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{
"Milesian":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of the Milesian school":[],
": a native or resident of ancient Miletus":[],
": belonging or relating to a Milesian school of nature philosophers of the 6th century b.c. who were mainly concerned with the basal stuff of which the world is made \u2014 compare anaximandrian , thalesian":[],
": of or belonging to the ancient city of Miletus , Asia Minor, or to its residents":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin milesi us Milesian (from Greek mil\u0113sios , from Mil\u0113tus Miletus) + English -an":"Adjective",
"Milesius ( Miledh ), mythical Spanish king whose followers are supposed to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b.c. and are regarded as the ancestors of most of the Irish + English -an":"Adjective"
},
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"\"",
"(\u02c8)m\u012b\u00a6l-",
"-\u0113sh\u0259n",
"m\u0259\u0307\u02c8l\u0113zh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-120501",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"Milesian tale":{
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"definitions":{
": one of a class of short salacious tales current in Greek and Roman antiquity":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Milesian entry 1":""
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114913",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Miletus":{
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"definitions":{
"ancient city on the western coast of Asia Minor in Caria near the mouth of the Maeander River":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"m\u0259-",
"m\u012b-\u02c8l\u0113-t\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174020",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Millville":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city on the Maurice River in southern New Jersey population 28,400":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8mil-\u02ccvil"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132114",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"mild":{
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"harsh",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"severe"
],
"definitions":{
": gentle in nature or behavior":[
"has a mild disposition"
],
": moderate in action or effect":[
"a mild sedative"
],
": not being or involving what is extreme":[
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],
": not severe : temperate":[
"a mild climate",
"mild symptoms of disease"
],
": not sharp, spicy, or bitter":[
"mild cheese",
"mild ale"
]
},
"examples":[
"He has a mild manner.",
"He was a mild-mannered man who rarely became angry.",
"They had a mild disagreement.",
"She has a mild case of the flu.",
"He suffered a mild concussion attack.",
"a mild reprimand, not a stern one",
"We've been having a very mild winter.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Saturday\u2019s mild temperatures were just right for a trip down the pioneer trail to discover what life was like in the 1800s in Illinois. \u2014 Gina Grillo, Chicago Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"People heading outside to see the supermoon can also expect mild temperatures from the low to mid-50s, Murdock said. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 June 2022",
"Given the usually mild temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, many residents do not have air conditioning, although hundreds of thousands of new units have been added in recent years. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"Take a moment to pay homage to Mother Nature, because mild temperatures are with us all week long. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"These forces spin the region\u2019s many power turbines and generate a bounty of electricity at a time of mild temperatures and relatively low energy demand. \u2014 Anna Blaustein, Scientific American , 6 May 2022",
"Here in the tropics, growing wheat\u2014a crop best suited to mild temperatures\u2014was once considered a crazy idea. \u2014 Samantha Pearson, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
"After a minor watering Sunday, high pressure will bring a partly sunny sky and mild temperatures on Monday with highs in the 50s. \u2014 courant.com , 3 Apr. 2022",
"While things will start out chilly, expect mild temperatures to return on Wednesday. \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English milde ; akin to Greek malthakos soft, Latin mollis \u2014 more at melt":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u012bld",
"\u02c8m\u012b(\u0259)ld",
"\u02c8m\u012b(-\u0259)ld"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"balmy",
"clement",
"equable",
"genial",
"gentle",
"moderate",
"soft",
"temperate"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015349",
"type":[
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"noun"
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"inclement",
"intemperate",
"severe"
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"definitions":{
": gentle in nature or behavior":[
"has a mild disposition"
],
": moderate in action or effect":[
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],
": not being or involving what is extreme":[
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": not severe : temperate":[
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"mild symptoms of disease"
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": not sharp, spicy, or bitter":[
"mild cheese",
"mild ale"
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},
"examples":[
"He has a mild manner.",
"He was a mild-mannered man who rarely became angry.",
"They had a mild disagreement.",
"She has a mild case of the flu.",
"He suffered a mild concussion attack.",
"a mild reprimand, not a stern one",
"We've been having a very mild winter.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Saturday\u2019s mild temperatures were just right for a trip down the pioneer trail to discover what life was like in the 1800s in Illinois. \u2014 Gina Grillo, Chicago Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"People heading outside to see the supermoon can also expect mild temperatures from the low to mid-50s, Murdock said. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 June 2022",
"Given the usually mild temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, many residents do not have air conditioning, although hundreds of thousands of new units have been added in recent years. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"Take a moment to pay homage to Mother Nature, because mild temperatures are with us all week long. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"These forces spin the region\u2019s many power turbines and generate a bounty of electricity at a time of mild temperatures and relatively low energy demand. \u2014 Anna Blaustein, Scientific American , 6 May 2022",
"Here in the tropics, growing wheat\u2014a crop best suited to mild temperatures\u2014was once considered a crazy idea. \u2014 Samantha Pearson, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
"After a minor watering Sunday, high pressure will bring a partly sunny sky and mild temperatures on Monday with highs in the 50s. \u2014 courant.com , 3 Apr. 2022",
"While things will start out chilly, expect mild temperatures to return on Wednesday. \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English, from Old English milde ; akin to Greek malthakos soft, Latin mollis \u2014 more at melt":""
},
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"\u02c8m\u012bld",
"\u02c8m\u012b(\u0259)ld",
"\u02c8m\u012b(-\u0259)ld"
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"genial",
"gentle",
"moderate",
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"temperate"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161458",
"type":[
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"noun"
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"harsh",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"severe"
],
"definitions":{
": gentle in nature or behavior":[
"has a mild disposition"
],
": moderate in action or effect":[
"a mild sedative"
],
": not being or involving what is extreme":[
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],
": not severe : temperate":[
"a mild climate",
"mild symptoms of disease"
],
": not sharp, spicy, or bitter":[
"mild cheese",
"mild ale"
]
},
"examples":[
"He has a mild manner.",
"He was a mild-mannered man who rarely became angry.",
"They had a mild disagreement.",
"She has a mild case of the flu.",
"He suffered a mild concussion attack.",
"a mild reprimand, not a stern one",
"We've been having a very mild winter.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Saturday\u2019s mild temperatures were just right for a trip down the pioneer trail to discover what life was like in the 1800s in Illinois. \u2014 Gina Grillo, Chicago Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"People heading outside to see the supermoon can also expect mild temperatures from the low to mid-50s, Murdock said. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 June 2022",
"Given the usually mild temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, many residents do not have air conditioning, although hundreds of thousands of new units have been added in recent years. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"Take a moment to pay homage to Mother Nature, because mild temperatures are with us all week long. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"These forces spin the region\u2019s many power turbines and generate a bounty of electricity at a time of mild temperatures and relatively low energy demand. \u2014 Anna Blaustein, Scientific American , 6 May 2022",
"Here in the tropics, growing wheat\u2014a crop best suited to mild temperatures\u2014was once considered a crazy idea. \u2014 Samantha Pearson, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
"After a minor watering Sunday, high pressure will bring a partly sunny sky and mild temperatures on Monday with highs in the 50s. \u2014 courant.com , 3 Apr. 2022",
"While things will start out chilly, expect mild temperatures to return on Wednesday. \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English milde ; akin to Greek malthakos soft, Latin mollis \u2014 more at melt":""
},
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"\u02c8m\u012bld",
"\u02c8m\u012b(\u0259)ld",
"\u02c8m\u012b(-\u0259)ld"
],
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"clement",
"equable",
"genial",
"gentle",
"moderate",
"soft",
"temperate"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232218",
"type":[
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"adverb",
"noun"
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},
"mile":{
"antonyms":[
"hair",
"inch",
"step",
"stone's throw"
],
"definitions":{
": a race of a mile":[],
": a relatively great distance, degree, or interval":[
"\u2014 usually plural was miles ahead of them in education \u2014 sometimes used adverbially This one is miles [=much, far] better than that one."
],
": a unit equal to 5280 feet \u2014 see Weights and Measures Table":[],
": any of various units of distance: such as":[],
": nautical mile":[],
": with great speed":[
"talking a mile a minute"
]
},
"examples":[
"We passed mile after mile of beautiful scenery as we drove through the country.",
"We traveled over miles of dirt road.",
"The car was traveling at 70 miles per hour.",
"We were miles from home.",
"We still have miles to go.",
"The beach stretched on for miles and miles .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tests thus far indicate operating costs will be under \u2153 cent per mile . \u2014 B.c. George, Car and Driver , 27 June 2022",
"That would bump to $70 per sectional game and 50 cents per mile . \u2014 Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star , 21 June 2022",
"The high-speed trains now have the worst per- mile fatality rate in the country. \u2014 Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
"Finally, also per AAA, the average maintenance cost of driving a medium sedan is about 10 cents per mile . \u2014 cleveland , 19 June 2022",
"North Lawndale\u2019s level of planting, for example, was 4.1 new trees per mile of streets, or just a seventh of Edgewater\u2019s rate. \u2014 Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"Tesla has released data since 2018 claiming that Autopilot has a lower crash rate per mile than typical driving. \u2014 Matt Mcfarland, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"Beginning July 1, the Internal Revenue Service is pushing up its optional standard mileage rate for business use to 62.5 cents per mile . \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 13 June 2022",
"Adam Bryant is the current CEO of AxleHire, an expedited urban last- mile delivery service, providing same and next day delivery experience. \u2014 Adam Bryant, Forbes , 8 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English m\u012bl , from Latin milia miles, from milia passuum , literally, thousands of paces, from milia , plural of mille thousand":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u012bl",
"\u02c8m\u012b(-\u0259)l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"afar",
"country mile",
"far cry",
"long haul"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203422",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mile of line":{
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"definitions":{
": a unit for expressing the distance between points connected by railroad line as distinct from the amount of trackage composing the line":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061521",
"type":[]
},
"mile-ton":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": ton-mile":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182217",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mileage":{
"antonyms":[
"uselessness",
"worthlessness"
],
"definitions":{
": aggregate length or distance in miles : such as":[],
": an allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile":[],
": benefit derived from something":[
"got good political mileage from the debates"
],
": the amount of service that something will yield especially as expressed in terms of miles of travel":[],
": the average number of miles a motor vehicle will travel on a gallon of gasoline that is used as a measure of fuel economy":[
"gets good mileage"
],
": the total miles traveled especially in a given period of time":[],
": usefulness":[
"got a lot of mileage left in it"
]
},
"examples":[
"a car with high mileage",
"My new car gets much better mileage than my old one did.",
"The company has gotten a lot of mileage out of a simple idea.",
"The movie gets a lot of mileage out of an old story.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many locals are already there, though, trading in their cars for vehicles with better mileage , or forgoing them altogether in favor of bikes, motorbikes, and walking. \u2014 Camille Caldera, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"Kershaw will turn 34 next spring and has racked up some serious mileage , having thrown 2,454-2/3 regular-season innings and the equivalent of another full season \u2014 189 innings in 37 games \u2014 in the playoffs. \u2014 Mike Digiovanna Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 9 Nov. 2021",
"Hunt is currently only signed through next season, but if the dynamic duo keeps some mileage off each other and defy Father Time, the Browns will consider keeping them together beyond next year. \u2014 cleveland , 4 Aug. 2021",
"Ascher gets more mileage out of references to Kubrick and an extended, appropriately spooky reference to The Miracle Worker. \u2014 John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 June 2022",
"The US Air Force alone is responsible for more than half of those emissions, both because aircraft get terrible mileage and because emitting carbon at high altitude leads to warming up to four times as intense as emitting on the ground. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 10 Mar. 2022",
"But the shirt-jacket is one of her most wearable takes on the trend, serving us fresh inspiration for how to get more mileage out of wardrobe staples like the classic button-down shirt. \u2014 Jake Smith, Glamour , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Sharon Stone also gets mileage out of playing the wry, no nonsense counterpoint to Arnett\u2019s wild card, and even gets in a few solid jokes of her own. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Maguire said it\u2019s also important to have properly inflated tires to get your best possible mileage , and to get rid of anything unnecessary that may weigh down to your motor vehicle, like junk in the trunk or an unused cargo carrier. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 9 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1724, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u012b-lij"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"account",
"avail",
"service",
"serviceability",
"serviceableness",
"use",
"usefulness",
"utility"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081854",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mileage allowance":{
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"definitions":{
": an amount of money paid for every mile traveled":[
"The company pays me a mileage allowance when I have to travel for work."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191612",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"milepost":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": milestone sense 2":[]
},
"examples":[
"We've reached a new milepost in the field of genetic research.",
"a milepost in the development of a global economy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Firefighters stopped progress of the blaze, known as the Watermelon Fire, near milepost 303, according to the U.S. Forest Service. \u2014 Lillian Boyd, The Arizona Republic , 5 June 2022",
"On Wednesday, Dish launched its 5G service in Las Vegas, a milepost in that company\u2019s nearly two-year journey to become a new wireless competitor after the Sprint/T-Mobile deal. \u2014 Scott Moritz, Fortune , 5 May 2022",
"According to a news release from the DPS, troopers responded to the single vehicle crash on I-70 near milepost 92 at about 5:37 a.m. Saturday morning. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The one-year milepost , historically, is a pivot point for presidents, the natural transition from fighting to enact their agenda to selling it to voters ahead of the November midterm elections. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Jan. 2022",
"So, in some significant ways, Saturday\u2019s third round of the AT&T Pro-Am marked a milepost in Smith\u2019s new life. \u2014 Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 Feb. 2022",
"On Monday, Nagy provided a scouting report for each local prospect as the players approach a milepost on the way to the NFL Draft, which is scheduled for April 28-30. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 26 Jan. 2022",
"According to the department, the incident happened at about 1:30 p.m. about three miles west of Flagstaff, near milepost 222. \u2014 Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Even so, Thompson passed a milepost of sorts in Thursday night\u2019s loss in Milwaukee. \u2014 Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1768, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u012b(-\u0259)l-\u02ccp\u014dst"
],
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"climacteric",
"climax",
"corner",
"landmark",
"milestone",
"turning point",
"watershed"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024500",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"miler":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one that competes in mile races":[
"\u2014 often qualified in combination a quarter- miler"
],
": one that is a specified number of miles in length":[
"\u2014 used in combination a 15- miler"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Jim Ryun, the first prep sub-four miler , set world records and earned an Olympic silver medal as a student-athlete in the late 1960s. \u2014 Johanna Gretschel, Outside Online , 3 July 2019",
"Until last month, Vaughn was known in running circles primarily as a miler and a 1,500-meter runner. \u2014 Molly Hanson, Outside Online , 28 Jan. 2022",
"But less than three seconds behind him was an American miler leaving his own mark on the record books\u2014Johnny Gregorek, who ran 3:49.98 to just narrowly miss Bernard Lagat\u2019s U.S. indoor record. \u2014 Johanna Gretschel, Outside Online , 22 Mar. 2019",
"Almost 20 years later, a former collegiate miler revisits that old feeling once again \u2014 and walks away with an appreciation for the most honest event. \u2014 Chris Foster, Outside Online , 8 July 2021",
"Bedard\u2019s goal is to become Butler\u2019s third sub-4-minute miler and represent France in the European Championships and Olympic Games. \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Since 2012, Veatch is the fifth sub-4-minute miler coached by Helmer. \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Coogan is an Olympic Marathoner with incredible range, from the first sub 4-minute miler in the State of Massachusetts to a 2:13 marathon PR. \u2014 Timothy J. Moore, Outside Online , 15 Mar. 2021",
"Nonetheless, Spence started as a miler , like so many others, and won the state of Pennsylvania high school 1600-meter title in 1980 with a 4:12. \u2014 Amby Burfoot, Outside Online , 5 Feb. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1819, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u012b-l\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061349",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"miles from anywhere":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": in a place that is very far from other people":[
"They live miles from anywhere ."
]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003152",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"miles gloriosus":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1576, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u0113-\u02ccl\u0101s-\u02ccgl\u022fr-\u0113-\u02c8\u014d-s\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080000",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"milestone":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a significant point in development":[
"Graduating from college was an important milestone in her life."
],
": a stone serving as a milepost (see milepost sense 1 )":[]
},
"examples":[
"the new drug was regarded as a milestone in the treatment of heart disease",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This was a major milestone in the evolution of your LinkedIn profile from an e-resume and networking resource to a platform for showcasing your ideas and point of view. \u2014 William Arruda, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"The update marks a major milestone for the agency, which has been hampered by a massive backlog since the coronavirus pandemic began more than two years ago, leaving taxpayers waiting months to receive tax refunds from taxes filed last year. \u2014 Sarah Ewall-wice, CBS News , 21 June 2022",
"Ropsten, the oldest Ethereum test network, transitioned to proof of stake on Wednesday in a milestone moment for the cryptocurrency space. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 8 June 2022",
"Rory Gates and his family are celebrating a milestone moment in his life. \u2014 Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"Earlier this morning, Kate and William shared a series of adorable photos on their social media accounts of her baking with the Cambridge children for their great-grandmother's milestone moment. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 5 June 2022",
"Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's 18-year-old daughter just achieved a major milestone . \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 3 June 2022",
"On Thursday, June 2, the Fabletics cofounder posted two images from the major milestone . \u2014 Alexis Gaskin, Glamour , 3 June 2022",
"Forget breaking the sound barrier: Tom Cruise just flew past a major career milestone . \u2014 Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune , 29 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1662, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u012bl-\u02ccst\u014dn",
"\u02c8m\u012b(-\u0259)l-\u02ccst\u014dn"
],
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"climax",
"corner",
"landmark",
"milepost",
"turning point",
"watershed"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060901",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"definitions":{
": water milfoil":[],
": yarrow":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While some of the 26 inland lakes at Sleeping Bear Dunes now host invasive species such as zebra mussels and Eurasian milfoil , surprisingly, many lakes do not. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 28 May 2022",
"Hug said there was milfoil , an invasive type of aquatic plant, that was about four feet long growing in the back seat of the Dodge. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Nov. 2021",
"The first was a vast milfoil field in about 6 feet of water just outside the tourney's take-off site. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 May 2021",
"The first was a vast milfoil field just outside the take-off site at Goose Pond. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, al , 26 May 2021",
"Look for areas of thick, healthy milfoil on contour changes. \u2014 Hal Schramm, Field & Stream , 26 Feb. 2020",
"That group focuses on all invasives, including animals like the Asian carp and zebra mussel, and aquatic plants such as milfoil . \u2014 Bob Shaw, Twin Cities , 2 Dec. 2019",
"The diverse habitat, filled with brush piles, chunk rock points, milfoil and shallow coves offers a variety of presentation opportunities for anglers. \u2014 Tyler Mahoney, kansascity , 16 Mar. 2018",
"Davis said most of his fish came from one 20-yard near-shore stretch of milfoil surrounded by hydrilla. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, AL.com , 15 Oct. 2017"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8mil-\u02ccf\u022fi(-\u0259)l"
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"noun"
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"Theirs was a bohemian milieu in which people often played romantic musical chairs. \u2014 Edmund White , New York Review of Books , 12 Feb. 2009",
"People in France admire the United States, and much of what passes for anti-Americanism is limited to the intellectual milieu of Paris. \u2014 Jonathan Alter et al. , Newsweek , 29 May 2000",
"She might stay home, might marry and live as a housewife. And if her milieu does not sanction such a solution, there are, she knows, milieux which do. \u2014 David Mamet , Jafsie and John Henry: Essays , 1999",
"Certainly there are very few American milieus today in which having read the latest work of Joyce Carol Oates or Richard Ford is more valuable, as social currency, than having caught the latest John Travolta movie or knowing how to navigate the Web. \u2014 Jonathan Franzen , Harper's , April 1996",
"They're caught in their own hazy milieu \u2014working, smoking, talking, drinking. \u2014 Gerri Hirshey , Rolling Stone , 12 Nov. 1992",
"young, innovative artists thrive in the freewheeling milieu that a big city offers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The transplanted stories are fun (who doesn\u2019t love an Austen adaptation",
"There was also a milieu of New Age healers offering exorcisms. \u2014 Joseph P. Laycock, The Conversation , 24 May 2022",
"Ted Danson is Michael \u2014 a famous angel name, though the milieu is essentially secular \u2014 who manages and also designed the portion of it where Eleanor has been assigned to spend eternity. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Art meets life in A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan\u2019s fascinating portrait of the artist David Hockney and his social milieu in 1970s London. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 4 June 2022",
"Gray is a fanatical observer of the details of his milieu , and his cast incarnates the gestures, the accents, the inflections, the very air of the place and time with a fervent precision to match. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 19 May 2022",
"It\u2019s part of the famous Selvaggio Blu, a long-distance hiking route established in 1987 in a truly wild Mediterranean milieu . \u2014 Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
"Pfeiffer is acting in a different milieu altogether. \u2014 The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"The entire milieu feels lived in and of the moment, as well-meaning young people parse cultural sensitivities and their own occasionally contradictory desires. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022"
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"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
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"French, from Old French, midst, from mi middle (from Latin medius ) + lieu place, from Latin locus \u2014 more at mid , stall":""
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"-\u02c8y\u0259",
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"-\u02c8y\u00fc; \u02c8m\u0113l-\u02ccy\u00fc",
"m\u0113-ly\u0153\u0305",
"\u02c8m\u0113l-\u02ccy\u00fc",
"m\u0113l-\u02c8y\u0259(r)",
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"noun"
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"militance":{
"antonyms":[
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
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": militancy":[]
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"the level of militance varied significantly among the abolitionist groups",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The flamboyance, militance , and violence of the 1960s left might not have worked right away, after all. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 6 Jan. 2022",
"The human relationship to fire on this specific piece of land was not always one of fear, anxiety, and militance . \u2014 Manjula Martin, The New Yorker , 30 Sep. 2021",
"As spring turned to summer and the pandemic seemed to be at its end, the Haredim reunited, bonded at first by impatience with public-health guidelines and then by a growing militance about the central government\u2019s response. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Nearly every artist had a go at exalting Zapata for his deep rootedness in native soil as well as for his dashing militance . \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 24 Feb. 2020",
"That militance was frowned upon by Isaacson and others who favored a civilized political approach. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Dec. 2019",
"Love shows up, even in power struggles where Queen\u2019s militance clashes with Slim\u2019s attempts at being level headed. \u2014 Jasmine Grant, Essence , 3 Dec. 2019",
"The Great Depression and America\u2019s 1941 entry into WWII posed some complicated challenges to this legacy, as labor militance took a back seat at times of national emergency. \u2014 Kim Kelly, The New Republic , 27 Sep. 2019",
"Those in safe districts, where Obamacare was especially unpopular, used their militance to highlight their die-hard opposition to the Affordable Care Act. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 22 Jan. 2018"
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"1941, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8mi-l\u0259-t\u0259n(t)s"
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"aggression",
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"scrappiness",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184959",
"type":[
"noun"
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"militancy":{
"antonyms":[
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
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": the quality or state of being militant":[]
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"the militancy of the radical organization made the authorities a little nervous",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Jewish energies have been invested largely in individual and family advancement, not group advancement via militancy and street politics. \u2014 Elliot Kaufman, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
"Given your descriptions of Putin\u2014his nationalism, his militancy \u2014how should people be thinking about ways to end this conflict, or off-ramps for him",
"The challenge to Khan\u2019s power began to gain traction last year amid friction between his party and the military establishment and comes amid expanding militancy after the Taliban\u2019s takeover of neighboring Afghanistan in August. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Unusually, Sasha mixed the unionist/progressive leftism common to most folk-punk Woody Guthrie fetishists with a radical militancy . \u2014 Franz Nicolay, SPIN , 8 Mar. 2022",
"The same holds in Uganda, which receives almost a billion dollars in American aid and is a key Western ally in the fight against regional militancy . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"For the District, the issue was a perfect illustration of the tension between moderation and militancy . \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022",
"If low wages and inflation worries fueled workers\u2019 militancy , the pandemic turbocharged grocery workers\u2019 anger. \u2014 Margot Rooseveltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Rana, from the Pakistani militancy monitoring group, said IS likely aims to stir up tensions between Islamabad and Kabul. \u2014 Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com , 11 Apr. 2022"
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"1648, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8mi-l\u0259-t\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
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"aggression",
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"noun"
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"nonaggressive",
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": engaged in warfare or combat : fighting":[]
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"examples":[
"an angry and militant speech",
"political radicals with a militant unwillingness to compromise on any issue",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sweden and Finland agreed to end support for Kurdish militant groups and end restrictions on weapons sales to Turkey, meeting demands specified by the Turkish government since Mr. Erdogan first threatened to block the two countries\u2019 entry. \u2014 WSJ , 30 June 2022",
"Erdogan objected, unfairly accusing Sweden and Finland of supporting two Kurdish militant groups, the PKK and YPG. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Not Hate, who noted commonalities between Sutter and David Myatt in their use of aggressive far-right militant groups to advance their O9A beliefs \u2014 Combat 18 in Myatt\u2019s case, Atomwaffen Division in Sutter\u2019s. \u2014 Ali Winston, Rolling Stone , 5 June 2022",
"Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups have threatened to retaliate if the march goes ahead as planned. \u2014 Atika Shubert, Abeer Salman And Lauren Izso, CNN , 23 May 2022",
"For one, the official said, the Taliban have not expressed an intention of attacking the United States, and other militant groups in Afghanistan do not control significant enclaves of territory from which to operate and plan. \u2014 Charlie Savage And Eric Schmitt, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"For one, the official said, the Taliban have not expressed an intention of attacking the United States, and other militant groups in Afghanistan do not control significant enclaves of territory from which to operate and plan. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"Shiite Muslims, who are a minority in Afghanistan, are frequently attacked by Sunni militant groups, including ISIS. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The safe havens of militant groups in Afghanistan has raised concerns for Pakistan which earlier this month carried out air strikes inside Pakistan, killing at least 20 children, according to the United Nations education fund (UNICEF). \u2014 Kathy Gannon And Mohammad Shaob Amin, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8mi-l\u0259-t\u0259nt"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for militant aggressive , militant , assertive , self-assertive mean obtrusively energetic especially in pursuing particular goals. aggressive implies a disposition to dominate often in disregard of others' rights or in determined and energetic pursuit of one's ends. aggressive in his business dealings militant also implies a fighting disposition but suggests not self-seeking but devotion to a cause, movement, or principle. militant protesters rallied against the new law assertive suggests bold self-confidence in expression of opinion. the more assertive speakers dominated the forum self-assertive connotes forwardness or brash self-confidence. a self-assertive young upstart",
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"adjective",
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"nonaggressive",
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"pacific",
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"uncombative",
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"a militant attitude"
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": engaged in warfare or combat : fighting":[]
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"examples":[
"an angry and militant speech",
"political radicals with a militant unwillingness to compromise on any issue",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sweden and Finland agreed to end support for Kurdish militant groups and end restrictions on weapons sales to Turkey, meeting demands specified by the Turkish government since Mr. Erdogan first threatened to block the two countries\u2019 entry. \u2014 WSJ , 30 June 2022",
"Erdogan objected, unfairly accusing Sweden and Finland of supporting two Kurdish militant groups, the PKK and YPG. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Not Hate, who noted commonalities between Sutter and David Myatt in their use of aggressive far-right militant groups to advance their O9A beliefs \u2014 Combat 18 in Myatt\u2019s case, Atomwaffen Division in Sutter\u2019s. \u2014 Ali Winston, Rolling Stone , 5 June 2022",
"Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups have threatened to retaliate if the march goes ahead as planned. \u2014 Atika Shubert, Abeer Salman And Lauren Izso, CNN , 23 May 2022",
"For one, the official said, the Taliban have not expressed an intention of attacking the United States, and other militant groups in Afghanistan do not control significant enclaves of territory from which to operate and plan. \u2014 Charlie Savage And Eric Schmitt, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"For one, the official said, the Taliban have not expressed an intention of attacking the United States, and other militant groups in Afghanistan do not control significant enclaves of territory from which to operate and plan. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"Shiite Muslims, who are a minority in Afghanistan, are frequently attacked by Sunni militant groups, including ISIS. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The safe havens of militant groups in Afghanistan has raised concerns for Pakistan which earlier this month carried out air strikes inside Pakistan, killing at least 20 children, according to the United Nations education fund (UNICEF). \u2014 Kathy Gannon And Mohammad Shaob Amin, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8mi-l\u0259-t\u0259nt"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162441",
"type":[
"adjective"
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": military objects (such as firearms and uniforms) of historical value or interest":[]
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"1964, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccmi-l\u0259-\u02c8ter-\u0113-\u0259"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180834",
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"plural noun"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The very pious Francis Scott Key \u2026 felt that the nation was weak militarily , politically divided, and moving toward a dangerous secularism. \u2014 Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 July 2022",
"Also participating will be Sweden and Finland, close NATO partners who remained officially militarily nonaligned until Russia\u2019s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine pushed them ever-closer to the alliance. \u2014 Loveday Morris, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Today, Russian hegemony over its old empire is being challenged not just militarily in places such as Ukraine, but everywhere, and across politics, religion, and technology. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"Thursday morning speech came during a week in which relations between the two countries were roiled by President Biden\u2019s comment about defending Taiwan militarily , made during his first trip to Asia since becoming president. \u2014 Courtney Mcbride, WSJ , 26 May 2022",
"President Biden said Monday that the U.S. would defend Taiwan if China attacked militarily . \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 25 May 2022",
"China is different now\u2014more self-confident, more intransigent, and probably more militarily competent as well. \u2014 David Rieff, The New Republic , 24 May 2022",
"Any invasion across the Taiwan Strait would be militarily complex. \u2014 Meredith Oyen, The Conversation , 24 May 2022",
"Russia, said Mikk Marran, director general of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, is losing in Ukraine militarily , politically and morally. \u2014 Dan Lamothe, Ellen Nakashima And Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News , 22 May 2022"
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"1660, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"examples":[
"The administration has been criticized for the militarism of its foreign policy.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Calls to prosecute Putin for aggression have come in tandem with a remarkable embrace by the West of militarism in support of Ukraine, marking a pivot from the isolationist tendencies of recent years. \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Against them stand the restrainers, who urge a fundamental rethinking of the U.S. approach to foreign policy, away from militarism and toward peaceful forms of international engagement. \u2014 Daniel Bessner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"What makes The Twilight World unique is Onoda himself, since his mad exertions arose from the very specific historical context of Japanese militarism . \u2014 Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic , 2 June 2022",
"Or because militarism , like capitalism, has become a permanent part of our culture. \u2014 John Horgan, Scientific American , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Some fighters who train at Akhmat MMA also moonlight as soldiers, blurring lines between athleticism and militarism . \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"But those numbers suggest there's a not-insignificant constituency for old-fashioned militarism in the United States, that could lead to electoral gold. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 16 Mar. 2022",
"But perhaps there is simply a need for greater coordination between the French way of diplomacy and the heavy tread of American militarism . \u2014 David A. Andelman, CNN , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The intended impact of some of those ideas \u2014 involving militarism , class, profiteering and Big Pharma \u2014 grows muddled, though, as the film shifts into a second half driven by action set pieces. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"1863, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"The administration has been criticized for the militarism of its foreign policy.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Against them stand the restrainers, who urge a fundamental rethinking of the U.S. approach to foreign policy, away from militarism and toward peaceful forms of international engagement. \u2014 Daniel Bessner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"What makes The Twilight World unique is Onoda himself, since his mad exertions arose from the very specific historical context of Japanese militarism . \u2014 Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic , 2 June 2022",
"Or because militarism , like capitalism, has become a permanent part of our culture. \u2014 John Horgan, Scientific American , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Some fighters who train at Akhmat MMA also moonlight as soldiers, blurring lines between athleticism and militarism . \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"But those numbers suggest there's a not-insignificant constituency for old-fashioned militarism in the United States, that could lead to electoral gold. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 16 Mar. 2022",
"But perhaps there is simply a need for greater coordination between the French way of diplomacy and the heavy tread of American militarism . \u2014 David A. Andelman, CNN , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The intended impact of some of those ideas \u2014 involving militarism , class, profiteering and Big Pharma \u2014 grows muddled, though, as the film shifts into a second half driven by action set pieces. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Music scenes are not often incubators for open patriotism and militarism , but these dire circumstances changed that. \u2014 Franz Nicolay, SPIN , 8 Mar. 2022"
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"militarize a country's foreign policy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In recent years, China has disavowed a UN tribunal ruling dismissing its vast territorial claims in the South China Sea, while continuing to militarize its positions there and harass other claimants. \u2014 Simone Mccarthy, CNN , 23 Mar. 2022",
"This is Trump suggesting, again, that the Biden administration should militarize our southern border. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Smarter-than-human A.I. and the need to militarize A.I. are being proselytized as inevitable. \u2014 Wendell Wallach, Fortune , 18 Feb. 2022",
"In 1960, after seven years set at two-minutes to midnight at the height of the Cold War, the Doomsday Clock was set back one minute, in part thanks to the Antarctic Treaty, which saw twelve nations agree not to militarize the southern continent. \u2014 Michael Del Castillo, Forbes , 26 Dec. 2021",
"In recent years, Beijing has moved to militarize a number of manmade islands throughout the vast waterway in an effort to consolidate its claims, which overlap with several other nations, including the Philippines and Vietnam. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 25 Aug. 2021",
"Ukrainian authorities say massive construction projects launched by Russia in Crimea seek to militarize the peninsula. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Aug. 2021",
"Ukrainian authorities say massive construction projects launched by Russia in Crimea seek to militarize the peninsula. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau, ajc , 22 Aug. 2021",
"For all his martial rhetoric, Kennedy was no more willing to militarize space than Eisenhower had been. \u2014 Jeff Shesol, WSJ , 29 May 2021"
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"He had been born in Hanover, Germany, in 1738, the son of an oboist who led that city\u2019s military band. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"However, this is categorically untrue, as Elvis went into military service because he was drafted, like many others at the time. \u2014 Morayo Ogunbayo, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"After the Revolutionary War, more than 3,000 Black people arrived in Nova Scotia, promised freedom and land by the British in exchange for their military service. \u2014 Natalie Preddie, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"The special laws allotted to the sports and the classical music and arts industries for mandatory military service must be extended to popular culture as well. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 22 June 2022",
"Prosecutors took into account Muhammad\u2019s past military service and history of abuse as a child. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 June 2022",
"The legislation would add 23 conditions related to burn pits and toxic exposure to the department's catalog of service presumptions, in which the department presumes that conditions were the result of a person's military service. \u2014 Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online , 17 June 2022",
"The ad highlights his military service and legislative record in Congress. \u2014 Alexandra Marquez, NBC News , 17 June 2022",
"During his 20 years of military service, Kurpasi took part in three combat tours in Iraq and was awarded a Purple Heart, according to his service record provided to the Post. \u2014 Amy Cheng And Alex Horton, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
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"Sweden brought back conscription in 2017, winding back a post-Cold War policy that had seen its military downsized. \u2014 Adam Taylor, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"And this guy held the rank of General in our military . \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"During a virtual meeting with G-7 leaders on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told world leaders that his military needs more equipment. \u2014 Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"The California Air National Guard has held a longstanding partnership with Ukraine and has helped to train its military under a state program since the 1990s. \u2014 Caitlin Mcfall, Fox News , 27 June 2022",
"Not so Russia: in the absence of credible Western defenses, its military could move to occupy any number of neighboring countries from Moldova to Finland. \u2014 Loren Thompson, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Its military has demonstrated its might in ways that have increasingly drawn rebuke and warnings from Washington and its allies. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"Germany\u2019s stringent pacifist streak has led to a dramatic deterioration of its military . \u2014 Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
"Ukrainian officials brushed off such fears, voicing confidence that its military can hold out to stem the Russian advances and even launch a counterattack. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 13 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The United States on Friday complied with a federal court order and released a former Afghan militiaman from detention in Guant\u00e1namo Bay, in a case that reflects the changing political realities of Afghanistan. \u2014 Carol Rosenberg, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"Fan-favorite militiaman ghost Captain Isaac Higgintoot (Brandon Scott Jones) finally expressed his feelings for his one-time Revolutionary War rival Lt. Col. Nigel Chessum (John Hartman). \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The United States would become a meaner, harsher, crueler place to live, all without a single militiaman having to storm the Capitol. \u2014 Timothy Shenk, The New Republic , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Two couples hoping to escape to Canada, a stranger who inadvertently complicates matters, and an Afghan war vet turned right-wing militiaman kept prisoner in a nearby barn. \u2014 Joe Leydon, Variety , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Photographs from a bridge across the Tigris River in Baghdad show the militiaman \u2019s supporters hugging and kissing him after his release. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 June 2021",
"That attack killed one militiaman , and the fighting is raising fears about a possible retaliatory back-and-forth similar to the one that resulted in the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. \u2014 Mike Brest, Washington Examiner , 3 Mar. 2021",
"The dusty construction guy made common cause with the lawyer licking his paws and the bearded militiaman with a maggot in his brainstem. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 20 Jan. 2021",
"Ammon Bundy, the cowboy hat-wearing militiaman who was arrested Tuesday at the Idaho State Capitol for trespassing, has been released on bail. \u2014 Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News , 26 Aug. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To be clear, milia aren't dangerous or harmful, but some people might choose to get rid of them. \u2014 Amanda Chan, Teen Vogue , 8 Oct. 2017",
"The good doctor uses a needle or small scalpel to create an opening in each milium , followed by tweezers to squeeze each one out \u2014 but that's not always enough. \u2014 Marci Robin, Good Housekeeping , 19 Oct. 2017",
"While milia do indeed look like whiteheads, that's where most of the comparisons come to a halt. \u2014 Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure , 19 Oct. 2017",
"Those are caused by cell overgrowth from the sweat glands \u2014 and not milia , like originally expected. \u2014 Amanda Chan, Teen Vogue , 8 Oct. 2017",
"In older children and adults, milia can clear within a few months. \u2014 Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com , 4 May 2017",
"In older children and adults, milia are typically associated with skin damage, including blistering, burns, skin resurfacing procedures, long-term use of steroidal creams/ointments and long-term sun damage. \u2014 Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com , 4 May 2017"
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"First held in 1970 \u2013 when 1,500 hippies got free milk in exchange for their \u00a31 entrance fee \u2013 the festival has developed into a national and international institution, as much a part of the traditional British summer as Wimbledon. \u2014 Mark Sutherland, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"But a few days before the shoot, someone dropped out and Diaz suddenly found himself with a bigger role, driving around with Spears and pouring milk on himself. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 20 June 2022",
"Savannah, who just finished first grade, and Avery, who completed kindergarten, can now help out with the quintuplets by bringing someone to the bathroom, setting the table or grabbing milk for a younger sibling. \u2014 Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
"Stroller-friendly transportation, a space at work to pump milk , and available, high-quality child care all enable families to be more independent, not less. \u2014 Kendra Hurley, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"Australia offers oat milk , and salads are still on the menu in countries such as Italy and the Netherlands. \u2014 Leslie Patton And Bloomberg, Fortune , 9 June 2022",
"According to the lawsuit and a police report that became part of the case record, the girl had been running after her sister because the sister, also a student, spilled milk on her. \u2014 Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica , 26 May 2022",
"Milk banks can often provide additional milk for families. \u2014 Ana Roc\u00edo \u00c1lvarez Br\u00ed\u00f1ez, The Courier-Journal , 25 May 2022",
"Along with creative scoops like cereal milk Oreo, raspberry tres leches and pistachio baklava, guests can customize their orders with colorful cones in flavors like red velvet and matcha. \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The kids would wake up in the morning, milk the cows, go to school, come back to help on their farm, and sometimes the neighboring ones. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"The sequel joins a bevy of live-action attempts by HBO to milk the Game of Thrones cash cow for years to come. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
"Both Freedomworks and Musk now appear to have joined a growing segment of the American right looking to ESG as another convenient three-letter acronym to milk for political gain. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 23 May 2022",
"Pap and panada were common supplements or substitutes to milk in early modern Europe. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 22 May 2022",
"Prices for food purchased to eat at home rose 11.9%, the largest 12-month increase since 1979, with eggs up 32.2%, milk up 15.9% and poultry up 16.6%. \u2014 Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"Bennett\u2019s success through the air opened things up for Georgia\u2019s run game in the second half, as the Bulldogs were able to largely milk the clock down the stretch. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 9 Oct. 2021",
"Belichick\u2019s position maintained that when the game clock is in play, strategy on offense, defense and special teams reflect such \u2013 including, perhaps, a team\u2019s attempt to milk the clock. \u2014 Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Kwan and Scheinert aren\u2019t afraid to milk her for screwball laughs, poking fun at her anxiety, her grumpiness and her creative bungling of the English language. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The beer was cold and good, the local sheep\u2019s milk cheese pungent and delicious. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Nov. 2019",
"The protein Perfect Day uses may not come from cow milk, but it\u2019s still technically milk protein\u2014and that\u2019s what\u2019s printed on the ingredients list, because that\u2019s how the US Food and Drug Administration regulates product labeling. \u2014 Chase Purdy, Quartz , 11 July 2019",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Less milk fat produced a creamy sauce with a light cheddar flavor. \u2014 cleveland , 14 July 2021",
"Our proximity to luscious dairy means ice creams celebrating the best of milk fat , and our proclivity for seasonality means rotating sorbets and gelatos that highlight peak produce. \u2014 The Chronicle Food Team, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 June 2021",
"Quore\u2019s gelato contains only 5% milk fat compared to ice cream, which typically tops 20%, adds Armando Lozano, Quore\u2019s chief operating officer. \u2014 Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com , 16 Mar. 2021",
"Lock pointed out there are many other factors that affect milk fat production beyond one specific feed supplement, such as age, genetics, health, and time of year. \u2014 Karen Ho, Quartz , 4 Mar. 2021",
"For now, Canadian milk producers who follow the directive could struggle to meet their quotas without adding more cows or incurring other additional costs to produce the same amount of milk fat . \u2014 Karen Ho, Quartz , 4 Mar. 2021",
"All chocolate is inherently plant-based, as cacao grows on trees, but this pairing keeps it pure without any additional milk or milk products (i.e., whey, casein, milk fat , etc.). \u2014 Kristy Alpert, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 Dec. 2020",
"Invented in the 1930s, soft serve contains less milk fat and more air than traditional ice cream. \u2014 Larrisa Beth Turner, The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 Sep. 2020",
"While compelling evidence on the benefits of additives like prebiotics and probiotics is lacking, one exception is milk fat globule membrane (MFGM), a protein present in breastmilk that contains several important biologically active factors. \u2014 Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times , 18 Apr. 2020"
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"Verb",
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"Conversely, with lockdowns of months, if not years, life largely stops, short-term and long-term consequences are entirely unknown, and billions, not just millions , of lives may be eventually at stake. \u2014 John P.a. Ioannidis, STAT , 17 Mar. 2020",
"The plan was to create archives of all human knowledge that could last for millions , if not billions, of years, and to seed them across Earth and throughout the solar system. \u2014 Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED , 5 Aug. 2019",
"On Thursday, the S&P 500 fell 0.9% after millions more Americans applied for unemployment benefits in April, darkening the mood after a relatively strong April. \u2014 Jessica Menton, USA TODAY , 1 May 2020",
"That doesn\u2019t count the hundreds of millions of vaccinations administered annually. \u2014 Scott W. Atlas And H.r. Mcmaster, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2020",
"Such measures are a step forward, but fall short of covering the tens of millions of unemployed workers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2020",
"McMaster's order comes after millions of other Americans are under orders from their local authorities to stay at home as part of an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus as the world fights the pandemic. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Apr. 2020",
"The situations with millions of nights already booked in hotels is extremely difficult to handle, and the international sports calendar for at least 33 Olympic sports would have to be adapted. \u2014 Tariq Panja, New York Times , 22 Mar. 2020"
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"Washington swing has been Hart\u2019s touchstone, but never a millstone that kept him from mastering another approach. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Britons were taught\u2014and many still believe\u2014that slavery had never been a foundation of their country\u2019s commercial prosperity but was a millstone that needed to be removed so capitalism could truly flourish. \u2014 Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books , 10 Apr. 2021",
"The case brought by Talonya Adams remains a political millstone for Hobbs, who in 2015 was the state Senate Democratic leader and is now running for governor. \u2014 Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Yet those same high prices can be a political millstone . \u2014 Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Dec. 2021",
"The overall student debt in the US has now built up to a staggering $1.57 trillion, acting as a financial millstone to an entire generation. \u2014 Mike Swigunski, Forbes , 11 Nov. 2021",
"That deal proved a millstone that helped push Detroit off the rebuild cliff. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 Nov. 2021",
"His American assets were suddenly a millstone around his neck. \u2014 Casey Michel, Rolling Stone , 8 Oct. 2021",
"McAuliffe, a former political fundraiser and Democratic National Committee chairman, has his own presidential millstone in Biden\u2019s sinking approval ratings. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Sep. 2021"
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"In an apparent response to Austin\u2019s remark, Lavrov said Russia has a feeling that the West wants to prolong Ukraine\u2019s fight and in the process wear out Russia\u2019s army and its military-industrial complex . \u2014 Siladitya Ray, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Certainly, in Southern California, where aerospace and defense have long been embedded in the economic, political and cultural landscape, there is a great deal of overlap between the military-industrial complex and \u2014 well, everything else. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Now there are anecdotal reports \u2014 eagerly amplified by the White House \u2014 of the Russian military-industrial complex running short of parts. \u2014 David E. Sanger, New York Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The Russian Defense Ministry announced Sunday plans to strike Ukraine\u2019s military-industrial complex , prompting criticism of Western leaders by Zelenskyy for not responding. \u2014 Staff, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Over the past few years, pressure from the military-industrial complex has pushed the A-10 into retirement, in favor of the F-35 Lightning II, a much more expensive and complex aircraft. \u2014 WSJ , 22 Mar. 2022",
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"One of our main grievances was how the university had been captured by the military-industrial complex , whose increasingly detrimental power President Dwight Eisenhower warned about in his 1961 farewell address. \u2014 Wendell Wallach, Fortune , 18 Feb. 2022",
"For some years now, a strange combination of Hollywood and the military-industrial complex has been telling us that cyberattacks present an existential threat to humanity, but the reality has been different. \u2014 Ciaran Martin, Wired , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"There was a sinkhole, partially filled with rainwater, where the milk house once stood; piles of broken concrete and metal where there used to be calf hutches and bustling farm activity. \u2014 Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Those include a milk house , dairy barn, machine shed, corn crib and multiple farm animal and storage buildings. \u2014 Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Village Board members Tuesday backed a plan to preserve and restore, over a period of up to 10 years, structures including a large barn, milk house and silo at an estimated cost of a bit more than $700,000. \u2014 Mike Nolan, chicagotribune.com , 8 July 2021",
"Lately, the milk house , a pale yellow building with its original wide brick floors, has held a different purpose. \u2014 Sarah Haselhorst, Cincinnati.com , 15 June 2020",
"Kelly and Fiumefreddo now own 3 of those acres, which include a hayloft, barn, silo, milk house , home and the former Generac workshop \u2014 all of which were built before 1902 and have been restored by the pair in one way or another. \u2014 Samantha Hendrickson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 June 2020",
"These sanitary interiors were borrowed from those of milking houses . \u2014 Dwight Garner, New York Times , 16 Mar. 2020",
"She's greeted with roaring applause (courtesy of Alexa) before introducing the no-shoe rule and milk house drink special. \u2014 Heran Mamo, Billboard , 28 Jan. 2020",
"The current incarnation of the Hornicek Farm in unincorporated Will County between Park Forest and University Park consists of the home, a barn, a milk house , a large two-room structure housing six hens and a rooster, and an organic garden. \u2014 Dennis Sullivan, Daily Southtown , 14 June 2019"
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"Scientists believe piping virtual pastoral settings into the animals\u2019 vision is the next in a series of quality-of-life improvements for dairy cows that includes robotic milkers that let cows roam further and have more freedom. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 26 Nov. 2019",
"Five years ago, robotic milkers changed the lives of many dairy farmers and their herds by letting cows choose to pull into a milking station the way cars pull off the interstate to refuel. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 26 Nov. 2019",
"The machines can detect which cow is entering and attach and detach the milkers from the teets without human hands. \u2014 Alexia Elejalde-ruiz, chicagotribune.com , 3 July 2019",
"Big data and cows Robotic milkers can harvest milk without human involvement. \u2014 Smithsonian , 11 July 2018",
"One reason for the increase: Farmers who are trying to get bigger and more efficient can tap government funds for up to half the price of a robot milker . The milking robot is the size of a small truck. \u2014 Peter Landers, WSJ , 6 May 2018",
"Instead, the early milkers of the fertile crescent transformed it into sour yogurt, butter and cheese; the hot climate caused milk to quickly spoil. \u2014 Daniel Fernandez, Smithsonian , 11 May 2018",
"Fully robotic milkers first took hold in Europe in the 1990s. \u2014 Peter Landers, WSJ , 6 May 2018",
"Beyond the Ida collars, other tech start-ups make cow pedometers, robot milkers , tail sensors and electroshock collars that can stop or shift a herd. \u2014 Drew Harwell, chicagotribune.com , 5 Apr. 2018"
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"One of his prominent campaign advisers, Kristin Davison, helped the Republican millionaire Glenn Youngkin win the governorship in Virginia last year. \u2014 The New Yorker , 15 May 2022",
"If the idea was to rob the millionaire , the plan had gone horribly awry. \u2014 CBS News , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Anselmo\u2019s project fell apart \u2014 the chapel had been at least partially built already \u2014 and the millionaire sold off the property and returned to Connecticut. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Margaret was born in 1912, the only daughter of George Whigham, a Scottish millionaire , and his wife Helen. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 22 Apr. 2022",
"By the 1920s, the quest for smooth hair made Madame C.J. Walker the first Black millionaire in the U.S., selling hair management products that allowed Black families to signal their arrival in the middle class. \u2014 Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune , 29 Mar. 2022",
"President Biden has repeatedly mentioned that his policies and tax proposals are designed to help middle-class families and not the millionaire and billionaire classes. \u2014 Evie Fordham, Fox News , 24 June 2021",
"Emily has become a tech millionaire and Lydia a beer-swilling loser still wearing hair-band T-shirts and drinking expired milk. \u2014 Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Only instead of facing pro basketball\u2019s striving class, Moody was playing millionaire NBA players. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"Its owner has shown up on multiplex screens as a milky -eyed villain in the Tom Cruise vehicle Jack Reacher and in prime-time living rooms as an eccentric homeowner on an episode of Parks and Recreation. \u2014 A. O. Scott, The Atlantic , 17 May 2022",
"The milky texture glides onto your skin like butter and quickly absorbs into the skin. \u2014 ELLE , 10 May 2022",
"The dust will bring some dry air, milky skies and high temperatures to the region through the end of the week, but Caracozza said the dust likely won\u2019t have a huge effect on Floridians\u2019 health. \u2014 Olivia Lloyd, Sun Sentinel , 13 June 2022",
"Heretofore, black holes have only been identified as supermassive objects at the centers of massive galaxies like our own milky way, or gravitationally bound to a stellar companion. \u2014 Bruce Dorminey, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"The milky essence soaked right into my combo skin, leaving a light veil of moisture with no greasy residue. \u2014 Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour , 3 June 2022",
"Then apply water to create a milky emulsion that will rinse away all debris and impurities. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"It\u2019s a sweet, rich, milky bread that sticks to the roof of your mouth. \u2014 Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
"The moon will glow a scarlet color during this year's first total lunar eclipse on Sunday -- a stark contrast to its ordinarily milky white sheen. \u2014 Megan Marples And Ashley Strickland, CNN , 13 May 2022"
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"Finlayson said the team had also found the milk tooth of a Neanderthal around 4 years old, and hypothesized that they could have been dragged into the cave by a hyaena. \u2014 Jeevan Ravindran, CNN , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Relatives came in and out, helping with the children and watching as Youssef grew milk teeth and Samer went to school and adjusted to life in a strange country. \u2014 Greg Betza, Washington Post , 1 May 2018"
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"\u2026 the remarkable similarity between the venomous coral snake and the harmless milk snake , which mimics the coral snake's colors to protect itself. The tricky difference between the two brightly color-banded snakes is summarized by the saying: \"Red on yellow, kill a fellow; red on black, friend of Jack.\"",
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"The good-guy snakes include but aren\u2019t limited to the eastern hognose snake, Texas brown snake, Texas rat snake, rough green snake, garter snake, milk snake , bullsnake, kingsnake, indigo snake, black racer, water snake, blind snake and coachwhip. \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 8 June 2020",
"Cheddar Meet Cheddar, a 12-year-old Honduran milk snake . \u2014 cincinnati.com , 3 Dec. 2019",
"Fortunately, milk snakes are not poisonous, and typically spend much of their time beneath the ground, according to the Virginia Herpetological Society. \u2014 Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com , 19 June 2019",
"The couple managed to capture the snake and place it in a trash bag, transfer the reptile to a container, and bring it to an expert, who recognized the animal as a female milk snake . \u2014 Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com , 19 June 2019",
"There are beavers, muskrats and brown bats, along with snapping turtles and Easter milk snakes . \u2014 Rich Heileman, cleveland.com , 14 June 2019",
"It is made by milking snakes for venom and injecting a small amount of it into a domestic animal like a sheep or a horse over several weeks which allows the animal to build antibodies which are filtered and concentrated to become antivenin. \u2014 Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics , 9 Nov. 2018",
"Species that tested positive for the disease included the northern water snake, racer, milk snake and queen snake. \u2014 Justin L. Mack, Indianapolis Star , 17 May 2018",
"Another two-headed snake, an albino Honduran milk snake named Medusa, was featured on Nat Geo WILD. \u2014 Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic , 15 Mar. 2018"
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"On a recent visit, daing na bangus \u2014 whole fried milkfish , butterflied and divested of bones, with a short tail still attached \u2014 arrived bronzed and near monumental, larger than other specimens around town. \u2014 Ligaya Mishan, New York Times , 31 May 2018",
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"Taylor Swift can add a new honor to her overflowing cabinet of accolades: A new species of millipede from the Appalachian Mountains has been named after her, according to Phys.org. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 18 Apr. 2022",
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"Rusak cuts the segments, in black or milky white resin, into interlocking parts using a CNC milling machine , which leaves bits of raw plant exposed. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Oct. 2021",
"During service the milling machine sits like an art piece, shiny and silent, on a perch to the left of the six-seat sushi bar. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 July 2021",
"Ramona High teachers and students are particularly grateful to Poindexter, who came to the Ramona High campus in the evenings to teach students how to use a Haas Automation milling machine . \u2014 Ramona Sentinel , 22 Aug. 2019",
"Part of a $1-million state grant for career technical education will be used to fund infrastructure upgrades and equipment for the lab, including a laser engraver, 3-D printer, milling machine and stress analyzer. \u2014 Daniel Langhorne, latimes.com , 12 Apr. 2018"
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"First held in 1970 \u2013 when 1,500 hippies got free milk in exchange for their \u00a31 entrance fee \u2013 the festival has developed into a national and international institution, as much a part of the traditional British summer as Wimbledon. \u2014 Mark Sutherland, Variety , 24 June 2022",
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"Savannah, who just finished first grade, and Avery, who completed kindergarten, can now help out with the quintuplets by bringing someone to the bathroom, setting the table or grabbing milk for a younger sibling. \u2014 Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
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"Australia offers oat milk , and salads are still on the menu in countries such as Italy and the Netherlands. \u2014 Leslie Patton And Bloomberg, Fortune , 9 June 2022",
"According to the lawsuit and a police report that became part of the case record, the girl had been running after her sister because the sister, also a student, spilled milk on her. \u2014 Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica , 26 May 2022",
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"The sequel joins a bevy of live-action attempts by HBO to milk the Game of Thrones cash cow for years to come. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
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"Pap and panada were common supplements or substitutes to milk in early modern Europe. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 22 May 2022",
"Prices for food purchased to eat at home rose 11.9%, the largest 12-month increase since 1979, with eggs up 32.2%, milk up 15.9% and poultry up 16.6%. \u2014 Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"Bennett\u2019s success through the air opened things up for Georgia\u2019s run game in the second half, as the Bulldogs were able to largely milk the clock down the stretch. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 9 Oct. 2021",
"Belichick\u2019s position maintained that when the game clock is in play, strategy on offense, defense and special teams reflect such \u2013 including, perhaps, a team\u2019s attempt to milk the clock. \u2014 Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Kwan and Scheinert aren\u2019t afraid to milk her for screwball laughs, poking fun at her anxiety, her grumpiness and her creative bungling of the English language. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
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"The beer was cold and good, the local sheep\u2019s milk cheese pungent and delicious. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Nov. 2019",
"The protein Perfect Day uses may not come from cow milk, but it\u2019s still technically milk protein\u2014and that\u2019s what\u2019s printed on the ingredients list, because that\u2019s how the US Food and Drug Administration regulates product labeling. \u2014 Chase Purdy, Quartz , 11 July 2019",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
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"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018"
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"Once the purchase was finalized, the pair got to work transforming the helicopter, which was originally in the possession of the German military police , before it was bought and used in Afghanistan with U.S. Troops for a few years. \u2014 Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al , 26 May 2022",
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"Kaylie Harris, who worked as a U.S. Army military police officer at JBER in Anchorage, was one of the soldiers who died by suicide in Alaska in 2021. \u2014 Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Swayka has worked as a part-time military police officer with the Army Reserve, according to her LinkedIn page. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The stowaway, who police said is from Nairobi, Kenya, had been found in the nose wheel of a cargo plane that had flown from South Africa, said the military police , or Marechaussee, in a statement on Sunday. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Turkey has set up its own administration, trained and incorporated friendly Syrian militias into a military police force and set up compliant local Syrian councils to run things. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Feb. 2021",
"The arrests were based on intelligence from a task force made of several Mexican agencies, including SEDENA, the federal prosecutor\u2019s office, military police , Navy and Baja California authorities. \u2014 Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 Feb. 2022"
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"Limited supply coupled with favorable demographics (all those first-time millennial homebuyers) could prevent those places from entering into a free-fall. \u2014 Lance Lambert, Fortune , 5 June 2022",
"It\u2019s the nation\u2019s first large-scale conference for Black millennial moms. \u2014 Essence , 10 June 2021",
"Learn more about the rise of millennial pink and why its influence continues today. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 18 Mar. 2022",
"That album seemed to say something quintessential about the millennial experience. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Almost mirroring the millennial experience, Gen Z follows at 58%. \u2014 Loubna Noureddin, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Increasingly, millennial collectors are starting to champion a fresh slate of artists born long after Basquiat died in 1988. \u2014 Kelly Crow, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Gen Z and millennial workers are also drawn to companies that align with their values. \u2014 Megan Leonhardt, Fortune , 18 May 2022",
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"The comedy about a millennial in East London who becomes romantically involved with a famous film star (played by Nikesh Patel) currently has an impressive 96 percent rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 77 percent score from viewers. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"Celebrate the movie's milestone anniversary and enjoy a virtual greeting from Shaggy himself, while living out every millennial 's childhood dream. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"Boric, a 36-year-old leftist millennial , said attendees will have an opportunity to make statements if the United States intends to exclude countries. \u2014 Elliot Spagat, Joshua Goodman And Chris Megerian, Anchorage Daily News , 6 June 2022",
"As a millennial coming from England, what was your touchstone for \u201880s culture here in America",
"Valencia is a 33-year-old millennial \u2014 a first-term Anaheim councilmember with roots in the Mexican states of Jalisco and Michoac\u00e1n who has worked for the past six years as a staffer for retiring Assemblymember Tom Daly, a moderate Democrat. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 May 2022",
"Millennials are stereotyped as entitled; that's much more of a story for a high-socioeconomic millennial than one that didn't have means. \u2014 Next Avenue, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"From there, the pair rocked out to every millennial 's go-to karaoke track in Y2K plaid skirt looks. \u2014 Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour , 30 Apr. 2022",
"As a millennial , Oubou is part of a generation of change agents raising their voices and bringing vital issues to light to accelerate historic shifts for women. \u2014 Geri Stengel, Forbes , 18 May 2022"
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"The protein Perfect Day uses may not come from cow milk, but it\u2019s still technically milk protein\u2014and that\u2019s what\u2019s printed on the ingredients list, because that\u2019s how the US Food and Drug Administration regulates product labeling. \u2014 Chase Purdy, Quartz , 11 July 2019",
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"Hi Jeanne, Your classic milk glass collection seems to be from the Indiana Glass Co. \u2014 Brenda Yenke, cleveland , 9 June 2022",
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"Another intriguing makeshift component is what appears to be a shelf underneath a milk glass sliding window\u2014but is actually part of a marble island in the kitchen. \u2014 Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful , 20 May 2021",
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"Bread-and- milk runs have become surgical raids: Sterilize the grocery cart with a disinfectant wipe, scout out the TP aisle, exchange sideways glances with the could-be infected, grab the essentials, and get the hell out of there. \u2014 Josh Wilbur, Wired , 29 Mar. 2020",
"The combi planes also make famous milk runs through southeast Alaska, leaving Anchorage and stopping about every 45 minutes to deliver goods \u2014 including milk \u2014 to little communities before heading on to Seattle, where the airline is headquartered. \u2014 Mark Thiessen, The Seattle Times , 25 Sep. 2017",
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"Stroller-friendly transportation, a space at work to pump milk , and available, high-quality child care all enable families to be more independent, not less. \u2014 Kendra Hurley, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
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"According to the lawsuit and a police report that became part of the case record, the girl had been running after her sister because the sister, also a student, spilled milk on her. \u2014 Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica , 26 May 2022",
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"The sequel joins a bevy of live-action attempts by HBO to milk the Game of Thrones cash cow for years to come. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
"Both Freedomworks and Musk now appear to have joined a growing segment of the American right looking to ESG as another convenient three-letter acronym to milk for political gain. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 23 May 2022",
"Pap and panada were common supplements or substitutes to milk in early modern Europe. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 22 May 2022",
"Prices for food purchased to eat at home rose 11.9%, the largest 12-month increase since 1979, with eggs up 32.2%, milk up 15.9% and poultry up 16.6%. \u2014 Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"Bennett\u2019s success through the air opened things up for Georgia\u2019s run game in the second half, as the Bulldogs were able to largely milk the clock down the stretch. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 9 Oct. 2021",
"Belichick\u2019s position maintained that when the game clock is in play, strategy on offense, defense and special teams reflect such \u2013 including, perhaps, a team\u2019s attempt to milk the clock. \u2014 Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Kwan and Scheinert aren\u2019t afraid to milk her for screwball laughs, poking fun at her anxiety, her grumpiness and her creative bungling of the English language. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
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"The beer was cold and good, the local sheep\u2019s milk cheese pungent and delicious. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Nov. 2019",
"The protein Perfect Day uses may not come from cow milk, but it\u2019s still technically milk protein\u2014and that\u2019s what\u2019s printed on the ingredients list, because that\u2019s how the US Food and Drug Administration regulates product labeling. \u2014 Chase Purdy, Quartz , 11 July 2019",
"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
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"Some of the farm groups cite Canada\u2019s dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business. \u2014 Rick Barrett, USA TODAY , 1 May 2018",
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"Tail Martini Spell is an evolution of the classic martini, adding to the core spirit base a sweet and dry vermouth milk punch with cocoa powder and a cassia and bee balm aged cordial. \u2014 Joanne Shurvell, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Cognac, bourbon and rum with brown butter and boniato, two ingredients that nod to a dessert Yao served in the old space, transform into a clear milk punch that sits at the nexus of sweet and savory. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"The riff on a bourbon milk punch cocktail, substituting Sheep Dog Peanut Butter Whiskey for bourbon and the vanilla and butterscotch undertones of Tuaca liqueur. \u2014 Dana Mcmahan, The Courier-Journal , 15 Dec. 2021",
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"There, milk punch is garnished with boba, and smoky mezcal is mixed with spicy chile crisp oil, chrysanthemum and cashew. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 May 2021",
"The original milk punches were made with brandy, but many popular versions today are rum-based. \u2014 Cole Wilson, Popular Mechanics , 24 Apr. 2020",
"La Lina This cocktail is a spin on the classic milk punch , and looks festive topped with star anise and a sprinkle of nutmeg. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Dec. 2019",
"Drink and food specials like the cookie platter paired with a milk punch will be on offer. Lost Lake and Golden Teardrops for some stylish holiday digs. \u2014 Joseph Hernandez, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 5 Dec. 2019"
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"Nine workers were tested and found to have inhaled doses of less than 100 millirem of americium-241, according to a DOE enforcement letter of August 2016. \u2014 Patrick Malone And Peter Cary, idahostatesman , 10 Aug. 2017",
"The scanner peers inside the human body by sweeping a person with a .3 millirem X-ray. \u2014 Erik Baard, WIRED , 13 Nov. 2001"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a boy he was entranced by stories his grandfather told about his own grandfather George Rice, a gun maker, and even about George\u2019s father, James, a corn miller . \u2014 Alex Traub, New York Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Fred, the oldest of the doctor\u2019s three sons, became a miller and was never of much consequence within the ambitious Lewis clan. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Petra, a frisky maidservant coming off of a weekend dalliance, turns to the audience and imagines her possible futures, first married to a miller \u2019s son, then to a businessman, then to the Prince of Wales. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 27 Nov. 2021",
"In addition to a white Murphy bed/sofa combo, there are also two Herman miller wall units \u2014 one with floating cabinets that serves as a media console, and another with more storage and a workspace \u2014 both of which are included in the sale. \u2014 Jenny Xie, Curbed , 5 Aug. 2021",
"White cyclamen appear to flutter above silvery dusty- miller foliage and eucalyptus pods. \u2014 Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine , 12 Feb. 2020",
"Back in 1833, two men \u2014 a miller and a druggist who grew herbs \u2014 decided to make and sell drugs and essential oils. \u2014 Dallas News , 17 Jan. 2021",
"Unfortunately for his biographer, Rembrandt was the ninth child of a miller , and there was no reason that any note should have been taken of his childhood. \u2014 Reagan Upshaw, Washington Post , 10 Sep. 2020",
"As early as 1799, Joseph Cahoon, a miller from Vermont, visited the area and fell in love with the beautiful countryside. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 7 July 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a boy he was entranced by stories his grandfather told about his own grandfather George Rice, a gun maker, and even about George\u2019s father, James, a corn miller . \u2014 Alex Traub, New York Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Fred, the oldest of the doctor\u2019s three sons, became a miller and was never of much consequence within the ambitious Lewis clan. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Petra, a frisky maidservant coming off of a weekend dalliance, turns to the audience and imagines her possible futures, first married to a miller \u2019s son, then to a businessman, then to the Prince of Wales. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 27 Nov. 2021",
"In addition to a white Murphy bed/sofa combo, there are also two Herman miller wall units \u2014 one with floating cabinets that serves as a media console, and another with more storage and a workspace \u2014 both of which are included in the sale. \u2014 Jenny Xie, Curbed , 5 Aug. 2021",
"White cyclamen appear to flutter above silvery dusty- miller foliage and eucalyptus pods. \u2014 Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine , 12 Feb. 2020",
"Back in 1833, two men \u2014 a miller and a druggist who grew herbs \u2014 decided to make and sell drugs and essential oils. \u2014 Dallas News , 17 Jan. 2021",
"Unfortunately for his biographer, Rembrandt was the ninth child of a miller , and there was no reason that any note should have been taken of his childhood. \u2014 Reagan Upshaw, Washington Post , 10 Sep. 2020",
"As early as 1799, Joseph Cahoon, a miller from Vermont, visited the area and fell in love with the beautiful countryside. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 7 July 2020"
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