dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/liv_MW.json
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{
"live":{
"antonyms":[
"active",
"alive",
"functional",
"functioning",
"going",
"living",
"on",
"operating",
"operational",
"operative",
"running",
"working"
],
"definitions":{
": abounding with life : vivid":[],
": act out , practice":[
"\u2014 often used with out to live out their fantasies"
],
": afire , glowing":[
"live coals"
],
": at the actual time of occurrence : during, from, or at a live production":[
"the program was broadcast live"
],
": being in a pure native state":[],
": being in operation":[
"a live microphone"
],
": being in play":[
"a live ball"
],
": broadcast directly at the time of production":[
"a live radio program"
],
": cohabit":[
"She lived with that actor for over a year."
],
": connected to electric power":[],
": exerting force or containing energy: such as":[],
": existing in fact or reality : actual":[
"spoke to a real live celebrity"
],
": having life : living":[
"a live lobster"
],
": imparting or driven by power":[
"a live axle"
],
": not yet printed from or plated":[
"live type"
],
": not yet typeset":[
"live copy"
],
": of bright vivid color":[],
": of continuing or current interest":[
"live issues"
],
": of or involving a presentation (such as a play or concert) in which both the performers and an audience are physically present":[
"a live record album",
"a nightclub with live entertainment"
],
": to act or be in accordance with":[
"had no intention of living up to his promise"
],
": to attain eternal life":[
"though he die, yet shall he live",
"\u2014 John 11:25 (Revised Standard Version)"
],
": to be alive : have the life of an animal or plant":[
"one of the greatest writers who ever lived"
],
": to be located or stored":[
"the silverware lives here"
],
": to be thoroughly absorbed by or involved with":[
"she lives her work"
],
": to conduct or pass one's life":[
"lived only for his work"
],
": to continue alive":[
"lived to a ripe and vigorous old age"
],
": to exhibit vigor, gusto, or enthusiasm in":[
"lived life to the fullest"
],
": to experience firsthand":[
"living a dream"
],
": to have a life rich in experience":[
"the boy who is mentally alert lives more in a day than a dull boy does in a month",
"\u2014 Boy Scout Handbook"
],
": to live with gusto and usually fast and loose":[
"lived it up with wine and song",
"\u2014 Newsweek"
],
": to maintain oneself : subsist":[
"lived on rice and peas"
],
": to occupy a home : dwell":[
"living in a shabby room",
"they had always lived in the country"
],
": to pass through or spend the duration of":[
"lived their lives alone"
],
": to put up with : accept , tolerate":[
"had to live with their decision"
],
": to remain in human memory or record":[
"the past lives in us all",
"\u2014 W. R. Inge"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"We learned about the people who lived during colonial times.",
"I wonder what it was like to live then.",
"She's one of the greatest writers who ever lived .",
"It was one of the largest animals that has ever lived .",
"He lived to the age of 92.",
"He's very sick and he may not live much longer.",
"I hope I live to see the day when you admit you've been wrong about me!",
"I'll remember that day for as long as I live .",
"He lives next door to his parents.",
"We lived in the city.",
"Adjective",
"They object to the use of live animals in scientific experiments.",
"a nightclub with live music",
"She was nervous about being interviewed on live radio.",
"The network is providing live coverage of the debate.",
"Use caution when you are working near live electrical wires.",
"Adverb",
"The program was shown live .",
"We are broadcasting live from downtown.",
"Here he is\u2014 live in concert!",
"The album was recorded live .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Andrew Lloyd Webber and Antonio Banderas are teaming to create a joint company Amigos Para Siempre (APS) aimed at producing musicals, stage plays and live entertainment for major markets in the Spanish-speaking world, including the Latino U.S. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 27 June 2022",
"Attendees can also expect local food trucks, live DJ music and a photo booth. \u2014 Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
"Broadway\u2019s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon that inspired the blockbuster film and live television event is back on tour. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 26 June 2022",
"Broadway plays and live sports \u2014 the bulk of Disney\u2019s business. \u2014 Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 26 June 2022",
"Influencers, live social media broadcasts and online forums are some examples. \u2014 John Hall, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"An on-theme escape room will reveal the menu for the evening, local artist Rich Hall will do live painting and the cellist Jillian Walker will play Wu-Tang songs during some of the food courses. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 23 June 2022",
"Cineplex cites the prevalence of online booking fees elsewhere in the global industry and earlier for other ticketed entertainment like concerts and live theater and sporting events. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"From sprawling festivals to TV specials and live musical performances, here are seven thoughtful ways to ring in the holiday weekend across New York City. \u2014 Vogue , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Scott\u2019s been trickling back into live shows this year on the festival circuit with headlining dates at Primavera Sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Santiago, Chile and S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil coming up this fall. \u2014 Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone , 27 June 2022",
"Berke said their goals follow the pattern of live sports helping to drive emerging technologies throughout history. \u2014 Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 25 June 2022",
"For Violent Femmes and their fans, that drama is essentially nonexistent at their live shows. \u2014 Journal Sentinel , 25 June 2022",
"To kick off the holiday weekend, the longtime TV series shared a photo of Noah and Walker enjoying quality time in Disney World, where the show filmed live shows back in May. \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 24 June 2022",
"The Arizona Republic has reached out to a fair representative for more information on whether live shows will come back this year. \u2014 Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
"The park offers live shows, horseback rides, a 260-site campground and the International Museum of the Horse. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 23 June 2022",
"The group stunned the judges with their hypnotic routine, prompting the Modern Family alum to push her button and send the dancers straight to the live shows. \u2014 Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"Having that minimal relationship allows the company a chance to upsell, especially for premium channels, live sports, 24-hour news providers and similar content. \u2014 David Bloom, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Cleveland best disc jockeys including DJ Ellery, DJ Ryan Wolf, DJ Steph Floss, and DJ Lo Key will be on hand spinning the tunes while singer Malcupnext performs live . \u2014 cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"Roku is thinking local: In the streaming platform\u2019s first local news programming pact, Roku is adding eight NBC local news channels to the Roku Channel \u2014 available to stream live for free. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 28 June 2022",
"The 2022 show premiered live at Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler University on June 5th and announced players of the year in each sport, honored special awards winners and celebrated the on- and off-the-field accomplishments of local athletes. \u2014 Usa Today Ventures, The Indianapolis Star , 28 June 2022",
"The list of nominees below will be updated as they are announced live . \u2014 Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 June 2022",
"Martin and Ott cite live -streaming as a boon to the public\u2019s awareness of and access to women\u2019s football. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"At this point, the AR expert capture may be used in training classes or on-the-job training and may even be used by inexperienced personnel to perform the task live . \u2014 John Clemons, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Back in 2020, the singer told Rolling Stone about the difficulties of putting out an album but not being able to perform it live . \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 14 June 2022",
"My favorite song to perform live right now All of them. \u2014 Liza Lentini, SPIN , 31 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1531, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1946, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English libban ; akin to Old High German leb\u0113n to live":"Verb",
"short for alive":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u012bv",
"\u02c8liv"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"reside"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050821",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"intransitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"live by one's wits":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to survive by doing clever and sometimes dishonest things":[
"Out in the jungle, with no food or shelter, he had to live by his wits .",
"a young thief who lives by her wits"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-191650",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"live coverage":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a broadcast of an event on a radio or television program while the event is happening":[
"The network will have live coverage of the game."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194042",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"live happily ever after":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to live happily for the rest of one's life":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121021",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"live hole":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one of the flues in a clamp of bricks":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125844",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"live wire":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an alert, active, or aggressive person":[]
},
"examples":[
"She's a real live wire .",
"the babysitter will have her hands full with those two little live wires",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But banning shifts is a live wire with good arguments for and against it. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 16 Apr. 2022",
"However, the Guardian XT has the ability to cut through a live wire without electrocuting someone, for example. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Apr. 2022",
"As Ruth Stoops, Dern is an ungainly live wire , impetuous and agitated. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Officials have asked people to regard every downed wire as a live wire ; to drive carefully and keep an eye out for tree branches, work crews, and flooded roads; to be good neighbors, and to be patient. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Oct. 2021",
"That disconnected the live wire and saved Varcadipane\u2019s life. \u2014 Connie Mckinney, USA TODAY , 13 Oct. 2021",
"And as Lamar, the brothers\u2019 most fearsome rival now fresh out of prison, Eric Kofi Abrefa gives the show\u2019s most complete and downright interesting performance as a live wire of a man living on the edge between stability and true notoriety. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 29 Sep. 2021",
"The fire department arrived and saw the live wire was partially in the roadway and across a sidewalk. \u2014 cleveland , 27 Aug. 2021",
"AFC Richmond is a sparking live wire in a season that\u2019s otherwise short on the dramatic tension since Lasso cleaned up most the conflicts that gave him purpose last season. \u2014 Lorraine Ali Television Critic, Los Angeles Times , 20 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1881, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"dynamo",
"fireball",
"pistol"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190520",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"live within one's means":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to spend money only on what one can afford":[
"He began to save money when he finally learned to live within his means ."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-181327",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"liveliness":{
"antonyms":[
"dead",
"inactive",
"inanimate",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"leaden",
"lifeless",
"limp",
"listless",
"spiritless",
"vapid"
],
"definitions":{
": active , intense":[
"takes a lively interest in politics"
],
": brilliant , fresh":[
"a lively wit"
],
": briskly alert and energetic : vigorous , animated":[
"a lively discussion",
"lively children racing for home"
],
": full of life, movement, or incident":[
"lively streets at carnival time"
],
": imparting spirit or vivacity : stimulating":[
"many a peer of England brews livelier liquor than the Muse",
"\u2014 A. E. Housman"
],
": living":[],
": quick to rebound : resilient":[
"a lively ball"
],
": responding readily to the helm":[
"a lively boat"
]
},
"examples":[
"a very lively writing style",
"The book is lively and well written.",
"They had a lively debate.",
"A lively atmosphere keeps people coming back to the caf\u00e9.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Sunday, the block party was full of musical performances, lively conversations and good food. \u2014 Adriana P\u00e9rez, Chicago Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"That lively conversation, which took place in November 2015, was how the pair took a connection that began on a dating site, offline. \u2014 Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence , 24 Nov. 2021",
"This Thanksgiving, crypto hedge-fund manager David Tawil is bracing for a much more lively conversation about his line of work. \u2014 Vildana Hajric, Fortune , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Morgan has long been accomplished at making everyday powerplants feel special, and the combination of smart throttle calibration and a rorty exhaust gives the impression of enthusiasm\u2014one borne out by lively performance. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 15 June 2022",
"There\u2019s a canyon of new office towers, a new museum, bookstore, and welcome center for MIT, along with lively restaurants in the works. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"Glasses of bubbly floated throughout the lively room dressed in overflowing seafood towers and bountiful bouquets of fresh peonies. \u2014 Elise\u00e9 Browchuk, Vogue , 14 June 2022",
"The basilica is a tourism magnet in Barcelona, a lively and cosmopolitan city renowned for its artistry, culture and food. \u2014 Forrest Brown, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"The first arrondissement is a lively and commercial area with so many beautiful things to discover. \u2014 Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country , 14 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 8":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English l\u012bfl\u012bc , from l\u012bf life":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u012bv-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for lively lively , animated , vivacious , sprightly , gay mean keenly alive and spirited. lively suggests briskness, alertness, or energy. a lively debate on the issues animated applies to what is spirited and active. an animated discussion of current events vivacious suggests an activeness of gesture and wit, often playful or alluring. a vivacious party host sprightly suggests lightness and spirited vigor of manner or wit. a tuneful, sprightly musical gay stresses complete freedom from care and overflowing spirits. the gay spirit of Paris in the 1920s",
"synonyms":[
"active",
"airy",
"animate",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"gay",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"mettlesome",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"pizzazzy",
"pizazzy",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183922",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"lively":{
"antonyms":[
"dead",
"inactive",
"inanimate",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"leaden",
"lifeless",
"limp",
"listless",
"spiritless",
"vapid"
],
"definitions":{
": active , intense":[
"takes a lively interest in politics"
],
": brilliant , fresh":[
"a lively wit"
],
": briskly alert and energetic : vigorous , animated":[
"a lively discussion",
"lively children racing for home"
],
": full of life, movement, or incident":[
"lively streets at carnival time"
],
": imparting spirit or vivacity : stimulating":[
"many a peer of England brews livelier liquor than the Muse",
"\u2014 A. E. Housman"
],
": living":[],
": quick to rebound : resilient":[
"a lively ball"
],
": responding readily to the helm":[
"a lively boat"
]
},
"examples":[
"a very lively writing style",
"The book is lively and well written.",
"They had a lively debate.",
"A lively atmosphere keeps people coming back to the caf\u00e9.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Sunday, the block party was full of musical performances, lively conversations and good food. \u2014 Adriana P\u00e9rez, Chicago Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"That lively conversation, which took place in November 2015, was how the pair took a connection that began on a dating site, offline. \u2014 Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence , 24 Nov. 2021",
"This Thanksgiving, crypto hedge-fund manager David Tawil is bracing for a much more lively conversation about his line of work. \u2014 Vildana Hajric, Fortune , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Morgan has long been accomplished at making everyday powerplants feel special, and the combination of smart throttle calibration and a rorty exhaust gives the impression of enthusiasm\u2014one borne out by lively performance. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 15 June 2022",
"There\u2019s a canyon of new office towers, a new museum, bookstore, and welcome center for MIT, along with lively restaurants in the works. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"Glasses of bubbly floated throughout the lively room dressed in overflowing seafood towers and bountiful bouquets of fresh peonies. \u2014 Elise\u00e9 Browchuk, Vogue , 14 June 2022",
"The basilica is a tourism magnet in Barcelona, a lively and cosmopolitan city renowned for its artistry, culture and food. \u2014 Forrest Brown, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"The first arrondissement is a lively and commercial area with so many beautiful things to discover. \u2014 Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country , 14 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 8":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English l\u012bfl\u012bc , from l\u012bf life":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u012bv-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for lively lively , animated , vivacious , sprightly , gay mean keenly alive and spirited. lively suggests briskness, alertness, or energy. a lively debate on the issues animated applies to what is spirited and active. an animated discussion of current events vivacious suggests an activeness of gesture and wit, often playful or alluring. a vivacious party host sprightly suggests lightness and spirited vigor of manner or wit. a tuneful, sprightly musical gay stresses complete freedom from care and overflowing spirits. the gay spirit of Paris in the 1920s",
"synonyms":[
"active",
"airy",
"animate",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"gay",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"mettlesome",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"pizzazzy",
"pizazzy",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164300",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"liven (up)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to the bandleader tried to liven up the party by playing more energetic music so people would dance"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-124818",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liver fluke":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of various trematode worms (such as Fasciola hepatica ) that invade the mammalian liver":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The doctors treated the man with a blood transfusion and the anti-parasitic drug triclabendazole, which is used specifically to treat liver flukes . \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 8 Nov. 2019",
"The doctors extracted some of the worms and identified them as the common liver fluke Fasciola hepatica. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 8 Nov. 2019",
"There\u2019s Toxoplasma gondii, which drives mice to seek out cats eager to eat them, and the liver fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum, which motivates ants to climb blades of grass, exposing them to cows and sheep hungry for a snack. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 29 June 2017",
"The parasite, the lancet liver fluke , is a flatworm that jumps between different animal species to complete its life cycle. \u2014 Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics , 10 June 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1795, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-175822",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liver fungus":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": beefsteak fungus":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-203007",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"livid":{
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
],
"definitions":{
": ashen , pallid":[
"this cross, thy livid face, thy pierced hands and feet",
"\u2014 Walt Whitman"
],
": discolored by bruising : black-and-blue":[
"the livid traces of the sharp scourges",
"\u2014 Abraham Cowley"
],
": reddish":[
"a fan of gladiolas blushed livid under the electric letters",
"\u2014 Truman Capote"
],
": very angry : enraged":[
"was livid at his son's disobedience"
]
},
"examples":[
"the boss was livid when yet another deadline was missed",
"her face was livid with fear",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Fox News , 18 June 2022",
"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Susan Montoya Bryan, Morgan Lee, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2022",
"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Susan Montoya Bryan, Morgan Lee, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2022",
"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Fox News , 18 June 2022",
"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Susan Montoya Bryan And, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Dave and Chuck realize what's going on, and Wags, livid about the China situation, is brought into Prince's inner circle along with Scooter. \u2014 Kyle Fowle, EW.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Caleb McConnell drained a 3-pointer at the other end, and a livid Izzo near midcourt got whistled for a technical foul as the shot swished. \u2014 Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Nelson also says many passengers become livid and violent when asked to mask up. \u2014 Lydia Wang, refinery29.com , 24 June 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French livide , from Latin lividus , from liv\u0113re to be blue; akin to Welsh lliw color and probably to Russian sliva plum":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8li-v\u0259d",
"\u02c8liv-\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092200",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"livid brown":{
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"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Fox News , 18 June 2022",
"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Susan Montoya Bryan, Morgan Lee, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2022",
"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Susan Montoya Bryan, Morgan Lee, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2022",
"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Fox News , 18 June 2022",
"In another county, a commission chairman pounded a gavel frantically and ordered law enforcement to clear livid protesters from the room. \u2014 Susan Montoya Bryan And, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Dave and Chuck realize what's going on, and Wags, livid about the China situation, is brought into Prince's inner circle along with Scooter. \u2014 Kyle Fowle, EW.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Caleb McConnell drained a 3-pointer at the other end, and a livid Izzo near midcourt got whistled for a technical foul as the shot swished. \u2014 Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Nelson also says many passengers become livid and violent when asked to mask up. \u2014 Lydia Wang, refinery29.com , 24 June 2021"
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"Noun",
"the challenges of city living",
"It's summertime, and the living is easy.",
"the living and the dead",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"From the cushy perspective of my living -room couch, killing a beaver seems like a significantly easier task. \u2014 Frederick Dreier, Outside Online , 17 June 2022",
"Prebiotics are non- living , indigestible fibers that are used as food for probiotics. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"Hemant Chavan was working in office and multifamily real estate development in 2019, and hearing a lot of proposals for co-working and co- living spaces. \u2014 Joan Verdon, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
"At her most desperate, Diaz resorted to walking in circles around her living -room couch in short bursts during the day. \u2014 Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic , 1 June 2022",
"With piquing interest in mother-in-law units, Eightvillage, a company based in Atlanta, Ga., streamlines the process of establishing an extra living space on a homeowner\u2019s property. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Emaciated and dishevelled, the eighty-three-year-old retiree was found lying on his living -room floor, in a state of severe malnutrition. \u2014 Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The Hotel Granduca says benvenuto with a range of accommodations including a selection of suites and residences that include full kitchens and living spaces\u2014some designed for longer stays\u2014with the look and feel of an Italian villa. \u2014 Rebecca Treon, Chron , 25 Mar. 2022",
"That arm of the company attempted to introduce a co- living space on Wall Street in Manhattan and was shut down. \u2014 ELLE , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In February, Hutchinson authorized 2% cost-of- living raises for employees at state agencies in the executive branch to help cope with inflation. \u2014 Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online , 29 June 2022",
"Many of them are in search of a better quality of living , hoping to escape natural disasters, violence, poverty or inequality, according to the International Organization for Migration. \u2014 Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News , 28 June 2022",
"However, many members of the LGBTQ community in the U.S. have heretofore felt safest in large urban areas and some of the largest cities have very high costs of living . \u2014 Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Millions of seniors and others who receive Social Security benefits are on track for a big cost-of- living adjustment, or COLA, in early 2023 to catch up to the nation's highest inflation in four decades. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 27 June 2022",
"The roughly three-month long strike ended with a five-year deal which includes a prohibition on any plant closings during the life of the contract and a cost-of- living increase in pay to protect workers from rising prices. \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"More on inflation:Will cost-of- living raises push inflation even higher",
"The resulting dance is an expression of love and sorrow, a testament to the ephemeral nature of living , and to the possibility\u2014despite or because of that ephemerality\u2014of true connection. \u2014 The New Yorker , 19 June 2022",
"Good schools, a small-city feel despite the short distance to Portland and high quality of living are just some of the reasons people move to Happy Valley, said Michael Walter, the city\u2019s Economic and Community Development Director. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Coelacanths tend to live in the same areas where the fishermen try to snag sharks with gill-nets and often snag the living fossil fish in the process. \u2014 Mike Wehner, BGR , 21 May 2021",
"The past few years have been exciting times for companies like Ginkgo (named after a dinosaur-era tree that\u2019s a living fossil ) that work in the emerging field of synthetic biology. \u2014 Amy Feldman, Forbes , 11 May 2021",
"The Ginkgo tree is a living fossil , with the earliest leaf fossils dating from 270 million years ago. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 23 Oct. 2020",
"The tour passes by some living fossils \u2014 a Wollemi pine from Australia and a dawn redwood, which is an example of a tree that was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1941. \u2014 Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com , 2 May 2020",
"Damine\u2019s festival is, in some respects, a living fossil . \u2014 Ben Dooley, New York Times , 13 Apr. 2020",
"But there\u2019s an even older species\u2014a living fossil dating back to the Miocene (23 to 5 million years ago) that is Oregon\u2019s official state fossil: dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides). \u2014 Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine , 11 Feb. 2020",
"Another Living Fossil: Gingko, the Maidenhair Tree Speaking of living fossils , gingko (Gingko biloba) is the only surviving member of the entire Gingkophyta plant division\u2014all of its kin are long extinct. \u2014 Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine , 24 Jan. 2020",
"For its fifth annual event, the festival will include a touch tank where attendees can interact with the living fossils . \u2014 Dixita Limbachia, Detroit Free Press , 27 Aug. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For instance, a camera or other monitoring device is not allowed if the living room has a sofa bed. \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"The living room gives way to outdoor space, while a spacious rooftop deck complete with a hot tub sits above. \u2014 Tommy Mcardle, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"On the main level, the living room has a stone fireplace wall that rises 22 feet to the ceiling. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 June 2022",
"Past the dining area, the living room includes sliders to a balcony. \u2014 Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
"The living room easily accommodates a piano, which prompted the current owners to turn the front alcove into a music area. \u2014 James Alexander, Hartford Courant , 19 June 2022",
"The oversized living room is ideal for family gatherings and opens directly onto the outdoor deck, surrounded by towering trees with fantastic mountain views. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The living room had morphed into a makeshift playroom. \u2014 Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"The outdoor living room also functions as an outdoor theater; Natalie bought a projector and the couches are modular so they can be swung around. \u2014 Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine , 16 June 2022"
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"examples":[
"He was barely earning a living wage .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many Reddit commenters commiserated with the original poster and shared their own negative experience with recruiters lowballing them, talking down to them, or offering them salaries below a living wage . \u2014 Amiah Taylor, Fortune , 16 June 2022",
"The average annual living wage in Nigeria, Africa\u2019s largest economy, is around 518,400 naira ($864). \u2014 Alexander Onukwue, Quartz , 31 May 2022",
"This amount would be great in Huntsville, Alabama but would fall far below a living wage in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Carroll County. \u2014 George Croom, Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"The study found that the lowest living wage stands at $29.81 an hour, which is sufficient for the bare necessities in Holmes County, Mississippi, and ranges up to a high of $65.45 an hour in San Francisco. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Council documents pointed to a living-wage calculator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which found that the appropriate living wage for a single person with no children in L.A. County would be $19.35 an hour. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Having our workers being paid a living wage will help reduce the economic disparities in the county. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"Brands must provide third-party certifications or documentation that garment workers are paid a living wage . \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The Harvard alumnus has advocated for a minor-league living wage , including with a column in the Washington Post. \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To further complicate matters, a living trust or a will can have provisions that create a bypass trust after someone dies. \u2014 Liz Weston, oregonlive , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Dear Liz: My husband and I made a living trust in 2004. \u2014 Liz Weston, oregonlive , 26 Feb. 2022",
"Buyers whose names didn't appear to be a person or a family or living trust were categorized as an investor or other entity. \u2014 Patrick Clark, Fortune , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Beneficiaries need to be named for assets that avoid probate and aren\u2019t controlled by a living trust . \u2014 Bob Carlson, Forbes , 3 Sep. 2021",
"Check your will or living trust and change as necessary. \u2014 Tom Cooney And Crystal Faulkner, The Enquirer , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Yet, a living trust has no effect unless it is given legal title to assets. \u2014 Bob Carlson, Forbes , 27 May 2021",
"Most assets that aren\u2019t in the living trust go through probate. \u2014 Bob Carlson, Forbes , 27 May 2021",
"Ohio Road 21017: donation, no value stated, Janis B. Hazlett to Janis B. Hazlett revocable living trust . \u2014 NOLA.com , 26 Nov. 2020"
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"examples":[
"They described the house as very livable .",
"People need jobs that will pay them livable wages.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Neighborhoods adjacent to highways became less livable , as air quality declined, noise pollution increased, and walking places was less appealing. \u2014 Matt Mcfarland, CNN , 1 July 2022",
"There is a misalignment of labor to open livable wage jobs. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"Bryan Liff, a landlord who testified at the meeting last week, pushed for rent increases of at least 8 percent, and said rental income was already too low to bring many units up to livable standards. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"But on the road, the Bronco Raptor is a perfectly livable machine. \u2014 David Beard, Car and Driver , 20 June 2022",
"The show brought together the familiar\u2014bubblegum tableware by Helle Mardahl, bent-pipe chairs by Dior collaborator Jinyeong Yeon\u2014with a few new faces for a gallery-storefront hybrid that felt truly livable . \u2014 Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor , 15 June 2022",
"Noise can degrade habitats that look idyllic and make otherwise livable places unlivable. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022",
"Dreamy magazine spreads of stylish homes can\u2019t deliver the same experience as actually walking through a space that represents the latest design trends in livable layouts, with resilient products and tasteful d\u00e9cor. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 May 2022",
"Though the city has a heating ordinance that requires landlords maintain livable temperatures in the winter, there is no similar measure for the summer for most types of residences. \u2014 Robert Mccoppin, Chicago Tribune , 16 May 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1814, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"definitions":{
": a document in which the signer requests to be allowed to die rather than be kept alive by artificial means if disabled beyond a reasonable expectation of recovery \u2014 compare advance directive":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"High costs of living and high living will come down. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Other important things to have are a medical directive or a living will \u2014 be sure to bring a copy with you to the hospital. \u2014 Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica , 10 May 2022",
"Take home an advance care planning guidebook with Ohio advance directives, including the living will and the power of attorney for healthcare form. \u2014 cleveland , 13 Mar. 2022",
"No one has shared a vision for the end of their lives, or written a living will . \u2014 Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Unmarried people should put a priority on developing the traditional estate planning documents that don\u2019t pertain to disposition of property: the health care proxy (or advance medical directive or living will ) and financial power of attorney. \u2014 Bob Carlson, Forbes , 3 Sep. 2021",
"This person can then help the team of doctors and others taking care of the patient in situations not specifically addressed by the living will . \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Like Bai, many worry about spreading the disease to their patients and loved ones; young medical residents are advising one another to write living wills . \u2014 Jillian Mock, Scientific American , 20 May 2020",
"And only 18% of respondents had the three essential estate planning documents: a will, a living will , and powers of attorney. \u2014 Natalie Walters And Nino Abdaladze, azcentral , 15 Apr. 2020"
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"first_known_use":{
"1969, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143803"
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"examples":[
"Many fishermen believe that the new regulations threaten their livelihoods .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With the help of her spells, the film examines the lives of everyone in the village and witnesses their plight, from young women who have reproductive problems to families who are losing the last of their livelihood . \u2014 Alexander Gabelia, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"But maybe that\u2019s a part of it. :: Natural beauty is Alpine County\u2019s great gift and its main source of livelihood . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 June 2022",
"Alison\u2019s life is not threatened by her pregnancy, nor is her livelihood . \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 12 May 2022",
"Before enclosure, common lands were the livelihood of common women. \u2014 Eula Biss, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
"For some players, especially those who made a living playing that variant of poker online, the Alberta group\u2019s triumph represented a serious threat to their livelihood . \u2014 New York Times , 18 Jan. 2022",
"This goes to your livelihood being manipulated by the mayor. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Joe deemed Baskin a threat to his livelihood through her advocacy of the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which aims to abolish ownership of big cats as pets and the practice of cub petting. \u2014 Erin Jensen, USA TODAY , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Richter's livelihood has previously become the subject of controversy between him and Indianapolis post office officials. \u2014 Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star , 29 May 2022"
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"They described the house as very livable .",
"People need jobs that will pay them livable wages.",
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"Neighborhoods adjacent to highways became less livable , as air quality declined, noise pollution increased, and walking places was less appealing. \u2014 Matt Mcfarland, CNN , 1 July 2022",
"There is a misalignment of labor to open livable wage jobs. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"Bryan Liff, a landlord who testified at the meeting last week, pushed for rent increases of at least 8 percent, and said rental income was already too low to bring many units up to livable standards. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"But on the road, the Bronco Raptor is a perfectly livable machine. \u2014 David Beard, Car and Driver , 20 June 2022",
"The show brought together the familiar\u2014bubblegum tableware by Helle Mardahl, bent-pipe chairs by Dior collaborator Jinyeong Yeon\u2014with a few new faces for a gallery-storefront hybrid that felt truly livable . \u2014 Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor , 15 June 2022",
"Noise can degrade habitats that look idyllic and make otherwise livable places unlivable. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022",
"Dreamy magazine spreads of stylish homes can\u2019t deliver the same experience as actually walking through a space that represents the latest design trends in livable layouts, with resilient products and tasteful d\u00e9cor. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 May 2022",
"Though the city has a heating ordinance that requires landlords maintain livable temperatures in the winter, there is no similar measure for the summer for most types of residences. \u2014 Robert Mccoppin, Chicago Tribune , 16 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Only months before, the owner of a garage living unit in the Southcrest neighborhood in which Lyon had lived for six years had to remodel, forcing him to move into an inexpensive hotel. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Nov. 2021",
"The youth authority advised families to contact a youth\u2019s case coordinator or living unit manager to schedule a visit. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 June 2021",
"The waiting list is 88 at the home in Sandusky for nursing home residents and 30 for the independent living unit . \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 18 Feb. 2021",
"The inmate was in an open area of the living unit and began tying a sheet around his neck, investigators said. \u2014 Jacob Beltran, ExpressNews.com , 27 Oct. 2020",
"According to the county's Frequently Ask Questions, park users should practice social distancing by staying 6 feet from other guests not residing in the same living unit . \u2014 Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 June 2020",
"The development would include 60-100 single-family homes, 55-65 townhouses, 130-140 garden-style homes, about 200 apartments and 150-200 senior living units , according to plans submitted to the planning commission by developer Neyer Properties. \u2014 Randy Tucker, Cincinnati.com , 22 May 2020",
"Meals and medications are also delivered to the living units . \u2014 Christina Maxouris, CNN , 7 May 2020",
"When the pandemic forced restrictions, Mr. Zane was no longer allowed to walk from his independent living unit to visit his wife in the skilled nursing unit. \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Millennials, on the other hand, see the technology that for us was innovation not a long time ago as a living standard . \u2014 Pablo Turletti, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The new sanctions will severely impact the living standard of ordinary Russians. \u2014 Peter Rutland, The Conversation , 1 Mar. 2022",
"That translates into a 5 percent hike in Joe's living standard year-in and year-out through the end of his days. \u2014 Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"The reduced living standard had the greatest impact on lower-income Americans and older consumers, Richard Curtin, chief economist who worked on the survey, said in the statement. \u2014 Lisa Kim, Forbes , 12 Nov. 2021",
"One of the most enduring, reality-resistant, mythologies of our world has been that of the Great Convergence: the idea that developing countries would converge in living standard with the Western middle class. \u2014 Radu Magdin, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
"More than 40% of households headed by people aged 55 through 70 lack sufficient resources to maintain their living standard in retirement, according to a 2018 Wall Street Journal analysis. \u2014 Dawn Lim, WSJ , 6 Oct. 2021",
"The ratio needs to be at around 60% if retirees want to maintain a preretirement living standard . \u2014 Jing Yang, WSJ , 2 June 2021",
"The price has changed, but your living standard hasn\u2019t. \u2014 William Baldwin, Forbes , 20 Mar. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"No Cocoa Krispies, no triple-cream brie, and no smoked liver sausage . \u2014 John Kass, chicagotribune.com , 4 Apr. 2018",
"And real French triple-cream brie, and smoked liver sausage served with those horseradish sweet pickles made a fantastic sandwich. \u2014 John Kass, chicagotribune.com , 4 Apr. 2018",
"All parts of the animal are honored during r\u00e9ttir, with traditional dishes such as liver sausage (sl\u00e1tur) and singed lamb heads (svi\u00f0) served at the post-herding celebration. \u2014 Bridget Hallinan, CNT , 15 Sep. 2017"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"According to a recent release, steel parts known as live load shoes support the drawbridge leaves while in the down position. \u2014 Rosemarie Stein, OregonLive.com , 3 Nov. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Pamela placed a live trap in that area with her scent, hoping to attract him. \u2014 cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"Foster said a live trap was found by the river at one point. \u2014 Ian James, The Arizona Republic , 9 Apr. 2021",
"There's one thing the village could use, though, and that's live traps . \u2014 Shady Grove Oliver, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Mar. 2020",
"Once, the rat was caught in a live trap but somehow escaped. \u2014 Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News , 2 July 2019",
"Breaking out a window or sending down window cleaners would have been too risky, Ms. Donnelly-Coyne said, so officials baited live traps with cat food and placed them on the roof. \u2014 Matthew Haag, New York Times , 13 June 2018",
"Animal control workers did set live traps on the tower's roof, believing that would be the safest option for capture, MPR reports. \u2014 Ashley May, USA TODAY , 13 June 2018",
"Biologists have had live traps set in the woods near the end of Hiland Road since Wednesday, the same day a volunteer searcher was injured by a brown bear while searching for missing hiker Michael Soltis. \u2014 Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2018",
"Now, the world is waiting to find out if the raccoon found the live trap at the top of the building. \u2014 Ashley May, USA TODAY , 13 June 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1944, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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"plural noun"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first is Tom in 1996, with a head of hair and a face free of liver spots . \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 21 June 2021",
"His eyes are glistening beads under bushy eyebrows, spittle dribbles down his scraggly beard, liver spots decorate his weathered face. \u2014 Carvell Wallace, New York Times , 6 Oct. 2020",
"The American Cancer Society also said that UV light can cause premature aging and signs of damage such as wrinkles, leather skin, liver spots , actinic keratosis and solar elastosis. \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 4 Aug. 2020",
"The same excruciatingly clear HD television picture that brought the liver spots on the oldest debaters\u2019 faces into your living room also brought Buttigieg\u2019s uneven 5 o\u2019clock shadow, accentuating the age gap. \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 20 Feb. 2020",
"Nonsense Chicken, on the main strip of the humming Itaewon neighborhood, was a bare and empty white room occupied by a short, sun-baked Korean man with a boxy torso, liver spots on his forehead, and a brusque manner. \u2014 Wesley Yang, Bon Appetit , 9 May 2017"
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"\u02c8liv-r\u0113",
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"Noun",
"the limousine chauffeur was easily distinguished from the cab drivers by his livery",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There\u2019s photographic evidence of at least two MiG-29s flying combat missions while wearing the livery of the Ukrainian air force\u2019s defunct aerobatic team, which disbanded back in 2002. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"The Norse Atlantic plane scheduled to leave Fort Lauderdale on Monday arrived in South Florida over the weekend and could be seen parked with its white and blue livery Sunday evening in the northwest corner of the airport. \u2014 David Lyons, Sun Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
"The airline is taking swift action to move to its new livery . \u2014 Julia Buckley, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"On Tuesday evening, a chartered Boeing 767 passenger jet, in a blue-and-white livery , waited in the summer sunshine on the tarmac of Boscombe Down, a testing site for military aircraft, in the South of England. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 17 June 2022",
"To emphasize this point, the vehicle sits on the same F1 wheels used by the Mercedes-AMG Petronas team, which also inspired the livery . \u2014 Viju Mathew, Robb Report , 20 May 2022",
"The Land Rover Defender dons a black-and-gold livery to celebrate the 60th anniversary of James Bond films. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The bike is priced at $39,500 and delivered only in the special all-black Winter Test livery normally associated with Ducati\u2019s factory racing machines from MotoGP and WorldSBK. \u2014 Peter Jackson, Robb Report , 16 Mar. 2022",
"However, many purists have called for keeping the current livery , which dates to the time of President John F. Kennedy. \u2014 David Koenig, Chron , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Across the street is a livery cab service owned by Kevin Rosario (Jimmy Smits), who came to New York from Puerto Rico and poured his hopes into his daughter, Nina (Leslie Grace). \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2021",
"During the pandemic, some local fleet managers who rented cars to Uber and Lyft drivers re-registered the vehicles for non- livery use and began renting to folks making deliveries for companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats. \u2014 Anne Kadet, WSJ , 8 June 2021"
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"Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Innsbruck recovered at least 75 species of bryophytes, non-vascular plants such as mosses and liverworts , that had been preserved in ice with Otzi. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 31 Oct. 2019",
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"Oishi said humid cities where moss thrives could benefit most from using bryophytes \u2013 a collective term for mosses, hornworts and liverworts \u2013 as bioindicators, adding moss could be monitored in its natural environment or cultivated for analysis. \u2014 Sophie Hares, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Aug. 2017"
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"His list of requirements for a hotel room in Philadelphia during a tryout included sliced liverwurst , salami, and bologna, and twenty-four cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 13 Jan. 2020",
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"In 2020, China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs officially stated that dogs are companion animals, not livestock . \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"The war has battered Ethiopia\u2019s economy \u2014 once among the fastest-growing in Africa \u2014 which was already struggling as large swaths of the country remain in the grip of a record drought that has devastated farms and livestock . \u2014 Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
"Practitioners used their craft in efforts to heal the sick, help the lovelorn, locate lost people and objects, protect people from guns or arrows, and guard livestock . \u2014 Valerie Kivelson, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"Now those sheep and other livestock could be taxed for incessant belching \u2014 a major source of greenhouse gases for the Pacific island nation. \u2014 Sammy Westfall, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"But livestock would still remain subject to management prescriptions designed to protect the monument\u2019s artifacts and natural values. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"They\u2019ve been spotted not only In folks with Staph infections, but in livestock \u2026like pigs and cattle\u2026and in some wild animals. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 8 June 2022",
"The proposal would make New Zealand, a large agricultural exporter, the first country to have farmers pay for emissions from livestock , the Ministry for Environment said. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 8 June 2022"
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"Among the people to be discussed as part of the series includes Samuel Dent, the area\u2019s first Black businessman who operated a livery company ; and Walker Sales, who was the city\u2019s second police officer, according to Summerfield. \u2014 Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The present hall was designed by Philip Hardwick and opened in 1835, and is home to the Goldsmiths' Company, a livery company (basically a trade organization that evolved from London's medieval guilds). \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The right to own swans was granted to the Vintners and Dyers city livery companies in the 15th century. \u2014 Emily Cleaver, Smithsonian , 31 July 2017"
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"Companies linked to Nijjar own more than $1 billion in real estate, predominately in Southern California, and many other properties also have had serious health and livability problems, according to a 2020 investigation by LAist. \u2014 Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times , 25 May 2022",
"By any livability metric, Howard County is a very desirable place to live. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"Though some cities celebrate their placement on livability lists, critics say the methodology can be hard to untangle. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 June 2021",
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"The beauty of the 911 is that its athleticism doesn't diminish its livability . \u2014 Car and Driver , 4 Feb. 2022",
"In order to retain and attract residents, cities need to focus more attention on livability and happiness; human connection. \u2014 Nicole Gull Mcelroy, Fortune , 4 Jan. 2022",
"The city scored well for cost of living but was brought down by its livability score. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 30 Nov. 2021",
"When a national livability index labeled the Cleveland area as the worst place in the country for Black women, Bethany Studenic and Chinenye Nkemere set up an online survey and invited women to tell their stories in personal interviews. \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 29 Nov. 2021"
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"1873, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Follow the live steam by clicking the link on Twitter. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 1 Apr. 2021",
"Her live steam recorded audio of bystanders yelling for help. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Dec. 2020",
"The Georgia Aquarium The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta also has a number of 24-hour live steams on its jellyfish, beluga whales, piranhas and more. \u2014 Sophie Lewis, CBS News , 18 Mar. 2020",
"An 18-year-old and a 16-year-old have also been charged over distributing the live steam of the Christchurch videos, according to Williams, who is also representing the teens. \u2014 Julia Hollingsworth, CNN , 18 June 2019",
"Also, don\u2019t miss the annual Railway to the Moon Festival Aug. 17 and 18, a celebration of the inventiveness of cog entrepreneur Sylvester Marsh, featuring Victorian-era costumes, live music, live steam art, and more. 603-278-5404, www.thecog.com. \u2014 Kari Bodnarchuk, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2019"
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"1858, in the meaning defined above":""
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"He has been living off his girlfriend.",
"farmers who live off the land"
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"He lived out (the final years of) his life in quiet retirement."
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"He has finally had the chance to live out his dreams/fantasies."
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"noun"
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": a free-standing cupboard used for the storage of food and drink especially in the middle ages":[]
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"idiom"
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"a liveried chauffeur"
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"With a meticulously landscaped median, the Manhattan boulevard is a two-mile gauntlet of elegant brick apartment buildings in shades from buff to earthen, with liveried doormen and Renaissance Revival and neo-Gothic exterior ornament. \u2014 Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"The country's new blue- liveried national airline, ITA Airways, launched in October. \u2014 Maureen O'hare, CNN , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Enter through a set of palatial front doors tended by liveried doormen and walk into a glistening foyer. \u2014 Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure , 19 Feb. 2020",
"This small community contrasts with Elgar\u2019s bigoted family, who live in palatial splendour with liveried black servants. \u2014 The Economist , 20 May 2020",
"The library hosts the graves of Reagan and his wife, Nancy, and priceless historical artifacts, including the 40th President's records, the blue-and-white liveried plane used as Air Force One through two terms and his former Marine One helicopter. \u2014 CNN , 30 Oct. 2019",
"At some places, a visitor would encounter a liveried dwarf, acting both as a guide and as one of the curiosities. \u2014 Reagan Upshaw, Washington Post , 24 Oct. 2019",
"Rather than retire to their rooms with a sigh of relief, however, Team Downton, led by Anna and Bates, decides to wage war on their liveried interlopers. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 10 Sep. 2019",
"Ever eager to command the spotlight, even at 3 a.m. ET, Trump strode out to the blue-and-white liveried government jet that carried the men home and was picked out of the night sky with floodlights and parked in front of a huge American flag. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 10 May 2018"
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"\u2014 used of a log"
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