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{
"Salaberry-de-Valleyfield":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"town on an island in the northern part of Lake Saint Francis in southern Quebec, Canada, southwest of Montreal population 40,077":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-l\u0259-\u02ccber-\u0113-d\u0259-\u02c8va-l\u0113-\u02ccf\u0113ld"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133557",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Salinar":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to a culture in northwestern Peru about the 6th century a.d. characterized by irrigated agriculture, use of the llama, weaving and metallurgy, adobe houses, reed-bundle boats, and distinctive pottery":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from Salinar , locality in northern Peru, its type site":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6sal\u0259\u00a6n\u00e4r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134941",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"Salinas":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city in southern Puerto Rico east of Ponce population 31,078":[],
"city in western California near Monterey Bay population 150,441":[],
"river 150 miles (241 kilometers) long in western California flowing northwest into Monterey Bay":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8l\u0113-n\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204640",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"area containing archaeological ruins in central New Mexico":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174819",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Salinas de Gortari":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Carlos 1948\u2013 president of Mexico (1988\u201394)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u00e4-\u02c8l\u0113-n\u00e4s-t\u035fh\u0101-g\u022fr-\u02c8t\u00e4-r\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012744",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Salinella":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a genus of minute animals of doubtful relationship having the body composed of a single layer of cells surrounding a central digestive cavity \u2014 compare mesozoa":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin salinus + New Latin -ella ; from the fact that it is found in salines and raised in saline aquariums":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccsal\u0259\u02c8nel\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092913",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Sallust":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"circa 86\u201335(or 34) b.c. Gaius Sallustius Crispus Roman historian and politician":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-l\u0259st"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082750",
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name"
]
},
"Sally Lightfoot":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a common active crab ( Grapsus grapsus ) living among rocks near or below the tide line in the West Indies and adjacent mainland":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"sally from the name Sally":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccsal\u0113\u02c8l\u012bt\u02ccfu\u0307t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083837",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Sally Lunn":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a slightly sweetened yeast-leavened bread":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1780, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Sally Lunn , 18th century English baker":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccsa-l\u0113-\u02c8l\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184520",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Sally saw":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a portable circular saw that consists of a regularly perforated toothed disk power-driven through a gear which engages the perforations":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from sally entry 3":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112310",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Saltatoria":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a suborder of Orthoptera that is often considered a separate order, comprises insects with the hind legs usually adapted for leaping, and includes the grasshoppers, crickets, and related forms \u2014 compare cursoria":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, neuter plural of saltatorius":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u022fl-",
"\u02ccsalt\u0259\u02c8t\u014dr\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225613",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"salable":{
"antonyms":[
"noncommercial",
"nonsalable",
"uncommercial",
"unmarketable",
"unsalable"
],
"definitions":{
": capable of being or fit to be sold : marketable":[]
},
"examples":[
"We'll have to repaint the house for it to be salable .",
"an item that would be too expensive to produce, and attractive to too few people, to ever be considered a salable commodity",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And Vuori is now testing ways to prevent damaged or returned merchandise from being sent to the landfill by restoring the items to salable condition. \u2014 Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Even before the ship's sinking, the fire on board was extensive enough that none of the vehicles were expected to be in salable condition. \u2014 Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Flippers buy properties that need lots of work to get them in salable condition. \u2014 CBS News , 27 Dec. 2021",
"And the less detectable the air pollution, the more desirable and salable that view is. \u2014 Whitney Mallett, Curbed , 30 Oct. 2021",
"Photographs that juxtaposed the mundane and the exotic could transform an ordinary object into something desirable \u2014 and salable . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Record companies may talk about supporting social justice, but in the end, if an artist proves salable , that artist is going to keep getting sold. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 6 July 2021",
"The store accepts clean and salable clothing, glassware, kitchenware, furniture, books, knick-knacks, tools, lamps, pictures and miscellaneous items from non-smoking homes. \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 7 May 2021",
"Demand for salable vaccine would create more supply, and a small tax could even be applied to generate funds for distribution to the poor. \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 7 Mar. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1530, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0101-l\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"commercial",
"corporate",
"marketable",
"mass-market"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202153",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"salacious":{
"antonyms":[
"frigid",
"undersexed"
],
"definitions":{
": arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination":[
"salacious headlines",
"salacious lyrics"
],
": lecherous , lustful":[
"\u2026 have fiercely denounced the book's sketches of melodramatic lovers and salacious partygoers \u2026",
"\u2014 Casey Greenfield"
]
},
"examples":[
"Lady Worsley's Whim , the story of Lady Worsley and her husband Sir Richard Worsley, is also reconstructed from some well-thumbed texts, in this case trial transcripts and newspaper reports of cases of \"Criminal Conversation\" which became popular eighteenth-century erotica. Charges \u2026 were brought by husbands seeking damages from the purported lovers of their supposedly adulterous wives, and the detail, which needed to be explicit, was frequently salacious . \u2014 Norma Clarke , Times Literary Supplement , 21 Nov. 2008",
"From snarky political commentary to salacious \"memoirs\" that flirt with both fact and fiction, scores of bloggers have gotten the book deal boon\u2014with mixed results at the register. \u2014 Eunice Lee et al. , Hyphen , Winter 2007",
"There's little difference between the junk mail in your mailbox and the junk e-mail that appears on your monitor, except that the e-mail is often of a salacious nature, e.g., the \"hot, live XXX action\" available at various dark alleyways on the web. \u2014 Michael Saunders , Boston Globe , 6 Oct.1997",
"a song with salacious lyrics",
"the salacious Greek god Pan is generally portrayed as having the legs, horns, and ears of a goat",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In an ending completely at odds with their volcanic career, the Geto Boys simply petered out, replaced by rappers making music even more salacious and outrageous than theirs. \u2014 Jonathan Rowe, SPIN , 28 June 2022",
"Lifetime is bringing to life the sad and salacious tale of Melanie McGuire (played by Candice King) who was a fertility nurse married to her ex-Navy husband, Bill (played by Michael Roark), and also the mother to two young boys. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 June 2022",
"People think that a strip club is going to be a place that is so salacious . \u2014 Veronica Wells, Essence , 7 June 2022",
"The internet was ablaze with social media commentary and news coverage throughout the salacious six-week civil suit between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard as the once-happily married couple ripped one another apart in court. \u2014 Dana Feldman, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Besides Sussmann, Durham has charged a key source of information in the salacious 2016 dossier on Trump with lying to the FBI. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"Over the years, some have leveled more sinister or salacious allegations against Trump that didn\u2019t hold water. \u2014 Brian Bennett, Time , 26 May 2022",
"So through those salacious , wild moments there were teachable moments. \u2014 David Marchese, New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"Rutledge said that's another baseless political attack by someone who wants to make salacious statements with no interest in the truth. \u2014 Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online , 8 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1645, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin salac-, salax , from salire to move spasmodically, leap \u2014 more at sally":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"concupiscent",
"goatish",
"horny",
"hot",
"hypersexual",
"itchy",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"licentious",
"lubricious",
"lubricous",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
"satyric",
"wanton"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112653",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"salaciousness":{
"antonyms":[
"frigid",
"undersexed"
],
"definitions":{
": arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination":[
"salacious headlines",
"salacious lyrics"
],
": lecherous , lustful":[
"\u2026 have fiercely denounced the book's sketches of melodramatic lovers and salacious partygoers \u2026",
"\u2014 Casey Greenfield"
]
},
"examples":[
"Lady Worsley's Whim , the story of Lady Worsley and her husband Sir Richard Worsley, is also reconstructed from some well-thumbed texts, in this case trial transcripts and newspaper reports of cases of \"Criminal Conversation\" which became popular eighteenth-century erotica. Charges \u2026 were brought by husbands seeking damages from the purported lovers of their supposedly adulterous wives, and the detail, which needed to be explicit, was frequently salacious . \u2014 Norma Clarke , Times Literary Supplement , 21 Nov. 2008",
"From snarky political commentary to salacious \"memoirs\" that flirt with both fact and fiction, scores of bloggers have gotten the book deal boon\u2014with mixed results at the register. \u2014 Eunice Lee et al. , Hyphen , Winter 2007",
"There's little difference between the junk mail in your mailbox and the junk e-mail that appears on your monitor, except that the e-mail is often of a salacious nature, e.g., the \"hot, live XXX action\" available at various dark alleyways on the web. \u2014 Michael Saunders , Boston Globe , 6 Oct.1997",
"a song with salacious lyrics",
"the salacious Greek god Pan is generally portrayed as having the legs, horns, and ears of a goat",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In an ending completely at odds with their volcanic career, the Geto Boys simply petered out, replaced by rappers making music even more salacious and outrageous than theirs. \u2014 Jonathan Rowe, SPIN , 28 June 2022",
"Lifetime is bringing to life the sad and salacious tale of Melanie McGuire (played by Candice King) who was a fertility nurse married to her ex-Navy husband, Bill (played by Michael Roark), and also the mother to two young boys. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 June 2022",
"People think that a strip club is going to be a place that is so salacious . \u2014 Veronica Wells, Essence , 7 June 2022",
"The internet was ablaze with social media commentary and news coverage throughout the salacious six-week civil suit between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard as the once-happily married couple ripped one another apart in court. \u2014 Dana Feldman, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Besides Sussmann, Durham has charged a key source of information in the salacious 2016 dossier on Trump with lying to the FBI. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"Over the years, some have leveled more sinister or salacious allegations against Trump that didn\u2019t hold water. \u2014 Brian Bennett, Time , 26 May 2022",
"So through those salacious , wild moments there were teachable moments. \u2014 David Marchese, New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"Rutledge said that's another baseless political attack by someone who wants to make salacious statements with no interest in the truth. \u2014 Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online , 8 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1645, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin salac-, salax , from salire to move spasmodically, leap \u2014 more at sally":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"concupiscent",
"goatish",
"horny",
"hot",
"hypersexual",
"itchy",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"licentious",
"lubricious",
"lubricous",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
"satyric",
"wanton"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063814",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"salad":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a usually incongruous mixture : hodgepodge":[],
": any of various usually cold dishes: such as":[],
": raw greens (such as lettuce) often combined with other vegetables and toppings and served especially with dressing":[],
": small pieces of food (such as pasta, meat, fruit, or vegetables) usually mixed with a dressing (such as mayonnaise) or set in gelatin":[]
},
"examples":[
"For dinner we had roast chicken and a salad .",
"a salad of fresh greens",
"I tossed the salad with some oil and vinegar and set it on the table.",
"Would you like soup or salad with your sandwich",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There are those who never stray from the pulpo, that classic Caribbean salad of cold octopus with bell peppers, raw onions and green olives. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"The hosts recommended smearing it on a hot dog, pastrami sandwich or even elevating a potato salad with the mustard. \u2014 Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
"Summery dinner fare includes fresh berry salad with parmesan, grilled rosemary garlic swordfish, and caramelized scallops. \u2014 Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"Top the salad with the croutons and serve with extra dressing on the side. \u2014 Robin Miller, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
"Oh, and don't sleep on the grain salad with herbs and cashew cheese. \u2014 Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022",
"Top the salad with the croutons and serve with extra dressing on the side. \u2014 Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic , 27 May 2022",
"Dinner was held in a colorful room creative by David Stark Design, whose standout aesthetic accent was banners with poetry stanzas hanging from the ceilings; guests dined on a spring vegetable salad with truffle snow and Chilean seabass. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 23 May 2022",
"The atmosphere was corporate canteen, but the fare was refined, especially a fruit salad with lime zest and, at dinner, a Roscoff-onion soup with buckwheat, sweetbreads, and a gratin of regional Ty Ewen cheese. \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English salade , from Middle French, from Old Italian (northern dialects) salata, salada , from salar to salt, from sal salt, from Latin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sa-l\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"agglomeration",
"alphabet soup",
"assortment",
"botch",
"clutter",
"collage",
"crazy quilt",
"farrago",
"gallimaufry",
"grab bag",
"gumbo",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jambalaya",
"jumble",
"jungle",
"litter",
"mac\u00e9doine",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"menagerie",
"miscellanea",
"miscellany",
"mishmash",
"mixed bag",
"montage",
"motley",
"muddle",
"olio",
"olla podrida",
"omnium-gatherum",
"pastiche",
"patchwork",
"patchwork quilt",
"potpourri",
"ragbag",
"ragout",
"rummage",
"salmagundi",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"smorgasbord",
"stew",
"tumble",
"variety",
"welter"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205134",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"salad days":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even years removed from their salad days at The Rivoli, The Kids were still grappling with how to best communicate with each other. \u2014 Mike Postalakis, SPIN , 25 May 2022",
"The two-time Oscar winner for best actor has been a fan of Cleveland\u2019s professional baseball team since his time in the city in the late 1970s while working an internship at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in his pre-Hollywood salad days . \u2014 Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s John\u2019s inheritance from his recently deceased father, an original mod revivalist who, in his salad days , once led a bikers\u2019 protest against Margaret Thatcher on the streets of Brighton. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 17 Nov. 2021",
"After running the Spurs on something akin to autopilot during the Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili salad days , Popovich relishes the chance to be a teacher again. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 16 Oct. 2021",
"The first feature from Just Philippot harkens back to those salad days of bodily mutilation with a newfound technical finesse, making CGI obedience possible from the many animal co-stars. \u2014 Charles Bramesco, Vulture , 25 Aug. 2021",
"And with the new site expected to create just 40 jobs, and up to 70 pending future expansions, that doesn\u2019t mean Millville is poised to return to its salad days as a manufacturing hub. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 7 Apr. 2021",
"The numbers provided further evidence that Netflix\u2019s salad days may be over, particularly in the U.S., where most households that want its 12-year-old streaming service already have it. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Oct. 2019",
"Now, roughly 70 percent of the properties have rooms that offer a modern take on the hotel\u2019s midcentury salad days , complete with interiors painted in orange and turquoise. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1606, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bloom",
"blossom",
"florescence",
"floruit",
"flower",
"flush",
"heyday",
"high noon",
"prime",
"springtime"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010322",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"salar":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Muslim people of Chinese Turkestan speaking a Turkic dialect":[],
": a member of the Salar people":[],
": a salt-encrusted depression (as in the nitrate fields of Chile) that may or may not be the basin of an evaporated lake \u2014 compare salada , salina":[],
": of, relating to, or characteristic of the Salar":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"American Spanish, from Spanish, to salt":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"",
"s\u0259\u02c8l\u00e4r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065402",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"salariat":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the class or body of salaried persons usually as distinguished from wage earners":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1917, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from sal aire salary (from Latin salarium ) + -ariat (as in prol\u00e9tariat proletariat)":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8ler-\u0113-\u0259t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225034",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"salary":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": fixed compensation paid regularly for services":[]
},
"examples":[
"She was offered a salary of $50,000 a year.",
"Employees receive an annual increase in salary .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"GroundTruth pays half of each reporter\u2019s salary , and helps newsrooms raise enough funds to cover the rest. \u2014 Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"Few teams \u2014 and fewer contenders \u2014 have the salary cap space to offer max contracts, and not many players in this year's free agent class can command such a deal. \u2014 Matt Eppers, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"Orlando Magic center Moe Wagner\u2019s $1.88 million salary for the 2022-23 season became fully guaranteed Friday. \u2014 Khobi Price, Orlando Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
"Gone are the days when compensation decisions were made based on salary history; 21 states and counting have passed legislation banning employers from asking candidates for this information. \u2014 Lisa Shuster, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Jazz brass apparently did not see the value in retaining Hernangomez on that salary figure. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 June 2022",
"As Wednesday turned to Thursday, the 2022-23 salaries of guards Max Strus and Gabe Vincent, as well as the salary of center Omer Yurtseven, became guaranteed. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"Detroit, which added score-first guard Jaden Ivey with the No. 5 pick in the draft, not only took on salary from the New York Knicks in a post-draft trade but is expected to re-sign Marvin Bagley. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"Scott credits the salary schedule changes for those cancellations. \u2014 al , 30 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English salarie , from Anglo-French, from Latin salarium pension, salary, from neuter of salarius of salt, from sal salt \u2014 more at salt":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sal-r\u0113",
"\u02c8sa-l\u0259-",
"\u02c8sa-l\u0259-r\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"emolument",
"hire",
"packet",
"pay",
"pay envelope",
"paycheck",
"payment",
"stipend",
"wage"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203502",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"salary/pay review":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a review of an employee's work and performance by an employer to decide by how much the employee's pay or salary should be increased":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The 48-year-old salaryman started fishing as a hobby during the pandemic. \u2014 Hanako Lowry, Los Angeles Times , 24 June 2021",
"Following Magnetic Rose was the entirely different and eerily upbeat Stink Bomb, which dealt with a salaryman in a laboratory inadvertently letting loose a devastating biological weapon. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 21 June 2021",
"Anyone who has even a passing interest in Japan knows this, has seen the photographs of black-suited salarymen having picnic lunches in an incongruously pink landscape, like something out of a child\u2019s fantasy bedroom. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Feb. 2020",
"For decades the government pushed industrial growth, so the country\u2019s cities filled up with drab business hotels that catered to armies of salarymen . \u2014 The Economist , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Tokyo is among several cities with helplines and websites that try to reach shut-ins, who range from teenage school dropouts to salarymen who have been sacked. \u2014 The Economist , 28 Nov. 2019",
"Japan was once renowned for the mutual loyalty of its companies and salarymen , who could plausibly aspire to lifetime employment at a single firm. \u2014 Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine , 16 Sep. 2019",
"The model of the salaryman who enjoys a job for life has broken down. \u2014 The Economist , 27 July 2019",
"But despite behemoth native power players including Honda, Mitsubishi, Nintendo, SoftBank, Sony, and Toyota, its corporate salaryman circles are full of squares, by design. \u2014 Richard Morgan, Fortune , 23 July 2019"
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"There is a sale on flights between New York and Paris.",
"He has a job in sales .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Want to see what other dresses are on sale ahead of Prime Day",
"Numerology notwithstanding, the Ioniq 6 does not appear to be much bigger than the Ioniq 5 SUV that went on sale earlier this year. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 2 July 2022",
"Jobs, who revolutionized the world 15 years ago this week when the first iPhone went on sale , will be honored along with sixteen other Americans for his contributions to the country. \u2014 Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 July 2022",
"Recently expanding from its sneaker roots (also an active re- sale marketplace) to include bags in its stock market-like format, StockX is where the hypebaes shop. \u2014 ELLE , 25 June 2022",
"The merchandise store on the Grammy-winning-singer\u2019s website shows four box sets, including a T-shirt, CD and a mirrored box, available for pre- sale , along with the new single. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 21 June 2022",
"The election exempts securities trades from wash- sale loss (WS) adjustments, which can defer tax losses to the subsequent year and the $3,000 capital loss limitation. \u2014 Robert Green, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"The city could also receive some rebates if contamination levels are low, or if the materials recycled are ones that yield a higher return on the re- sale market. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 18 June 2022",
"Customers can take part of this annual mega- sale as its kicks off Tuesday, July 12 through Wednesday, July 13. \u2014 al , 16 June 2022"
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"an item that would be too expensive to produce, and attractive to too few people, to ever be considered a salable commodity",
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"And Vuori is now testing ways to prevent damaged or returned merchandise from being sent to the landfill by restoring the items to salable condition. \u2014 Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Even before the ship's sinking, the fire on board was extensive enough that none of the vehicles were expected to be in salable condition. \u2014 Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Flippers buy properties that need lots of work to get them in salable condition. \u2014 CBS News , 27 Dec. 2021",
"And the less detectable the air pollution, the more desirable and salable that view is. \u2014 Whitney Mallett, Curbed , 30 Oct. 2021",
"Photographs that juxtaposed the mundane and the exotic could transform an ordinary object into something desirable \u2014 and salable . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Record companies may talk about supporting social justice, but in the end, if an artist proves salable , that artist is going to keep getting sold. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 6 July 2021",
"The store accepts clean and salable clothing, glassware, kitchenware, furniture, books, knick-knacks, tools, lamps, pictures and miscellaneous items from non-smoking homes. \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 7 May 2021",
"Demand for salable vaccine would create more supply, and a small tax could even be applied to generate funds for distribution to the poor. \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 7 Mar. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Iwasaki, at Yale, developed a nasal spray consisting of the spike protein in a saline suspension - a strategy that wouldn\u2019t work as a first-round vaccination but could be powerful as a booster. \u2014 Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The lake\u2019s saline water also wreaked havoc on cameras and water chemistry gadgets Footen uses. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Those materials are needed to make saline bags and syringes to administer the fluid. \u2014 Anna Edney, Fortune , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Mild allergic reactions can usually be treated on your own, either with home remedies (think saline nasal rinses or cool compresses) or OTC meds like antihistamines or hydrocortisone cream. \u2014 Marygrace Taylor, SELF , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Brander noted that the team also recreated the experiments with different levels of salinity and found that more saline water tended to increase the amount of the particles the organisms ingested. \u2014 Doug Johnson, Ars Technica , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The lagoons are pink due to the algae, plankton, and shrimp that live in this super- saline solution. \u2014 Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Congress is considering boosting the credit for collecting carbon emissions from smokestacks by 70% to $85 for a metric ton if the carbon is stashed in saline geologic formations, or $60 if it is sent down oil wells. \u2014 Jennifer Hiller, WSJ , 7 Feb. 2022",
"But the ponds have become sources of saline water only. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The 2019 was fresh and energetic with lip-smacking saline and citrus flavors. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"Idriss suggests sclerotherapy\u2014relatively painless, highly effective injections of saline or other solutions\u2014followed by a combination of tightening treatments and biostimulatory fillers to help the area generate its own collagen. \u2014 Jancee Dunn, Vogue , 18 May 2022",
"The wine\u2019s scents and flavors include tart pineapple, German chamomile, saline , lime zest, wet pavement and Bosc pear. \u2014 Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 9 May 2022",
"Doctors use multiple tools, including saline and nebulizers, chest physical therapy and a flutter valve to open airways to release the mucus. \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 15 Dec. 2021",
"The mice that received saline , however, healed much quicker. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 23 May 2022",
"There was now a small reservoir filled with saline embedded in Ben\u2019s groin. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
"After getting settled at AHS, Hera received treatment for her burns, including laser therapy, honey bandages, wound cleanings with saline , and several medications to prevent infection. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
"On the other hand, NCCIH finds that irrigating your nose with saline , using a neti pot or other rinsing device, may be helpful. \u2014 Karen Pallarito, Health.com , 7 July 2021"
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"our mouths filled with saliva when we smelled the delicious dinner",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The disease spreads when bodily fluids, mainly saliva and spit, are exchanged. \u2014 Mary Kekatos, ABC News , 23 June 2022",
"The bacteria is spread through sharing respiratory or throat secretions, such as saliva or spit. \u2014 Naomi Thomas, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"Simple swabs and vials play crucial roles in transporting blood, saliva and other fluids during medical lab tests. \u2014 Maddie Bender, Scientific American , 21 June 2022",
"Infected animals may shed prions in their urine, feces and saliva \u2014 causing contamination in the soil that can stay infectious for years. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"So did testing of two patients\u2019 nasopharyngeal swabs, one patient\u2019s blood, and one patient\u2019s saliva . \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Determined to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at Illinois schools in the fall, officials with the state\u2019s health department on Tuesday urged school districts to resume COVID-19 saliva screenings at the start of the 2022-23 school year. \u2014 Karen Ann Cullotta, Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"The virus can be found in droplets like saliva or respiratory secretions, but those drop out of the air quickly. \u2014 Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Droplets are larger moisture particles that fall quickly to the ground, like drops of saliva expelled when a person coughs. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 9 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Satellite operators salivate at the chance of tapping into the much larger terrestrial communications market, and other companies, like AST SpaceMobile and Lynx, are working on their own plans to plug mobile phones into satellite networks. \u2014 Tim Fernholz, Quartz , 12 May 2022",
"The listing is not available to book yet, but Issa Rae respectfully gave us several days to salivate over these beautiful pictures until it can be booked on Tuesday, February 8. \u2014 Carrie Wittmer, Glamour , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Corsair recently sent over the latest iteration of its all-in-one One (hence the clever name) desktop gaming PC for testing, which comes packed with enough Alder Lake-ready hardware to make even the most jaded PC gamers salivate . \u2014 Mitch Wallace, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The thought of that one-on-one primary scenario is probably making prominent Democrats (and Republicans) salivate \u2013 like mouths at a Thanksgiving feast. \u2014 David Paleologos, USA TODAY , 8 Nov. 2021",
"No doubt, the questioners today will salivate at the opportunity to get publicity for slamming oil companies on camera, but this will remind many of us of the golden age of Barnum and Bailey\u2019s productions. \u2014 Michael Lynch, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Bitcoin gaining the endorsement of Soros\u2019s top lieutenant\u2014even such a tepid endorsement\u2014is exactly the kind of news that may cause crypto investors to salivate . \u2014 Declan Harty, Fortune , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Just the name makes some people salivate and others sick to their stomaches. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 3 Oct. 2021",
"His agent might salivate at the proposition of negotiating another extension. \u2014 John Canzano, oregonlive , 14 Sep. 2021"
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"Cancer transformed Wu from a baby-faced boy to a sallow wraith immobilized on a gurney. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Dec. 2019",
"Her cheeks were sunken, complexion sallow , her tiny frame emaciated and frail. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Purple neutralizes sallow , yellow tones, while orange and red balance out blue and purple dark circles. \u2014 Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour , 16 Oct. 2018",
"Chiffchaffs and willow warblers sing in the sallow and alder, while every leaf seems to hold a butterfly or dragonfly or hoverfly. \u2014 The Economist , 5 July 2018",
"With hints of greens and blues beneath her sallow flesh, the girl looks sickly. \u2014 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 July 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Her cherry-colored cheeks impart a glow that is far from the dull, sallow complexions of the average person that is experiencing a hangover. \u2014 Sara Miranda, Allure , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Caffeine, Brazilian ginseng, horse chestnut and light-reflecting particles instantly wake up tired, sallow skin and make for a brighter, smoother under-eye region. \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 29 Dec. 2021",
"My face had become gaunt and haggard, my sallow skin formed shadows etched beneath my eyes that no amount of makeup could disguise. \u2014 Emily Listfield, Allure , 8 May 2021",
"In Shadow and Bone, Alina is depicted as plain (if not homely), with mousy brown hair and pale, sallow skin. \u2014 Lauren Puckett, Harper's BAZAAR , 30 Apr. 2021",
"Her father should know, having spent decades hunched over an oak desk in a shipping company\u2019s lightless front room along with a dozen other sallow men. \u2014 The Editors, Curbed , 26 Apr. 2021",
"Amid this oppressive gloom, Stone\u2019s sallow , hangdog visage suggests someone wasting away before our very eyes. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 12 Mar. 2021",
"The elusive purple emperor butterfly has made its home in the acres of sallow trees -- a kind of willow -- that flourish on the estate. \u2014 Hazel Pfeifer, CNN , 1 Oct. 2020",
"Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence and Joshua Reynolds looked sallow . \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 30 Aug. 2020"
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"Cancer transformed Wu from a baby-faced boy to a sallow wraith immobilized on a gurney. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Dec. 2019",
"Her cheeks were sunken, complexion sallow , her tiny frame emaciated and frail. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2019",
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"Chiffchaffs and willow warblers sing in the sallow and alder, while every leaf seems to hold a butterfly or dragonfly or hoverfly. \u2014 The Economist , 5 July 2018",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"Caffeine, Brazilian ginseng, horse chestnut and light-reflecting particles instantly wake up tired, sallow skin and make for a brighter, smoother under-eye region. \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 29 Dec. 2021",
"My face had become gaunt and haggard, my sallow skin formed shadows etched beneath my eyes that no amount of makeup could disguise. \u2014 Emily Listfield, Allure , 8 May 2021",
"In Shadow and Bone, Alina is depicted as plain (if not homely), with mousy brown hair and pale, sallow skin. \u2014 Lauren Puckett, Harper's BAZAAR , 30 Apr. 2021",
"Her father should know, having spent decades hunched over an oak desk in a shipping company\u2019s lightless front room along with a dozen other sallow men. \u2014 The Editors, Curbed , 26 Apr. 2021",
"Amid this oppressive gloom, Stone\u2019s sallow , hangdog visage suggests someone wasting away before our very eyes. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 12 Mar. 2021",
"The elusive purple emperor butterfly has made its home in the acres of sallow trees -- a kind of willow -- that flourish on the estate. \u2014 Hazel Pfeifer, CNN , 1 Oct. 2020",
"Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence and Joshua Reynolds looked sallow . \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 30 Aug. 2020"
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"Both nominees would be vital to Democrats push to revive net neutrality, the latest sally in a decades-long battle over whether all Internet traffic should be treated equally by providers. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Both nominees would be vital to Democrats push to revive Net neutrality, the latest sally in a decades-long battle over whether all Internet traffic should be treated equally by providers. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Oct. 2021",
"And consider compromise that can bring most everyone to the table in agreement, rather than insisting on a quixotic sally into a windmill that might flip a body into the air and leave it to fall. \u2014 Erik Sherman, Forbes , 2 Mar. 2021",
"As Claremont puts a great deal of effort into promoting constitutional principles and the Founding, this is a peculiarly off-base sally . \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 21 Aug. 2019",
"Her writing blows sad and then joyful, warm then cool, with surprising sallies into magical realism and religious critique. \u2014 Madeleine Schwartz, Harper's magazine , 10 June 2019",
"This sally was undermined when the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, could not remember the policy\u2019s cost. \u2014 The Economist , 14 June 2018",
"But the contests never actually occur, because the musketeers divine in d\u2019Artagnan a man who is willing to risk his life and can assist them in their sallies against Cardinal Richelieu\u2019s belligerent guards. \u2014 Tobias Grey, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2018",
"Almost every week, editorialists at high-profile joints electrocute Twitter with a new your-liberal-views-are-vulgar sally . \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, WIRED , 12 Mar. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That may last for a while as buyers who weren\u2019t able to purchase an apartment during the depths of the pandemic restrictions finally sally forth. \u2014 Jacky Wong, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"In 2018, for instance, an American aircraft-carrier sallied into the Arctic Circle for the first time in 30 years, during a huge exercise in Norway. \u2014 The Economist , 16 May 2020",
"In addition to this, the two foresters cite other assaults: the beetle colonies that waited out the newly mild winters in the dead wood left by the high winds, and which sallied forth aggressively this year to attack new stands. \u2014 National Geographic , 13 Jan. 2020",
"From the school, convoys sallied forth every morning toward the half-dozen sawmills that lay beyond town, hidden behind high plank walls. \u2014 Felipe Fittipaldi, National Geographic , 28 Aug. 2019",
"Cleander, who commanded the Praetorian Guards, ordered a body of cavalry to sally forth and disperse the seditious multitude. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 6 June 2019",
"In my own hopelessly romantic eyes, Dr. Hawking in the Copley Plaza will always be St. George in a wheelchair, sallying forth to slay the black-hole dragon. \u2014 Dennis Overbye, New York Times , 14 Mar. 2018",
"So many people going to the game or other festivities surrounding the game are waiting for temperatures to safely rise above freezing levels before sallying out. \u2014 Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer , 8 Jan. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Due to her hysterics and county protocol, Orange police officers were instructed to put her back in the cruiser and drop her off just outside the county jail\u2019s sally port , where she was released and given her phone back to call for a ride. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 14 May 2022",
"At the Wood courthouse, inmates were visible to the public when they were brought to court because transport vehicles descended into an open sally port behind the courthouse. \u2014 Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Jan. 2022",
"At the new courthouse, the sally port is enclosed by iron fence and no longer open to public view. \u2014 Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Platten testified that Mills moved the intake screening process from the sally port , where inmates first enter the jail, to the seventh floor. \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Talk of adding a sally port for a more secure transport of arrestees dates back several years. \u2014 Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Tallman then took a MetroHealth IT worker and a couple of carts to the seventh floor, unplugged the intake unit\u2019s computers and brought them back down to the sally port . \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 7 Sep. 2021",
"Once the garage/ sally port is constructed, Kaminski said enclosing the front entrance to the station will be the remaining project. \u2014 Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com , 9 Sep. 2021",
"On July 5, 2020, San Diego police shot and wounded a 25-year-old man who\u2019d slipped out of his handcuffs in the sally port at the Police Department\u2019s downtown headquarters, grabbed a gun and fired a shot. \u2014 Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 July 2021"
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"the downtown area has a salmagundi of one-of-a-kind shops, where you can find almost anything you might need\u2014and many things you don't",
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"Nearly 100 objects from the Met\u2019s collection, from the Near Eastern and African departments to the arms and armor holdings, have been sucked into this sculptural salmagundi . \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 13 Apr. 2017",
"The agency\u2019s art department, M.T.A. Arts & Design, founded and first funded in 1985, is rarely \u2014 in a salmagundi system 112 years old \u2014 presented with a brand-new, blank canvas. \u2014 Randy Kennedy, New York Times , 19 Dec. 2016"
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"at its headquarters the company maintains a fashionable salon filled with works of modern art",
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"For longer-term results, Lee and Capri recommend in- salon treatments like a Brazilian or Keratin treatment. \u2014 ELLE , 10 June 2022",
"The two girls told their mother that Jones shouted at them for staring at her and yelled at another Muslim woman in the salon , mistaking her for their mother, according to Fadwa. \u2014 Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News , 2 June 2022",
"In the main salon the convertible layout lets the owner add or take out a dining area at will. \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 31 May 2022",
"Berkley worked as a beautician for around 40 years, much of that in a salon at the corner of Cedar Road and East 105th Street. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"Directed by Aidan Zamiri, the clip \u2014 which has a low-fi, vintage aesthetic \u2014 showcases the singer in a salon , getting her nails done. \u2014 Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Using velcro rollers can give you the look of a professional blowout without the expensive price tag or salon visit. \u2014 Wendy Sy, Allure , 26 Jan. 2022",
"In addition to seven guest suites, the superyacht also features two massage rooms, a hair salon , a gym and a full bar. \u2014 Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"Panera Bread, which closed several months ago at Avon Commons, will be converted into a salon (no word on the name or services offered). \u2014 cleveland , 1 May 2022"
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"cowboys drinking in the saloon after their work was done for the day",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the taproom, guests can expect the specialty saloon featuring select Rhinegeist brews and a bourbon bar provided by New Riff Distilling. \u2014 Cierra Britten, The Enquirer , 9 June 2022",
"The upscale saloon is one of fewer than a dozen businesses that make up downtown Markleeville, a two-minute stroll end-to-end along Highway 89. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 June 2022",
"One hundred and eighty years ago, the mostly rural area around Armitage and Grand avenues was known as Whiskey Point thanks to the saloon George Merrill opened to farmers and travelers out of his family home. \u2014 William Lee, Chicago Tribune , 29 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a bar, which is like the saloon in a Western town, which is where the worst elements hang out. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 21 May 2022",
"Once returned to its former glory, the saloon will join Bentley\u2019s expanding lineup of Heritage Collection road-going cars. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Guests also have access to miles of trails, horseback riding, a country store, a mini-museum, a Western saloon featuring live music on summer weekends and a steakhouse and pizzeria. \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 24 May 2022",
"Construction is almost finished on the 31-cabin property, complete with a historic saloon turned restaurant. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"His design for the X-wing, the Rebel Alliance\u2019s signature starfighter, was inspired by seeing a dart thrown at an English pub, and was meant to suggest the image of a cowboy drawing his guns outside a saloon . \u2014 Harrison Smith, Washington Post , 23 May 2022"
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"lace",
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"Season the meat with salt and pepper.",
"Verb",
"The meat was preserved by being salted and smoked.",
"The city salted the roads after the snowstorm."
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"Middle English, from Old English sealt ; akin to Old High German salz salt, Lithuanian saldus sweet, Latin sal salt, Greek hals salt, sea":"Noun",
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"\u02c8s\u022flt"
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"gob",
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": to lay away (something valuable, such as money) safely : save":[]
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"salted away some jewels in a safe-deposit box for the lean times"
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": tamarisk":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Also known as salt cedar , it was utilized as a windbreak and as a way to control stream-bank erosion. \u2014 Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic , 27 Aug. 2020",
"Getting rid of the salt cedar trees would keep more of that finite groundwater underground, Meck said. \u2014 Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic , 30 Aug. 2020",
"That same year, workers hacked through thickets of invasive salt cedar trees and began planting native trees in the dry soil. \u2014 Ian James, AZCentral.com , 19 Apr. 2020",
"The fire that began on July 4 burned through salt cedar near the Avondale racetrack and continues to burn in the riverbottom. \u2014 Aubrey Carpenter, azcentral , 5 July 2019",
"Topping the Western Governor's terrestrial list was tamarisk, which lowers the water table and creates large deposits of salt in the soil, hence its common name of salt cedar , according to the National Invasive Species Information Center. \u2014 Phil Drake, USA TODAY , 22 Mar. 2018",
"Pests that have been in the headlines before include water-gulping salt cedar trees and quagga mussels, which clog water and sewer pipelines. \u2014 Fox News , 15 Mar. 2018",
"Also on the list from the Western Governors Association were plants such as salt cedar and Eurasian watermilfoil plus critters such as carp, nonnative crayfish and feral hogs. \u2014 Phil Drake, USA TODAY , 22 Mar. 2018",
"Some of the species on the governors\u2019 list have been in the headlines before, including water-gulping salt cedar trees and quagga mussels. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Mar. 2018"
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"Latin saltatus , past participle of saltare to jump, leap, dance":""
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"\u02c8s\u022fl-",
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The temperature gradients in the granular ice layer, caused by solar radiation, also play an important role in the onset of the saltation process [movement of particles over an uneven surface]. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 31 May 2018"
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"1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"s\u022fl-",
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"s\u00e4l\u02c8t\u00e4t(\u02cc)\u014d"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin saltator dancer, from saltatus + -or":""
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"s\u022fl-",
"sal\u02c8t\u0101t\u0259(r)"
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": relating to, marked by, or adapted for leaping":[
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"first_known_use":{
"1789, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccs\u022fl-",
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"\u02c8sal-t\u0259-\u02cct\u022fr-\u0113",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The saltbox takes its name from a popular wooden box used to store salt. \u2014 Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor , 22 June 2022",
"But the understated house was more New England saltbox than brutalist concrete fantasy. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Mar. 2021",
"Fortunately, many saltbox houses are still standing today. \u2014 Elizabeth Sweet, Better Homes & Gardens , 3 Apr. 2020",
"Its towns make good postcards, with saltbox houses meandering outward from a central green and a white clapboard church. \u2014 The Economist , 8 Feb. 2020",
"Photo: Boston Globe/Getty Images Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen designed the shingled Cape Cod saltbox -style main house and a two-story guesthouse, which were completed in 1981. \u2014 Katherine Clarke, WSJ , 27 June 2019",
"Lindheimer House: Make advance reservations to visit here, an 1845 saltbox cottage built with adobe brick and traditional German fachwerk. \u2014 Michelle Newman, San Antonio Express-News , 11 June 2018",
"The saltbox -style house, built in 1906 on 1,020 acres, has three bedrooms, one bath and 2,452 square feet ($2,936 a square foot). \u2014 Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com , 12 June 2018",
"Consisting of two saltbox houses and four outbuildings overlooking the rest of Salvage, its harbor, and the rugged coastline that surrounds it, the Pickersgill Premises is an official Registered Property of Newfoundland and Labrador. \u2014 Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living , 30 Mar. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the east, the sky glowed orange and crimson, and the light illuminated a sea of saltbushes , sweet grass and wind-rippled dunes. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Jan. 2018",
"Different varieties of sunflower, saltbush , sagebrush and poppies will eventually spread across the site. \u2014 Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com , 17 July 2017",
"Kangaroos, wombats and giant herbivores called diprotodontids browsed on a variety of shrubby plants, including saltbush . \u2014 Brian Switek, Smithsonian , 26 Jan. 2017"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u2014 Jon Niccum"
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"Adjective",
"I think the soup tastes salty .",
"salty sea water is safe to swim in, but you really shouldn't swallow it",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Conjure up the smell of the salty air and the feel of the warm summer sun with a spritz of this Maison Margiela Replica scent. \u2014 April Franzino, Good Housekeeping , 23 June 2022",
"Local hotspots reopen their doors and decks, ready to reunite with seasonal guests who are eager to embrace the sun, sand, and salty air. \u2014 Elise\u00e9 Browchuk, Vogue , 31 May 2022",
"Perhaps the sound of calling gulls or the smell of salty air also comes to mind. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 8 May 2022",
"Waterfront homes require more frequent maintenance than homes farther inland due to the corrosive nature of the salty air and exposure to the wind. \u2014 Robyn A. Friedman, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Sun, sea spray and salty air create the perfect environment for sailing enthusiasts but not so much for priceless works of art. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Their voices vibrate with emotion in the salty air at beachside Restaurante El Pirata (the Pirate). \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
"For the next five-to-nine months, the salty air coats the hanging meat. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Like sand between your toes, the smell of salty air, and an ice-cold cocktail in your hand. \u2014 Christopher Rosa, Glamour , 24 Dec. 2021"
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"\u02c8s\u022fl-t\u0113"
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"fresh air and exercise are always salubrious",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Just as cruising has been appreciated for salubrious ocean views and breezes, everyone has kept mum (at best) about the food, historically produced in one large galley with ingredients from the deep freeze. \u2014 Sue Bryant, Town & Country , 17 June 2022",
"In recent years, production sets have been drawn to the suburbs of Naples, and its less salubrious underbelly. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Dec. 2021",
"After grapes were picked, an unusual and salubrious warm streak of autumn weather provided a reason for winemakers to set outdoor lunch tables. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Activism has become a powerful force in contemporary art of late \u2014 exciting, resonant, even potentially reparative in nature, rather than irritatingly salubrious . \u2014 New York Times , 1 Oct. 2021",
"The people are openhearted, the infrastructure impeccable, the lifestyle salubrious . \u2014 Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure , 4 Sep. 2021",
"If the theory was off base, the results were still salubrious ; forty days gave the plague time enough to kill infected rats and sailors. \u2014 Benjamin Wallace-well, The New Yorker , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Tesla\u2019s power units have a particularly salubrious effect on old Porsche s. \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 5 June 2021",
"But his restoration to a more salubrious on-camera role is a helpful reminder of the rules that now govern news. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 14 June 2021"
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"1547, in the meaning defined above":""
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"The accident should be a salutary lesson to be more careful.",
"the low interest rates should have a salutary effect on business",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Jones\u2019s willingness to move beyond a specifically North American canvas is salutary , for much in Brazil\u2019s experience merits the attention of anyone interested in the history of slavery. \u2014 Larry Rohter, The New York Review of Books , 8 June 2022",
"One way to put our knowledge about the salutary effects of nature into action is to actually treat outdoor time like medicine in a very literal way: Prescribe it. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 8 June 2022",
"Predictable cash flows have a salutary impact in an economy where uncertainty is the default mode. \u2014 Rajrishi Singhal, Quartz , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Even better, this same economic progress has had another salutary impact on health. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"This time, the three filmmakers had in mind something more salutary . \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"The only example of retrenchment that comes to mind is the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, which, while salutary in its effects, has been much undermined since its passage. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Such conditions are as salutary for the spread of respiratory viruses as a high-density prison. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Whether or not the Hungarian leader has done so, the effect has hardly been salutary . \u2014 Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle French salutaire , from Latin salutaris , from salut-, salus health":""
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"A handshake and saying \u201chello\u201d are common salutations .",
"Shaking hands is a form of salutation .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Best Underwear for Workouts Stretch into every downward dog or sun salutation knowing your underwear won't budge. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 26 May 2022",
"My doctor must have seen my salutation in my chart. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"Upward-Facing Dog, or Urdhva Mukha Svanasana Upward-facing dog typically follows chaturanga during a traditional sun salutation . \u2014 Jenni Gritters, Outside Online , 12 Oct. 2018",
"Also known as fierce pose, chair pose is typically offered during traditional sun salutation variations. \u2014 Jenni Gritters, Outside Online , 12 Oct. 2018",
"Coupling that with a first name salutation in the subject line and the beginning of the email really works to set the stage for a personalized message from your organization that drives opens and click-through rates. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Another example is surya namaskara, or the sun salutation , a vinyasa flow performed during yoga. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 26 Dec. 2021",
"What is the best way to respond to this salutation ",
"The other is the name was inspired by a salutation the band members used when greeting each other. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 14 Oct. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02ccsal-y\u0259-\u02c8t\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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"accolade",
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"commendation",
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"Verb",
"We salute our country's soldiers.",
"The players saluted the fans.",
"The president saluted her bravery.",
"Noun",
"The officers gave the general a salute .",
"They raised their hands in salute .",
"The concert was a salute to country music legends.",
"Twenty-one guns were fired in salute .",
"We raise our glasses in salute to the newlyweds.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish and others salute the likes of Richard Pryor and Moms Mabley in this two-night special. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 26 June 2022",
"Over the next three months, more than a score of major events, plus dozens of community fairs and festivities, salute the Windy City\u2019s colossal cultural and culinary talents. \u2014 Laura Manske, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
"At noon, the flag should be briskly raised to full staff to salute all of those who have served. \u2014 Lauren Matthews And Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living , 29 Apr. 2022",
"And what better way to salute those joyful moments than with a little retail therapy",
"Its design of stone, sculptures and flags will salute Michigan's members of the Greatest Generation, from the men fighting at the front to the women building weapons in Detroit's factories. \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Last year, while planning the 2022 edition of SummerFest, Barnatan had contemplated including a concert or two that would salute France\u2019s Nadia Boulanger. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Wiegand was in Phoenix to salute the memory of Roosevelt\u2019s fellow Rough Riders from Arizona and other military veterans at a benefit for the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation based in North Dakota. \u2014 Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Even critics who complained that some passages were overwritten or that the dialogue did not sound realistic, said there was much to salute in Mr. Duffy\u2019s effort. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Late country music star Naomi Judd will get a TV salute from her family and her contemporaries at the famous Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Sunday. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022",
"In battering the Washington Senators before 29,794 fans in a 9-2 Tigers\u2019 victory, Virgil earned a standing ovation from the audience and a verbal salute from Frank Lary, a white pitcher from Alabama. \u2014 Scott Talley, Freep.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"The players were introduced one by one for a final salute from the fans. \u2014 Alec White, The Arizona Republic , 5 Apr. 2021",
"The tradition continued alongside these remarks with the lying of wreaths, a rifle salute and the playing of Taps. \u2014 Corey Schmidt, Chicago Tribune , 31 May 2022",
"West Allis is planning a Memorial Day observance ceremony featuring patriotic songs sung by the Nathan Hale choir, a flag ceremony, a rifle salute and a veterans\u2019 tribute. \u2014 Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"In salute to both observances, Billboard is spotlighting industry events and activations that will take place throughout June. \u2014 Darlene Aderoju, Billboard , 1 June 2022",
"In a salute to the 75th Anniversary of the United States Air Force, the event will have a packed show showcasing both military and civilian aircraft. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Just about everyone \u2014 a white man with a buzz cut, a Black woman in medical scrubs, Mr. Turner, who served during the wars in Iraq \u2014 raised their arms toward the setting sun in a silent salute . \u2014 New York Times , 2 Apr. 2022"
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"s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fct"
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},
"examples":[
"Tourism has been the salvation of the island.",
"we spent the night in the cellar praying for salvation from the tornadoes",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the resulting power vacuum a new religion emerged promising salvation - Islam. \u2014 David Bressan, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Dan wants to know if polygamy is part of salvation , but an older man \u2014 who\u2019s got a gun in his belt \u2014 tells Dan to get lost. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 May 2022",
"But in arguably the two greatest consecutive crunch-time drives by any quarterback this season, Herbert amazingly pulled them back to the brink of salvation . \u2014 Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Depending on one\u2019s theology, the ritual is a component of salvation or a symbol of it. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Nov. 2021",
"In his earliest years, the author despised golf by association but gradually, in a sense, found his salvation through the game. \u2014 John Paul Newport, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"Regardless, the prospects of Western retailers reopening in Russia appear increasingly bleak and Russia\u2019s malls are already looking East for salvation . \u2014 Mark Faithfull, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"The Pirates\u2019 salvation \u2014 and possibly Trent\u2019s \u2014 is star player Billy Lowe, a volatile senior whose extreme talents on the field are matched by his violent temper. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 4 May 2022",
"And as things get hotter in India, electricity shortages may also rule out the salvation of air conditioning. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u2014 Upton Sinclair"
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"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
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"Adjective",
"Then there were those who doubted the need for radio in the first place, since the telegraph was already ubiquitous. Marconi's salient achievement was to realize that radio waves could be transmitted across vast distances, an incalculable step forward in mass communications. \u2014 Kevin Baker , New York Times Book Review , 5 Nov. 2006",
"A 2002 study conducted at the University of Illinois by Diener and Seligman found that the most salient characteristics shared by the 10% of students with the highest levels of happiness and the fewest signs of depression were their strong ties to friends and family and commitment to spending time with them. \u2014 Claudia Wallis , Time , 17 Jan. 2005",
"The difference between the people Liebling chose to write about and today's celebrity culture is the difference between the \"profile\" and the \"portrait.\" A profile is an outline, a concise rendering of the most salient facts, though the facts may be inessential and even inaccurate in their generality. \u2026 A portrait, on the other hand, is a revelation, an exposure. \u2014 Lee Siegel , Harper's , December 2004",
"Kermeen cites \"a book published in 1882\" that says of ghosts at the Myrtles: \"The lights are never extinguished at the plantation. When the lights are all out, something always happens.\" Kermeen does not further identify this book (another source says it was published \"in 1900\"), but the salient point here is that it apparently did not mention the Chloe tale. That suggests it was probably unknown until relatively recently. \u2014 Joe Nickell , Skeptical Inquirer , September/October 2003",
"Noun",
"The attempts of the Teutonic armies to envelop and destroy some portion of the Russian forces involved the creation of several dangerous salients in the Russian line, followed by an endeavor to close the neck of each salient by attacks from both sides and so to isolate the armies forming its apex. \u2014 Douglas Wilson Johnson , Topography and Strategy in the War , 1917",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Monae believes the book and its themes are particularly salient given our current political climate. \u2014 Veronica Wells, Essence , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The salient feature of L.U.C Full Strike Sapphire is its use of crystal gongs that are attached to the sapphire crystal, a trick that causes the sound to resonate on a crystal clear note, like a fork hitting the side of a crystal glass. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 8 Apr. 2022",
"This is particularly salient in the age of short attention spans, where the average museum-goer spends less than 30 seconds looking at a work of art. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 10 Feb. 2022",
"That advantage is particularly salient in a game dominated by offense. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Never before has there been a more salient need for clinical collaboration workflow solutions to help reduce potential errors and improve patient outcomes. \u2014 Kelly Feist, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"That has become an even more salient point as Russia through its invasion has sought falsely to assert that Ukraine\u2019s culture is not unique. \u2014 Colleen Barry And Paolo Santalucia, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"That has become an even more salient point as Russia through its invasion has sought falsely to assert that Ukraine's culture is not unique. \u2014 Fox News , 15 May 2022",
"That has become an even more salient point as Russia through its invasion has sought falsely to assert that Ukraine's culture is not unique. \u2014 Colleen Barry And Paolo Santalucia, USA TODAY , 15 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"More salient with regards to the state of fashion today is the designer\u2019s renegade, and highly collaborative, approach to her work. \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 1 July 2022",
"Some, mostly on Twitter, have even gone viral\u2014especially if the death in question can be used to make a salient point about politics or public health. \u2014 Chris Wiley, The New Yorker , 4 May 2022",
"One of Omicron\u2019s most salient features is how resistant the variant family is to vaccines and most monoclonal antibodies. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Without knowing more, there are nonetheless a few salient points to consider. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 22 Mar. 2022",
"As a quick explanation for why not, consider these salient points. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Clark\u2019s point is a salient one, with some studies finding that up to 80% of U.S. hospital markets are highly concentrated. \u2014 Seth Joseph, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"But immigration was locked in as a salient issue the moment Trump entered the race. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Those two ingredients\u2014foam and plate\u2014are also the salient features of the Vaporfly and comparable marathon shoes, but there are some differences. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 16 July 2021"
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"He was the company's best salesman last year.",
"a furniture salesman followed us around the whole time we looked for a new couch",
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"A year ago, business was humming for Liang Jiawei, a property salesman in Zhanjiang, a coastal city in southern China. \u2014 New York Times , 20 June 2022",
"Steinmetz was a retired shoe salesman in Birmingham. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Here's who was eliminated in Episode 1: Jeff, a surgical skin salesman from New Jersey. \u2014 Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic , 9 June 2021",
"But as in the movie, Elvis becomes subsumed by the salesman . \u2014 Vogue , 29 May 2022",
"And of course, the best salesman against isolationism in America is President Zelensky. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"To each purchaser of Wrigley\u2019s Scouring Soap the young salesman gave a free sample of baking powder. \u2014 Gregg Opelka, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"Moreover, Trump attracted not poor people but middle-income people: the tire salesman married to a bookkeeper, making more than $50,000 but still feeling the fade-out of the American dream. \u2014 Joan C. Williams, The New Republic , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Here\u2019s what the salesman suggested: black Magic Marker. \u2014 The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022"
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"the salesclerk told us where to find the jewelry department",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When his 19-year-old wife Margaret purchased a cigarette case at a Woolworth\u2019s in Salt Lake City, a diligent salesclerk noticed that the serial number on a $5 bill matched one on a list circulated by the FBI. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Hochschild\u2019s envious, inflexible salesclerk reappears in Goleman\u2019s book, now adapted for his purposes. \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 12 Apr. 2021",
"The actors compensate to some extent for the drift, particularly Vance as the peaceable George and the formidable Wunmi Mosaku as Ruby, Leti\u2019s no-nonsense sister, who aspires to a salesclerk \u2019s job at Marshall Field. \u2014 Mike Hale, New York Times , 13 Aug. 2020",
"Bartenders were second, followed by drivers and salesclerks . \u2014 Olivera Perkins, cleveland , 19 Jan. 2020",
"Originally priced at $14,500, it had been reduced to $5,250 and was subject, a salesclerk told me, to a flash sale reduction of 75 percent. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Oct. 2019",
"Enter: the notably simpler text transaction, whether via a personal relationship with a salesclerk or one of the new text-shopping services. \u2014 Rebecca Malinsky, WSJ , 17 Dec. 2018",
"Her father had been a computer-science professor and her mother had been a salesclerk , but their success in those former roles had hinged on being loquacious and witty in their native language, none of which translated into English. \u2014 Weike Wang, The New Yorker , 6 June 2018",
"In China, an efficient salesclerk followed customers from place to place like a shadow, but no one wanted her mother to do that at JCPenney. \u2014 Weike Wang, The New Yorker , 6 June 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"First: Seared jumbo sea scallops with parsnip potato puree, crispy salsify and salsa verde. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 28 Feb. 2021",
"Its dome of Italian meringue, concealing salsify ice cream atop a disk of spice cake, gets doused in rum and set on fire, a blaze of blue. \u2014 Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker , 6 Mar. 2020",
"Also blinis with caviar, made to order on a spirit stove, salad of salsify and chopped egg, custard tart, Billecart-Salmon ros\u00e9. \u2014 John Lanchester, The New Yorker , 26 Mar. 2017"
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"examples":[
"The company is hiring new salespeople .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For example, data from these programs may reveal that a particular salesperson needs extra help with closing deals, determining new prospects or bettering their communication skills. \u2014 Dan Whelan, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Sabyasachi haunted Ogaan until a salesperson finally reviewed his sketches. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"When in doubt, ask a salesperson or write to the manufacturer on their website. \u2014 Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY , 16 Apr. 2022",
"In fact, according to the 2016 Content Preferences Survey Report, 47% of B2B buyers look at three to five pieces of content before reaching out to a salesperson . \u2014 Sharmin Ali, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"For instance, Larson Electronics both leases and sells portable diesel EV charging units, Rob Bresnahan, a salesperson at Larson Electronics, told USA TODAY in an email. \u2014 Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Will Fretwell, salesperson at Natchez Trace Harley-Davidson and owner of Brass Monkey Wrestling, said Crowley was one of the biggest fans to show up at the wrestling events every weekend. \u2014 al , 23 Nov. 2021",
"In sales, virtually every effective training program ensures that a salesperson has great listening skills. \u2014 Douglas Karr, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
"So does that between an auditioning actor and a director, or a salesperson and her customers, or, for that matter, ambitious employees and the managers who could promote them. \u2014 Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"True salesmanship lies in empathy\u2014in striking a chord, building a rapport and understanding what your clients need or want. \u2014 Manish Gupta, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Being successful there meant endless haggling, networking and the kind of salesmanship that bordered on theatricality. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"Dopesick Executive producers Danny Strong and Michael Keaton take viewers into the heart of the opioid crisis, showing how one company nefariously created the worst drug epidemic in American history through lies, PR, and good salesmanship . \u2014 Andrea Towers, EW.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Again, Kirby says the salesmanship outstrips the science here. \u2014 Outside Online , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Plus, in an annoying bit of salesmanship , typical 256GB micro SD cards aren't compatible. \u2014 Hearst Autos Gear Team, Car and Driver , 15 Mar. 2022",
"This is not good salesmanship , but the songs are strong. \u2014 Josh Chesler, SPIN , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Its value is a collective hallucination, dependent on constant salesmanship and, in some cases, deception and market manipulation. \u2014 Ben Mckenzie, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"As a mark of his salesmanship , carpenters and stonemasons headed to Chicago. \u2014 Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com , 3 Mar. 2022"
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": an engineer attached to a sales department to assist salespeople with technical information and advice":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The wedding-dress saleslady totally negs Julia Roberts for trying to buy an expensive dress. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 5 Mar. 2022",
"The saleslady pops back up from behind the counter. \u2014 Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com , 2 June 2018"
],
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"first_known_use":{
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"definitions":{
": a body of workers maintained by fire-insurance companies to protect goods, merchandise, and effects from destruction by fire or from water or chemicals used in fighting fire":[]
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],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After graduating from high school, Ms. Henderson worked as a switchboard operator, saleswoman and hotel clerk. \u2014 Harrison Smith, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
"What became Modern Monetary Theory began to percolate among a small group of academics when Ms. Kelton, a former military brat and one-time furniture saleswoman , was a graduate student. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Parton opened the concert by zipping through three amiable songs from Run, Rose, Run, playing the new tunes with the conviction of a saleswoman peddling her wares. \u2014 Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone , 19 Mar. 2022",
"My cousin, Mayila Yakufu, is an insurance saleswoman and a Mandarin tutor. \u2014 Nyrola Elim\u00e4, The New Yorker , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Is Gwyneth Paltrow a cynical snake-oil saleswoman or a visionary",
"Chuang raised concern about silent chains of community transmission in a separate list of 20 preliminary positive cases, one of them a 20-year-old part-time saleswoman at Sogo department store in Causeway Bay whose source of infection is unknown. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 8 Jan. 2022",
"He was born Robert Joseph Dole on July 22, 1923, in Russell; his father sold dairy products and his mother was a traveling saleswoman , selling sewing machines and other products. \u2014 Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News , 5 Dec. 2021",
"The attack started late Friday afternoon when the suspect walked into a store in Wuerzburg, went to the household goods department and asked a saleswoman where the knives were, regional police chief Gerhard Kallert said. \u2014 Fox News , 27 June 2021"
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"noun"
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"\"",
"\u02c8sald\u0259\u0307d"
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"noun"
],
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": distribution by selling":[],
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": a selling of goods at bargain prices":[],
": operations and activities involved in promoting and selling goods or services":[
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"city and port at the mouth of a river in northwestern Morocco; a northern suburb of Rabat area population 849,000":[]
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"transaction"
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"examples":[
"They profited from the sale of the house.",
"Sales are up by $6,000 this month.",
"The company made over one million dollars in sales this quarter.",
"The store is having a spring sale .",
"Everything in the store will be 15 percent off during the sale .",
"There is a sale on flights between New York and Paris.",
"He has a job in sales .",
"The department is in charge of sales and marketing.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Want to see what other dresses are on sale ahead of Prime Day",
"Numerology notwithstanding, the Ioniq 6 does not appear to be much bigger than the Ioniq 5 SUV that went on sale earlier this year. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 2 July 2022",
"Jobs, who revolutionized the world 15 years ago this week when the first iPhone went on sale , will be honored along with sixteen other Americans for his contributions to the country. \u2014 Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 July 2022",
"Recently expanding from its sneaker roots (also an active re- sale marketplace) to include bags in its stock market-like format, StockX is where the hypebaes shop. \u2014 ELLE , 25 June 2022",
"The merchandise store on the Grammy-winning-singer\u2019s website shows four box sets, including a T-shirt, CD and a mirrored box, available for pre- sale , along with the new single. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 21 June 2022",
"The election exempts securities trades from wash- sale loss (WS) adjustments, which can defer tax losses to the subsequent year and the $3,000 capital loss limitation. \u2014 Robert Green, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"The city could also receive some rebates if contamination levels are low, or if the materials recycled are ones that yield a higher return on the re- sale market. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 18 June 2022",
"Customers can take part of this annual mega- sale as its kicks off Tuesday, July 12 through Wednesday, July 13. \u2014 al , 16 June 2022"
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"Alligators lack the salt glands of their crocodile cousins, but that doesn't seem to matter much, Nifong learned. \u2014 The Washington Post, NOLA.com , 20 Oct. 2017"
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"The symptoms of a salivary stone are swelling and pain with eating, or even with anticipation of eating. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 1 June 2022",
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"Classically, radioactive iodine might cause nausea, discomfort, or in some cases, damage to the salivary glands, but many patients won\u2019t even experience that, Cooper said. \u2014 Angus Chen, STAT , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The festival set up a full lab where guests can get quick PCR or salivary tests and asked everyone to present a negative test dating from within 24 hours, as well as a proof of vaccination upon arrival. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 12 Dec. 2021",
"The Chicago Democrat has dealt with various health issues over the years, notably a battle with salivary gland cancer in 2008, and last week tested positive for COVID-19. \u2014 Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Called weaning when the fentanyl hangs salivary at the chin of the bed. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Nov. 2021",
"The proteins react with chemicals stored in their salivary glands to become highly toxic compounds. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 25 Oct. 2021",
"He\u2019d been diagnosed with salivary gland cancer 10 years earlier. \u2014 Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Oct. 2021"
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"Mayor Todd Gloria and the council managed to increase spending essentially across the board because of reviving tax revenues \u2014 especially sales tax \u2014 and $180 million in federal pandemic aid left over from the $300 million San Diego got last spring. \u2014 David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"The current special purpose local option sales tax , or SPLOST, expires in March. \u2014 Alia Malik, ajc , 10 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",
"One, which is probably the more optimistic, is some kind of a regional sales tax , which would provide a good chunk of that money \u2014 essentially a new source of revenue. \u2014 Justin George, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
"Stefanowski also asserted that corruption in Connecticut is a heavier burden on taxpayers than the income tax, sales tax or any other tax. \u2014 Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant , 19 May 2022",
"Another state tax is the gasoline use tax, a sales tax that changes monthly depending on the retail price of gasoline. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 19 May 2022",
"The bills impose a 10 percent state cannabis excise tax in addition to the 7 percent sales tax , plus a 3 percent local tax for the municipality where the sale takes place. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 May 2022",
"An effort to repeal the sales tax on sales and leases of private planes \u2014 including expensive jets popular among CEOs, celebrities and athletes \u2014 failed. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"a salesgirl in a department store",
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"Talking with the salesgirl , asking her to bring us things in a size that would be a better fit. \u2014 Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler Department store salesgirl and photographer Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is instantly enthralled by a new customer, the wealthy (almost) divorc\u00e9e Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett). \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2021",
"Once the salesgirl had disappeared in back, Justine put my sneakers into the empty Prada box and pushed her old lug sole Mary Janes toward me. \u2014 Forsyth Harmon, refinery29.com , 3 Mar. 2021",
"Justine grabbed a black Mary Jane and shook it in the salesgirl \u2019s face. \u2014 Forsyth Harmon, refinery29.com , 3 Mar. 2021",
"Here is G\u00f6ring trying to grope a salesgirl at the movies; here is Hitler, in evening clothes, on the Kurf\u00fcrstendamm, caressing a woman with one hand and distributing propaganda with the other. \u2014 Mireille Juchau, The New Yorker , 7 Nov. 2019",
"But the roof garden where saleswomen (referred to as salesgirls back then) took the air and promenaded a century ago is still there, latticework and all. \u2014 Ralph Blumenthal And Sandra Roff, New York Times , 4 Mar. 2018",
"Fit salesgirls , baristas, and 40-something moms capered around me in yoga pants and tiny tank tops. \u2014 Monica Corcoran Harel, Marie Claire , 24 Sep. 2013",
"Fit salesgirls , baristas, and 40-something moms capered around me in yoga pants and tiny tank tops. \u2014 Monica Corcoran Harel, Marie Claire , 24 Sep. 2013"
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"Two more people died Wednesday as the death toll slowly climbed since the discovery of 46 bodies Monday at the scene near auto salvage yards on the edge of San Antonio. \u2014 Juan Lozano, Fabiola S\u00e1nchez And Maria Verza, Anchorage Daily News , 29 June 2022",
"Earlier in the day, officers had been searching for the driver of the vehicle, who appeared to have abandoned the truck sometime before it was discovered in a remote area near railroad tracks and auto salvage yards southwest of downtown. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Old fixtures are often bought by the clients from salvage yards. \u2014 Alina Dizik, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022",
"This approach keeps excess materials out of salvage yards and could potentially cut costs for the purchaser. \u2014 Jaclyn Greenberg, Wired , 9 Jan. 2022",
"One of the largest junkyard chains, LKQ Pick Your Part, has salvage yards in 17 states plus Quebec. \u2014 Stef Schrader, Popular Mechanics , 17 Dec. 2020",
"That\u2019s the book that might\u2019ve helped Benioff and Weiss salvage season 8 all those years ago. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 17 June 2022",
"Hills runs their cult salvage shop in London\u2019s Kensal Green enclave, while Speake oversees a design studio that guided the clever revitalization of a London townhouse, featured in our October 2021 issue. \u2014 The Editors Of Elle Decor, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"The operators hope to eventually transition from processing salvage logs to milling trees removed from forests during thinning projects intended to restore the landscape to more fire-resilient precolonial conditions. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Endurance can salvage even the most ravaged reputations. \u2014 Ran Blayer, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Even still, Rosenqvist managed to salvage a top-10 out of the frustration, taking 10th to secure his third consecutive top-10 of the season. \u2014 Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star , 7 June 2022",
"The plan seeks to salvage the network after Luna\u2019s affiliated stablecoin, TerraUSD, lost its 1-to-1 peg the dollar and helped trigger a collapse in digital-asset prices. \u2014 Muyao Shen, BostonGlobe.com , 25 May 2022",
"As the impossibility of hosting large-scale live events set in over the spring, officials from every major sporting league scrambled to salvage seasons interrupted by the spread of disease across the U.S. \u2014 Dom Difurio, Dallas News , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Add integrity of the game to the costs of trying to salvage the Major League Baseball and football seasons. \u2014 Nancy Armour, USA TODAY , 4 Aug. 2020",
"The question is whether the change comes in time to salvage the summer travel season. \u2014 Michael Goldstein, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"The league and MLB Players Association agreed to a new collective bargaining to end the lockout in time to salvage a 162-game season, though the start of the regular season was delayed from March 31 to April 7. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Baseball\u2019s players and owners ended their most bitter money fight in a quarter-century Thursday when the players\u2019 association accepted management\u2019s offer to salvage a 162-game season that will start April 7. \u2014 Ronald Blum, The Christian Science Monitor , 11 Mar. 2022"
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"Annual salvia , tropical shrimp plant and cardinal climber are also good choices for hummingbirds, Crowe said. \u2014 Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"My salvia greggii \u2018Lipstick\u2019 used to die completely back in the winter and sprout again in the spring. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Pruning salvia can be done either late fall/early winter, or in early spring, before new growth begins. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Can trumpetvine and pink salvia be kept in pots over the winter",
"The tones of purple salvia \u2018Amistad\u2019 and magenta \u2018Love and Wishes,\u2019 which looked so fabulous with mid-summer blooms, are equally handsome with fall foliage. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 Nov. 2020",
"This is an annual salvia with small purple blooms, but it is not grown for the flowers, but the seeds. \u2014 Janet Carson, Arkansas Online , 21 Sep. 2020",
"Her favorite plant, though, is a black and blue salvia . \u2014 Karen Taylor, NOLA.com , 6 Aug. 2020",
"Other plants to grow during the summer include milkweed, porter weed, lantana, cosmos, sunflower, and salvia . \u2014 Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com , 21 May 2020"
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"The coyotes were east of us, running through the salt grass and ragweed that make up much of coastal South Texas. \u2014 Joe Cermele, Field & Stream , 27 Feb. 2020",
"Their findings: The burrows were much smaller among the salt grasses . \u2014 Science | AAAS , 15 Aug. 2019"
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": popular music of Latin American origin that has absorbed characteristics of rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock":[]
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"The band was playing salsa .",
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"Make the mango-avocado salsa : In a small bowl, combine the diced red onion, mango, avocado, cilantro and lime juice. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2022",
"One day when neither speaker was around, a customer propped his iPhone up inside the trailer with a salsa playlist in full gallop. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"Instead, Porowski cooked skirt steaks and quesadillas and made salsa from corn and black beans. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 3 June 2022",
"Willie Sotelo, the pianist and musical director of iconic Puerto Rican salsa band El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, died on Friday (June 3) in Puerto Rico. \u2014 Leila Cobo, Billboard , 4 June 2022",
"Orquesta Afinke, the Bridgeport salsa band that\u2019s considered among the best in the state. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Festival of Latin American Music I. Teddy Abrams, conductor and salsa band People of the Earth. \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Vicente chose Taqueria Los Grandes, an old-school spot with a legendary salsa macha that\u2019s fire. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 May 2022",
"Your Empress Of, which put everything from futuristic funk to salsa to Chicago house in a blender and emerged with a distinctive cocktail that felt like Rodriguez at the height of powers. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 26 May 2022"
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"Along with mangroves, salt pans hold the seawater from entering Mumbai. \u2014 Nikhil S Dixit, Quartz India , 15 Oct. 2019",
"This place is a dry landscape dotted with salt pans that hint at a former wetland paradise. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 1 Nov. 2019",
"Powered by a Rolls-Royce EJ200, the same jet engine used in the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet, the car hurtles so fast across the salt pan track that a twin parachute is needed to bring it to a halt. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Nov. 2019",
"Much of that place is now a dry salt pan \u2014and inhabited by modern Khoisan people, sometimes called Bushmen. \u2014 Richard Conniff, Scientific American , 28 Oct. 2019",
"Being able to move across the sand quickly is key to their survival\u2014and anyone who has walked or run on a beach knows that the granular nature of sand can slow down movement and expend more energy than walking or running on, say, a dry salt pan . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 Oct. 2019",
"Trip Highlights Work alongside researchers at Elephants for Africa to document herd behavior in the salt pans of Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. \u2014 National Geographic , 17 June 2019",
"The same thing happened when Esteban took samples from Andalusia\u2019s salt pans , those hypersaline remnants of ancient seas in what is now southern Spain. \u2014 Carrie Arnold, WIRED , 21 Apr. 2019",
"In the afternoon, opt to relax at our hotel or visit the Inca ruins of Moray and the salt pans of Maras. \u2014 National Geographic , 12 June 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The medieval gunpowder recipes were generally lower in saltpeter and higher in sulfur than modern ones. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 29 Sep. 2021",
"The sulfur and carbon (typically in the form of charcoal) act as fuels whereas the saltpeter provides a rush of oxygen to ignite the extremely fast chemical reaction known as explosive combustion. \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 10 Oct. 2021",
"During the earlier part of the 14th century, gunpowder was the domain of alchemists who sourced their saltpeter and sulfur from traders arriving from China and India. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 29 Sep. 2021",
"For ages, the main ingredients of gunpowder have consisted of sulfur, carbon and potassium nitrate, commonly known as saltpeter . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 10 Oct. 2021",
"Rogers asked his colleague Dawn Riegner, a professor of chemistry, to fact-check one recipe that included an unusual ratio of sulfur, saltpeter , and charcoal. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Stumps of larger vines can be killed by drilling holes and filling with molasses or saltpeter (potassium nitrate). \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 16 Aug. 2021",
"The saltpeter kettles, repurposed as garden torches, were filled with fuel and lit, and their light flickered on an array of classical statuary, columns, urns and the like. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 July 2021",
"Pour water slowly over the saltpeter so it will be absorbed throughout the stump. \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 30 Jan. 2020"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"noun"
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"New Latin salsilla (specific epithet of Bomarea salsilla ), from feminine of salsillus salty, from Latin salsus salted, from past participle of sallere to salt":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191255"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a strong blue that is redder and less strong than S\u00e8vres and redder and paler than cerulean blue":[]
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": smelling salts":[]
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"\u02ccsal-v\u0259-\u02c8lat-\u1d4al-\u0113",
"\u02ccsal-v\u0259-\u02c8la-t\u0259-l\u0113"
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"New Latin, literally, volatile salt":""
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"1654, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193701"
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Jacobsen makes some of the world\u2019s best salt out of its Oregon headquarters. \u2014 Meredith Carey, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 18 Oct. 2021",
"The village also started paying for road salt out its general fund instead of using taxes from gasoline sales. \u2014 Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun , 3 May 2018",
"Using wave energy to pump seawater directly into a desalination plant would also dramatically reduce the carbon footprint left behind when stripping the salt out of the sea. \u2014 Ben Ikenson, Popular Mechanics , 25 Oct. 2017",
"Among the kosher salts out there, though, there's a big difference in the size and shape of the salt crystals and therefore a difference in how salty each tastes by volume. \u2014 Claire Saffitz, Bon Appetit , 19 Aug. 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"1857, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195353"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an anthocyanin extracted from salvia and Oswego tea in the form of its chloride C 36 H 38 ClO 17 that yields pelargonidin chloride as one product of hydrolysis":[]
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"-v\u0113\u0259n\u0259\u0307n",
"-\u02ccnin"
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"New Latin Salvia + anthocya nin":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-200601"
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"Salk":{
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"biographical name"
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"definitions":{
"Jonas Edward 1914\u20131995 American physician":[]
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"\u02c8s\u022f(l)k"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-200650"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a large genus of mostly Old World herbs or shrubs of the family Chenopodiaceae with variously shaped often prickly leaves and small greenish flowers whose 4- to 5-parted perianth remains investing the utricle \u2014 see barilla , russian thistle , saltwort":[]
},
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"sal\u02c8s\u014dl\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Italian, a plant of the genus Salsola , from salso salty, from Latin salsus":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203108"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a polio vaccine that contains three serotypes of poliovirus inactivated by treatment with formaldehyde and is administered by intramuscular injection \u2014 compare sabin vaccine":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u022fk-",
"\u02c8s\u022flk-",
"\u02c8s\u022f(l)k-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Jonas Salk":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1954, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235510"
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"saltpeter paper":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": touch paper":[]
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001410"
},
"salvage cutting":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a cutting made to remove injured or killed trees for the primary purpose of recovering usable material before it becomes worthless \u2014 compare sanitation cutting":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004849"
},
"sales slip":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a receipt for a purchase":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But while alcohol sales slip , sales of their alcohol-free counterparts are soaring. \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 5 June 2022",
"Jake France, owner of men\u2019s boutique Boys Fort, had already begun to see sales slip at his downtown store before March, but business plummeted after the start of the pandemic as foot traffic in downtown Portland disappeared. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Nov. 2020",
"Global vehicle sales slipped nearly 42% last month. \u2014 Time , 28 May 2020",
"Precision Castparts watched its sales slip in the first quarter across all of its major markets, Berkshire said Saturday in its earnings report. \u2014 Dallas News , 4 May 2020",
"Even with global smartphone sales slipping , Qualcomm has expanded from selling modems and processors in phones to other parts, including the antennas and power modulators. \u2014 Aaron Pressman, Fortune , 20 Nov. 2019",
"Banana Republic saw sales slip 3% from a year earlier by that measure, and even mighty Old Navy \u2013 the family-friendly chain that has been the company\u2019s life raft \u2013stumbled, notching a 1% comparable-sales drop. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 June 2019",
"Sales were boosted by strong results in its home market in Germany, the U.S. and in Brazil, while sales slipped in the Asia-Pacific region. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Jan. 2020",
"For the year: Silverado sales slipped 2% to 575,600. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 6 Jan. 2020"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1926, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005506"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a small genus ( Salpiglossis ) of Chilean herbs of the nightshade family with large funnel-shaped varicolored flowers often strikingly marked":[]
},
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"\u02ccsal-p\u0259-\u02c8gl\u00e4-s\u0259s"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Flowers to start from seed: Dianthus, stock, lock spar, asters, Nicotiana, cleome, ice plant, zinnia and salpiglossis . \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Pick plants that pump out plenty of blooms all season, such as zinnia, scabiosa, salpiglossis and cleome. \u2014 Ciscoe Morris, The Seattle Times , 12 July 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, irregular from Greek salpinx trumpet + gl\u014dssa tongue \u2014 more at gloss":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1827, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011845"
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"sales assistant":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a person whose job is to sell things in a store : salesclerk":[
"She works as a sales assistant at Macy's."
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-012842"
},
"sal ammoniac":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": ammonium chloride":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccsal-\u0259-\u02c8m\u014d-n\u0113-\u02ccak"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English sal armoniak , from Latin sal ammoniacus , literally, salt of Ammon":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020839"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": relating to, impregnated with, or resembling saltpeter":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)s\u022fl(t)\u00a6p\u0113\u2027tr\u0259s"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"modification of French salp\u00eatreux , from Middle French salpetreux , from salpetre + -eux -ous":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-023130"
},
"sales talk":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": argument often accompanied by demonstration used to persuade others to buy a product or service or to accept an idea or proposal":[
"memorized the sales talk he hoped would bring in large orders",
"a glib sales talk that produced unanimous agreement"
]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024248"
},
"salix":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Salicaceae) of shrubs and trees that have the bracts of the catkin entire and only 2 to 10 stamens and that are widely distributed in temperate and cold regions \u2014 compare osier sense 1 , populus , sallow , willow":[],
": any plant of the genus Salix":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0101liks",
"\u02c8sal-"
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, willow":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045424"
},
"salvy":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": resembling salve in texture or oiliness":[
"salvy butter"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"pronunciation at 1 salve +\u0113 or i"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"salve entry 1 + -y":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050426"
}
}
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