inconclusive . \u2014 Madeleine Watts, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"Three Israeli government inquiries, the first in the 1960s and the last in the early 2000s, have been largely inconclusive . \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"The episodes were deeply bingeable, inconclusive , and controversially sympathetic to Peterson who never stopped proclaiming his innocence, all the way to prison (he was released on an Alford plea of manslaughter in 2017). \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 5 May 2022",
"The examinations of the portable drive by Green and Williams were largely inconclusive . \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Most of the allegations were ruled inconclusive , a common finding when no witness comes forward, and it\u2019s the officer\u2019s word against the person who complained. \u2014 Dallas News , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Bennett formed the coalition last June after four inconclusive elections that underscored the fissures in society over key issues as well as the polarizing effects of Netanyahu's 12-year rule. \u2014 Josef Federman, ajc , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Living with the fear and other feelings that came with her sense of gender incongruence , Borrowman said, put strain on her relationships. \u2014 Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 May 2022",
"The hiring manager and the HR team need to first agree on the value of diversity, or else this incongruence will show up in the way their communique is positioned and worded. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 1 Oct. 2021",
"All staff see the incongruence between leadership words and behaviors. \u2014 Kelly Tyler Byrnes, Forbes , 3 June 2021",
"However, when faced with energetic incongruence , changing your career path is merely an escape, not a solution. \u2014 Annie Brown, Forbes , 13 May 2021",
"The incongruence between the conversations and the nutty visual narratives makes the series challenging to take in. \u2014 Maya Phillips, New York Times , 7 May 2021",
"That fact \u2014 and its incongruence with the research university\u2019s core credo that the truth shall set you free \u2014 has been difficult to reconcile for Daniels. \u2014 Angela Roberts, baltimoresun.com , 11 Dec. 2020",
"The seeming incongruence does not undermine voters\u2019 recent shift away from the get-tough practices of the past, analysts said Wednesday. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Particularly in provocative noncompliance or offer/withdrawal behaviors, there is a moment of incongruence . \u2014 Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS , 3 Oct. 2020"
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"The aspect that throws people off is the incongruity between the dish and what many consider a salad. \u2014 Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"The obvious incongruity between the lifespans of our own intelligent species and the age of the cosmos itself is both breathtaking and somewhat of a conundrum. \u2014 Bruce Dorminey, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022",
"This incongruity of matter and form has been clear since Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions began in 1986 (the physical museum in Cleveland opened in 1995). \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 4 May 2022",
"To say the project has strange timing understates its sheer incongruity . \u2014 New York Times , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Before the attack, Martin, with her long blond hair and French accent, seems to relish her incongruity on the steppe. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 3 Dec. 2021",
"The cartoonish face on a classicized statue jump-starts the statue with an incongruity that magnetizes passers-by. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The incongruity of that European tragedy is hard to fathom. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Somehow, though, the incongruity works, and the game remains enjoyable to look at throughout. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 23 Mar. 2022"
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"There is something incongruous about Oslo. \u2014 Hugh C. McDonald , The Hour of the Blue Fox , 1975",
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"His outburst seemed incongruous to those who know him well.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pairing seemed incongruous , even with the potential of any roster featuring LeBron James. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"The scope and ambition of Posey and Padilla-Brown\u2019s plans suddenly seemed incongruous with the scale of the place in which they were being hatched. \u2014 Doug Bierend, Outside Online , 10 Mar. 2021",
"The Volvo origins of the switchgear might be a little incongruous for anybody who recognizes it, but Lotus is well known for raiding various parts bins. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 7 June 2022",
"Their movie is an often fussy, hectic confusion of old-timey pleasures and 21st century sensibilities, a mash-up that makes for some especially incongruous visual choices. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Their movie is an often fussy, hectic confusion of old-timey pleasures and 21st century sensibilities, a mash-up that makes for some especially incongruous visual choices. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Feb. 2022",
"While at first glance Birkenstocks may seem incongruous with luxury, the brand has become a magnet for high fashion labels -- even more so since the beginning of the pandemic, when consumer appetites shifted toward extreme comfort. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Most of the arriving Russians are from the country\u2019s beleaguered middle class, and groups of lost-looking Muscovites are a common\u2014and incongruous \u2014sight on Armenian streets. \u2014 Howard Amos, The New Republic , 28 Mar. 2022",
"That paucity of Republican support is incongruous to how the public feels about the judge. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"There is something incongruous about Oslo. \u2014 Hugh C. McDonald , The Hour of the Blue Fox , 1975",
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"His outburst seemed incongruous to those who know him well.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pairing seemed incongruous , even with the potential of any roster featuring LeBron James. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"The scope and ambition of Posey and Padilla-Brown\u2019s plans suddenly seemed incongruous with the scale of the place in which they were being hatched. \u2014 Doug Bierend, Outside Online , 10 Mar. 2021",
"The Volvo origins of the switchgear might be a little incongruous for anybody who recognizes it, but Lotus is well known for raiding various parts bins. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 7 June 2022",
"Their movie is an often fussy, hectic confusion of old-timey pleasures and 21st century sensibilities, a mash-up that makes for some especially incongruous visual choices. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Their movie is an often fussy, hectic confusion of old-timey pleasures and 21st century sensibilities, a mash-up that makes for some especially incongruous visual choices. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Feb. 2022",
"While at first glance Birkenstocks may seem incongruous with luxury, the brand has become a magnet for high fashion labels -- even more so since the beginning of the pandemic, when consumer appetites shifted toward extreme comfort. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Most of the arriving Russians are from the country\u2019s beleaguered middle class, and groups of lost-looking Muscovites are a common\u2014and incongruous \u2014sight on Armenian streets. \u2014 Howard Amos, The New Republic , 28 Mar. 2022",
"That paucity of Republican support is incongruous to how the public feels about the judge. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Linda, frustrated by her life of inconsequence , seeks refuge in a snack pack of sour cream and onion chips because all feelings are edible on Impeachment. \u2014 Amanda Whiting, Vulture , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Gopis \u2014 the lovely female cowherds that exist in Hindu mythology in the role of flirts and lovers of the god Krishna \u2014 free themselves from their narrative inconsequence , becoming powerful and even aggressive rather than merely decorative. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Revivals endow the past with the charm of distance and inconsequence . \u2014 Christopher Lasch, Harper's Magazine , 22 June 2021",
"As a result, some of those moments flirt with inconsequence or facile symbolism. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 12 July 2018"
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"that's an inconsequential problem compared to the other issues",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If a runner, for example, starts at a very low training volume, the initial increases would be so small that they would be deemed inconsequential . \u2014 Rick Prince, Outside Online , 18 July 2019",
"Dakota Johnson stars as Anne Elliot, our leading lady who laments breaking off her engagement to an inconsequential naval officer, Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), at the behest of her vain family. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"It\u2019s this happy, bubbly, inconsequential thing that\u2019s playing in the background. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, SPIN , 14 June 2022",
"Whether shapeshifting into a different kind of breathtaking beauty or rendering herself unrecognizable, for Kidman, no detail is ever too inconsequential in the spirit of storytelling. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 10 May 2022",
"But a promotion to the major league club seemed inconsequential at the time. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Critiquing anything having to do with football right now, or at all this season, seems inconsequential , but there is 75% of a season still to play, which is still a lot of time for this offensive line to get a lot better. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Because what someone thinks about the song just seems so inconsequential . \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Amber Heard\u2019s lawyers pushed back aggressively against the agent\u2019s assertion on cross-examination, suggesting that the article was inconsequential amid a stream of bad publicity for Depp brought on by his own bad behavior. \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If a runner, for example, starts at a very low training volume, the initial increases would be so small that they would be deemed inconsequential . \u2014 Rick Prince, Outside Online , 18 July 2019",
"Dakota Johnson stars as Anne Elliot, our leading lady who laments breaking off her engagement to an inconsequential naval officer, Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), at the behest of her vain family. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"It\u2019s this happy, bubbly, inconsequential thing that\u2019s playing in the background. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, SPIN , 14 June 2022",
"Whether shapeshifting into a different kind of breathtaking beauty or rendering herself unrecognizable, for Kidman, no detail is ever too inconsequential in the spirit of storytelling. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 10 May 2022",
"But a promotion to the major league club seemed inconsequential at the time. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Critiquing anything having to do with football right now, or at all this season, seems inconsequential , but there is 75% of a season still to play, which is still a lot of time for this offensive line to get a lot better. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Because what someone thinks about the song just seems so inconsequential . \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Amber Heard\u2019s lawyers pushed back aggressively against the agent\u2019s assertion on cross-examination, suggesting that the article was inconsequential amid a stream of bad publicity for Depp brought on by his own bad behavior. \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022"
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"There was also the not- inconsiderable fact that Gaumont spent $1 million on the opening party. \u2014 Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 May 2022",
"Ku Klux Klan, a not inconsiderable force in the 1920s, even here, and members were split over \u2014 well, who knows",
"While the loss to studios from these boycotts may not seem inconsiderable (75 percent of 2019\u2019s total box office tops $710 million), Disney CFO Christine McCarthy has downplayed any financial impact. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Mar. 2022",
"There is a not inconsiderable amount of overlap between members of the two academies that are based on opposite sides of the pond. \u2014 Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Legally, financial crimes are notoriously difficult to prosecute successfully, so there is a not- inconsiderable chance that the charges could fail in court. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 30 June 2021",
"Those are not inconsiderable bases on which to claim political legitimacy. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 17 Aug. 2021",
"That such a singular and delicate thing has survived, even thrived, in the roiling seas of television is a seemingly small but not inconsiderable mercy. \u2014 Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times , 7 Nov. 2021",
"And there is also this not inconsiderable benefit: people speak of incompetent writers, but never of incompetent readers. \u2014 Wis\u0142awa Szymborska, The New York Review of Books , 3 Aug. 2021"
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"There was also the not- inconsiderable fact that Gaumont spent $1 million on the opening party. \u2014 Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 May 2022",
"Ku Klux Klan, a not inconsiderable force in the 1920s, even here, and members were split over \u2014 well, who knows",
"While the loss to studios from these boycotts may not seem inconsiderable (75 percent of 2019\u2019s total box office tops $710 million), Disney CFO Christine McCarthy has downplayed any financial impact. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Mar. 2022",
"There is a not inconsiderable amount of overlap between members of the two academies that are based on opposite sides of the pond. \u2014 Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Legally, financial crimes are notoriously difficult to prosecute successfully, so there is a not- inconsiderable chance that the charges could fail in court. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 30 June 2021",
"Those are not inconsiderable bases on which to claim political legitimacy. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 17 Aug. 2021",
"That such a singular and delicate thing has survived, even thrived, in the roiling seas of television is a seemingly small but not inconsiderable mercy. \u2014 Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times , 7 Nov. 2021",
"And there is also this not inconsiderable benefit: people speak of incompetent writers, but never of incompetent readers. \u2014 Wis\u0142awa Szymborska, The New York Review of Books , 3 Aug. 2021"
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"He was rude and inconsiderate to the waiter.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Carrying on a conversation is inconsiderate to everyone else that is packed against one another. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"The main criticisms of short-term rentals are about noise, congestion and inconsiderate behavior from some vacationers who at times seem to turn the units into party houses. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The story caught fire on social media, with some slamming Stafford\u2019s apparent reaction to the incident as inconsiderate and selfish. \u2014 Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"To which Elisa basically says: Well, should that be an excuse for being a myopic and inconsiderate friend",
"The consensus is that Florida drivers are impatient, inconsiderate and often just nasty. \u2014 Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com , 13 Jan. 2022",
"This is way more than being about a pampered athlete who is selfish, inconsiderate or just being a big jerk. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Nov. 2021",
"There are always the right things to do, and then always the inconsiderate . \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Nov. 2021",
"History is replete with inconsiderate constructions that have increased racial and economic divides. \u2014 Annie Brown, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2021"
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"He was rude and inconsiderate to the waiter.",
"There is no excuse for such inconsiderate behavior.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Carrying on a conversation is inconsiderate to everyone else that is packed against one another. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"The main criticisms of short-term rentals are about noise, congestion and inconsiderate behavior from some vacationers who at times seem to turn the units into party houses. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The story caught fire on social media, with some slamming Stafford\u2019s apparent reaction to the incident as inconsiderate and selfish. \u2014 Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"To which Elisa basically says: Well, should that be an excuse for being a myopic and inconsiderate friend",
"The consensus is that Florida drivers are impatient, inconsiderate and often just nasty. \u2014 Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com , 13 Jan. 2022",
"This is way more than being about a pampered athlete who is selfish, inconsiderate or just being a big jerk. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Nov. 2021",
"There are always the right things to do, and then always the inconsiderate . \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Nov. 2021",
"History is replete with inconsiderate constructions that have increased racial and economic divides. \u2014 Annie Brown, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2021"
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"He was rude and inconsiderate to the waiter.",
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"Carrying on a conversation is inconsiderate to everyone else that is packed against one another. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"The main criticisms of short-term rentals are about noise, congestion and inconsiderate behavior from some vacationers who at times seem to turn the units into party houses. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The story caught fire on social media, with some slamming Stafford\u2019s apparent reaction to the incident as inconsiderate and selfish. \u2014 Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"To which Elisa basically says: Well, should that be an excuse for being a myopic and inconsiderate friend",
"The consensus is that Florida drivers are impatient, inconsiderate and often just nasty. \u2014 Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com , 13 Jan. 2022",
"This is way more than being about a pampered athlete who is selfish, inconsiderate or just being a big jerk. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Nov. 2021",
"There are always the right things to do, and then always the inconsiderate . \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Nov. 2021",
"History is replete with inconsiderate constructions that have increased racial and economic divides. \u2014 Annie Brown, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet, his offense through the first two years of his career has been inconsistent and heavily reliant on three-point shooting. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"Furthermore, liberal internationalists\u2019 democracy-first strategy assumes a Manichaean model of geopolitics that is both inconsistent and counterproductive. \u2014 Daniel Bessner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"When asked to elaborate on what was inaccurate or inconsistent , the spokesperson did not respond. \u2014 Nicole Carr, ProPublica , 16 June 2022",
"The goal of the Airline Deregulation Act was to free states from the grip of onerous and inconsistent state laws keeping prices high and limiting the availability of rights and services. \u2014 Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The limited and inconsistent program offerings for women tend to take place in the evenings in the visiting room. \u2014 Keri Blakinger, Rolling Stone , 5 June 2022",
"Yet the leading social-media giants have earned the public\u2019s mistrust through politically biased and often arbitrary and inconsistent use of their power to censor or promote content on their platforms. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 3 June 2022",
"But public health officials appointed by Biden\u2014especially Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC\u2014have offered inconsistent and confusing guidance to the public. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 2 June 2022",
"But trip reports on social media may be inaccurate, misrepresentative, or inconsistent . \u2014 Outside Online , 29 May 2022"
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"cheery",
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"gladdened",
"gladsome",
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"She was inconsolable when she learned that he had died.",
"he was inconsolable after the death of his wife",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Maddie was lying on the ground, inconsolable , refusing to move on with her day. \u2014 Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star , 17 June 2022",
"Strong winds were responsible for more than just knocking a few sticks of cotton candy from the hands of seemingly inconsolable children. \u2014 Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal , 1 May 2022",
"Yulia\u2019s neighbors heard her that night, inconsolable . \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Yulia\u2019s neighbors heard her that night, inconsolable . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Travis Grayson, Chesterton\u2019s star senior point guard, was almost inconsolable after the game. \u2014 Michael Osipoff, chicagotribune.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Linnet Doyle, an enviably rich socialite taking a honeymoon cruise down the Nile River, has just been found shot to death in her stateroom; her husband, Simon, is an inconsolable wreck, sobbing noisily over her body. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Linnet Doyle, an enviably rich socialite taking a honeymoon cruise down the Nile River, has just been found shot to death in her stateroom; her husband, Simon, is an inconsolable wreck, sobbing noisily over her body. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Tutberidze put her arm around her, but Valieva was visibly inconsolable . \u2014 Saphora Smith, NBC News , 18 Feb. 2022"
],
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"1596, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Latin inconsolabilis , from in- + consolabilis consolable":""
},
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259n-\u02c8s\u014d-l\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"blue",
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"disconsolate",
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"droopy",
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"buoyed",
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"cheery",
"chipper",
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"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat"
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},
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"She was inconsolable when she learned that he had died.",
"he was inconsolable after the death of his wife",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Maddie was lying on the ground, inconsolable , refusing to move on with her day. \u2014 Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star , 17 June 2022",
"Strong winds were responsible for more than just knocking a few sticks of cotton candy from the hands of seemingly inconsolable children. \u2014 Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal , 1 May 2022",
"Yulia\u2019s neighbors heard her that night, inconsolable . \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Yulia\u2019s neighbors heard her that night, inconsolable . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Travis Grayson, Chesterton\u2019s star senior point guard, was almost inconsolable after the game. \u2014 Michael Osipoff, chicagotribune.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Linnet Doyle, an enviably rich socialite taking a honeymoon cruise down the Nile River, has just been found shot to death in her stateroom; her husband, Simon, is an inconsolable wreck, sobbing noisily over her body. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Linnet Doyle, an enviably rich socialite taking a honeymoon cruise down the Nile River, has just been found shot to death in her stateroom; her husband, Simon, is an inconsolable wreck, sobbing noisily over her body. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Tutberidze put her arm around her, but Valieva was visibly inconsolable . \u2014 Saphora Smith, NBC News , 18 Feb. 2022"
],
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"1596, in the meaning defined above":""
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"that is inconsonant with established judicial tradition"
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"1658, in the meaning defined above":""
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"clashing",
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"conspicuous",
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},
"examples":[
"She tried to remain as inconspicuous as possible so that no one would see her there.",
"left an inconspicuous scratch on the wall",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its website is inconspicuous and speaks about offering scholarships for Nebraska college students. \u2014 Warren Buffett, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"In more than 30 years of sobriety, editor Randy Essex has learned how to be inconspicuous about not drinking. \u2014 Randy Essex, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"Some of the city\u2019s cameras are in plain view and some inconspicuous . \u2014 Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Owner and curator Danielle \u2018Dani\u2019 Higgins takes an auto body shop and turns it into a gallery, store and event space for creatives To say that Department is inconspicuous would be a slight understatement. \u2014 Seth Combswriter, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The subtle folding bridge looks totally inconspicuous when opened and on the face while the crystal lens material ensures full UV protection. \u2014 Kaitlyn Mcinnis, Travel + Leisure , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In this company, a bright yellow Urus feels almost inconspicuous . . . \u2014 Tim Pitt, Robb Report , 1 Apr. 2022",
"One that also threatens to expose his family\u2019s seemingly inconspicuous facade. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Usually, cars in this class are dowdy and inconspicuous \u2014 just check out a 2016 Sentra. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 12 Mar. 2022"
],
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"circa 1828, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"-ky\u00fc-\u0259s",
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"faith",
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"fealty",
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},
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"a wife who was long inured to the chronic inconstancy of her husband",
"the inconstancy of public opinion is such that today's hero may be tomorrow's punching bag",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Over the past 20 years, the United States has undermined its own global leadership by inconstancy . \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 9 June 2021",
"An acidic trickle of disenchantment, especially regarding Bellow\u2019s inconstancy with women and family, runs through it. \u2014 David Remnick, The New Yorker , 22 Mar. 2021",
"Magill\u2019s recollection, recounted in Blum\u2019s Morgenthau biography, captures a typical moment of presidential inconstancy . \u2014 Joseph Thorndike, Forbes , 9 Mar. 2021",
"As his sister Isabella, mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala is marvelously impassioned \u2014 another victim of Heathcliff's wild emotional inconstancy , and arguably the only major character in the opera who is fully sympathetic. \u2014 Terry Blain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 26 Oct. 2020",
"The Trump administration\u2019s policies have instead been characterized by inconstancy . \u2014 Editorial Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune , 25 Aug. 2020",
"But while there are benefits to highlighting Democratic hypocrisy and media inconstancy , the larger goal is to raise awareness of Biden\u2019s alleged misdeeds with voters. \u2014 David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner , 30 Apr. 2020",
"Due to several inconstancies in the victim\u2019s statement a Police Information report was generated. \u2014 Houston Chronicle , 16 Sep. 2019",
"But the inconstancy in Democratic alarm levels isn\u2019t reserved just for big moments like President Trump\u2019s Finnish face plant. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 18 July 2018"
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"1526, in the meaning defined above":""
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u00e4n(t)-st\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
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"the inconstant nature of the business",
"our windjammer sailed wherever the inconstant winds took us",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The former President\u2019s endorsement last month of Oz\u2014a television celebrity who had not lived in Pennsylvania for decades, and whose commitment to conservative principles was at best inconstant \u2014was seen as an out-of-the-box choice. \u2014 The New Yorker , 15 May 2022",
"No indications of inconstant constants have yet emerged. \u2014 Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2021",
"As the paranoid Lise grows convinced that her husband is plotting to induce her to commit suicide, the voices ratchet up, accusing her of various offenses: of being an inattentive wife, an inconstant mother, a solipsistic writer. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Jan. 2021",
"His main failing has been inconstant rhetorical leadership. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 10 Sep. 2020",
"And the prospect of hacking by foreign adversaries\u2014or by any malign actor\u2014will always be present in a system as decentralized and inconstant as the one that grew out of that single line in the Constitution. \u2014 Sue Halpern, The New Yorker , 7 July 2020",
"Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable. \u2014 Shannon Stirone, Wired , 11 Apr. 2020",
"But more interesting than Medvedev\u2019s inconstant persona were the shades and shadows of his game. \u2014 Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker , 6 Sep. 2019",
"Seven members of the Labour opposition resigned from the party in protest over leader Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s inconstant dealing on Brexit and tolerance for anti-Semitism. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 18 Feb. 2019"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u00e4n(t)-st\u0259nt",
"\u02c8in-\u02c8k\u00e4n(t)-st\u0259nt"
],
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"answerable",
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"controvertible",
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"disputable",
"doubtable",
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"incontestable talent"
]
},
"examples":[
"The evidence against him is incontestable .",
"the incontestable statement that every contest has a winner and a loser",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"China claims the island, a self-governing democracy that is critical to global technology supply chains, as an incontestable part of its territory. \u2014 Ana Swanson, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"The charge that economists are more than occasionally guilty of excessive self-confidence is incontestable . \u2014 Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Today, the Sun Ra Arkestra\u2019s influence on avant-garde American music and Afrofuturist thought is incontestable . \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The advancement in the 24 years that separated their wins \u2014 embodied with such resolute strength of character by Poitier \u2014 is incontestable . \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Jan. 2022",
"What all these arguments miss is the simple fact that, despite whatever rising costs exist for raw materials or transportation or other underlying factors, the incontestable truth is: profits are way up for the largest corporations in America. \u2014 Faiz Shakir, The New Republic , 22 Nov. 2021",
"The combination of these poor incentives results in money being siphoned from average Americans in a virtually incontestable fashion. \u2014 Frederick Daso, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
"There are no incontestable arguments or fail-proof strategies that will always convert a conspiracy theorist to skepticism. \u2014 Jovan Byford, CNN , 4 Aug. 2020",
"Yet the facts were incontestable , the verdict and sentence assured: guilty, and life imprisonment, the death penalty being a thing of the past in France. \u2014 Robert Gottlieb, New York Times , 12 Dec. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1673, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"French, from in- + contestable , from contester to contest":""
},
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259n-\u02c8te-st\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"inarguable",
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},
"examples":[
"The evidence against him is incontestable .",
"the incontestable statement that every contest has a winner and a loser",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"China claims the island, a self-governing democracy that is critical to global technology supply chains, as an incontestable part of its territory. \u2014 Ana Swanson, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"The charge that economists are more than occasionally guilty of excessive self-confidence is incontestable . \u2014 Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Today, the Sun Ra Arkestra\u2019s influence on avant-garde American music and Afrofuturist thought is incontestable . \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The advancement in the 24 years that separated their wins \u2014 embodied with such resolute strength of character by Poitier \u2014 is incontestable . \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Jan. 2022",
"What all these arguments miss is the simple fact that, despite whatever rising costs exist for raw materials or transportation or other underlying factors, the incontestable truth is: profits are way up for the largest corporations in America. \u2014 Faiz Shakir, The New Republic , 22 Nov. 2021",
"The combination of these poor incentives results in money being siphoned from average Americans in a virtually incontestable fashion. \u2014 Frederick Daso, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
"There are no incontestable arguments or fail-proof strategies that will always convert a conspiracy theorist to skepticism. \u2014 Jovan Byford, CNN , 4 Aug. 2020",
"Yet the facts were incontestable , the verdict and sentence assured: guilty, and life imprisonment, the death penalty being a thing of the past in France. \u2014 Robert Gottlieb, New York Times , 12 Dec. 2019"
],
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"1673, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"French, from in- + contestable , from contester to contest":""
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259n-\u02c8te-st\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040853",
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"It is true that the religion of the missionaries has \u2026 effected some good. It has restrained the vices of theft and incontinence .",
"\u2014 Herman Melville"
],
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"\u2014 Woody West"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For urgency incontinence there are a number of prescription medications that doctors will often try first. \u2014 Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Kamnisha Wellness is a manufacturer of custom topical, organic CBD oils that deal with pain management, incontinence and at least 55 other ailments. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Treatments for it typically are blunt, including removal of the prostate, and can cause incontinence and impotence. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 May 2022",
"The most common symptoms in pets exposed to cannabis included disorientation, lethargy, abnormal or uncoordinated movements such as swaying, lowered heart rate and urinary incontinence . \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Homeless people in their 50s are showing geriatric symptoms: difficulty dressing and bathing, visual and hearing problems, urinary incontinence . \u2014 New York Times , 18 Apr. 2022",
"But emotional incontinence doesn't cure anything except warmth, trust and peace of mind. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
"At what point does Joe Biden\u2019s verbal incontinence start to become a mortal threat to Americans",
"Two University Hospital physicians \u2014 Dr. Adonis Hijaz and and Dr. Goutham Rao \u2014 have received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to find ways to improve care of women with urinary incontinence . \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 15 Mar. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"(\u02c8)in-\u02c8k\u00e4nt-\u1d4an-\u0259n(t)s",
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u00e4n-t\u0259-n\u0259n(t)s"
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": without moral restraint : lewdly":[]
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
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"instantaneously",
"instanter",
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"PDQ",
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"right now",
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"straight off",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174026",
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"adverb"
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},
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"controllable",
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],
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"American Idol had a heyday, like few shows ever do, and that\u2019s an incontrovertible fact. \u2014 Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone , 10 June 2022",
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"Here\u2019s another incontrovertible fact: Four of the first five bakers eliminated came from constituencies that voted Leave in 2016, while the top seven were all from Remain cities. \u2014 Nate Jones, Vulture , 1 Dec. 2021",
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"From all of the opinions, one incontrovertible truth emerged: People really, really love Reese\u2019s Peanut Butter Cups. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Nov. 2021",
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"One year before a jury in Simi Valley declared the officers who beat King not guilty, Southern Californians learned that incontrovertible video evidence was not enough to verify the reality of racist policing. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"American Idol had a heyday, like few shows ever do, and that\u2019s an incontrovertible fact. \u2014 Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone , 10 June 2022",
"This incontrovertible fact lends a sense of urgency and poignancy to firsthand accounts of how survivors managed to endure and to move on. \u2014 Alissa Simon, Variety , 2 May 2022",
"Here\u2019s another incontrovertible fact: Four of the first five bakers eliminated came from constituencies that voted Leave in 2016, while the top seven were all from Remain cities. \u2014 Nate Jones, Vulture , 1 Dec. 2021",
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"This week\u2019s hearing was not about disclosing, once and for all, incontrovertible visual evidence of extraterrestrial craft whizzing through Earth\u2019s atmosphere. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 19 May 2022",
"From all of the opinions, one incontrovertible truth emerged: People really, really love Reese\u2019s Peanut Butter Cups. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Nov. 2021",
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"Any wish or even longing I might have to see her produced no results; sometimes when she showed up it was actually inconvenient, but frustrated longing and inconvenience both ended the same way \u2026 \u2014 Jane Smiley , Good Faith , 2003",
"Jem knew as well as I that it was difficult to walk fast without stumping a toe, tripping on stones, and other inconveniences , and I was barefooted. \u2014 Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird , 1960",
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"\u2026 I could count on one of my aunts to insist that she take me to some far-off corner of Nairobi to find the best bargains, no matter how long the trip took or how much it might inconvenience her. \u2014 Barack Obama , Dreams from My Father , (1995) 2004",
"Medieval manuscripts are turgid with abbreviations, which favor the copyist although they inconvenience the reader. \u2014 Walter J. Ong , Orality and Literacy , (1982) 2002",
"The work was inconvenienced by the time of year, there being only about three hours of natural light per day, but the pyroclastic spectacle made the darkness photogenic. \u2014 John McPhee , New Yorker , 22 Feb. 1988",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Still, a little inconvenience didn\u2019t put a damper on Auburn\u2019s mood ahead of its second College World Series appearance in the last three postseasons. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"Since Tesla vehicles can have their software overwritten via a wireless connection to the cloud, a recall does not necessarily require bringing the vehicles to the dealers \u2014 a move that can be costly and above all inconvenience customers. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"But these people are fine with committing harm, not fine with experiencing inconvenience . \u2014 Damon Young, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
"These health care strikes have imposed great cost and inconvenience on hospitals and patients. \u2014 Patrick Gleason, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Many public health experts, including me, would recommend testing out of isolation as an additional level of precaution that also reduces inconvenience . \u2014 Katia Hetter, CNN , 18 May 2022",
"Inflation is top of mind in most American households, with more than 9 in 10 families telling CBS News that rising prices have posed a financial hardship or inconvenience . \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 11 May 2022",
"Besides the inconvenience , Afflalo said, the lack of services often results in these patients having more severe health problems, as many choose to put off doctor visits. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 May 2022",
"The latest measures by the government, though an inconvenience , are unlikely to change that fundamental calculus. \u2014 Megha Mandavia, WSJ , 3 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"For elderly immigrants in particular, language barriers precluded them from accessing social services, and their own reticence to inconvenience people with their needs kept them silent. \u2014 Karissa Chen, Bon App\u00e9tit , 31 May 2022",
"Visits by honeybees can inconvenience the hummingbirds at times, especially in the morning at feeders that better accommodate the bees. \u2014 Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News , 27 May 2022",
"There are fewer pedestrians and cyclists, and fewer people to inconvenience if the car gets confused and blocks traffic. \u2014 Matt Mcfarland, CNN , 8 Feb. 2022",
"In January, Macron used a pungent epithet to describe his desire to isolate and inconvenience those who refuse to be vaccinated. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Expelling Russia would severely inconvenience nations like Germany, which rely on the system to buy Russian natural gas and oil exports. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Long anticipated but nonetheless dreaded, the 56-hour closure of Interstate 10 in Boerne this weekend will inconvenience drivers but allow Texas Department of Transportation crews to demolish the old Texas 46 overpass. \u2014 Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News , 10 Feb. 2022",
"For many on the political left, racial progress is something to be played down or ignored altogether, and nothing seems to inconvenience them more than the incredible strides America has made in recent decades on voting rights. \u2014 Jason L. Riley, WSJ , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Business owners forced workers to stay on the job, often in dangerous, unsanitary conditions, without protective gear, sick leave, or other protections that would cost money or inconvenience the capitalist class. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 16 Oct. 2021"
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"Healthcare has historically been an inconvenient and expensive service to access. \u2014 Mark Opauszky, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Next, complacency: Even when the inconvenient facts are reluctantly acknowledged, a misplaced confidence that a small adjustment is all that is needed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 13 June 2022",
"When a system is compromised, the effect can be roughly categorized two ways: business-critical or inconvenient . \u2014 Dylan Natter, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"JESSE GREEN Theater, particularly musical theater, has often abetted the distortion and flat-out erasure of inconvenient histories. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
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"And here's the best part: Living a sustainable life doesn't have to be expensive, inconvenient or overwhelming. \u2014 Annie O\u2019sullivan, Good Housekeeping , 19 Apr. 2022",
"As companies mandate people back to the office, workers across the nation are finding the switch to be messy, inconvenient and in some cases even pointless. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Skeptics might wonder whether this will translate to real changes which could be both costly and inconvenient . \u2014 Nives Dolsak And Aseem Prakash, Forbes , 19 Sep. 2021"
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"That might be a certificate of authority to sell goods with sales tax in New York, or a permit to expand your residence to incorporate your growing home business. \u2014 Mauricio Rosero, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Machines also make for a better and safer option to incorporate rest-pause sets. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 22 June 2022",
"It was designed to incorporate a multitude of factors and spit out projections for product demand and the growth in logistics needed to fulfill it. \u2014 Dana Mattioli, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"Just before serving, remove the prepared tonnato sauce from the fridge and stir to incorporate any oil that may have separated. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"In typical Honda fashion, the flat surface on top of the dash was designed to incorporate functional storage space. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 13 June 2022",
"Iterations of these homes evolved over the next decade to incorporate passive solar and natural ventilation. \u2014 Katherine Roth, USA TODAY , 12 June 2022",
"To make the dressing: Combine all of the ingredients in a blender or a bowl and mix or whisk to incorporate . \u2014 Reem Assil, Robb Report , 11 June 2022",
"By understanding that sometimes supplies won\u2019t be available to incorporate trends for the summer, Harris suggests changing your mindset. \u2014 Brittney Oliver, Essence , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Reuters reported Navalny\u2019s existing sentence will be incorporate in the nine-year sentence handed down by Judge Margarita Kotova Tuesday. \u2014 Danielle Wallace, Fox News , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Both like interiors that mix high and low and incorporate flea-market treasurers \u2014 a floral still life, a vintage bar cart \u2014 alongside signature pieces from established designers like Jean-Michel Frank and Pierre Paulin. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Get feedback from those who are skeptical and incorporate solutions to their concerns in the presentation. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 15 Sep. 2021",
"The staff was reorganized in an effort to more seamlessly incorporate front-office data into game planning. \u2014 Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com , 27 Feb. 2021",
"The majority of those surveyed also suggested that hotel business models will shift with increasingly incorporate alternative accommodation options (such as short-term rentals) into their business models. \u2014 Kimberly Wilson, Essence , 1 Mar. 2021",
"Their answers are not guidelines for the public and incorporate respondents\u2019 individual life circumstances, risk tolerance, and expectations about when there will be widespread testing, contact tracing, treatment, and vaccination for COVID-19. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2020",
"The ideal food system would of course incorporate elements of all three of these visions. \u2014 Anna Davies, Quartz , 4 Nov. 2019",
"Since 2013, Black Bottle Brewery in Colorado has made beer using Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms and Peanut Butter Cap\u2019n Crunch, though none of those incorporate food waste. \u2014 David Yaffe-bellany, New York Times , 3 July 2019"
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"The company is incorporated in the state of Delaware.",
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"Rocky Ripple is an incorporated town surrounded by the city of Indianapolis, nestled between the White River and Central Canal. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star , 20 May 2022",
"The boundaries extend well beyond the community\u2019s historic core, which was once an incorporated town for about five years in the early 1900s. \u2014 Brian Eason, ajc , 12 Mar. 2022",
"If cooking on the stovetop, stir occasionally to break up the pieces of tomato and make sure all the spices are well incorporated . \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Continue to mash the mixture until the potatoes are quite smooth and everything is well incorporated . \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2021",
"Sonora, the county\u2019s only incorporated city, named after the Mexican miners who founded it, rests on the western slopes of the mountain range. \u2014 Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 May 2022",
"Your best bet is to lightly whisk the whole egg in a small bowl until incorporated and then measure out half the amount. \u2014 Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon App\u00e9tit , 6 May 2022",
"Next Step now rents from St. John\u2019s Episcopal Church, which started its mission before becoming an incorporated nonprofit in 2002. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Other projects, such as the lampposts along Temple Street decorated with Filipino sun medallions, incorporated public input in the design process. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Mar. 2022"
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"Their physical bodies \u2014 and your own \u2014 get entangled with those pictorial references to bodily experience, bringing a ghostly, incorporeal picture home. \u2014 Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Apart from the incorporeal fence through which my virtual car glides, the experience is a compelling facsimile of the world. \u2014 Alex Davies, WIRED , 18 July 2019",
"But after the away team meets the Guardian of Forever, an incorporeal lifeform tasked with guarding a time gateway, the show takes a more interesting turn. \u2014 Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics , 29 June 2018"
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"The doctor's diagnosis was incorrect .",
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"Trump\u2019s statement that Trump and Pence agreed that the vice president could overturn the election was incorrect , Jacob said. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"The calculation that was incorrect , at least to this point, was Minor\u2019s effectiveness as a starter. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 26 June 2022",
"The Department of Public Safety stopped holding public briefings within a week of the shooting after several of the details shared by officials, including Mr. McCraw and Gov. Greg Abbott, turned out to be incorrect . \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"The county\u2019s consultant said Tuesday that the city will have a development agreement before the City Council on Sept. 20, but Schaaf told The Chronicle that was incorrect . \u2014 Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 June 2022",
"Tenant advocates worry that this can lead to incorrect rulings in favor of landlords. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"In April 2020, a cyberattack on Israel's water system could have led to incorrect levels of chemicals like chlorine being added to drinking water. \u2014 Hadas Gold, CNN , 4 Dec. 2021",
"Another problem is lack of quality medical education on vaccination which leads to incorrect practices and confuses patients, Shahin said. \u2014 Yulia Drozd, ABC News , 23 Oct. 2021",
"But pre-rendered cutscenes necessarily exclude the player\u2019s character or use an incorrect generic version of the character. \u2014 Barry Jenkins, Forbes , 17 Sep. 2021"
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"The doctor's diagnosis was incorrect .",
"The story in the newspaper is incorrect .",
"The restaurant considers jeans and T-shirts incorrect attire for dinner.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Trump\u2019s statement that Trump and Pence agreed that the vice president could overturn the election was incorrect , Jacob said. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"The calculation that was incorrect , at least to this point, was Minor\u2019s effectiveness as a starter. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 26 June 2022",
"The Department of Public Safety stopped holding public briefings within a week of the shooting after several of the details shared by officials, including Mr. McCraw and Gov. Greg Abbott, turned out to be incorrect . \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"The county\u2019s consultant said Tuesday that the city will have a development agreement before the City Council on Sept. 20, but Schaaf told The Chronicle that was incorrect . \u2014 Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 June 2022",
"Tenant advocates worry that this can lead to incorrect rulings in favor of landlords. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"In April 2020, a cyberattack on Israel's water system could have led to incorrect levels of chemicals like chlorine being added to drinking water. \u2014 Hadas Gold, CNN , 4 Dec. 2021",
"Another problem is lack of quality medical education on vaccination which leads to incorrect practices and confuses patients, Shahin said. \u2014 Yulia Drozd, ABC News , 23 Oct. 2021",
"But pre-rendered cutscenes necessarily exclude the player\u2019s character or use an incorrect generic version of the character. \u2014 Barry Jenkins, Forbes , 17 Sep. 2021"
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"The doctor's diagnosis was incorrect .",
"The story in the newspaper is incorrect .",
"The restaurant considers jeans and T-shirts incorrect attire for dinner.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Trump\u2019s statement that Trump and Pence agreed that the vice president could overturn the election was incorrect , Jacob said. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"The calculation that was incorrect , at least to this point, was Minor\u2019s effectiveness as a starter. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 26 June 2022",
"The Department of Public Safety stopped holding public briefings within a week of the shooting after several of the details shared by officials, including Mr. McCraw and Gov. Greg Abbott, turned out to be incorrect . \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"The county\u2019s consultant said Tuesday that the city will have a development agreement before the City Council on Sept. 20, but Schaaf told The Chronicle that was incorrect . \u2014 Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 June 2022",
"Tenant advocates worry that this can lead to incorrect rulings in favor of landlords. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"In April 2020, a cyberattack on Israel's water system could have led to incorrect levels of chemicals like chlorine being added to drinking water. \u2014 Hadas Gold, CNN , 4 Dec. 2021",
"Another problem is lack of quality medical education on vaccination which leads to incorrect practices and confuses patients, Shahin said. \u2014 Yulia Drozd, ABC News , 23 Oct. 2021",
"But pre-rendered cutscenes necessarily exclude the player\u2019s character or use an incorrect generic version of the character. \u2014 Barry Jenkins, Forbes , 17 Sep. 2021"
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"The incorrigible maleness of men is a standing rebuke to the Rousseau-inspired notions of human moral plasticity that are central to liberalism. \u2014 Richard Lowry , National Review , 3 July 2000",
"At the heart of Roosevelt's style in foreign affairs was a certain incorrigible amateurism. His off-the-cuff improvisations, his airy tendency to throw out half-baked ideas, caused others to underrate his continuity of purpose \u2026 \u2014 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. , American Heritage , May/June 1994",
"Eating fugu \u2026 is an exotic custom that probably would appeal to every incorrigible mountain climber, skydiver and bungee-jumper in America. Why",
"Yes, this is a book about America \u2026 all seen through the fairy-book life of an incorrigible kid, abandoned by his parents and brought up in a reformatory \u2026 \u2014 Stephen Jay Gould , New York Times Book Review , 7 May 1989",
"an incorrigible habit of playing practical jokes",
"He is always the class clown and his teachers say he is incorrigible .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Atlantic risks getting addicted to these yarns because of their popularity among non-Californians, in the same sense that the first taste of human blood has been reputed to turn African lions into incorrigible man-eaters. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"From the start, Barney was an incorrigible charmer, and Blanche delighted in the attention. \u2014 April White, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Brown created one of its most popular characters in Cotton, a devout Christian and incorrigible gossip who worked in the local laundromat and assessed her neighbors with a sharp eye and equally sharp tongue. \u2014 Jill Lawless, USA TODAY , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, more than half the film\u2019s running time is devoted to the party itself, where the incorrigible alpha male Lucas dominates the conversation and makes everyone uncomfortable. \u2014 Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The one major hiccup came with measuring the flow of heat through the planet: the lander\u2019s heat probe couldn\u2019t punch itself into the ground and get operational thanks to some surprisingly incorrigible soil. \u2014 Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 Mar. 2022",
"New Yorker contributors have always been an incorrigible group of eavesdroppers. \u2014 The New Yorker , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Part of the answer is incorrigible and long-standing American opposition to experts and authorities of all kinds. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Whoever succeeds Bonin is going to find that the fractured, multi-agency homeless services bureaucracy is an incorrigible beast. \u2014 Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 5 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Those rain chances increase Sunday to as much as 40%. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 July 2022",
"Either increase the cup size, or look to a wider wire shape for greater containment. \u2014 Charlotte Owen, Vogue , 1 July 2022",
"That total will increase next week with Highland Home DL Keldric Faulk, Alabama Christian DB Avery Stuart and Thompson DL Peter Woods all set to make their choice. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 1 July 2022",
"But smugglers are known to evade checkpoints, and in some cases, checkpoints increase deadly vehicle pursuits that cost the lives of migrants. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 July 2022",
"That\u2019s a staggering $1.5 billion to seven players \u2013 and will increase to nearly $1.7 billion when James Harden completes a new deal with Philadelphia. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"President Biden announced at the gathering Wednesday that the United States will increase its military presence in Europe, citing Russia\u2019s invasion. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Biden pledged Wednesday to permanently increase American military presence in eastern Europe, including establishing a permanent base in Poland, the U.S.\u2019 first in eastern Europe. \u2014 Derek Saul, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"President Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. would increase its troop presence in Europe as part of a broader commitment among NATO allies to shore up their regional defenses in response to Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. \u2014 Eli Stokolsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The number of patients in intensive care dropped by one to 47, breaking with a three-day increase . \u2014 Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online , 1 July 2022",
"Salary expectations are significantly higher, in line with an increase in living costs, with the pandemic prompting huge changes in terms of the packages that employees are demanding. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Combined with the increase in bioavailable phosphorus concentration in the early 2000s (as a result of changes in agricultural practices), this rainfall trend may explain the higher-than-average phosphorus loads each spring over the last 14 years. \u2014 cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"The companies found that vaccines targeting Omicron induced higher levels of antibodies against the variant than the existing vaccines, but with a relatively modest increase . \u2014 Noah Weiland, New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Pharmaceutical advertisers spent more than most other sectors, NBCU said, with an increase of nearly 40% in commitments. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 30 June 2022",
"With this budget increase , tuition should remain the same, according to the budget presentation June 14 by Trevor Jackson, vice president of finance and administration at the college. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 28 June 2022",
"With the increase , smuggling attempts are also rising as more and more people from across the Western Hemisphere and beyond seek to bypass restrictive border policies at the U.S.-Mexico border and in the Caribbean. \u2014 Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Staffing problems have coincided with an increase in tampon demand. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022"
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"an increased concentration of sugar in the bloodstream",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Aziz said increased patrols and other resources have been deployed in those areas. \u2014 Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
"An increased Arab turnout could meaningfully shift the electoral map once the election is over. \u2014 Dov Lieber, WSJ , 30 June 2022",
"But one trend emerged in multiple interviews: an increased adoption of Airsoft guns \u2014 which are replicas that don\u2019t use gunpowder and shoot projectiles with vastly lower muzzle energy \u2014 in lieu of firearms retrofitted for blanks. \u2014 Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 June 2022",
"However, due to the increased economic uncertainty weighing on the broader markets, the P/S multiple has pulled back, currently standing at around 4.6x. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"JetBlue Airways continued its fight to acquire Spirit Airlines, raising its all-cash bid yet again in response to an increased offer by rival suitor Frontier in the days before a crucial shareholder vote. \u2014 Mary Schlangenstein And Scott Deveau, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"In recent weeks, the government of President Guillermo Lasso has faced increased protests over demands to reduce the prices on certain products. \u2014 Fox News , 28 June 2022",
"Despite an increased focus on the impact of social drivers of health, medicine has been slow to recognize that how people are connected to one another and their community \u2014 including their community of faith \u2014 is a social driver of health. \u2014 T. Salewa Oseni, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"The legislation calls for engaging with industry partners and expanding industrial base capacity to support increased submarine production. \u2014 Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The 30-year-old Black combat veteran had grown increasingly depressed after the recent deaths of his sister, father and uncle in quick succession. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Rapid tech advancements and lower barriers have made AI increasingly popular. \u2014 Sourabh Gupta, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"With the revival of the 1985 classic, Bush has become increasingly popular with younger listeners. \u2014 Thania Garcia, Variety , 22 June 2022",
"Ojai has become an increasingly popular destination for Angelenos looking for a day or weekend trip. \u2014 Felicia Alvarez, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Manipulating these microbes is an increasingly popular aim for beauty brands, as evidenced by a wave of new products that tout probiotics, prebiotics or postbiotics as ingredients. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"The imbroglio over the bananas was becoming increasingly desperate for One Banana. \u2014 John Francis Peters, ProPublica , 16 June 2022",
"But city tours are increasingly popular for 2022 as well, the news release said. \u2014 Forrest Brown, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"Kimberly and Felix Rubio testified about their increasingly desperate search for their daughter that afternoon. \u2014 Kenneth Tran, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Investors flocked to funds that tracked the S&P because of its incredible run during bull market that began in 2009 and lasted more than a decade. \u2014 Max Zahn, ABC News , 24 June 2022",
"Our universe is dotted with an incredible array of things in every possible phase of their development, from the swirling clouds that will eventually bear stars, to the long-dead cloudy remnants of other stars. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 24 June 2022",
"With the right resources, the right conversations, and the right energy, those are what make this such an incredible story. \u2014 Annie Probert, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"Stargazers will need to have a clear view of the eastern horizon to spot the incredible phenomenon, Hannikainen said. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Like the rest of the Bluegrass State, Hart County has some incredible water adventures suitable for a family excursion. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 23 June 2022",
"There's something incredible about watching animators, developers, and other creators rally around Elden Ring. \u2014 Nathaniel Mott, PCMAG , 23 June 2022",
"The incredibly charismatic Jessica Williams stars as the incredible Jessica James in this rom-com. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 23 June 2022",
"Summer is an incredible time to enjoy hiking and camping in the valley here. \u2014 Outside Online , 23 June 2022"
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"the entrance exam to the elite prep school was incredibly difficult",
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"There is also the spiritual, inner effect, incredibly hard to put into words. \u2014 Javier Hasse, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"At this difficulty, opponents become harshly effective, tackling nearby characters at the drop of a hat and making even basic passing and shooting an incredibly difficult game of positioning. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 10 June 2022",
"Prohibition makes landing on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ incredibly difficult for cannabis companies. \u2014 Igor Dunaevsky, Rolling Stone , 8 June 2022",
"But, there is nothing mysterious about this smooth cream that rubs into the skin incredibly well and is chock full of high-end ingredients. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"Although her focus is on her daughter\u2019s well-being, Gonzales added that the circumstances have been incredibly difficult to handle as a parent. \u2014 al , 27 May 2022",
"Although her focus is on her daughter\u2019s well-being, Gonzales added that the circumstances have been incredibly difficult to handle as a parent. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 27 May 2022",
"Though her focus is on her daughter\u2019s well-being, Gonzales added that the circumstances had been incredibly difficult to handle as a parent. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"President Biden has done a very good job under incredibly difficult circumstances. \u2014 CBS News , 22 May 2022"
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"His feet in leg irons are tensed, the toes and arches curled in quiet incredulity . \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Feb. 2022",
"McGlocklin said, his voice hitting a high pitch of incredulity . \u2014 Jim Owczarski, USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Yet there is still a feeling of incredulity in local rugby circles that the showpiece of their sport is about to be awarded to the U.S. \u2014 John Stensholt, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
"This is typical of the flustered incredulity mustered up by the physics community whenever the subject of the simulation disturbs the learned serenity of their exemplary calculations. \u2014 Jason Kehe, Wired , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Laura Jedeed details the launch of James O\u2019Keefe\u2019s latest book, American Muckraker, and her incredulity at what takes place oozes from her words. \u2014 Longreads , 6 Apr. 2022",
"McGlocklin said, his voice hitting a high pitch of incredulity . \u2014 Jim Owczarski, USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"McGlocklin said, his voice hitting a high pitch of incredulity . \u2014 Jim Owczarski, USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"McGlocklin said, his voice hitting a high pitch of incredulity . \u2014 Jim Owczarski, USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022"
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"\"Afraid not.\" I made an expression to show that I was as incredulous about this as he was. \u2014 Bill Bryson , I'm a Stranger Here Myself , 1999",
"A tweed-encased fogey, he's allergic to technology, persnickety about language, and incredulous that anyone could object to his incessant smoking. \u2014 John Powers , Vogue , March 1998",
"He was greeted with incredulous laughter. \u2014 Robert M. Hutchins , Center Magazine , September 1968",
"\u2026 no obstacle, no incredulous or unsafe circumstance \u2026 \u2014 William Shakespeare , Twelfth Night , 1602",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Coach Kadrina Coffee was incredulous that no video or photos were allowed in the discussion. \u2014 Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 May 2022",
"Now Amazon is giving Rivian investors reasons to be a lot more incredulous . \u2014 Courtney Vinopal, Quartz , 6 Jan. 2022",
"The cousins\u2019 real-life reaction was similarly incredulous . \u2014 E. Alex Jung, Vulture , 2 Aug. 2021",
"Applicants for the grant program were incredulous that the agency was not better prepared \u2014 especially because the funds are to be distributed based on the order in which people apply. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2021",
"Those who first hear about Keeper\u2019s Heart can be incredulous . \u2014 Gina Pace, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"That drew an incredulous response from Judge John Kissinger. \u2014 Holly Ramer, Star Tribune , 25 Mar. 2021",
"The comment provoked an incredulous response from Justice Russell Brown. \u2014 Dan Bilefsky, New York Times , 20 Feb. 2021",
"That didn\u2019t cut it when diehard fans and cinephiles alike were left incredulous Tuesday. \u2014 Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times , 8 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Detractors cite her pledges to support an independent ward remapping process and to rein in the controversial developer-subsidy program known as tax increment financing. \u2014 Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"In February 2021, the state had announced a public financing package for the Tidewater project: $36.2 million in what\u2019s called tax increment financing. \u2014 Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"The four-year deal, which includes 2.5% annual cost-of-living increases, a yearly step increment that typically adds another 2 percentage points, and one-time bonuses totaling $3,500 will cost the state an average of more than $460 million per year. \u2014 Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant , 21 May 2022",
"Through tax increment financing and public-private partnerships, the city can carefully plan its growth in areas designated for redevelopment, Mestetsky said. \u2014 Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star , 13 May 2022",
"Fox Lake officials are steadily moving forward with a proposal to designate the northwest corner of Route 12 and Big Hollow Road as a tax- increment financing district. \u2014 Gregory Harutunian, chicagotribune.com , 3 Dec. 2021",
"The Port Covington project, valued at an estimated $5.5 billion, is backed by $660 million in tax increment financing, which means property taxes generated by the project will repay city bonds sold to pay for its infrastructure. \u2014 Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun , 10 May 2022",
"The City Council Tuesday night passed a resolution supporting the use of tax increment financing, or TIF, districts, and helping to oppose SB2298, proposed in the state Senate. \u2014 Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Nearly $54 million in tax increment finance bonds to support development projects in Carmel will be introduced to the city council Monday, according to the council\u2019s April 18 agenda. \u2014 Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"Emphasizing the value of incremental steps, Brouwer said, helps convince listeners that change is attainable. \u2014 Michelle Nijhuis, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022",
"And there\u2019s likely to be incremental class-size reduction across the board \u2014 in line with pledges made to settle the 2019 teachers strike. \u2014 Howard Blume Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 June 2021",
"Each incremental reduction in size translates to significant improvements in performance and efficiency\u2014key to unlocking the full potential of ascendent technologies like hybrid cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 10 May 2021",
"Any legislation that comes from their efforts will likely be exceedingly narrow, taking only incremental steps in confronting the problem of gun violence. \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 9 June 2022",
"Sometimes, lasting changes come through strategic, incremental steps versus one massive change. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"The conservative Texan\u2019s involvement in bipartisan talks means that an agreement, if there is one, is likely to include incremental steps. \u2014 New York Times , 6 June 2022",
"Carl Davidson, 61, of Oakland, Calif., said there have been incremental steps in the right direction. \u2014 Emily Guskin, Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
"But as the November midterm elections approach, debt cancellation advocates say incremental change isn\u2019t enough. \u2014 Arit John, Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022"
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"Recent Supreme Court decisions may represent a shift away from Chief Justice John Roberts' incrementalism to a much faster rightward turn. \u2014 Joey Garrison, USA TODAY , 27 June 2022",
"But there was a divide in the movement between those who argued for incrementalism and those who wanted the frontal assault. \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
"The reality is that Thatcher\u2019s premiership was marked not just by iron determination and ideological mission but by political pragmatism, incrementalism , diplomatic failure abroad, and widespread public loathing at home. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 24 Apr. 2022",
"After the invasion, our response has been better, but it's still been characterized a bit by incrementalism . \u2014 CBS News , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Leeba was frustrated by how many healthcare leaders and organizations wanted to drive change, innovation and transformation, but then got stuck in the usual cycles of incrementalism and consensus-building. \u2014 Sachin H. Jain, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Progressives and their media allies preached incrementalism , moderation and bipartisanship when Republicans were in control. \u2014 Bobby Jindal, WSJ , 20 Dec. 2021",
"In a globalized world, this kind of provincialism and incrementalism has merit. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 2 Nov. 2021",
"In an era crying out for radical thinking, Packer offers the damp squib of incrementalism . \u2014 Aaron Timms, The New Republic , 13 Sep. 2021"
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"Even fitness trackers can produce sensitive health information that may be used to incriminate pregnant people. \u2014 Louise Matsakis, NBC News , 11 May 2022",
"Defense lawyers said Silva was a victim of circumstance, arguing that no defendant would start an audio recording from the basement that captured the start of Thomas Grill\u2019s murder and later give it to police to incriminate himself. \u2014 Meredith Colias-pete, chicagotribune.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Prosecutors said examining Suzanne Morphew's body could incriminate or exculpate her husband. \u2014 Emily Shapiro, ABC News , 6 May 2022",
"There's a lot of contention as to why insurance companies have failed to offer discounts for using a dash cam, and how and if the footage can be used to legally incriminate an at-fault driver. \u2014 Hearst Autos Gear Team, Car and Driver , 15 Mar. 2022",
"And in some states, through a controversial technique called familial searching, your sample could be used to incriminate a close family member. \u2014 Emily Mullin, Wired , 24 Feb. 2022",
"San Francisco police used rape victims\u2019 DNA to try to \u2018 incriminate \u2019 them, the D.A. says. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"As part of those lawsuits, Watson was deposed on Friday, but his attorney, Rusty Hardin, said until the criminal investigation was finished, the quarterback would assert his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in the civil proceedings. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Now, of course, anyone giving a deposition, anyone testifying, can plead the Fifth Amendment, their right to remain silent, the right to not incriminate yourself in your testimony. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 18 Feb. 2022"
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"The cultures must incubate for five more days.",
"The virus will incubate in the body for several days before the patient experiences any symptoms.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"According to physician-historian Jos\u00e9 G. Rigau-P\u00e9rez, Spanish officials purposely infected orphans with the virus so that their bodies would incubate it. \u2014 Jim Downs, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"These embryos were at a late stage of development, and the close proximity of the parent confirmed that this dinosaur really did incubate its nest like its modern bird cousins. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 17 Apr. 2022",
"As such, raises in the global temperature could lead to certain animals being unable to incubate their eggs in the wild. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 17 Mar. 2022",
"This environment of uncertainty and anxiety allows conspiracies to incubate and spread, and there doesn't seem to be a clear end in sight. \u2014 Taylor Mooney, CBS News , 14 Apr. 2020",
"Elmer and Lima were given a chance to incubate the egg. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Bald eagles typically lay eggs and incubate them between January and April, according to wildlife experts. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2022",
"The same kind of dinosaurs are also known to have sat on top of their eggs to incubate them in a way similar to birds, Zelenitsky said. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Researchers mix the blood samples with the Omicron pseudovirus in lab dishes and incubate them. \u2014 Peter Loftus, WSJ , 8 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The measure will help inculcate a sense of awareness among the higher income groups to utilise the appropriate amount of water and also bring in the knowledge that over-usage will invite additional charges. \u2014 Niyati Seth, Quartz , 8 June 2022",
"Stanford believed that, in addition to providing vocational training, the university should inculcate the values of faith, thrift, and abstinence of various kinds. \u2014 Maia Silber, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"To lay a strong data foundation, the first step is to inculcate a strong data culture and align business requirements with data initiatives. \u2014 Lokesh Anand, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Adopting low-code/no-code marketing tools can help you to reduce marketing costs, inculcate agility in marketing operations and improve turnaround times on campaigns. \u2014 Nanditha Vijayaraghavan, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
"As a corollary, introducing financial literacy, and mentorship programs to underprivileged communities also serves to inculcate , inspire, and promote more economic prosperity and awareness. \u2014 Earl Carr, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Our Burke to Buckley seminars in six cities inculcate first principles in a new generation of young professionals and the NRI Regional Seminars promote conservative ideas to audiences across America. \u2014 Peter J. Travers, National Review , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Taking responsibility for our health requires us to inculcate a growth mindset. \u2014 Rittu Sinha, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
"His new friend group, made up of characters played by Kiersey Clemons, Peter S. Kim, and Jaboukie Young-White, quickly inculcate him into their grail-seeking universe, in which looking cool \u2014 particularly for one\u2019s online audience \u2014 is all. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 28 Oct. 2021"
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"Over the years, Pearcy has given numerous different accounts of the crime \u2014 at times blaming Dailey and other times inculpating himself. \u2014 Pamela Colloff, ProPublica , 13 Feb. 2012"
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"David Diaz-Jogeix of freedom of expression organization Article 19 said, echoing a major argument by the defense lawyers, who say the indictment lacks inculpatory evidence. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2020",
"After Wilkes published an especially stinging pamphlet, his home was raided for inculpatory papers. \u2014 Fortune , 11 Oct. 2017",
"In that instance, the judge was directed to let the state continue questioning uncooperative co-defendant Steven Bradley in order to lay a foundation to introduce an inculpatory statement given to police in 2014. \u2014 Ken Daley, NOLA.com , 28 Aug. 2017"
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"Hundreds of new jobs were created during her incumbency .",
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"The advantage of incumbency may not be enough to send Spanberger back to Washington as the GOP angles to flip the seat back to red. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 23 June 2022",
"Ernie Gamonal, a Utah Coalition of La Raza board member who kept a close eye on the redistricting process, argues that\u2019s because legislators prioritized incumbency over keeping communities intact. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 Nov. 2021",
"One of the advantages to the Iowa system is that the LSA does not take incumbency into consideration when drawing up the congressional and legislative maps. \u2014 al , 7 Nov. 2021",
"But the power of incumbency looms large here, especially considering the wide field is. \u2014 Ben Kamisar, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
"Despite having numerous advantages \u2014 money, endorsements, the power of incumbency \u2014 he was pushed into a runoff election by the owner of a bicycle shop. \u2014 David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"Kim still enjoys the powerful benefits of incumbency . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2022",
"For all that has changed in the era of Trump, one thing hasn\u2019t: the power of incumbency is huge. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 25 May 2022",
"Legislative races in Indiana showed the power of incumbency , even amid rising conservative anger. \u2014 Nicholas Riccardi, Anchorage Daily News , 4 May 2022"
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"Because the statehouse now determines voting districts, the current map generally ensures that incumbents face minimal challenges to re-election. \u2014 Terry McCarthy , Time , 20 Dec. 2004",
"When Reagan and Clinton were seeking re-election, they didn't go after their opponents directly, in part because they didn't have to. Those incumbents knew that there's a point at which strong and tough can look weak and desperate. \u2014 Jonathan Alter , Newsweek , 9 Aug. 2004",
"Jane Austen was born into the downwardly mobile branch of an upper-middle-class family. \u2026 None of the Austen children could inherit the family home from their father, a Church of England clergyman; after his death it would go to the next incumbent . \u2014 Kevin Barry , New York Times Book Review , 7 Dec. 1997",
"Voters will have the chance to see the incumbent and her opponent in a series of three debates.",
"Incumbents often have an advantage in elections.",
"Adjective",
"It is incumbent upon the press to act not in its own best interests, but in society's best interests. \u2014 Carll Tucker , Saturday Review , 23 June 1979",
"\u2026 the various types of obligation incumbent on the members of the profession. \u2014 R. M. MacIver , Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , January 1955",
"\u2026 Mr. Lorry felt it incumbent on him to speak a word or two of reassurance. \u2014 Charles Dickens , A Tale of Two Cities , 1859",
"it is incumbent upon you to attend every staff meeting",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The same two men are running for governor, but one of them now is an incumbent with a record. \u2014 Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant , 21 June 2022",
"Another topic on which the candidates seemed to agree was the incumbent . \u2014 Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"But Lara is the Democratic incumbent and was endorsed by the state party. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Undersheriff Kelly Martinez isn\u2019t an incumbent , but she was positioned like one. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"Of course, Shantelle brown is the incumbent , right",
"Hill is a four-term incumbent and is seeking a fifth term in this year's election. \u2014 Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online , 14 Mar. 2022",
"In four other contests, there was no incumbent and the first person listed received the most votes. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Returning starter Chance Nolan is the incumbent and frontrunner, of course, after guiding the Beavers to their first bowl berth since 2013 last season. \u2014 Joe Freeman, oregonlive , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The former president, however, faced a stinging defeat in Georgia after his endorsee David Perdue failed to defeat incumbent governor Brian Kemp, who has been publicly feuding with Trump over Georgia\u2019s election results. \u2014 Siladitya Ray, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"The public\u2019s pessimism is bad for the incumbent governor. \u2014 Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel , 10 June 2022",
"The incumbent Republican has outraised Barnes, Lasry and Godlewski individually, with his campaign reporting over $10 million raised this cycle. \u2014 Alexandra Marquez, NBC News , 19 May 2022",
"The incumbent Republican, Sen. Pat Toomey, isn\u2019t seeking reelection. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 17 May 2022",
"Representative Ted Budd was the first non- incumbent Senate Republican who Trump endorsed. \u2014 Adam Brewster, CBS News , 16 May 2022",
"He's taken a particularly active role in the governor's race there, recruiting a former U.S. senator to take on the incumbent Republican for failing to go along with his election lie. \u2014 Steve Peoples, Chron , 2 May 2022",
"Kelly Tshibaka, who has received the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, on Monday officially filed to run as a candidate for U.S. Senate in the race against the incumbent Republican. \u2014 Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Cincinnati mayor since 2013, but back at the tender age of 26, back in 2000, he was tapped by the Himachal Hamilton county democratic party to run for Congress against the incumbent Republican, uh, Steve Chabot. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 28 Feb. 2022"
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"1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin incumbent-, incumbens , present participle of incumbere to lie down on, from in- + -cumbere to lie down; akin to cubare to lie":"Noun and Adjective"
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"Submitting students to the rigors of learning seemed only to incur the wrath of many of them \u2026 \u2014 Ben Marcus , Time , 8 Jan. 2001",
"Shakespeare \u2026 took plots and characters from wherever he pleased, rarely acknowledging sources, and he saw so little sanctity in his own words that anyone could print them who cared to incur the expense\u2014which did not include royalties to Shakespeare. \u2014 Walter Kendrick , New York Times Book Review , 29 Oct. 1989",
"To be too good-looking is sometimes to incur the dislike, if not the hatred, of the ordinary-looking. \u2014 Joseph Epstein , The Middle of My Tether , 1983",
"What did he do to incur such wrath",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All incur fiscal costs by using public services directly or indirectly, and all generate fiscal revenue either directly or indirectly. \u2014 Stuart Anderson, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Players who committed these acts on the field would incur 15-yard penalties, and sideline demonstrations could be subject to fines. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Feb. 2022",
"An emergency visit would incur large charges to the un- and underinsured and stress an already near-capacity hospital system. \u2014 Anand Swaminathan, STAT , 5 Nov. 2021",
"If it were connected, automatic updates would incur extra fees and possibly disable the software. \u2014 Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Directors enjoying cozy sinecures and derelict policing CEOs stealing company resources for their own pet causes must incur stigma and be at risk of losing their positions. \u2014 Eric Grover, National Review , 8 Dec. 2020",
"The company expects to have approximately 5,000 employees by June 30, and incur $40 million to $45 million in restructuring expenses, according to an SEC filing. \u2014 Marco Quiroz-gutierrez, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
"Tampering with the restrictor would incur a $2,500 fine and other fees for reinstallation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"In addition, high turnover, or frequent buying and selling of individual securities, cause the funds to incur additional trading costs. \u2014 Erik Carter, Forbes , 6 June 2022"
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"an incurable flirt at school dances",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The genre\u2019s incurable optimism also sees this scenario as a great opportunity. \u2014 Tom Shippey, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"The industry has been on a downward trend for two decades because of issues such as residential and commercial development, foreign imports and an incurable bacterial disease known as citrus greening. \u2014 Jim Turner, Orlando Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"Andrea Neutzling of Syracuse in Ohio\u2019s Meigs County developed a rare, incurable lung disease after exposure to military burn pits in Iraq during a 2005 deployment with the U.S. Army. \u2014 Sabrina Eaton, cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is a rare, incurable connective tissue disorder related to abnormalities in the structure of collagen. \u2014 Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The law will funnel $100 million annually between 2022 and 2026 into research into Lou Gehrig's disease, an incurable neurodegenerative disorder also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and similar diseases. \u2014 Darlene Superville, ajc , 23 Dec. 2021",
"After surviving a cancer doctors described as incurable , Estep died Jan. 27. \u2014 Fenit Nirappil And Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Christopher Bohan, Jourdan Lewanda and Nicole Sumlin fully inhabit the roles of Vanya the incurable schlub, Sonia the underappreciated maiden, and Ella, the glamorous outsider on whom almost everyone has a crush. \u2014 Zachary Lewis, cleveland , 25 Apr. 2022",
"An existing vaccine that prevents meningococcal disease may also be up to 40 percent effective at preventing gonorrhea infections, which are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, with some strains completely incurable . \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 12 Apr. 2022"
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8kyu\u0307r-\u0259-b\u0259l",
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"She is remarkably incurious about the natural world.",
"a quick incurious glance at the pile of junk mail",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"He\u2019s narrowly focussed on the relentless course of the action, and incurious about its byways, its implications, its material or emotional realities. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
"Paul is just emerging from the incurious phase of childhood and perhaps for the first time is receptive to hearing about the pain of the past. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"And for a narrative ostensibly aimed at dismantling Clinton\u2019s self-image, Primary Colors is curiously incurious about his manner and personal affectations. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s also strikingly incurious about how Emily is often a lousy crook who repeatedly bungles Youcef\u2019s safety rules. \u2014 Amy Nicholson, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Joel and his choir buddy Fred (Hill), a professor at the local agriculture college, aren\u2019t incurious about the larger world the way Tricia is. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Jan. 2022",
"The former boogeyman of the American left, once viewed as rash, incurious and overly trusting of his gut, has been eclipsed by an even more absurd, menacing figure. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Heart transplant recipients sometimes are incurious about the details of the lives of their donors. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Sep. 2021",
"For Greenwald, the Carlson story has become another example of the perfidy of an incurious media unwilling to question state power. \u2014 Jacob Silverman, The New Republic , 2 July 2021"
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8kyu\u0307r-\u0113-\u0259s"
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"apathetic",
"casual",
"complacent",
"disinterested",
"indifferent",
"insensible",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"perfunctory",
"pococurante",
"unconcerned",
"uncurious",
"uninterested"
],
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
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"concerned",
"interested"
],
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": lacking a normal or usual curiosity : uninterested":[
"a blank incurious stare"
]
},
"examples":[
"She is remarkably incurious about the natural world.",
"a quick incurious glance at the pile of junk mail",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"He\u2019s narrowly focussed on the relentless course of the action, and incurious about its byways, its implications, its material or emotional realities. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
"Paul is just emerging from the incurious phase of childhood and perhaps for the first time is receptive to hearing about the pain of the past. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"And for a narrative ostensibly aimed at dismantling Clinton\u2019s self-image, Primary Colors is curiously incurious about his manner and personal affectations. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s also strikingly incurious about how Emily is often a lousy crook who repeatedly bungles Youcef\u2019s safety rules. \u2014 Amy Nicholson, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Joel and his choir buddy Fred (Hill), a professor at the local agriculture college, aren\u2019t incurious about the larger world the way Tricia is. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Jan. 2022",
"The former boogeyman of the American left, once viewed as rash, incurious and overly trusting of his gut, has been eclipsed by an even more absurd, menacing figure. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Heart transplant recipients sometimes are incurious about the details of the lives of their donors. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Sep. 2021",
"For Greenwald, the Carlson story has become another example of the perfidy of an incurious media unwilling to question state power. \u2014 Jacob Silverman, The New Republic , 2 July 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1618, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin incuriosus , from in- + curiosus curious":""
},
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8kyu\u0307r-\u0113-\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for incurious indifferent , unconcerned , incurious , aloof , detached , disinterested mean not showing or feeling interest. indifferent implies neutrality of attitude from lack of inclination, preference, or prejudice. indifferent to the dictates of fashion unconcerned suggests a lack of sensitivity or regard for others' needs or troubles. unconcerned about the homeless incurious implies an inability to take a normal interest due to dullness of mind or to self-centeredness. incurious about the world aloof suggests a cool reserve arising from a sense of superiority or disdain for inferiors or from shyness. aloof from his coworkers detached implies an objective attitude achieved through absence of prejudice or selfishness. observed family gatherings with detached amusement disinterested implies a circumstantial freedom from concern for personal or especially financial advantage that enables one to judge or advise without bias. judged by a panel of disinterested observers",
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"apathetic",
"casual",
"complacent",
"disinterested",
"indifferent",
"insensible",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"perfunctory",
"pococurante",
"unconcerned",
"uncurious",
"uninterested"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093108",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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"incuriousness":{
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"concerned",
"interested"
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": lacking a normal or usual curiosity : uninterested":[
"a blank incurious stare"
]
},
"examples":[
"She is remarkably incurious about the natural world.",
"a quick incurious glance at the pile of junk mail",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"He\u2019s narrowly focussed on the relentless course of the action, and incurious about its byways, its implications, its material or emotional realities. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
"Paul is just emerging from the incurious phase of childhood and perhaps for the first time is receptive to hearing about the pain of the past. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"And for a narrative ostensibly aimed at dismantling Clinton\u2019s self-image, Primary Colors is curiously incurious about his manner and personal affectations. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s also strikingly incurious about how Emily is often a lousy crook who repeatedly bungles Youcef\u2019s safety rules. \u2014 Amy Nicholson, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Joel and his choir buddy Fred (Hill), a professor at the local agriculture college, aren\u2019t incurious about the larger world the way Tricia is. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Jan. 2022",
"The former boogeyman of the American left, once viewed as rash, incurious and overly trusting of his gut, has been eclipsed by an even more absurd, menacing figure. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Heart transplant recipients sometimes are incurious about the details of the lives of their donors. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Sep. 2021",
"For Greenwald, the Carlson story has become another example of the perfidy of an incurious media unwilling to question state power. \u2014 Jacob Silverman, The New Republic , 2 July 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1618, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin incuriosus , from in- + curiosus curious":""
},
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8kyu\u0307r-\u0113-\u0259s"
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"apathetic",
"casual",
"complacent",
"disinterested",
"indifferent",
"insensible",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"perfunctory",
"pococurante",
"unconcerned",
"uncurious",
"uninterested"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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": the act of incurring or state of being incurred":[
"prevented the incurment of further debts",
"incurment of guilt"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8k\u0259rm\u0259nt",
"-k\u0259\u0304m-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190518",
"type":[
"noun"
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8k\u0259r\u2027\u0259b\u0259l also -\u02c8k\u0259\u0304r\u0259-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093411",
"type":[
"adjective"
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"incurred":{
"antonyms":[],
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": to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself":[
"incur expenses"
]
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"Submitting students to the rigors of learning seemed only to incur the wrath of many of them \u2026 \u2014 Ben Marcus , Time , 8 Jan. 2001",
"Shakespeare \u2026 took plots and characters from wherever he pleased, rarely acknowledging sources, and he saw so little sanctity in his own words that anyone could print them who cared to incur the expense\u2014which did not include royalties to Shakespeare. \u2014 Walter Kendrick , New York Times Book Review , 29 Oct. 1989",
"To be too good-looking is sometimes to incur the dislike, if not the hatred, of the ordinary-looking. \u2014 Joseph Epstein , The Middle of My Tether , 1983",
"What did he do to incur such wrath",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All incur fiscal costs by using public services directly or indirectly, and all generate fiscal revenue either directly or indirectly. \u2014 Stuart Anderson, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Players who committed these acts on the field would incur 15-yard penalties, and sideline demonstrations could be subject to fines. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Feb. 2022",
"An emergency visit would incur large charges to the un- and underinsured and stress an already near-capacity hospital system. \u2014 Anand Swaminathan, STAT , 5 Nov. 2021",
"If it were connected, automatic updates would incur extra fees and possibly disable the software. \u2014 Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Directors enjoying cozy sinecures and derelict policing CEOs stealing company resources for their own pet causes must incur stigma and be at risk of losing their positions. \u2014 Eric Grover, National Review , 8 Dec. 2020",
"The company expects to have approximately 5,000 employees by June 30, and incur $40 million to $45 million in restructuring expenses, according to an SEC filing. \u2014 Marco Quiroz-gutierrez, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
"Tampering with the restrictor would incur a $2,500 fine and other fees for reinstallation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"In addition, high turnover, or frequent buying and selling of individual securities, cause the funds to incur additional trading costs. \u2014 Erik Carter, Forbes , 6 June 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Middle English incurren , from Latin incurrere , literally, to run into, from in- + currere to run \u2014 more at car":""
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"in-\u02c8k\u0259r"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200906",
"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
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": the act or process of incurring":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1656, in the meaning defined above":""
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8k\u0259-r\u0259n(t)s",
"in-\u02c8k\u0259r-\u0259n(t)s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080214",
"type":[
"noun"
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"incurrent":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": giving passage to a current that flows inward":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1856, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin incurrent-, incurrens , present participle of incurrere":""
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8k\u0259-r\u0259nt",
"in-\u02c8k\u0259r-\u0259nt"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074026",
"type":[
"adjective"
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": a hostile entrance into a territory : raid":[],
": an entering in or into (something, such as an activity or undertaking)":[
"his only incursion into the arts"
]
},
"examples":[
"an incursion into enemy airspace",
"there were incursions from the border every summer",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Now the company is in discussions with the U.N. to serve island nations, where rising sea levels are causing saltwater incursion in fresh water. \u2014 Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 June 2022",
"Much of the geographic boundaries of the seat are currently represented by Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a Rocky River Republican, who was one of 10 Republican U.S. House members who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 incursion . \u2014 cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"But when the incursion started, our team needed to move to different locations inside and outside of Ukraine to ensure our work continues. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"Turkey, meanwhile, has demanded that Finland and Sweden extradite wanted individuals and lift arms restrictions imposed after Turkey's 2019 military incursion into northeast Syria. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 28 June 2022",
"Turkey also wants assurances that arms restrictions imposed by the two countries over Turkey\u2019s 2019 military incursion into northern Syria will be removed. \u2014 Samuel Petrequin, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"How come the events in that movie did not cause a separate incursion ",
"The latest incursion marked the longest period of time that Chinese government vessels had spent in the waters since 2012, after Tokyo bought some of the islands from a private Japanese owner, the Japanese coast guard said. \u2014 Junko Ogura And Simone Mccarthy, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"China has been stepping up its military activities near Taiwan to assert its sovereignty claims, sending 30 warplanes into the island\u2019s air defense identification zone on Monday in the largest such incursion since January. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 31 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin incursion-, incursio , from incurrere":""
},
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"in-\u02c8k\u0259r-zh\u0259n"
],
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"descent",
"foray",
"inroad",
"invasion",
"irruption",
"raid"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045334",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": entering by or engaging in incursion : invading":[
"incursionary clays",
"traces of this incursionary nomad people"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-sh-",
"-ri",
"-zh\u0259\u02ccner\u0113"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032753",
"type":[
"adjective"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-zh(\u0259)n\u0259\u0307st",
"-sh-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040400",
"type":[
"noun"
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"incursive":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": making incursions : invasive , aggressive":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin incurs us + English -ive":""
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"(\u02c8)in\u00a6k\u0259rsiv",
"\u0259n\u02c8k-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115401",
"type":[
"adjective"
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"incommensurate":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": not commensurate: such as":[],
": incommensurable":[],
": inadequate":[],
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"a confidence incommensurate with their ability"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8men(t)sh-",
"-sh\u0259-",
"-\u02c8men(t)-s\u0259-",
"\u02ccin-k\u0259-\u02c8men(t)s-r\u0259t"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The problem, as Leavis understood, is that science and the humanities are inherently incommensurate endeavors. \u2014 Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ , 28 July 2017",
"Open the front door to chef-owner Genet Agonafer\u2019s restaurant, a dining room that seems both a local fixture and oddly incommensurate with the neighborhood. \u2014 Amy Scattergood, latimes.com , 9 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1650, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150828"
},
"income basis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a basis of reckoning income (as from investments, profits) according to the percentage that the interest or revenue bears to the actual cost with no allowance being made for the fact that payment at maturity is to be at par":[
"a bond yielding 3-percent interest on its par value and bought at 60 is on an income basis of 5 percent"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151126"
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"inciting":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on":[]
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"in-\u02c8s\u012bt"
],
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"abet",
"brew",
"ferment",
"foment",
"instigate",
"pick",
"provoke",
"raise",
"stir (up)",
"whip (up)"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for incite incite , instigate , abet , foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating. inciting a riot instigate definitely implies responsibility for initiating another's action and often connotes underhandedness or evil intention. instigated a conspiracy abet implies both assisting and encouraging. aiding and abetting the enemy foment implies persistence in goading. fomenting rebellion",
"examples":[
"The news incited widespread fear and paranoia.",
"the rock band's failure to show up incited a riot, as the crowd had waited for hours",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Officers will also enforce all laws for spectators who incite drivers for spinning of wheels or burn-outs, as well as for the driver. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"Reading can also, as Dickinson discovered, incite almost inordinate forms of joy. \u2014 Jane Yong Kim, The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
"Gold attorney Dickson Young had asked for a sentence of community medical service, saying his client did not commit or incite violence. \u2014 Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"The organizers of the protest\u2014including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale\u2014were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"Cheney warns that Trump may incite further violence. \u2014 John Harwood, CNN , 23 May 2021",
"In the streaming age, such instances were liable to incite wonderment from other art-rock bands. \u2014 Zach Schonfeld, Billboard , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Any excuse to incite conflict will do, from COVID lockdowns to protests for racial justice. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Mar. 2022",
"The same goes for messaging campaigns designed to incite fear among employees. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 24 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French inciter , from Latin incitare , from in- + citare to put in motion \u2014 more at cite":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165907"
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"incidence":{
"type":[
"noun"
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": rate of occurrence or influence":[
"a high incidence of crime"
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": an act or the fact or manner of falling upon or affecting : occurrence":[],
": angle of incidence":[],
": the arrival of something (such as a projectile or a ray of light) at a surface":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8in(t)-s\u0259-d\u0259n(t)s",
"-\u02ccden(t)s",
"\u02c8in(t)-s\u0259d-\u0259n(t)s, -s\u0259-\u02ccden(t)s"
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"examples":[
"an increased incidence of diabetes",
"a high incidence of criminal behavior",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Highlighted by disparities in disease incidence during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as its impact, inequities in health care were \u2014 and continue to be \u2014 brought to the forefront. \u2014 Marc Succi, STAT , 24 May 2022",
"The study suggested a twentyfold increase in the incidence of human monkeypox between the early 1980s and between November 2005 and November 2007. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
"For some disorders, such as ADHD, major depressive disorder (MDD), and psychotic disorders, medication reduced the incidence of substance abuse down the road. \u2014 Stephanie H. Murray, The Week , 31 May 2022",
"Employee engagement \u2014 measured by motivation, loyalty and the incidence of workers likely to recommend their workplaces to others \u2014 has slipped to 61.6 percent in the first three months of this year, compared to 65.3 percent in 2020. \u2014 Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 May 2022",
"Early trials showed the oil resulted in boosting the animals' immune system, lowering the incidence of diarrhea and even mortality rates. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 24 May 2022",
"After all, the vaccines have only been around for about a year and a half, and answering questions around durability precisely can be founded by the introduction of booster shots and the incidence of breakthrough infections. \u2014 Michael Nedelman, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"In January 1900, on Oahu, says narrator Lea Salonga, an incidence of plague had led to the burning down of Honolulu\u2019s Chinatown, leaving 4,500 people homeless. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"The incidence of autism has ballooned in recent years, from one in 150 in 2000 to one in 44 today, according to the Centers for Disease Control. \u2014 Ronit Molko, Forbes , 19 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1626, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171846"
},
"incidence wire":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": stagger wire":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172409"
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"income bond":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a bond that pays interest at a rate based on the issuer's earnings":[]
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But overall, Simply Money Advisors believes that the income bonds generate and their ability to act as \u2018shock absorbers\u2019 when the price of stocks fall are why bonds are a critical part of your investment mix. \u2014 Nathan Bachrach, Cincinnati.com , 11 Jan. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1864, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183505"
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"inceptive":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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": an inchoative verb":[],
": inchoative sense 2":[],
": of or relating to a beginning":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8sep-tiv"
],
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"aborning",
"budding",
"inchoate",
"incipient",
"nascent"
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"adult",
"full-blown",
"full-fledged",
"mature",
"ripe",
"ripened"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"only just recently gained an inceptive understanding of the overwhelming vastness of the universe",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Vaccinating our faculty and staff is our first step toward keeping our schools open and safe and will be inceptive to reopening our economy. \u2014 Margaret W. Long, chicagotribune.com , 19 Nov. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1612, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183616"
},
"incide":{
"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":{
": cut , incise":[],
": to cause loosening or resolution":[],
": to cut into (as a lesion or tissue)":[],
": to cause loosening or resolution of (as phlegm)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8s\u012bd"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin incidere":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193410"
},
"incommiscible":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": immiscible":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6ink\u0259\u00a6mis\u0259b\u0259l"
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"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin incommiscibilis , from Latin in- in- entry 1 + Late Latin commiscibilis able to be mixed together from Latin commisc\u0113re to mix together + -ibilis -ible":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Do the squat jack for 20 seconds, then rest 10 seconds before moving onto the inchworm . \u2014 Jenny Mccoy, SELF , 28 May 2022",
"This single-leg inchworm builds on all of that and provides more unilateral work to build balanced strength, mobility, and flexibility. \u2014 Rozalynn S. Frazier, SELF , 30 Dec. 2021",
"These cardio exercises include the inchworm , lateral shuffle, high knees, skater, and up-down plank. \u2014 Christa Sgobba, SELF , 29 Apr. 2021",
"The reverse lunge works your quads and your glutes, the inchworm boosts mobility while challenging your hamstrings and shoulders, while the plank variations will light up your core. \u2014 Christa Sgobba, SELF , 29 Apr. 2021",
"From inchworm crawling to star jumps, these challenges will keep busybodies occupied (and can provide a nice break in the workday for parents). \u2014 Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com , 4 Aug. 2020",
"Stretching as a warm-up should focus on dynamic moves, or those that include movement\u2014say, like an inchworm rather than simply touching your toes. \u2014 Christa Sgobba, SELF , 4 Aug. 2020",
"This allows the shrews to scrunch their spines up like inchworms , according to a statement, and withstand an enormous amount of force for their weight and size, which is comparable to that of a rat. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Apr. 2020",
"Tailored to maximize movement, some scooted along the bottom of a Petri dish like microscopic inchworms , powered solely by the contractions of the heart cells studding their interiors. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Jan. 2020"
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"first_known_use":{
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"in-\u02c8sin-\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t",
"in-\u02c8si-n\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t"
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"The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ingrained fears\u2014that kilotons of destructive energy and toxic radiation could decimate a city and incinerate tens of thousands of human beings\u2014began to dissipate. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 23 Apr. 2022",
"To help promote the initiative, Atwood agreed to be filmed attempting \u2014 unsuccessfully \u2014 to incinerate a prototype with a flamethrower. \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"But the book doesn\u2019t incinerate when the fire hits the cover \u2014 instead, the flames graze the edges, floating away with no wreckage left behind. \u2014 Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
"The burn that can come from that really can incinerate your whole thinking life and your daily processes. \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 17 May 2022",
"Nevermind that Chief Jim Hopper destroyed the most recent gate to the Upside Down, an event that caused an energy wave to literally incinerate everyone around him. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 27 May 2022",
"And lastly, your very presence in the desert or woods indicated that this was a precious place, one worth preserving, not a place for corporations to incinerate toxic waste or for citizens to dump mattresses and refrigerators. \u2014 Outside Online , 3 June 2021",
"The biorefinery will not incinerate or combust municipal solid waste, official said. \u2014 Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Boychenko also alleged Russian forces have brought mobile crematoriums to Mariupol to collect and incinerate civilian bodies in an attempt to cover up evidence of war crimes. \u2014 Bill Hutchinson, ABC News , 12 Apr. 2022"
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"Medieval Latin incineratus , past participle of incinerare , from Latin in- + ciner-, cinis ashes; akin to Greek konis dust, ashes":""
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"1555, in the meaning defined above":""
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"inchoate feelings of affection for a man whom she had, up till now, thought of as only a friend",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That reflects the inchoate nature of this rebellion, according to analysts. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"And Trump, beyond his bellicose and inchoate trade war against China, largely ignored the region, save for a couple of fancy dinners with Kim Jong Un. \u2014 Michael Schuman, The Atlantic , 24 May 2022",
"Two minutes into the video, there is inchoate wailing. \u2014 Monica Hesse, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"At the end of the song, Ye\u2019s language becomes almost inchoate , like scat or the communication attempts of a child just learning to use their words. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Prepper Camp was a castle built on emotion: fear of the inchoate other was so great that the survivalists felt justified in being prepared to kill other humans to protect their material goods. \u2014 Krista Stevens, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
"Prepper Camp was a castle built on emotion: fear of the inchoate other was so great that the survivalists felt justified in being prepared to kill other humans to protect their material goods. \u2014 Krista Stevens, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
"Prepper Camp was a castle built on emotion: fear of the inchoate other was so great that the survivalists felt justified in being prepared to kill other humans to protect their material goods. \u2014 Krista Stevens, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
"When his monstrous scheme is unleashed, crowd scenes conjure mass destruction as a plot point, the staggering loss of life as a generic and inchoate jumble. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"borrowed from Latin incoh\u0101tus, incho\u0101tus \"only begun, unfinished, imperfect,\" from past participle of incoh\u0101re \"to start work on, begin, initiate,\" perhaps, if the original sense was \"to yoke a plow to a team of oxen,\" from in- in- entry 2 + -coh\u0101re, verbal derivative of cohum \"hollow in the middle of a yoke into which a pole is fitted\" or \"strap used to attach the pole to the yoke,\" of uncertain origin":""
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"1534, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a book printed before 1501":[],
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"\u02ccin-ky\u0259-\u02c8na-by\u0259-l\u0259m",
"\u02cci\u014b-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin incunabula , plural, bands holding the baby in a cradle, from in- + cunae cradle":""
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"1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"noun"
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": one that begins or introduces":[]
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"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8sept\u0259(r)",
"\u02c8in\u02ccs-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin, beginner, from inceptus + -or":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French, from in- in- entry 1 + certain":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000940"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": an act of beginning : commencement , inception":[]
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"\u02ccink\u0259\u02c8w\u0101sh\u0259n"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin inchoation-, inchoatio, incohation-, incohatio , from Latin inchoatus, incohatus + -ion-, -io -ion":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001803"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a unit of energy or work that is equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity the height of one inch":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a light bulb whose light is produced by the glow of a wire heated by an electric current":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": one twelfth of a foot-pound":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005411"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cooler northern slopes could be more hospitable to incense cedar and Douglas fir in a mixed oak forest. \u2014 Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Near the base of the spiral staircase is an alluring mix of wood: Douglas fir stairs were contoured to follow the curves of an incense cedar tree trunk. \u2014 Janet Eastman, oregonlive , 22 Sep. 2019",
"Many conifers, including western red cedar, incense cedar , grand fir and even valley ponderosa pine are succumbing, as well. \u2014 oregonlive.com , 20 Aug. 2019",
"Towering incense cedar tree trunks, cut from a sustainable forest in Northern California, serve as captivating pillars. \u2014 Janet Eastman, oregonlive , 22 Sep. 2019",
"Flames swept through most of the sprawling stand of more than 500 big sequoias, mixed with Ponderosa pines, white firs and incense cedars . \u2014 Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com , 12 Sep. 2019",
"Conifers include Willamette Valley ponderosa pine and incense cedar . \u2014 OregonLive.com , 17 Feb. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1877, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-021843"
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"type":[
"noun",
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"phagocytes incepting foreign particles"
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": to receive as a member":[],
": to obtain an advanced degree and therewith the right to teach or practice a learned profession":[
"\u2014 now used only at Cambridge University"
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"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8sept",
"\u02c8in\u02ccsept"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin inceptus , past participle of incipere":"Verb"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-024427"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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": initial , formative":[
"the inchoative stages"
],
": denoting the beginning of an action, state, or occurrence":[
"\u2014 used of verbs"
]
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"in-\u02c8k\u014d-\u0259-tiv"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Late Latin incoh\u0101t\u012bvus, incho\u0101t\u012bvus \"denoting the beginning of a verbal action,\" from Latin incoh\u0101tus, incho\u0101tus, past participle of incoh\u0101re, incho\u0101re \"to start work on, begin, initiate\" + -\u012bvus -ive \u2014 more at inchoate":""
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"circa 1631, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031231"
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"type":[
"adverb"
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"definitions":{
": little by little , gradually":[]
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"-\u02c8m\u0113l",
"\u02c8inch-\u02ccm\u0113l"
],
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"gradationally",
"gradually",
"little by little",
"piece by piece",
"piecemeal"
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"abruptly",
"suddenly"
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"examples":[
"the troops moved through the village inchmeal , recapturing it virtually house by house"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"inch entry 1 + -meal":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1548, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-033548"
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"type":[
"adverb"
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"definitions":{
": in an incidental manner : not intentionally":[
"the arrant nonsense of some of his statements is incidentally hilarious",
"\u2014 John Lahr"
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": by way of interjection or digression : by the way":[
"fortunate in having a good teacher \u2026 \u2014still living, incidentally",
"\u2014 John Fischer"
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"\u02ccin-s\u0259-\u02c8den-t\u1d4al-\u0113",
"\u02ccin(t)-s\u0259-\u02c8den-t\u1d4al-\u0113",
"especially for sense 2 -\u02c8dent-l\u0113"
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"apropos",
"en passant"
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"examples":[
"Not incidentally , the market slump was followed by widespread layoffs.",
"incidentally , have you seen the new building they're putting up",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the process, the court incidentally rejected Trump's rejection of the Clean Power Plan, technically returning it to force. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 30 June 2022",
"Carter, incidentally , concluded her professional career Sunday with an eighth-place finish. \u2014 Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 26 June 2022",
"That should fix it in your granddaughter\u2019s mind, and incidentally give you an edge over Bobbie. \u2014 Jacobina Martin, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"There is nothing wrong \u2014 there\u2019s no scam \u2014 with companies that try to satisfy that demand, which is, incidentally , real enough. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 21 May 2022",
"That compound comes from the other main ingredient in ayahuasca, a shrub called chacruna (which, incidentally , is a relative of the plant that gives us coffee). \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 16 May 2022",
"Roman\u2019s mission is one of pre-drone-era derring-do and, incidentally , a reminder of geopolitical context for the region. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The firm\u2019s offices are, incidentally , just a few blocks from a McDonald\u2019s in Moscow. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The condition, a hardening of the aorta wall, could often be observed incidentally in a chest X-ray or scan for some other ailment. \u2014 Christopher Rowland, Washington Post , 5 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1665, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-034813"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small being of a kind likely to grow larger":[
"drew in a netful of inchlings"
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"\u02c8inchli\u014b"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"inch entry 1 + -ling":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-035514"
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"incense burner":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040144"
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"incus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the middle bone of a chain of three small bones in the ear of a mammal":[
"\u2014 see ear illustration"
]
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"\u02c8i\u014b-k\u0259s"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The smallest bones are inside your ear, and they are known as the hammer (malleus), stirrup (stapes), and anvil ( incus ). \u2014 Jason Bittel, Washington Post , 20 Oct. 2019",
"The auditory ossicles of the middle ear \u2013 the malleus, incus and stapes \u2013 are the tiniest bones in the human body. \u2014 Emily Matchar, Smithsonian , 18 Dec. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin inc\u016bd-, inc\u016bs, going back to Latin, \"anvil,\" from in- in- entry 2 + -c\u016bd-, -c\u016bs, root noun from the stem of c\u016bdere \"to beat, strike, hammer\" \u2014 more at hew":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1615, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042030"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": beginning to come into being or to become apparent":[
"an incipient solar system",
"evidence of incipient racial tension"
]
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"-\u0259nt",
"in-\u02c8si-p\u0113-\u0259nt"
],
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"aborning",
"budding",
"inceptive",
"inchoate",
"nascent"
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"full-fledged",
"mature",
"ripe",
"ripened"
],
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"examples":[
"The project is still in its incipient stages.",
"I have an incipient dislike and distrust of that guy, and I only met him this morning.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet these are only incipient , and are not proceeding anywhere near the requisite scale and the requisite speed. \u2014 Robert Hockett, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
"The Raven Software NLRB vote represented a key test of whether the incipient unionization movement in video games could break into a AAA video game studio. \u2014 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"In contrast, if your thinking is a little cloudy thanks to incipient HACE, that may not seem like such a big problem\u2014and your ability to recognize the problem is compromised by the cloudiness of your thinking. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 19 May 2021",
"Add Apple to the list of major U.S. companies, including Amazon and Starbucks, facing an incipient push by workers to form a union. \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 3 May 2022",
"The whole incident might end up as little more than a showy, performative in-kind contribution from the Florida Legislature to DeSantis' incipient 2024 presidential campaign. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 25 Apr. 2022",
"These unfortunate incidents could potentially throw India\u2019s incipient EV revolution off track. \u2014 Niharika Sharma, Quartz , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Henry David Thoreau had incipient cabin fever but didn\u2019t recognize it. \u2014 The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Elites are susceptible but often surrounded by teams of doctors, coaches, nutritionists, and other experts who can spot incipient problems. \u2014 Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
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"Latin incipient-, incipiens , present participle of incipere to begin \u2014 more at inception":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1633, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044427"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": not complete : unfinished : such as":[],
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"an incomplete set of golf clubs",
"an incomplete diet"
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": deficient in one or more essential amino acids":[
"People used to think you needed to eat incomplete proteins together in the same meal to make up a complete protein, but that view has been debunked; simply eat a variety of plant-based protein sources throughout the day and you'll be fine.",
"\u2014 Katherine Hobson"
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": lacking one or more sets of floral organs":[
"an incomplete flower without stamens"
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": not legally caught":[],
": characterized by the absence of a pupal stage between the immature stages and the adult of an insect in which the young usually resemble the adult \u2014 compare complete sense 6":[]
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259m-\u02c8pl\u0113t"
],
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"deficient",
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"fragmentary",
"half",
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"partial"
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"intact",
"integral",
"perfect",
"whole"
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"examples":[
"an incomplete set of encyclopedias",
"She handed in an incomplete assignment.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Possible changes to college football include running the clock after first downs and after incomplete passes. \u2014 Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
"Starting this week, the clock will keep running on incomplete passes in the first and third quarters. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 6 May 2022",
"His defense stuffed the Tide on the first play of its next drive before two incomplete passes meant a three-and-out punt with blood in the water. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 11 Jan. 2022",
"In the first half, Mayfield threw 10 straight incomplete passes, going nearly 25 minutes without a completion. \u2014 Ashley Bastock, cleveland , 3 Jan. 2022",
"After two incomplete passes, Matt Araiza put SDSU ahead with a 33-yard field goal. UPDATE 7:46 p.m. \u2014 Dennis Rudner, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Dec. 2021",
"But after four incomplete passes, Serra had turned the tables on the Lancers, who three weeks earlier had beaten the Padres 44-21 in a game that decided the West Catholic Athletic League title. \u2014 Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Nov. 2021",
"After a 5-yard penalty on the Cowboys and two incomplete passes from the Trojans, Johnson was sent out for MHS to attempt a 41-yard field goal. \u2014 Emily Miller | Special To The Tribune, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Nov. 2021",
"One there, though, two incomplete passes led to another 32-yard field goal attempt from Robinson, but his kick slid wide right. \u2014 Randy Mcroberts, baltimoresun.com , 13 Nov. 2021"
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"Middle English incompleet , from Late Latin incompletus , from Latin in- + completus complete":""
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-045806"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a natural population that is more or less interfertile with another related population but is inhibited from interbreeding in nature by some specific barrier \u2014 compare ecospecies":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a wandering Jew ( Tradescantia fluminensis ) that is often grown as a house plant":[]
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"adjective"
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": not completed : incomplete":[]
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"\u00a6in+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-101223"
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"During the day the horses are kept in an enclosure .",
"a letter with two enclosures",
"One of the enclosures was a photograph.",
"the enclosure of a photograph with a letter",
"the enclosure of the garden",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Meatball got into the gorilla enclosure , but Schry said the other dogs do not belong to Meatball\u2019s owners. \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"Desteniey Pickett, who saw the dog in the gorilla exhibit during her visit to the park, told CBS8 that her family saw the dog act distressed and witnessed the canine running around the enclosure before a gorilla chased the pet. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 13 June 2022",
"The zoo\u2019s fox troubles started May 2 when a fox got into the flamingos\u2019 enclosure overnight from nearby Rock Creek Park. \u2014 Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"Zookeepers at the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee said a wallaby went missing Wednesday during a move to an animal hospital prompted by rising floodwaters around its outdoor enclosure . \u2014 Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News , 14 Apr. 2022",
"For two hours each morning, six people at a time were allowed into the panda's enclosure . \u2014 Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure , 19 Jan. 2022",
"How can keepers evaluate whether items introduced into the enclosure of a troop of Japanese macaque monkeys, intended to enrich their environment, are actually serving that purpose",
"Jake Litvag leaned in for a closer look as a lab mouse scurried around an enclosure , stopping to sniff a large block. \u2014 Laura Ungar, ajc , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Initial reports suggest that the tiger grabbed the man's arm and pulled it into the enclosure after the man jumped over the initial fence barrier and put his arm through the fencing, authorities said on Thursday. \u2014 Nadine El-bawab, ABC News , 31 Dec. 2021"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110554"
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"noun"
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": one that is more concerned with the minutiae of incident than with broad overall views or concepts":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110906"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-115615"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-120909"
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"1610, in the meaning defined above":""
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The move, which will decrease the number of crew members staying aboard the ship to roughly 140 from more than 800, came as the number of crew members who may have been exposed inched upward. \u2014 Jill Cowan, New York Times , 21 Apr. 2020"
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"1605, in the meaning defined above":""
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"adjective",
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": impossible to finish or bring to completion":[]
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"The house increased in value.",
"She increased her wealth substantially.",
"Noun",
"an increase in life expectancy",
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"The construction will probably cause some increase in traffic delays.",
"The report showed increases of between 20 and 30 percent.",
"an increase of three dollars",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Those rain chances increase Sunday to as much as 40%. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 July 2022",
"Either increase the cup size, or look to a wider wire shape for greater containment. \u2014 Charlotte Owen, Vogue , 1 July 2022",
"That total will increase next week with Highland Home DL Keldric Faulk, Alabama Christian DB Avery Stuart and Thompson DL Peter Woods all set to make their choice. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 1 July 2022",
"But smugglers are known to evade checkpoints, and in some cases, checkpoints increase deadly vehicle pursuits that cost the lives of migrants. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 July 2022",
"That\u2019s a staggering $1.5 billion to seven players \u2013 and will increase to nearly $1.7 billion when James Harden completes a new deal with Philadelphia. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"President Biden announced at the gathering Wednesday that the United States will increase its military presence in Europe, citing Russia\u2019s invasion. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Biden pledged Wednesday to permanently increase American military presence in eastern Europe, including establishing a permanent base in Poland, the U.S.\u2019 first in eastern Europe. \u2014 Derek Saul, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"President Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. would increase its troop presence in Europe as part of a broader commitment among NATO allies to shore up their regional defenses in response to Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. \u2014 Eli Stokolsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The number of patients in intensive care dropped by one to 47, breaking with a three-day increase . \u2014 Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online , 1 July 2022",
"Salary expectations are significantly higher, in line with an increase in living costs, with the pandemic prompting huge changes in terms of the packages that employees are demanding. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Combined with the increase in bioavailable phosphorus concentration in the early 2000s (as a result of changes in agricultural practices), this rainfall trend may explain the higher-than-average phosphorus loads each spring over the last 14 years. \u2014 cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"The companies found that vaccines targeting Omicron induced higher levels of antibodies against the variant than the existing vaccines, but with a relatively modest increase . \u2014 Noah Weiland, New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Pharmaceutical advertisers spent more than most other sectors, NBCU said, with an increase of nearly 40% in commitments. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 30 June 2022",
"With this budget increase , tuition should remain the same, according to the budget presentation June 14 by Trevor Jackson, vice president of finance and administration at the college. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 28 June 2022",
"With the increase , smuggling attempts are also rising as more and more people from across the Western Hemisphere and beyond seek to bypass restrictive border policies at the U.S.-Mexico border and in the Caribbean. \u2014 Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Staffing problems have coincided with an increase in tampon demand. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022"
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"Middle English encresen , from Anglo-French encreistre , from Latin increscere , from in- + crescere to grow \u2014 more at crescent":"Verb"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra, under the direction of Reinhardt\u2019s longtime music director, Einar Nilson, performed the overture and incidental music Felix Mendelssohn composed for the play. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"Music supervision and arrangements are by Sonny Paladino, with incidental music and dance music arrangements by Brian Usifer, vocal design by AnnMarie Milazzo and orchestrations by Bob Gaudio, Sonny Paladino and Brian Usifer. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022",
"Mary-Mitchell Campbell will serve as music supervisor, with Darryl Archibald as music director, Charlie Rosen and Bryan Carter on orchestrations and Glen Kelly producing the dance and incidental music arrangements. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Ibsen's play premiered in 1876 in Norway, with incidental music by Grieg. \u2014 Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Grieg wrote them as incidental music for Ibsen\u2019s epic about a gloomy globetrotter, for a major revival of the play in Norway (where both the playwright and the composer hailed from) in 1876. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 4 Dec. 2021",
"The Much Ado About Nothing Suite (1920), adapted from incidental music Korngold wrote for the Shakespeare comedy, reveals his penchant for lyrical melodies and energetic rhythms. \u2014 Tim Diovanni, Dallas News , 13 Sep. 2021",
"Another rule is that there should be no incidental music or traditional score. \u2014 Jamie Lang, Variety , 7 Sep. 2021",
"In recent decades, the laugh track has become unfashionable, while incidental music remains essential to TV and film. \u2014 Marc Myers, WSJ , 19 Aug. 2021"
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"1864, in the meaning defined above":""
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": to cause to curve inward : bend":[]
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"\u02c8in-\u02cck\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101t",
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8k\u0259r-"
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"first_known_use":{
"1578, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a stand with rockers for inclining a carboy to the required angle for pouring":[]
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"inclinat ion + -or":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184239"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being incompletable":[]
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"\u00a6ink\u0259m\u02ccpl\u0113t\u0259\u00a6bil\u0259t\u0113"
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"noun"
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": pupa libera":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193258"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": one that makes a special study of incunabula":[]
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"noun"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
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"definitions":{
": a small family of minute inconspicuous moths usually having larvae that are initially leaf miners and later casebearers":[]
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"\u02ccin\u02cck\u0259rv\u0259\u02c8r\u012b\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Incurvaria , type genus (from Latin incurvus curved in\u2014from in- in- entry 2 + curvus curved\u2014+ New Latin -aria ) + -idae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-221024"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
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"\u2014 used chiefly of old coins or features of their design"
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"-\u02c8ky\u00fcs",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin inc\u016bsus, past participle of inc\u016bdere \"to indent or hollow out by hammering, decorate by hammering,\" from in- in- entry 2 + c\u016bdere \"to beat, strike, hammer\" \u2014 more at hew":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1818, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233107"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a sign, word, or expression (as the quotation sign or the word or ) that systematically contributes to the meaning of expressions in which it occurs but has no independent or separable meaning":[]
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted":[],
": not subject to decay or dissolution":[]
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"\u02ccin-k\u0259-\u02c8r\u0259p-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"examples":[
"He was trusted, respected, and completely incorruptible .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet Sankara\u2019s reputation as a righteous, incorruptible figure still resonates across Africa, invoked by other beret-wearing firebrands as far as South Africa. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The opposing team includes Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon, a rare incorruptible cop, and, hovering in the middle, Zo\u00eb Kravitz as Selina Kyle\u2014jewel thief, part-time Catwoman, and, fitfully, the movie\u2019s voice of social conscience. \u2014 The New Yorker , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But Rangina had long admired Ghani, who as minister of finance in the early years of the republic acquired a reputation as a brilliant technocrat, arrogant but personally incorruptible . \u2014 New York Times , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Beyond the financial freedom and incorruptible non-state digital monies offered by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, Haseeb sees tremendous value in mainstream crypto use cases spanning NFTs, DeFi, blockchain gaming, and the metaverse. \u2014 Leeor Shimron, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Real or imagined, their hold over us is maintained by the concept of gold as physically incorruptible but yet also as an uncontested store of value over time. \u2014 Luke Chittock, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Aquino, who was fondly called Noynoy or Pinoy by many Filipinos and had an image as an incorruptible politician, battled poverty and frowned over excesses by the country\u2019s elite. \u2014 NBC News , 24 June 2021",
"On one side were experts at places like the World Health Organization: knowledgeable, incorruptible , authoritative, noble. \u2014 Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune , 3 June 2021",
"These books compile an astonishing quantity of intimate detail while preserving an incorruptible distance from their subjects. \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 2 Apr. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a plane surface that makes an oblique angle with the plane of the horizon":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The threads are a form of inclined plane or wedge, the simplest type of tool. \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 21 May 2021",
"The threads are a form of inclined plane or wedge, the simplest type of tool. \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 21 May 2021",
"The threads are a form of inclined plane or wedge, the simplest type of tool. \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 21 May 2021",
"The threads are a form of inclined plane or wedge, the simplest type of tool. \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 21 May 2021",
"The angle this net force makes with respect to the floor is very similar to the components of a real gravitational force down an inclined plane . \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 4 May 2021",
"So, the more these two surfaces\u2014the car and inclined plane \u2014are pushed together, the greater the kinetic frictional force. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 29 Apr. 2021",
"More accurately, risk is an inclined plane , from Treasury bills through classes of debt securities, to equity markets and, ultimately, venture capital and alternative investments. \u2014 William Levin, National Review , 11 Dec. 2020",
"Lift with some danged pulley system involving fulcrums and levers and inclined planes , or, better yet, just hire some dumb lunk. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Aug. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"1661, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"\u00a6inky\u0259\u00a6naby\u0259l\u0259(r)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-003551"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a book printed before 1501":[],
": a work of art or of industry of an early period":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin-ky\u0259-\u02c8na-by\u0259-l\u0259m",
"\u02cci\u014b-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin incunabula , plural, bands holding the baby in a cradle, from in- + cunae cradle":""
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"1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004706"
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": of or relating to the family Incurvariidae":[],
": a moth of the family Incurvariidae":[]
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"\"",
"\u00a6in\u02cck\u0259r\u00a6va(a)r\u0113\u0259\u0307d"
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004900"
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"inclusive disjunction":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a complex sentence in logic that is true when either or both of its constituent propositions are true \u2014 see Truth Table":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1942, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014015"
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"incunable":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": incunabulum":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8ky\u00fc-n\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from New Latin incunabulum":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-015619"
}
}
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