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{
"meadow mushroom":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a common edible whitish agaric mushroom ( Agaricus campestris ) that has gills which change from pink to brown and usually grows in moist open areas (such as fields or lawns)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1597, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8med-\u02cc\u014d-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125620",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"meager":{
"antonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful"
],
"definitions":{
": deficient in quality or quantity":[
"a meager diet"
],
": having little flesh : thin":[
"meager were his looks, sharp misery had worn him to the bones",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
": lacking desirable qualities (such as richness or strength)":[
"leading a meager life"
]
},
"examples":[
"Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.",
"We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest.",
"She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.",
"They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage.",
"Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Lakers have has a solid record of drafting good players and signing quality undrafted talent over the past decade despite meager draft resources. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"The franchise has a solid record of drafting good players and signing quality undrafted talent over the past decade despite meager draft resources. \u2014 Greg Beacham, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"Which quickly became a sobering illustration of their meager resources. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Leather is one of the materials that, for McCartney, epitomizes the environmental and social issues the fashion industry is responsible for: animal rights abuse, water pollution, meager pay and working conditions of garment workers. \u2014 Sofia Lotto Persio, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Countries with far more meager resources than the United States, like Cambodia and Mongolia, also have greater shares of their populations fully vaccinated against the virus. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Many minor-leaguers must dip into their meager salaries to pay for equipment. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 June 2021",
"Meanwhile civil society organisations (CSOs), activists and ordinary citizens are left firefighting with meager resources to help strangers and save lives. \u2014 Chitrangada Choudhury, Scientific American , 24 May 2021",
"There is a completely different group of people that have built an agricultural wonderland, and aren\u2019t traveling bards and aren\u2019t cobbling together this meager existence and settlements. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 13 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English megre \"thin, having little flesh from lack of food,\" borrowed from Anglo-French megre, maigre, going back to Latin macr-, macer \"thin, lean, of little substance,\" going back to Indo-European *mh 2 \u1e31-ro- \"long, thin,\" whence also Germanic *magra- \"lean\" (whence Old English m\u00e6ger \"lean,\" Old High German magar, Old Norse magr ), Greek makr\u00f3s \"long, tall, high, large\"; derivative in *-ro-, adjective suffix, of a base *meh 2 \u1e31-, *mh 2 \u1e31- seen also in Latin maci\u0113s \"bodily thinness, wasting,\" Greek m\u00eakos \"length,\" m\u1e17kistos \"longest, highest,\" Avestan masah- \"length, greatness,\" masi\u0161ta- \"highest,\" Hittite maklant- \"thin, slim (of animals)\"":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u0113-g\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for meager meager , scanty , scant , skimpy , spare , sparse mean falling short of what is normal, necessary, or desirable. meager implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thing's richness, substance, or potency. a meager portion of meat scanty stresses insufficiency in amount, quantity, or extent. supplies too scanty to last the winter scant suggests a falling short of what is desired or desirable rather than of what is essential. in January the daylight hours are scant skimpy usually suggests niggardliness or penury as the cause of the deficiency. tacky housing developments on skimpy lots spare may suggest a slight falling short of adequacy or merely an absence of superfluity. a spare , concise style of writing sparse implies a thin scattering of units. a sparse population",
"synonyms":[
"exiguous",
"hand-to-mouth",
"light",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparing",
"sparse",
"stingy"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083927",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"meager lime":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": lime containing a large amount of impurities (as 15 percent or more)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163945",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"meagre":{
"antonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful"
],
"definitions":{
": deficient in quality or quantity":[
"a meager diet"
],
": having little flesh : thin":[
"meager were his looks, sharp misery had worn him to the bones",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
": lacking desirable qualities (such as richness or strength)":[
"leading a meager life"
]
},
"examples":[
"Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.",
"We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest.",
"She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.",
"They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage.",
"Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Lakers have has a solid record of drafting good players and signing quality undrafted talent over the past decade despite meager draft resources. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"The franchise has a solid record of drafting good players and signing quality undrafted talent over the past decade despite meager draft resources. \u2014 Greg Beacham, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"Which quickly became a sobering illustration of their meager resources. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Leather is one of the materials that, for McCartney, epitomizes the environmental and social issues the fashion industry is responsible for: animal rights abuse, water pollution, meager pay and working conditions of garment workers. \u2014 Sofia Lotto Persio, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Countries with far more meager resources than the United States, like Cambodia and Mongolia, also have greater shares of their populations fully vaccinated against the virus. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Many minor-leaguers must dip into their meager salaries to pay for equipment. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 June 2021",
"Meanwhile civil society organisations (CSOs), activists and ordinary citizens are left firefighting with meager resources to help strangers and save lives. \u2014 Chitrangada Choudhury, Scientific American , 24 May 2021",
"There is a completely different group of people that have built an agricultural wonderland, and aren\u2019t traveling bards and aren\u2019t cobbling together this meager existence and settlements. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 13 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English megre \"thin, having little flesh from lack of food,\" borrowed from Anglo-French megre, maigre, going back to Latin macr-, macer \"thin, lean, of little substance,\" going back to Indo-European *mh 2 \u1e31-ro- \"long, thin,\" whence also Germanic *magra- \"lean\" (whence Old English m\u00e6ger \"lean,\" Old High German magar, Old Norse magr ), Greek makr\u00f3s \"long, tall, high, large\"; derivative in *-ro-, adjective suffix, of a base *meh 2 \u1e31-, *mh 2 \u1e31- seen also in Latin maci\u0113s \"bodily thinness, wasting,\" Greek m\u00eakos \"length,\" m\u1e17kistos \"longest, highest,\" Avestan masah- \"length, greatness,\" masi\u0161ta- \"highest,\" Hittite maklant- \"thin, slim (of animals)\"":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u0113-g\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for meager meager , scanty , scant , skimpy , spare , sparse mean falling short of what is normal, necessary, or desirable. meager implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thing's richness, substance, or potency. a meager portion of meat scanty stresses insufficiency in amount, quantity, or extent. supplies too scanty to last the winter scant suggests a falling short of what is desired or desirable rather than of what is essential. in January the daylight hours are scant skimpy usually suggests niggardliness or penury as the cause of the deficiency. tacky housing developments on skimpy lots spare may suggest a slight falling short of adequacy or merely an absence of superfluity. a spare , concise style of writing sparse implies a thin scattering of units. a sparse population",
"synonyms":[
"exiguous",
"hand-to-mouth",
"light",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparing",
"sparse",
"stingy"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055117",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"meak":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a long-handled bush hook : scythe":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English meeke":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u0101k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034018",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"meal":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a product resembling seed meal especially in particle size or texture":[],
": an act or the time of eating a portion of food to satisfy appetite":[],
": by a (specified) portion or measure at a time":[
"piece meal"
],
": the portion of food eaten at a meal":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English -mele , from Old English -m\u01e3lum , from m\u01e3lum , dative plural of m\u01e3l":"Adverb combining form",
"Middle English meel appointed time, meal, from Old English m\u01e3l ; akin to Old High German m\u0101l time, Latin metiri to measure \u2014 more at measure":"Noun",
"Middle English mele , from Old English melu ; akin to Old High German melo meal, Latin molere to grind, Greek myl\u0113 mill":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u0113l",
"\u02c8m\u0113(\u0259)l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192755",
"type":[
"adverb combining form",
"noun"
]
},
"mealy":{
"antonyms":[
"blooming",
"florid",
"flush",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"red",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"ruddy",
"sanguine"
],
"definitions":{
": containing meal : farinaceous":[],
": covered with meal or with fine granules":[],
": flecked with another color":[],
": mealymouthed":[],
": pallid , blanched":[
"a mealy complexion"
],
": soft, dry, and friable":[],
": spotty , uneven":[]
},
"examples":[
"the mealy flesh of a pear",
"her mealy complexion might be OK if she were a mime, but she isn't",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Canned olives won\u2019t work in this dish \u2014 their texture is mealy and soft, and their flavor tends to be weak and watery. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Nov. 2021",
"Creaminess, granted by the mealy texture of russet potatoes, is important; and the outside should be taut and golden. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The neighborhood association sends a mealy -mouthed representative (Chase Stoeger) to bribe them out of moving there. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were seen by many as a mistake, but most other candidates still defended at least on them, if often in mealy -mouthed terms. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 22 Mar. 2022",
"American, British, and European leverage is largely absent in Kazakhstan, as the mealy -mouthed statements issued by the White House thus far indicate. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Most of the larger tomatoes available in grocery stores have an insipid flavor and mealy texture. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 12 Jan. 2022",
"This in contrast to the sour, mealy -mouthed assessment of the OSCE and US State Department (however accurate). \u2014 Melik Kaylan, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021",
"Pears that are allowed to become too mature or to ripen on the tree develop a coarse, mealy texture and often have core breakdown. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1541, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u0113-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"blanched",
"cadaverous",
"doughy",
"livid",
"lurid",
"pale",
"paled",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"wan"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231357",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"mealy plum aphid":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a pale green aphid ( Hyalopterus pruni ) with a powdery body surface that is native to Europe but widely naturalized on various fruit trees where it causes stunting and distortion of new growth and splitting and soiling of fruit":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223706",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mealy redpoll":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a rather large pale European redpoll ( Carduelis flamea or Acanthis flammea )":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175351",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mealy scale":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": mealybug":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184607",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mealy starwort":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a colicroot ( Aletris farinosa )":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085155",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mealy tree":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": arrowwood sense 1a":[],
": wayfaring tree sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082003",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mealybug":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of a family (Pseudococcidae) of scale insects that have a white cottony or waxy covering and are destructive pests especially of fruit trees":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tremblaya helps to supply the mealybug with essential amino acids and likely receives nutrients and other life-sustaining molecules in return. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 June 2013",
"One such Russian-doll merger occurred about 100 million years ago, when the small insect pests called mealybugs acquired a bacterial endosymbiont, Tremblaya. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 Oct. 2019",
"Phillip and Beazley have found mango weevil, pink hibiscus mealybug and citrus canker. \u2014 Laura Reiley, Washington Post , 27 Nov. 2019",
"Thus, Tremblaya and Moranella work together to produce essential amino acids for themselves as well as the ones that the mealybug cannot find in its strict sap diet. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 Oct. 2019",
"Examine houseplants and tropicals before bringing them indoors and discard any that are full of whitefly, scale, mealybugs or other tenacious pests. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2019",
"The result is that the mealybug cell contains a bacterium that contains another bacterium \u2013 an arrangement discovered back in 2001 by Carol von Dohlen, a biologist at Utah State University. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 Oct. 2019",
"Yet that often has little effect in containing the disease, which is spread by tiny white insects called mealybugs . \u2014 Olivia Konotey-ahulu / Bloomberg, Time , 6 Sep. 2019",
"With just 121 protein-coding genes, the diminutive Tremblaya princeps, a symbiotic bacterium that lives inside specialized cells of the sap-eating mealybug , has the smallest known genome of any cellular organism on the planet. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 June 2013"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1824, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u0113-l\u0113-\u02ccb\u0259g"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-120014",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mealybug wilt":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a wilt of the pineapple especially destructive in Hawaii that is associated with the feeding of the pineapple mealybug":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063121",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mealymouth":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mealymouthed person":[],
": willow warbler":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193406",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mealymouthed":{
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"candid",
"genuine",
"heartfelt",
"honest",
"sincere",
"undesigning",
"unfeigned"
],
"definitions":{
": not plain and straightforward : devious":[
"a mealymouthed politician"
]
},
"examples":[
"a mealymouthed compliment from a jealous competitor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But Roman, so often indecisive and mealymouthed , calmly insists that there\u2019s no need to worry about those things. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 7 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1577, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccmau\u0307tht",
"\u02c8m\u0113-l\u0113-\u02ccmau\u0307t\u035fhd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"counterfeit",
"double",
"double-dealing",
"double-faced",
"fake",
"feigned",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"Janus-faced",
"jive",
"left-handed",
"lip",
"mealy",
"Pecksniffian",
"phony",
"phoney",
"phony-baloney",
"phoney-baloney",
"pretended",
"two-faced",
"unctuous"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165718",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mealywing":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": whitefly":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105613",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mean":{
"antonyms":[
"golden mean",
"medium",
"middle",
"middle ground",
"midpoint"
],
"definitions":{
": a middle point between extremes":[],
": a value that lies within a range of values and is computed according to a prescribed law: such as":[],
": arithmetic mean":[],
": ashamed sense 1b":[
"His ready cooperation made me feel mean for what I had said."
],
": causing trouble or bother : vexatious":[
"a mean soil to work"
],
": characterized by petty selfishness or malice":[
"a mean surly man"
],
": either of the middle two terms of a proportion":[],
": excellent , effective":[
"plays a mean trumpet",
"a lean, mean athlete"
],
": expected value":[],
": in no way : not at all":[],
": lacking dignity or honor : base":[
"a mean motive"
],
": lacking distinction or eminence : humble":[],
": lacking in mental discrimination : dull":[],
": most assuredly : certainly":[],
": occupying a middle position : intermediate in space, order, time, kind, or degree":[],
": of poor, shabby, or inferior quality or status":[
"mean city streets"
],
": penurious , stingy":[
"He's very mean with his money."
],
": serving as a means : intermediary":[],
": something intervening or intermediate":[],
": something useful or helpful to a desired end":[],
": through the use of":[],
": to be in earnest":[],
": to design for or destine to a specified purpose or future":[
"I was meant to teach"
],
": to direct to a particular individual":[
"His criticism was meant for all of us."
],
": to have an intended purpose":[
"he means well"
],
": to have importance to the degree of":[
"health means everything"
],
": to have in the mind as a purpose : intend":[
"she means to win",
"\u2014 sometimes used interjectionally with I , chiefly in informal speech for emphasis he throws, I mean , hard or to introduce a phrase restating the point of a preceding phrase we try to answer what we can, but I mean we're not God \u2014 Bobbie Ann Mason"
],
": to serve or intend to convey , show, or indicate : signify":[
"a red sky means rain"
],
": worthy of little regard : contemptible":[
"\u2014 often used in negative constructions as a term of praise no mean feat"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The season of backyard barbecues and lakeside cookouts is at hand, which in most parts of the country means an orgy of grilled steaks, hamburgers and hot dogs lasting until Labor Day and beyond. \u2014 R. W. Apple, Jr. , New York Times , 5 June 2002",
"Even the water in the cave was free from surface contamination \u2026 which meant that all the water now in Lechugilla percolated into the cave before the widespread nuclear bomb testing of the 1940s \u2026 \u2014 Jon Krakauer , Air & Space , October/November 1995",
"Home meant my father, with kind eyes, songs, and tense recitations for my brother and myself. \u2014 Gwendolyn Brooks , Booklist , 15 Oct. 1993",
"The word meant one thing in Shakespeare's day, but it means something else now.",
"Red means \u201cstop\u201d and green means \u201cgo.\u201d",
"Can you tell me what my dream means ",
"What was meant by the poet",
"Don't distort what she meant by taking her words out of context.",
"He's very ambitious, and I mean that as a compliment.",
"It's a very easy question. Anyone, and I mean anyone, should be able to answer it.",
"She's not getting any thinner, if you know what I mean .",
"She says she didn't mean anything by what she did.",
"I don't trust him. He means no good.",
"Adjective (1)",
"For thirty years he had been a ruthless litigator, the meanest , nastiest, and without a doubt one of the most effective courtroom brawlers in Chicago. \u2014 John Grisham , The Chamber , 1995",
"\u2026 the streets of Spanish Harlem are meaner than when he left them, and they're pulling him back in. \u2014 Peter Travers , Rolling Stone , 9 Dec. 1993",
"\u2026 what you discover is the one with the tail was old mean landlord Mr. prosperous Prospero who wielded without thought of God or man the merry old cat-o'-nine-tails \u2026 \u2014 Darryl Pinckney , Times Literary Supplement , 23 Aug. 1991",
"Creighton Abrams was a tanker, according to George Patton the meanest tanker the Germans had faced in the whole U.S. Third Army, and he had a temper that matched the fearsome machines he loved. \u2014 Neil Sheehan , A Bright Shining Lie , 1988",
"Noun",
"Take all these temperatures and calculate their mean .",
"trying to find a golden mean between doing too little and doing too much"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English mene , from Anglo-French mene, meiene , from Latin medianus \u2014 more at median":"Adjective and Noun",
"Middle English mene , from imene common, shared, from Old English gem\u01e3ne ; akin to Old High German gimeini common, Latin communis common, munus service, gift, Sanskrit mayate he exchanges":"Adjective",
"Middle English menen , from Old English m\u01e3nan ; akin to Old High German meinen to have in mind, Old Church Slavonic m\u011bniti to mention":"Verb"
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"express",
"import",
"intend",
"signify",
"spell"
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"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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": calorie sense c":[]
},
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"mean entry 7":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125801",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"mean life":{
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": average life":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082334",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"mean line":{
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": bisectrix":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"mean entry 7":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082848",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"mean midnight":{
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"definitions":{
": midnight by mean solar time":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113522",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"mean the (whole) world":{
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": to be extremely important : to be someone or something that someone cares about her very much":[
"It would mean the world to me if you came with me.",
"She means the whole world to me."
]
},
"examples":[],
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"meantime he had been attentive to his other interests",
"\u2014 H. R. Warfel"
],
": the time before something happens or before a specified period ends":[
"The new computers won't arrive until next week, but we can continue to use the old ones in the meantime ."
],
": time that is based on the motion of the theoretical mean sun":[
"To find local mean time , determine how many degrees of longitude you are from your time-zone standard. (Find your longitude on a map.) Multiply this number by four to get your correction in minutes. If you are east of the standard longitude your correction is a positive number; if you are west it is negative. Apply the correction to standard time to get your local mean time .",
"\u2014 Sky & Telescope"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adverb",
"He can come back to work when he's feeling better. Meantime , he should be resting as much as possible.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the meantime , at least two auto manufacturers, Subaru and Kia, began selling cars in Massachusetts with their telematic features switched off, to avoid violating the law. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"In the meantime , Merryman\u2019s lawyers argue, their client urgently needs in-depth care for his PTSD. \u2014 Paul Duggan, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"In the meantime , social service agencies are trying to help meet the needs of campers, several of whom have few supplies, little camping experience and \u2014 for some \u2014 mental and physical health challenges and substance abuse issues. \u2014 Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News , 1 July 2022",
"The update won\u2019t be ready until next fall, but in the meantime , there are some exciting new features coming to CarPlay in iOS 16. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 30 June 2022",
"In the meantime , long zero-Covid will deter foreigners from visiting China even though the government has relaxed entry requirements. \u2014 Yanzhong Huang, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"In the meantime , the Lakers are left to fill out their roster with limited financial options for a talent pool that most evaluators around the NBA believe is weak. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"In the meantime , however, Varley is planning for the next 25 years. \u2014 Mark Sutherland, Variety , 30 June 2022",
"Likely not happening unless someone knocks off Nadal in the meantime . \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Republican officials, meantime , expressed satisfaction with the court\u2019s decision. \u2014 Joanna Slater, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Fernandez, meantime , will keep going forward after the biggest win of her career. \u2014 Adam Zagoria, Forbes , 4 Sep. 2021",
"The vaccine-makers have had trouble showing worthwhile results in the youngest children, and in the meantime many young children have acquired some immunity by getting sick with, and recovering from, Covid. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 15 June 2022",
"Textbook publishers, meantime , are carrying out a Soviet-style purge of almost all references to Ukraine. \u2014 Robyn Dixon, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"The Stars, meantime , acquired future considerations from Buffalo to free Bishop\u2019s salary from their books to provide more flexibility to re-sign and add players this offseason. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Or plan a future outing and, meantime , immerse yourself in everything Bowl. \u2014 Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"Hulu\u2019s ad-free plan, meantime , will run you just $12.99 per month. \u2014 John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone , 13 May 2022",
"Figuring out what to do with the children, meantime , was entirely my problem. \u2014 Leila Cobo, Billboard , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The mean time to remediate (MTTR) a critical vulnerability in the web/application layer (the time a developer needs to fix code) is 47.6 days. \u2014 Eoin Keary, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But in the mean time , Moultrie, hairstylist Jamika Wilson and stylist Elizabeth Stewart share behind-the-scenes details of her shoot with Peggy Sirota below. \u2014 Jackie Fields, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Related to mean time to repair, this is a measure of how often the maintenance team is able to fix a problem on the first attempt. \u2014 Bill Fahey, Forbes , 8 June 2021",
"That doesn\u2019t mean time has passed for the older players. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Although vacations and weekends can both mean time off from work (for some), vacations may impact employees differently than weekends off. \u2014 Kim Elsesser, Forbes , 13 Sep. 2021",
"In the mean time , corporate users fell in love with their Apple and Android phones, and compelled their IT departments to support them. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 30 Dec. 2021",
"In the mean time , the New York Times reported, some city leaders fear implementing local mandates will drive officers to leave departments that have already been crippled by mass departures, and at a time when gun violence is surging nationwide. \u2014 Rebecca Lurye, courant.com , 19 Oct. 2021",
"But, in the mean time , Balbo said the department is requesting a 3-year lease on another building. \u2014 Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com , 22 Sep. 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1751, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1593, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u0113n-\u02cct\u012bm"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120455",
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"meander":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a turn or winding of a stream":[
"The meander eventually became isolated from the main stream."
],
": to follow a winding or intricate course":[
"across the ceiling meandered a long crack",
"\u2014 John Galsworthy"
],
": to wander aimlessly or casually without urgent destination : ramble":[
"he meandered with the sightseers gawping at the boat people",
"\u2014 John le Carr\u00e9"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The path meanders through the garden.",
"We meandered around the village.",
"The conversation meandered on for hours.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Greek key pattern, known as a meander , is a repeating geometric motif that was used on buildings, pottery, and other items in ancient times. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Also nearby were helicopter and pontoon tours that meander passengers above, through, and finally down into the base of the canyon and a hikable trail. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 4 Apr. 2022",
"No river meander captures the imagination as much as Horseshoe Bend. \u2014 Joe Minihane, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Follow that with segment ten, a 4.3-mile meander through a forest that connects to the Syndicate Nature Trail. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 5 Feb. 2020",
"Thin plastic bags that once contained drinking water meander back and forth in the Senegalese surf, like jellyfish. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The Sand Bench Trail, which makes a soft meander beneath the iconic Court of the Patriarchs formations, is the only exception. \u2014 Shawnt\u00e9 Salabert, Outside Online , 19 Dec. 2019",
"Hike the trail along the southwest rim of a dormant volcano at Death Valley\u2019s Ubehebe Crater, and meander along Artist\u2019s Drive, a nine-mile road that passes through hillsides colorfully tinted with volcanic sediment. \u2014 Megan Michelson, Outside Online , 11 Feb. 2021",
"The trail to the top of this landmark starts as a gentle meander through open desert for 1.3 miles. \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In the coming days, the nascent system will meander west through a relative minimum in wind shear, or a change of wind speed and/or direction with height. \u2014 Jason Samenow, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"The subalpine environment, from 9,000 and 11,000 feet, is comprised of natural lakes, boulders, and evergreen forests, and the majority of trails meander through these breathtaking landscapes. \u2014 Graham Averill, Outside Online , 10 Aug. 2020",
"French doors line the entire wall of this expansive room by Jessica Lagrange, creating a unique space for entertaining that allows guests to meander between the living room and outdoor patio. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 9 May 2022",
"The ideas in Hamaguchi\u2019s stories develop emotions \u2014 the specter of loneliness \u2014 rather than meander toward quizzical, highbrow pathos. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Hike, bike, meander or bring a furry friend to explore this sprawling natural landscape. \u2014 Chelsea Davis, Forbes , 3 July 2021",
"Rivers in Alaska are pretty flat and tend to meander . \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 19 May 2022",
"If your schedule allows, take time to meander the historical property and peruse the Treasures and Trash Gift Shop, once used as a bunkhouse for stagecoach drivers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"Most people were content to meander through their own neighborhoods or jog on nearby trails. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1599, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
"circa 1612, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin maeander , from Greek maiandros , from Maiandros (now Menderes ), river in Asia Minor":"Noun and Verb"
},
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"m\u0113-\u02c8an-d\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for meander Verb wander , roam , ramble , rove , traipse , meander mean to go about from place to place usually without a plan or definite purpose. wander implies an absence of or an indifference to a fixed course. fond of wandering about the square just watching the people roam suggests wandering about freely and often far afield. liked to roam through the woods ramble stresses carelessness and indifference to one's course or objective. the speaker rambled on without ever coming to the point rove suggests vigorous and sometimes purposeful roaming. armed brigands roved over the countryside traipse implies a course that is erratic but may sometimes be purposeful. traipsed all over town looking for the right dress meander implies a winding or intricate course suggestive of aimless or listless wandering. the river meanders for miles through rich farmland",
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"bat",
"cruise",
"drift",
"float",
"gad (about)",
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"kick around",
"knock (about)",
"maunder",
"mooch",
"ramble",
"range",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051209",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"meander belt":{
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"definitions":{
": the part of a valley bottom across which a stream shifts its channel from time to time especially in flood":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135546",
"type":[
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]
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"meandering":{
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": a turn or winding of a stream":[
"The meander eventually became isolated from the main stream."
],
": to follow a winding or intricate course":[
"across the ceiling meandered a long crack",
"\u2014 John Galsworthy"
],
": to wander aimlessly or casually without urgent destination : ramble":[
"he meandered with the sightseers gawping at the boat people",
"\u2014 John le Carr\u00e9"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The path meanders through the garden.",
"We meandered around the village.",
"The conversation meandered on for hours.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Greek key pattern, known as a meander , is a repeating geometric motif that was used on buildings, pottery, and other items in ancient times. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Also nearby were helicopter and pontoon tours that meander passengers above, through, and finally down into the base of the canyon and a hikable trail. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 4 Apr. 2022",
"No river meander captures the imagination as much as Horseshoe Bend. \u2014 Joe Minihane, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Follow that with segment ten, a 4.3-mile meander through a forest that connects to the Syndicate Nature Trail. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 5 Feb. 2020",
"Thin plastic bags that once contained drinking water meander back and forth in the Senegalese surf, like jellyfish. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The Sand Bench Trail, which makes a soft meander beneath the iconic Court of the Patriarchs formations, is the only exception. \u2014 Shawnt\u00e9 Salabert, Outside Online , 19 Dec. 2019",
"Hike the trail along the southwest rim of a dormant volcano at Death Valley\u2019s Ubehebe Crater, and meander along Artist\u2019s Drive, a nine-mile road that passes through hillsides colorfully tinted with volcanic sediment. \u2014 Megan Michelson, Outside Online , 11 Feb. 2021",
"The trail to the top of this landmark starts as a gentle meander through open desert for 1.3 miles. \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In the coming days, the nascent system will meander west through a relative minimum in wind shear, or a change of wind speed and/or direction with height. \u2014 Jason Samenow, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"The subalpine environment, from 9,000 and 11,000 feet, is comprised of natural lakes, boulders, and evergreen forests, and the majority of trails meander through these breathtaking landscapes. \u2014 Graham Averill, Outside Online , 10 Aug. 2020",
"French doors line the entire wall of this expansive room by Jessica Lagrange, creating a unique space for entertaining that allows guests to meander between the living room and outdoor patio. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 9 May 2022",
"The ideas in Hamaguchi\u2019s stories develop emotions \u2014 the specter of loneliness \u2014 rather than meander toward quizzical, highbrow pathos. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Hike, bike, meander or bring a furry friend to explore this sprawling natural landscape. \u2014 Chelsea Davis, Forbes , 3 July 2021",
"Rivers in Alaska are pretty flat and tend to meander . \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 19 May 2022",
"If your schedule allows, take time to meander the historical property and peruse the Treasures and Trash Gift Shop, once used as a bunkhouse for stagecoach drivers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"Most people were content to meander through their own neighborhoods or jog on nearby trails. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
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"1599, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
"circa 1612, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin maeander , from Greek maiandros , from Maiandros (now Menderes ), river in Asia Minor":"Noun and Verb"
},
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"m\u0113-\u02c8an-d\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for meander Verb wander , roam , ramble , rove , traipse , meander mean to go about from place to place usually without a plan or definite purpose. wander implies an absence of or an indifference to a fixed course. fond of wandering about the square just watching the people roam suggests wandering about freely and often far afield. liked to roam through the woods ramble stresses carelessness and indifference to one's course or objective. the speaker rambled on without ever coming to the point rove suggests vigorous and sometimes purposeful roaming. armed brigands roved over the countryside traipse implies a course that is erratic but may sometimes be purposeful. traipsed all over town looking for the right dress meander implies a winding or intricate course suggestive of aimless or listless wandering. the river meanders for miles through rich farmland",
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"bat",
"cruise",
"drift",
"float",
"gad (about)",
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"kick around",
"knock (about)",
"maunder",
"mooch",
"ramble",
"range",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander"
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"type":[
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"verb"
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},
"meanie":{
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"definitions":{
": a mean person":[]
},
"examples":[
"the class thought the substitute teacher was a big meanie when she assigned homework over the holidays",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even the formidable Martindale, as an old-school meanie who commands respect from the Irish mob but has no true power of her own, is reduced to a caricature. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Aug. 2019",
"That source is telling us that yes, Donald Trump is a big meanie , a jerk. \u2014 Fox News , 8 Sep. 2018",
"The most recent example of social-media meanies feeling inexplicably compelled to leave negative comments about the media and makeup mogul's appearance involves zooming in on and criticizing her pinky toe. \u2014 Marci Robin, Teen Vogue , 18 Apr. 2018",
"That moment of silence took place, of course, amid an hour-long set of songs that could still describe women as two-faced meanies . \u2014 Mikael Wood, latimes.com , 9 Mar. 2018",
"Rick Grimes and his posse based in Alexandria have spent the season going toe-to-toe with the blowhard meanie Negan and his group, the Saviors. \u2014 Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com , 23 Feb. 2018",
"Pruitt\u2019s critics are just a bunch of meanies who hate him for no apparent reason other than their weird hippie Earth Mother disdain for humanity. \u2014 Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer , 7 Jan. 2018",
"However, the meanies have noted that as the Falcons\u2019 offensive coordinator, Shanahan gave Belichick a fabulous gift: Super Bowl 51. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 Dec. 2017",
"If this were a Hollywood movie, as opposed to real life, Andy, the sensitive misfit, would triumph over the bullies and meanies , the nonbelievers who scoffed and sneered, treated him like dirt and a joke. \u2014 Lili Anolik, Vanities , 14 Dec. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1902, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8m\u0113-n\u0113"
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"baddy",
"beast",
"brute",
"caitiff",
"devil",
"evildoer",
"fiend",
"heavy",
"hound",
"knave",
"miscreant",
"monster",
"nazi",
"no-good",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"savage",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scamp",
"scapegrace",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"villain",
"wretch"
],
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]
},
"meaning":{
"antonyms":[
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"expressive",
"meaningful",
"pregnant",
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"revelatory",
"significant",
"suggestive"
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": conveying or intended to convey meaning : significant , meaningful":[
"a meaning smile",
"When any mention was made of baronets either married or unmarried, of former lovers, of broken vows, or of second engagements, Miss Altifiorla would look with a meaning glance at her hostess.",
"\u2014 Anthony Trollope",
"Ruby lifted her heavy-lidded eyes and sent him a meaning look.",
"\u2014 Edna Ferber"
],
": something meant or intended : aim":[
"a mischievous meaning was apparent"
],
": the logical connotation of a word or phrase":[],
": the logical denotation or extension of a word or phrase":[],
": the thing one intends to convey especially by language : purport":[
"Do not mistake my meaning ."
],
": the thing that is conveyed especially by language : import":[
"Many words have more than one meaning ."
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"What is the precise meaning of this word in English",
"an old word that has taken on a new meaning",
"The word has both literal meanings and figurative meanings .",
"a word with various shades of meaning",
"Don't distort her meaning by taking her words out of context.",
"I didn't understand the meaning of his remark.",
"Literary critics disagree about the meanings of his poems.",
"a poem with subtle shades of meaning",
"What is the meaning of life",
"It's a story about the true meaning of Christmas.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Motorcycle sales accordingly went up, as people tried to reconnect with the true meaning of speed. \u2014 A-LIST , 24 Dec. 2017",
"As the story unfolds, the past catches up to the present and Mr. Sorkin keeps trying to invest Molly\u2019s story with meaning , mostly through a little family psychodrama and some deeply unpersuasive feminism, including by casting her as a victim of men. \u2014 Manohla Dargis, New York Times , 24 Dec. 2017",
"Each of these ornaments holds a special meaning to me about that person. \u2014 Debbie Arrington, sacbee , 22 Dec. 2017",
"The Boston Celtics added new meaning to stealing a win on the road. \u2014 For The Win , 19 Dec. 2017",
"Yet, each of you can rejoice in the beauty and true meaning of the season. \u2014 Columbia Flier , 12 Dec. 2017",
"In general, the nature or meaning of the information being delivered does not matter all that much, as long as some attention is being paid. \u2014 The Economist , 4 Nov. 2017",
"Unraveling the meaning of the mummies therefore has the potential to reveal some of the deepest mysteries of a mysterious people. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine , 10 Nov. 2017",
"The teen's mother says understanding the meaning of just one word the boy said could have stopped this whole situation, reports CBS News' Jamie Yuccas. \u2014 CBS News , 21 Sep. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1726, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u0113-ni\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"content",
"denotation",
"drift",
"import",
"intent",
"intention",
"purport",
"sense",
"significance",
"signification"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091914",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"meaningful":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": full of meaning : significant":[
"a meaningful life",
"a meaningful relationship"
],
": having a meaning or purpose":[
"The tests did not produce any meaningful results."
],
": having an assigned function in a language system":[
"meaningful propositions"
]
},
"examples":[
"The test did not produce any meaningful results.",
"She looked at him in a meaningful way.",
"He wanted to feel that his job was meaningful .",
"The trip turned out to be very meaningful for both of them.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Such measures can be meaningful in the manufacturing industry, executives have said, where profit margins often are thin. \u2014 Austen Hufford, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"The hospital\u2019s President and CEO, Dr. Kevin Churchwell, said the recognition is especially meaningful in light of the difficulties hospitals have faced since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. \u2014 Jacob Fulton, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"The win was meaningful for Nevin, the former Cal State Fullerton star. \u2014 Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Now others like her wonder: Could increasing gender diversity among gun owners bring meaningful change to the gun debate",
"Now others like her wonder: Could increasing gender diversity among gun owners bring meaningful change to the gun debate",
"Given the opportunity, young people can help organizations chart a course to relevance, innovation and meaningful change. \u2014 Sarah Sladek, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Further emphasizing that Saks OFF 5th stands in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community and is looking to make meaningful change both during Pride month and not. \u2014 Jailynn Taylor, Essence , 2 June 2022",
"Artists like Chelsea Cutler are extremely important to creating meaningful change around mental health in the music industry. \u2014 Quincy Green, Billboard , 26 May 2022"
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"He felt that his work was meaningless .",
"The movie was filled with meaningless violence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Distinguishing between short-term credit (i.e., BNPL) and longer-term credit (credit cards) is meaningless . \u2014 Ron Shevlin, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Life, and the loss of life, is ultimately meaningless . \u2014 Jess Bergman, The New Republic , 22 June 2022",
"The investigations and even the leak of Kremlin documents demonstrating exactly how Russian President Vladimir Putin influenced the 2016 election through a sophisticated disinformation campaign are meaningless . \u2014 David Masciotra, CNN , 11 June 2022",
"The whole system is screwed up and nothing ever gets fixed anyway, so your vote is meaningless . \u2014 Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"The lawsuit alleges that a ban on the import or manufacture of magazines holding more than 10 rounds would be meaningless and wouldn\u2019t prevent violent crimes. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 4 June 2022",
"Based on the Supreme court\u2019s impotence here, that deadline is meaningless . \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"The other quarter that the Heat won was meaningless , with Miami outscoring Boston 30-26 in the fourth of the Game 4 blowout. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 25 May 2022",
"The fight over a meaningless piece of rock dates to 1973, when Denmark and Canada wound up talks about boundary and underwater rights but did not reach an agreement over Hans Island. \u2014 Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022"
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"Verb",
"The season of backyard barbecues and lakeside cookouts is at hand, which in most parts of the country means an orgy of grilled steaks, hamburgers and hot dogs lasting until Labor Day and beyond. \u2014 R. W. Apple, Jr. , New York Times , 5 June 2002",
"Even the water in the cave was free from surface contamination \u2026 which meant that all the water now in Lechugilla percolated into the cave before the widespread nuclear bomb testing of the 1940s \u2026 \u2014 Jon Krakauer , Air & Space , October/November 1995",
"Home meant my father, with kind eyes, songs, and tense recitations for my brother and myself. \u2014 Gwendolyn Brooks , Booklist , 15 Oct. 1993",
"The word meant one thing in Shakespeare's day, but it means something else now.",
"Red means \u201cstop\u201d and green means \u201cgo.\u201d",
"Can you tell me what my dream means ",
"What was meant by the poet",
"Don't distort what she meant by taking her words out of context.",
"He's very ambitious, and I mean that as a compliment.",
"It's a very easy question. Anyone, and I mean anyone, should be able to answer it.",
"She's not getting any thinner, if you know what I mean .",
"She says she didn't mean anything by what she did.",
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"\u2026 the streets of Spanish Harlem are meaner than when he left them, and they're pulling him back in. \u2014 Peter Travers , Rolling Stone , 9 Dec. 1993",
"\u2026 what you discover is the one with the tail was old mean landlord Mr. prosperous Prospero who wielded without thought of God or man the merry old cat-o'-nine-tails \u2026 \u2014 Darryl Pinckney , Times Literary Supplement , 23 Aug. 1991",
"Creighton Abrams was a tanker, according to George Patton the meanest tanker the Germans had faced in the whole U.S. Third Army, and he had a temper that matched the fearsome machines he loved. \u2014 Neil Sheehan , A Bright Shining Lie , 1988",
"Noun",
"Take all these temperatures and calculate their mean .",
"trying to find a golden mean between doing too little and doing too much"
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"Middle English menen , from Old English m\u01e3nan ; akin to Old High German meinen to have in mind, Old Church Slavonic m\u011bniti to mention":"Verb"
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"Verb",
"The season of backyard barbecues and lakeside cookouts is at hand, which in most parts of the country means an orgy of grilled steaks, hamburgers and hot dogs lasting until Labor Day and beyond. \u2014 R. W. Apple, Jr. , New York Times , 5 June 2002",
"Even the water in the cave was free from surface contamination \u2026 which meant that all the water now in Lechugilla percolated into the cave before the widespread nuclear bomb testing of the 1940s \u2026 \u2014 Jon Krakauer , Air & Space , October/November 1995",
"Home meant my father, with kind eyes, songs, and tense recitations for my brother and myself. \u2014 Gwendolyn Brooks , Booklist , 15 Oct. 1993",
"The word meant one thing in Shakespeare's day, but it means something else now.",
"Red means \u201cstop\u201d and green means \u201cgo.\u201d",
"Can you tell me what my dream means ",
"What was meant by the poet",
"Don't distort what she meant by taking her words out of context.",
"He's very ambitious, and I mean that as a compliment.",
"It's a very easy question. Anyone, and I mean anyone, should be able to answer it.",
"She's not getting any thinner, if you know what I mean .",
"She says she didn't mean anything by what she did.",
"I don't trust him. He means no good.",
"Adjective (1)",
"For thirty years he had been a ruthless litigator, the meanest , nastiest, and without a doubt one of the most effective courtroom brawlers in Chicago. \u2014 John Grisham , The Chamber , 1995",
"\u2026 the streets of Spanish Harlem are meaner than when he left them, and they're pulling him back in. \u2014 Peter Travers , Rolling Stone , 9 Dec. 1993",
"\u2026 what you discover is the one with the tail was old mean landlord Mr. prosperous Prospero who wielded without thought of God or man the merry old cat-o'-nine-tails \u2026 \u2014 Darryl Pinckney , Times Literary Supplement , 23 Aug. 1991",
"Creighton Abrams was a tanker, according to George Patton the meanest tanker the Germans had faced in the whole U.S. Third Army, and he had a temper that matched the fearsome machines he loved. \u2014 Neil Sheehan , A Bright Shining Lie , 1988",
"Noun",
"Take all these temperatures and calculate their mean .",
"trying to find a golden mean between doing too little and doing too much"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some observers say there\u2019s no sign that California is nearing a peak, as the latest variant\u2019s exceptional contagiousness is thought to be approaching that of measles . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"In 2019, there were 1,282 cases of measles confirmed in 31 states, the most in 27 years. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
"As many as 66,000 cases of measles were reported in 2021, amid outbreaks of acute watery diarrhea, malaria and dengue fever. \u2014 Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Overall, 22 cases of measles were diagnosed at the base and quickly treated. \u2014 Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Oct. 2021",
"Flights of Afghan evacuees were suspended in September after several cases of measles were identified among the new arrivals. \u2014 Camilo Montoya-galvez, CBS News , 21 Oct. 2021",
"The announcement comes after flights had been put on pause after cases of measles -- a highly contagious virus -- were discovered among Afghans. \u2014 Priscilla Alvarez, CNN , 4 Oct. 2021",
"White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the halt stemmed from the discovery of measles among four Afghans who had arrived in the United States. \u2014 Fox News , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Hundreds of Afghan children have died of measles in recent years. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 11 Sep. 2021"
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"She complained about being given such a measly raise.",
"All I want is a few measly minutes of your time.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Voters unaffiliated with a party are much less likely to vote in both primary and general elections, and as of Monday, their turnout was a measly 4.3%. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 May 2022",
"Meta hit the 390 level during August/September, 2021 and now goes for a measly 200. \u2014 John Navin, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"My measly couple-hundred followers would likely have been an immediate red flag to potential buyers that something was amiss. \u2014 Jacob Stern, The Atlantic , 3 May 2022",
"The yield on retail money-market mutual funds rose a measly 0.03 point\u2014while their expenses shot up 0.22 point. \u2014 Jason Zweig, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
"People just love reading about has-beens. Greg Meyer Los Angeles :: I as a longtime Angel fan was dismayed to see your measly coverage of Sunday\u2019s Angels-Rangers game. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
"This also means consumers will finally see rates rise from measly levels on at least some bank savings accounts and CDs. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Just a few centimeters, a few measly degrees of trajectory would ultimately separate USC from a March miracle. \u2014 Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Does the underwire slicing into your chest remind you that\u2014much like your existence on this tiny planet in a measly galaxy in an infinite universe\u2014bras are inherently meaningless"
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"\u02c8m\u0113-z\u0259-",
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"\u02c8m\u0113z-l\u0113"
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"footling",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minute",
"negligible",
"niggling",
"no-account",
"nominal",
"paltry",
"peanut",
"petty",
"picayune",
"piddling",
"piddly",
"piffling",
"pimping",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
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"measure":{
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"gauge",
"gage",
"scale",
"span"
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": a fixed or suitable limit : bounds":[
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"\u2014 Saturday Review"
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"\u2014 G. F. Kennan"
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": an exact divisor of a number":[
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],
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": to travel over : traverse":[]
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"Noun",
"She felt equal measures of hope and fear.",
"Their actions were motivated in large measure by a desire for revenge.",
"An occasion like this calls for some measure of decorum.",
"The meter is a measure of length.",
"The dictionary includes a table of weights and measures .",
"The legislature has passed a measure aimed at protecting consumers.",
"The governor has proposed a number of cost-cutting measures .",
"They were forced to resort to desperate measures .",
"We need to take measures to protect ourselves.",
"Verb",
"using a ruler to measure a piece of paper",
"an instrument for measuring air pressure",
"mental abilities measured by IQ testing",
"He's being measured for a new suit.",
"His success cannot be measured solely on the basis of his popularity.",
"The cloth measures 3 meters.",
"The room measures 15 feet wide by 30 feet long.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"By any measure , this has been a successful program. \u2014 Walter Pavlo, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"By any objective measure , ending the federal child nutrition waivers now would have been a terrible mistake. \u2014 Richard Besser, ABC News , 25 June 2022",
"Despite the higher threshold, some SANDAG board members earlier this year wanted ownership of the funding proposal and to pursue its own ballot measure , but that idea didn\u2019t get far. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"The Senate's measure does not go as far as what Mr. Biden has called for and is significantly more narrow than a package of bills that passed the House this month. \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 24 June 2022",
"Another measure Newsom backs would limit firearm advertising to minors, and a third would crack down on ghost guns in California. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"According to FactSet, the reporting period that just past was, by any measure , a lousy one. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Both shops offer a wide array of bespoke, made-to- measure and made-to-order. \u2014 Eric Twardzik, Robb Report , 23 June 2022",
"Oakland is considering placing an $850 million bond measure to fund affordable housing and infrastructure on the November ballot. \u2014 Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In both crashes, sensors meant to measure the wings\u2019 angle relative to oncoming wind misfired, causing the flight control software to push the plane\u2019s nose down, accident investigators found. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"There must be a time line to measure the achievement of each goal. \u2014 Walter Loeb, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"However, the report says it\u2019s unclear whether the AirPods Pro 2 will be able to measure temperature. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 26 June 2022",
"The two spacecraft will communicate directly with each other, allowing teams on the ground to measure the distance between each one and home in on CAPSTONE's exact location. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"That includes integrating aeroacoustics\u2014the ability to measure the sound around a car\u2014for one very important reason. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics , 23 June 2022",
"And who better to measure the emotional heft of their rendezvous than the man who stole Anakin from Obi-Wan, Palpy himself",
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"This crisis requires a measured response.",
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"In office, Biden has taken a more measured approach to the Persian Gulf ally and world's largest exporter of crude oil. \u2014 Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"Police, under former Mayor Frank Jackson, took a more measured approach at curtailing the vehicles on city streets. \u2014 Adam Ferrise, cleveland , 24 May 2022",
"Several countries in Europe where COVID-19 cases are rising should have taken a more measured approach to lifting pandemic restrictions, Dr. Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization's regional director for Europe, said on Tuesday. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 23 Mar. 2022",
"There must be a measured approach with a sense of urgency to return to normal jail operations that doesn\u2019t overwhelm the jail system given the increase in crime and call for the district attorney to prosecute more. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 May 2022",
"The Bulls will take a measured approach to LaVine\u2019s minutes to monitor his injury through the end of the regular season. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 19 Feb. 2022",
"In an exploding wide receiver market, the Detroit Lions took a measured approach to their free agent shopping at the position. \u2014 Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Elsewhere online, homepages of China\u2019s major state media outlets took a measured approach, citing statements and news from both the Ukrainian and Russian side, while putting focus on sanctions leveraged by other countries against Russia. \u2014 Simone Mccarthy, CNN , 25 Feb. 2022",
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"The test is for the measurement of a student's progress.",
"The instruments provide accurate measurement of atmospheric conditions.",
"The room's measurements are 30 by 15 feet.",
"The instruments are used for taking measurements of atmospheric conditions.",
"Accurate measurements are required in carpentry.",
"The tailor took his measurements , and his waist measurement is 36 inches.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This will not only create new efficiencies but data collection and measurement will also help the insurance industry transfer risks intelligently and support companies in driving down risks. \u2014 Chris Finan, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"But scientists worldwide are looking to Pennington for its research on the second measurement : newborn metabolism. \u2014 Erika Edwards, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this month that the dead zone this year is expected to be about 5,364 square miles (13,893 square kilometers), which would be about 15% smaller than last year\u2019s measurement . \u2014 David Pitt, Chicago Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The data from that measurement was then used to train the machine-learning algorithm in an unsupervised manner (meaning the algorithm wasn't told which transformation was which). \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Netflix\u2019s internal measurement had season four of Stranger Things scoring the best premiere weekend ever for an English-language series. \u2014 Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 June 2022",
"Dry in a way that seemed to conflict with Washington meteorological measurement and myth, and with our summertime forebodings and apprehensions. \u2014 Martin Weil, Washington Post , 5 June 2022",
"Among other innovations, their organization transformed an obscure measurement , the air pollution index, into a fixture of daily weather reports. \u2014 Sam Roberts, New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"But arriving at this measurement requires modelling changes in global temperatures, ocean acidification, sea level, extreme weather, agricultural losses, and human population for the next few decades. \u2014 Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022"
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"Their actions were motivated in large measure by a desire for revenge.",
"An occasion like this calls for some measure of decorum.",
"The meter is a measure of length.",
"The dictionary includes a table of weights and measures .",
"The legislature has passed a measure aimed at protecting consumers.",
"The governor has proposed a number of cost-cutting measures .",
"They were forced to resort to desperate measures .",
"We need to take measures to protect ourselves.",
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"using a ruler to measure a piece of paper",
"an instrument for measuring air pressure",
"mental abilities measured by IQ testing",
"He's being measured for a new suit.",
"His success cannot be measured solely on the basis of his popularity.",
"The cloth measures 3 meters.",
"The room measures 15 feet wide by 30 feet long.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"By any measure , this has been a successful program. \u2014 Walter Pavlo, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"By any objective measure , ending the federal child nutrition waivers now would have been a terrible mistake. \u2014 Richard Besser, ABC News , 25 June 2022",
"Despite the higher threshold, some SANDAG board members earlier this year wanted ownership of the funding proposal and to pursue its own ballot measure , but that idea didn\u2019t get far. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"The Senate's measure does not go as far as what Mr. Biden has called for and is significantly more narrow than a package of bills that passed the House this month. \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 24 June 2022",
"Another measure Newsom backs would limit firearm advertising to minors, and a third would crack down on ghost guns in California. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"According to FactSet, the reporting period that just past was, by any measure , a lousy one. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Both shops offer a wide array of bespoke, made-to- measure and made-to-order. \u2014 Eric Twardzik, Robb Report , 23 June 2022",
"Oakland is considering placing an $850 million bond measure to fund affordable housing and infrastructure on the November ballot. \u2014 Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In both crashes, sensors meant to measure the wings\u2019 angle relative to oncoming wind misfired, causing the flight control software to push the plane\u2019s nose down, accident investigators found. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"There must be a time line to measure the achievement of each goal. \u2014 Walter Loeb, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"However, the report says it\u2019s unclear whether the AirPods Pro 2 will be able to measure temperature. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 26 June 2022",
"The two spacecraft will communicate directly with each other, allowing teams on the ground to measure the distance between each one and home in on CAPSTONE's exact location. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"That includes integrating aeroacoustics\u2014the ability to measure the sound around a car\u2014for one very important reason. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics , 23 June 2022",
"And who better to measure the emotional heft of their rendezvous than the man who stole Anakin from Obi-Wan, Palpy himself",
"Those numbers fail to measure the strain placed on families as California\u2019s vast wealth gap widens and concerns grow about students who do not have parents able to provide a daily ride. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
"Yet those traditional Nielsen company yardsticks don't begin to measure the true reach of what is being said there. \u2014 David Bauder, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022"
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"The restaurant serves a variety of meats .",
"The real meat of the book is found in its discussion of his economic plan.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Egypt's Sahara Desert, paleontologists have uncovered a 98-million-year-old vertebra belonging to a new type of large-bodied, meat -eating dinosaur. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"Sup a cocktail or two, order up a storm from the fish and meat -focused Mediterranean menu, and drink in the commanding views over the coastline and Santa Eulalia Bay beyond. \u2014 Duncan Madden, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Whaler Kunneak Nageak stood tall in the middle of Simmonds Field next to the long wooden tables loaded with whale meat . \u2014 Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News , 2 July 2022",
"Consumer Reports advises grocery shoppers to keep raw meats in a disposable bag, separate from other food, to reduce the risk of contamination, and not to rinse raw meat , as that could spread bacteria around. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 1 July 2022",
"The ideal steak, Goldwyn believes, can be achieved through understanding the science of cooking meat . \u2014 Chris Morris, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"Meanwhile, the skyrocketing price of water in New Mexico and Arizona has ranchers and other meat -producing operations considering getting out of the business. \u2014 Chloe Sorvino, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"But their ancestors, like most bears, ate a much wider diet that included meat , and it was thought that modern pandas' exclusive diet evolved relatively recently. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"Caris and Cann belong to a new, growing wave of pastrami makers in the Bay Area, a region long maligned for lacking options for the quintessential Jewish deli meat . \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction",
"However, the real meat and potatoes come from tweaking the audio in Sonar. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"For cooking in the wild, lean into the foil packet\u2014tinfoil packed with goodness and cooked on the edge of the fire\u2014but don\u2019t limit yourself to standard meat and potatoes . \u2014 Outside Online , 19 May 2021",
"Devin Lloyd and Nephi Sewell were the meat and potatoes of the University of Utah football team\u2019s defense last year. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Chicago has always been a bastion of meat and potatoes . \u2014 Ari Bendersky, Robb Report , 30 Mar. 2022",
"If meat and potatoes meals are your go-to, trying to avoid meat for one day a week can have an impact. \u2014 Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Health.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Known as the business hub of Fairfax County, this slice of Northern Virginia is one of the least interesting places to find yourself for a meal \u2014 unless, of course, your idea of dinner is meat and potatoes attached to a corporate label. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Remember, the meat and potatoes are in the body of your email, but the subject is your alluring dessert. \u2014 Gareth Parkin, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The fastest rate of inflation in 40 years is hurting families across the US who are seeing ever-higher prices for everything from meat and potatoes to housing and gasoline. \u2014 Jacob Orchard, Quartz , 13 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction",
"However, the real meat and potatoes come from tweaking the audio in Sonar. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"For cooking in the wild, lean into the foil packet\u2014tinfoil packed with goodness and cooked on the edge of the fire\u2014but don\u2019t limit yourself to standard meat and potatoes . \u2014 Outside Online , 19 May 2021",
"Devin Lloyd and Nephi Sewell were the meat and potatoes of the University of Utah football team\u2019s defense last year. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Chicago has always been a bastion of meat and potatoes . \u2014 Ari Bendersky, Robb Report , 30 Mar. 2022",
"If meat and potatoes meals are your go-to, trying to avoid meat for one day a week can have an impact. \u2014 Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Health.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Known as the business hub of Fairfax County, this slice of Northern Virginia is one of the least interesting places to find yourself for a meal \u2014 unless, of course, your idea of dinner is meat and potatoes attached to a corporate label. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Remember, the meat and potatoes are in the body of your email, but the subject is your alluring dessert. \u2014 Gareth Parkin, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The fastest rate of inflation in 40 years is hurting families across the US who are seeing ever-higher prices for everything from meat and potatoes to housing and gasoline. \u2014 Jacob Orchard, Quartz , 13 Jan. 2022"
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"The big meathead by the door keeps his arms crossed, eyeing Affleck's MacRay warily. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Our brains immediately went into full-on meathead mode. \u2014 Don Yaeger, Forbes , 29 Sep. 2021",
"All in the Family: After a change of heart, the bigoted guy from Queens lets his meathead son-in-law be in charge of everything. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Oct. 2020",
"Men with the muscles to actually pull them off are deemed beefy meatheads . \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 27 Feb. 2020",
"Previous SlideNext Slide The single-minded devotion of the first two films to their meathead aesthetic is astounding. \u2014 Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica , 2 Aug. 2019",
"And out there is right where the Colts need to be, to get the most out of a quarterback whose talent is superior but whose game was stagnating even before all those meatheads put him through a grinder that ultimately cost Luck the 2017 season. \u2014 Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star , 13 June 2018",
"Looks like Harbaugh has worked through this whole meathead conundrum. \u2014 Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star , 5 Apr. 2018"
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"In the meantime , at least two auto manufacturers, Subaru and Kia, began selling cars in Massachusetts with their telematic features switched off, to avoid violating the law. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"In the meantime , Merryman\u2019s lawyers argue, their client urgently needs in-depth care for his PTSD. \u2014 Paul Duggan, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"In the meantime , social service agencies are trying to help meet the needs of campers, several of whom have few supplies, little camping experience and \u2014 for some \u2014 mental and physical health challenges and substance abuse issues. \u2014 Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News , 1 July 2022",
"The update won\u2019t be ready until next fall, but in the meantime , there are some exciting new features coming to CarPlay in iOS 16. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 30 June 2022",
"In the meantime , long zero-Covid will deter foreigners from visiting China even though the government has relaxed entry requirements. \u2014 Yanzhong Huang, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"In the meantime , the Lakers are left to fill out their roster with limited financial options for a talent pool that most evaluators around the NBA believe is weak. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"In the meantime , however, Varley is planning for the next 25 years. \u2014 Mark Sutherland, Variety , 30 June 2022",
"Likely not happening unless someone knocks off Nadal in the meantime . \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Republican officials, meantime , expressed satisfaction with the court\u2019s decision. \u2014 Joanna Slater, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Fernandez, meantime , will keep going forward after the biggest win of her career. \u2014 Adam Zagoria, Forbes , 4 Sep. 2021",
"The vaccine-makers have had trouble showing worthwhile results in the youngest children, and in the meantime many young children have acquired some immunity by getting sick with, and recovering from, Covid. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 15 June 2022",
"Textbook publishers, meantime , are carrying out a Soviet-style purge of almost all references to Ukraine. \u2014 Robyn Dixon, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"The Stars, meantime , acquired future considerations from Buffalo to free Bishop\u2019s salary from their books to provide more flexibility to re-sign and add players this offseason. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Or plan a future outing and, meantime , immerse yourself in everything Bowl. \u2014 Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"Hulu\u2019s ad-free plan, meantime , will run you just $12.99 per month. \u2014 John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone , 13 May 2022",
"Figuring out what to do with the children, meantime , was entirely my problem. \u2014 Leila Cobo, Billboard , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The mean time to remediate (MTTR) a critical vulnerability in the web/application layer (the time a developer needs to fix code) is 47.6 days. \u2014 Eoin Keary, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But in the mean time , Moultrie, hairstylist Jamika Wilson and stylist Elizabeth Stewart share behind-the-scenes details of her shoot with Peggy Sirota below. \u2014 Jackie Fields, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Related to mean time to repair, this is a measure of how often the maintenance team is able to fix a problem on the first attempt. \u2014 Bill Fahey, Forbes , 8 June 2021",
"That doesn\u2019t mean time has passed for the older players. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Although vacations and weekends can both mean time off from work (for some), vacations may impact employees differently than weekends off. \u2014 Kim Elsesser, Forbes , 13 Sep. 2021",
"In the mean time , corporate users fell in love with their Apple and Android phones, and compelled their IT departments to support them. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 30 Dec. 2021",
"In the mean time , the New York Times reported, some city leaders fear implementing local mandates will drive officers to leave departments that have already been crippled by mass departures, and at a time when gun violence is surging nationwide. \u2014 Rebecca Lurye, courant.com , 19 Oct. 2021",
"But, in the mean time , Balbo said the department is requesting a 3-year lease on another building. \u2014 Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com , 22 Sep. 2021"
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"In the meanwhile , the freight rail industry has continued safety implementation, using systems like Automated Track Inspection that outperforms human inspections by as much as 90 percent. \u2014 Roslyn Layton, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"In the meanwhile , Kellogg is working on its 18th consecutive year of dividend hikes\u2014though it should be noted that payout growth has flattened significantly in recent years. \u2014 Brett Owens, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"In the meanwhile , Musk got an injunction of fresh money. \u2014 Anat Alon-beck, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"In the meanwhile , Dorsey has fully embraced the largest cryptocurrency by including Bitcoin micropayment Lightening Network in Twitter\u2019s tipping function and launching the NFT profile function. \u2014 Jialiang David Pan, Bloomberg.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
"In the meanwhile , Bennett waits and hopes he will be given a shot at a human heart transplant. \u2014 Brandy Schillace, Wired , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The last film premiered in 2018 and Baranski has some ideas about what her Dynamo alter-ego has been up to in the meanwhile . \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 25 Jan. 2022",
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"In the meanwhile , while moving to electric vehicles will be necessary, companies, investors, and the public should remember that there\u2019s a lot of work that needs to be done and no immediate magic solution to a big and complex problem. \u2014 Zenger News, Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Lori\u2019s personal bank accounts, meanwhile , showed large cash deposits: $20,000 in 2014, $60,000 in 2015, $75,000 in 2016, the year Bianca died, and totaling roughly $239,800 by 2017. \u2014 Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone , 2 July 2022",
"The Senate, meanwhile , tried to create a new program that allowed departments and agencies to hire outside lawyers to do legal work that is supposed to be done by the attorney general. \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 1 July 2022",
"This past Sunday, meanwhile , was a huge night for NHL as the Colorado Avalanche beat the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 to win the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals and finish out the season. \u2014 Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com , 1 July 2022",
"For Hong Kong residents, meanwhile , the museum is a hot summer destination, with 100,000 tickets already sold for July. \u2014 Kristie Lu Stout, CNN , 1 July 2022",
"Plus, meanwhile , has been off the charts this year (thanks to shows like Severance, Pachinko, and Tehran). \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 30 June 2022",
"In Karlovy Vary, meanwhile , the festival is devoting a section of its industry program to screening OIFF works-in-progress, Ukrainian feature films that are looking for financing or sales assistance to get over the line. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
"Penthouse pricing, meanwhile , is available upon request. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 27 June 2022",
"The King of Rock and Roll\u2019s ceramic chimp statues, meanwhile , were a point of reference for Monkey Business, a textile featuring a group of apes scaling a leafy tree. \u2014 Helena Madden, ELLE Decor , 24 June 2022"
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"In the 19th century, scientific institutions worked to define the second in astronomical terms, and in the 1940s an international agreement defined the second as 1\u204486,400 of a mean solar day . \u2014 Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics , 24 Mar. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The newest perfume, launching in spring, incorporates meadowsweet and wild ivy, which visitors can smell in the flourishing herb garden out back. \u2014 Serena Renner, National Geographic , 12 Mar. 2019",
"On McAvoy's property, five acres of wild raspberry and blueberry grew up and four acres of meadowsweet blossomed where forest had been cleared. \u2014 Denise Coffey, Courant Community , 20 Dec. 2017",
"Cardinal flower and white meadowsweet are in bloom, and several trees lay on the ground, freshly felled by the resident beaver. \u2014 James F. Mccarty, cleveland.com , 6 Aug. 2017",
"The creamy lotion, made with pure amber extract, relies on meadowsweet to tighten pores and absorb toxins and hyaluronic acid to stabilize the skin's water content. \u2014 Sarah Cristobal, Harper's BAZAAR , 1 Sep. 2008",
"John\u2019s wort and meadowsweet \u2014on the beaker in her grave. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 9 Mar. 2017"
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"Why a treatment used for over a century on diseases like measles , mumps and influenza could work to treat the new coronavirus strain. \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 8 June 2020",
"Vaccination rates have fallen, risking outbreaks of diseases like measles . \u2014 The Economist , 23 May 2020",
"Disruption to immunization programs from the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to unwind decades of progress against vaccine-preventable diseases like measles . \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 22 May 2020",
"Why a treatment used for over a century on diseases like measles , mumps and influenza could work to treat the new coronavirus strain. \u2014 Robin Erb, Detroit Free Press , 12 May 2020",
"In some cases, like measles , antibodies are very effective in conferring immunity. \u2014 Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com , 12 May 2020",
"In one such study, his team discovered that mumps, which like measles is caused by a paramyxovirus, had jumped to humans from bats. \u2014 Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS , 28 Apr. 2020",
"Why a treatment used for over a century on diseases like measles , mumps and influenza could work to treat the new coronavirus strain. \u2014 Indianapolis Star , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Take the threat of vaccine resistance: Vaccinating against preventable diseases like measles only works if 90% of a population get their shots. \u2014 Laurie Penny, Wired , 14 Mar. 2020"
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"This will not only create new efficiencies but data collection and measurement will also help the insurance industry transfer risks intelligently and support companies in driving down risks. \u2014 Chris Finan, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"But scientists worldwide are looking to Pennington for its research on the second measurement : newborn metabolism. \u2014 Erika Edwards, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this month that the dead zone this year is expected to be about 5,364 square miles (13,893 square kilometers), which would be about 15% smaller than last year\u2019s measurement . \u2014 David Pitt, Chicago Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The data from that measurement was then used to train the machine-learning algorithm in an unsupervised manner (meaning the algorithm wasn't told which transformation was which). \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
"Netflix\u2019s internal measurement had season four of Stranger Things scoring the best premiere weekend ever for an English-language series. \u2014 Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 June 2022",
"Dry in a way that seemed to conflict with Washington meteorological measurement and myth, and with our summertime forebodings and apprehensions. \u2014 Martin Weil, Washington Post , 5 June 2022",
"Among other innovations, their organization transformed an obscure measurement , the air pollution index, into a fixture of daily weather reports. \u2014 Sam Roberts, New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"But arriving at this measurement requires modelling changes in global temperatures, ocean acidification, sea level, extreme weather, agricultural losses, and human population for the next few decades. \u2014 Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022"
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"In the meantime , at least two auto manufacturers, Subaru and Kia, began selling cars in Massachusetts with their telematic features switched off, to avoid violating the law. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"In the meantime , Merryman\u2019s lawyers argue, their client urgently needs in-depth care for his PTSD. \u2014 Paul Duggan, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"In the meantime , social service agencies are trying to help meet the needs of campers, several of whom have few supplies, little camping experience and \u2014 for some \u2014 mental and physical health challenges and substance abuse issues. \u2014 Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News , 1 July 2022",
"The update won\u2019t be ready until next fall, but in the meantime , there are some exciting new features coming to CarPlay in iOS 16. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 30 June 2022",
"In the meantime , long zero-Covid will deter foreigners from visiting China even though the government has relaxed entry requirements. \u2014 Yanzhong Huang, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"In the meantime , the Lakers are left to fill out their roster with limited financial options for a talent pool that most evaluators around the NBA believe is weak. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"In the meantime , however, Varley is planning for the next 25 years. \u2014 Mark Sutherland, Variety , 30 June 2022",
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"Republican officials, meantime , expressed satisfaction with the court\u2019s decision. \u2014 Joanna Slater, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Fernandez, meantime , will keep going forward after the biggest win of her career. \u2014 Adam Zagoria, Forbes , 4 Sep. 2021",
"The vaccine-makers have had trouble showing worthwhile results in the youngest children, and in the meantime many young children have acquired some immunity by getting sick with, and recovering from, Covid. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 15 June 2022",
"Textbook publishers, meantime , are carrying out a Soviet-style purge of almost all references to Ukraine. \u2014 Robyn Dixon, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"The Stars, meantime , acquired future considerations from Buffalo to free Bishop\u2019s salary from their books to provide more flexibility to re-sign and add players this offseason. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Or plan a future outing and, meantime , immerse yourself in everything Bowl. \u2014 Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"Hulu\u2019s ad-free plan, meantime , will run you just $12.99 per month. \u2014 John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone , 13 May 2022",
"Figuring out what to do with the children, meantime , was entirely my problem. \u2014 Leila Cobo, Billboard , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The mean time to remediate (MTTR) a critical vulnerability in the web/application layer (the time a developer needs to fix code) is 47.6 days. \u2014 Eoin Keary, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But in the mean time , Moultrie, hairstylist Jamika Wilson and stylist Elizabeth Stewart share behind-the-scenes details of her shoot with Peggy Sirota below. \u2014 Jackie Fields, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Related to mean time to repair, this is a measure of how often the maintenance team is able to fix a problem on the first attempt. \u2014 Bill Fahey, Forbes , 8 June 2021",
"That doesn\u2019t mean time has passed for the older players. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Although vacations and weekends can both mean time off from work (for some), vacations may impact employees differently than weekends off. \u2014 Kim Elsesser, Forbes , 13 Sep. 2021",
"In the mean time , corporate users fell in love with their Apple and Android phones, and compelled their IT departments to support them. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 30 Dec. 2021",
"In the mean time , the New York Times reported, some city leaders fear implementing local mandates will drive officers to leave departments that have already been crippled by mass departures, and at a time when gun violence is surging nationwide. \u2014 Rebecca Lurye, courant.com , 19 Oct. 2021",
"But, in the mean time , Balbo said the department is requesting a 3-year lease on another building. \u2014 Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com , 22 Sep. 2021"
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"Escondido\u2019s 50-year-old meat market and restaurant company, famous for its carne asada beef, will open a second market and butcher shop in Temecula\u2019s Promenade shopping mall in the fall. \u2014 Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
"At El Corral Supermarket, a Mexican specialty grocery store and meat market in Stephenville, Texas, co-owner Santos Avila was warned of shortages by his beer suppliers because of glass that got delayed coming into the US from Mexico. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Rioja, Ureno and other unnamed co-conspirators exchanged SNAP benefits for cash by using a point-of-sale device at Border Meats, a local meat market that Rioja owned that had been approved to participate in SNAP, the DOJ said. \u2014 Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Mar. 2022",
"There was also a wholesale meat market in central London, to which 1.8 million cattle, pigs, and sheep were driven through the streets every year. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Athletes are stripped down to their underwear and measured like animals on at a meat market , or worse, slaves at auction. \u2014 Mike Jones, USA TODAY , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Dozier's Presidential bacon is available for purchase from the restaurant's Fulshear meat market , and can be shipped via its website. \u2014 Brittanie Shey, Chron , 21 Feb. 2022",
"But, on the one hand, there is no guarantee that even a billion dollars can stimulate that sort of change in the meat market absent much stronger regulatory crackdowns on the multi-billion-dollar meat giants. \u2014 Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic , 6 Jan. 2022",
"The predictions vary wildly, with one report from Kearny saying that traditional meat will make up just 55% of the global meat market in 2035. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 13 Sep. 2021"
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"The white feathers of a meadowlark \u2019s tail flashed through the tall grass. \u2014 Bob Timmons, Star Tribune , 31 July 2020",
"Birds and ducks appeared in the sky after long, isolated winters with no visitors and 40-below nights; those first arrivals of mallards, western meadowlarks , and robins were essential to my sanity. \u2014 Gretel Ehrlich, The Atlantic , 2 May 2020",
"Thrushes and meadowlarks and black-and-white kingbirds chatter and flit, and on hazy summer evenings, the hills soften to purple and gray. \u2014 Andrew Mckean, Outdoor Life , 16 Apr. 2020",
"Who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadowlark . \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2020",
"Other birds that were spotted last week included four blue-gray gnatcatchers, three wood thrushes, a field sparrow, and five Eastern meadowlarks . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 July 2019",
"There was a red-throated loon at Spy Pond in Arlington, and a grasshopper sparrow and an Eastern meadowlark at Bear Creek Sanctuary in Saugus. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 Dec. 2019",
"The total bird population in the two countries has fallen by almost 3 billion, with grassland birds such as western meadowlarks and American sparrows and shorebirds such as green herons taking the biggest hits. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Sep. 2019",
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"a star player who is expected to be the team's meal ticket for many years",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Defense has been the meal ticket this season for the Cyclones. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 21 Mar. 2022",
"While the 49ers might rely on Odum to play strong safety at times in 2022, his meal ticket is special teams. \u2014 Vincent Frank, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Ruggs helped Las Vegas win five of its first seven games, just one-half game away from the best record in the AFC \u2013 and the 6-2 Tennessee Titans lost meal ticket Derrick Henry to foot surgery this week. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 4 Nov. 2021",
"For this former Unitarian minister, the lectern became his secular pulpit and meal ticket . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Nov. 2021",
"The Mavs got surprisingly little from their meal ticket , Doncic, in the first half as he was hit with his third foul and a technical late in the second quarter after scoring just seven points. \u2014 Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News , 30 Jan. 2021",
"Robert Wagner's the guy who pays him \u2026 that's his meal ticket . \u2014 Erin Moriarty, CBS News , 4 Feb. 2018",
"Who\u2019s in it for the right reasons and who\u2019s just looking for a meal ticket to the U.S.",
"Rosetta, who had worked at our hospital for more than 20 years, found a way to provide meal tickets for a visiting family who couldn\u2019t afford food. \u2014 Neil Prose, STAT , 5 Feb. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Aidan used to like my meat loaf , but everything changes. \u2014 Kevin Fisher-paulson, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 May 2022",
"When making burgers, meatballs, or meat loaf , substitute \u00bc to \u2153 of the ground beef or turkey with cooked grains, such as barley, farro, bulgur, or quinoa. \u2014 Lisa Zwirn, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Betty and Bud Tanner brought meat loaf , cornbread and mixed vegetables. \u2014 Dave Lieber, Dallas News , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Grill slices for a delicious next-day meat loaf sandwich. \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 28 July 2021",
"Tamales, spaghetti and meat loaf fill lunch and supper plates. \u2014 Dianne Solis, Dallas News , 23 Mar. 2021",
"In Berkley, around tables in the church basement, shelter residents gave good reviews to the meat loaf . \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 22 Mar. 2020",
"Topped with a brown sugar-mustard glaze, and stuffed with ham and Gruyere cheese, this meat loaf is anything but mundane. \u2014 Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com , 3 Sep. 2019",
"If science can help us make a meat loaf that won\u2019t fall apart (gelatin is the secret ingredient) or produce lighter waffles (by adding club soda), then what\u2019s not to like"
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}
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