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"city in western Sri Lanka on the Indian Ocean south of Colombo population 168,000":[]
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": a relative of Esther who gave advice on saving the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman":[]
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"1587, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Hebrew Mord\u0115khai":""
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": the type genus of the family Mordellidae":[]
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"New Latin, from Latin mord\u0113re to bite + New Latin -ella":""
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": a genus of carnivorous fresh and salt water percoid fishes (family Serranidae) including several sport and food fishes \u2014 see moronidae , white perch , yellow bass":[]
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": a genus of American Miocene clawed perissodactyls (family Chalicotheriidae) attaining the size of modern horses":[]
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"New Latin, from Greek m\u014dros sluggish, dull + New Latin -pus ; from its suggested affinities to the sloth":""
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": a dialect of the Zamuco people":[]
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"city in central Puerto Rico southwest of San Juan population 32,610":[]
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"town in northern England that serves as the administrative center of Northumberland population 14,500":[]
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"the science of morals endeavors to divide men into the good and the bad",
"\u2014 J. W. Krutch"
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"\u2014 Walter Lippmann"
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"The casualties did not shake the moral of the soldiers."
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": of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior : ethical":[
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"Adjective",
"Nor did these lawyers and bankers walk about suffused with guilt. They had the moral equivalent of teflon on their soul. Church on Sunday, foreclose on Monday. \u2014 Norman Mailer , New York Review of Books , 27 Mar. 2002",
"\u2026 trip-wire sensitivity to perceived insult often leads to unjustifiable firings and other moral and legal imbroglios. \u2014 John McWhorter , New Republic , 14 Jan. 2002",
"The modern liberal state was premised on the notion that in the interests of political peace, government would not take sides among the differing moral claims made by religion and traditional culture. \u2014 Francis Fukuyama , Atlantic , May 1999",
"It was our desire for a moral world, the deep wish to assert the existence of goodness, that generated, as it continues to do, political fantasy. \u2014 Arthur Miller , Timebends , 1987",
"The author avoids making moral judgments.",
"Each story teaches an important moral lesson.",
"He felt that he had a moral obligation to help the poor.",
"We're confident she has the moral fiber to make the right decision.",
"Their behavior was not moral .",
"Animals are not moral creatures and are not responsible for their actions.",
"Noun",
"The moral of the story is to be satisfied with what you have.",
"The moral here is: pay attention to the warning lights in your car.",
"Socrates was accused of corrupting the morals of the youth of Athens.",
"The author points to recent cases of fraud as evidence of the lack of morals in the business world.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But moral or immoral, Mulye\u2019s most important contribution to the national debate on drug pricing was his transparency. \u2014 Robert Pearl, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Some women, especially conservative Christians, reveled in the decision as a moral and legal victory. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"Does the arc of the moral universe, as has become almost clich\u00e9, really bend toward justice",
"Human beings are inclined by nature to make moral judgments of right and wrong, fairness and unfairness, justice and injustice. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 27 June 2022",
"For any disease, there is a moral case against neglecting those who are most vulnerable; for COVID, there\u2019s also still a self-interested case for even the privileged and powerful to resist the pull of neglect. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"The moral streak in the play occasionally edges into moralizing and didacticism, but Watkins creates an atmosphere of real portent. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"And credit Barry for extending its comedy of moral degradation in unexpected directions. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 27 June 2022",
"In this sense, the North owes its own debt\u2014one both ecological and moral , built up from centuries of colonialism, of brutal imperialist extraction. \u2014 Rohan Montgomery, The New Republic , 26 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The moral of the story is to think unconventionally and experiment with different things\u2014if only to give you a reason to host more barbecues. \u2014 Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"The moral of this story is plants ultimately reach a point when the rate of growth slows considerably. \u2014 Chris Mckeown, The Enquirer , 18 June 2022",
"The moral of the story is that, much like the spirits haunting its fringes, Supernatural will never truly die. \u2014 Samantha Highfill, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"The moral of the story is part of what attracted ICAF co-founder, Katty Guerami, to the project. \u2014 Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"There\u2019s a certain moral repeated a few times throughout Hulu\u2019s Candy, including in its first few minutes and its last. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 May 2022",
"The stories read like fables, and like Aesop\u2019s, are mostly populated by archetypes and come with a too-neat moral at the end. \u2014 Jenna Scherer, Rolling Stone , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This movie comes with a very powerful moral : Never, ever underestimate a hottie. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 25 Mar. 2022",
"She was turned into a saint so that her life could be turned into a moral . \u2014 Blair Mcclendon, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"circa 1528, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin moralis , from mor-, mos custom":"Adjective and Noun"
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"sense 3 is m\u0259-\u02c8ral",
"\u02c8m\u00e4r-",
"\u02c8m\u022fr-\u0259l"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for moral Adjective moral , ethical , virtuous , righteous , noble mean conforming to a standard of what is right and good. moral implies conformity to established sanctioned codes or accepted notions of right and wrong. the basic moral values of a community ethical may suggest the involvement of more difficult or subtle questions of rightness, fairness, or equity. committed to the highest ethical principles virtuous implies moral excellence in character. not a religious person, but virtuous nevertheless righteous stresses guiltlessness or blamelessness and often suggests the sanctimonious. wished to be righteous before God and the world noble implies moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean, or dubious in conduct and character. had the noblest of reasons for seeking office",
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": the habit or practice of moralizing":[]
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"The candidate's campaign was doomed by an incessant moralism that came across as condescension.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The over-all air of rigid Christian moralism is strengthened by, as Skimma observes, the political absence of separation of church and state. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 23 June 2022",
"His tendency to turn every human encounter into a confrontation, a reckoning, sounds an awful lot like moralism . \u2014 Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"Elsewhere \u2014 particularly in countries that have reasons to doubt Winston Churchill and Western moralism \u2014 suspicion and distrust endures. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Yet the urge to eliminate all manifestations of an international rival draws on a current of moralism that runs deep in American culture. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 7 Mar. 2022",
"In 2016, her brand of patriotism was already being replaced by an angrier moralism that treated ongoing racial oppression rather than upward mobility as the defining story of American history. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 28 Jan. 2022",
"That perspective \u2014 in contrast to Drakeo\u2019s millennial madman\u2019s diaries \u2014 at the very least suggested a kind of moralism . \u2014 Will Dukes, Rolling Stone , 22 Dec. 2021",
"But the moralism is not entirely convincing; Lockwood is ultimately a zealot, looking more toward an all-internet future than a half-off half-online past. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021",
"But the moralism is not entirely convincing; Lockwood is ultimately a zealot, looking more toward an all-internet future than a half-off half-online past. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1674, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02c8m\u00e4r-",
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"puritanism"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-183018",
"type":[
"noun"
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": a philosopher or writer concerned with moral principles and problems":[],
": one concerned with regulating the morals of others":[],
": one who leads a moral life":[]
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"a smattering of moralists around the country tried to get the songs banned from the radio",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The kid from Riverhead is also a kind of moralist , a highly analytical truth-teller on the financial markets. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian patriot and unbending moralist who wrote War and Peace, would have despised Putin or prayed for his lost soul or both. \u2014 Tarik Cyril Amar, Time , 4 Mar. 2022",
"The result is a bit like reading a steamy romance as retold by a Victorian moralist : The basic story is the same, but most of the enthralling details are suppressed. \u2014 Adam Rowe, WSJ , 14 Jan. 2022",
"An even fiercer moralist , her work continues to drive home the message that wars are far less often fought on grounds of idealism than of cynicism and greed. \u2014 Judith Mackrell, WSJ , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Swift was a moralist in matters of the heart, and once someone broke her trust all bets were off. \u2014 Carrie Battan, The New Yorker , 17 Nov. 2021",
"But his argument sounded so sober, so tongue-in-cheek, that many of his contemporaries took it as the great moralist 's true stance, and denounced him as a savage. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 29 Oct. 2021",
"If so, the moralist \u2019s alignment was, if nothing else, flexible. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ , 24 Oct. 2021",
"Not that moralist and realist foreign policies are mutually exclusive. \u2014 David W. Lesch, CNN , 12 June 2021"
],
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"circa 1586, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"\u02c8m\u022fr-\u0259-list"
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"nice nelly",
"prude",
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"wowser"
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"type":[
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"While a moralistic speech won't convince kids not to try drugs, a story about people affected by drugs might.",
"parental opinion was divided on the school's moralistic curriculum",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Plain women writers of today are not content to churn out the same old evangelizing, moralistic stories. \u2014 Kelsey Osgood, The Atlantic , 28 June 2022",
"But McCraney is a poet, not a moralistic ideologue or a political propagandist happy to play to the choir. \u2014 Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"The show\u2019s tricky tonal blend\u2014violent, but not nihilistic; moral, but not moralistic \u2014was hard to nail. \u2014 Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"In the United States, its popularity spawned a variety of adaptations, some more moralistic , some more sentimental, and so on. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Getting trade wrong while stepping up the moralistic lectures is a surefire strategy for Indo-Pacific failure. \u2014 Walter Russell Mead, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"Instead, in their moralistic zeal, Utah lawmakers imposed a black-and-white solution that ignores the nuance, punishes women and jeopardizes their health and well-being. \u2014 Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 May 2022",
"Joe Biden, like many (probably most) Democrats, often speaks about the economy in moralistic terms. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The counterculture had been a scruffy, literally hairy affair; the \u201980s, throwing over all that moralistic rebellion-against-the-system stuff, would be sleek, shaved, and beige. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 17 Apr. 2022"
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"1845, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccm\u00e4r-",
"\u02ccm\u022fr-\u0259-\u02c8li-stik"
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"immorality",
"iniquity",
"sin",
"villainy",
"wickedness"
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": a doctrine or system of moral conduct":[
"the basic law which an adequate morality ought to state",
"\u2014 Marjorie Grene"
],
": a literary or other imaginative work teaching a moral lesson":[
"\"Aesop's Fables\" is famous as a morality ."
],
": a moral discourse, statement, or lesson":[
"ended his lecture with a trite morality"
],
": conformity to ideals of right human conduct":[
"admitted the expediency of the law but questioned its morality"
],
": moral conduct : virtue":[
"morality today involves a responsible relationship toward the laws of the natural world",
"\u2014 P. B. Sears"
],
": particular moral principles or rules of conduct":[
"we were all brought up on one of these moralities",
"\u2014 Psychiatry"
]
},
"examples":[
"The group is calling for a return to traditional morality .",
"two groups with clashing moralities",
"The decision may be legally justified, but I question its morality .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Based on a short story by George Saunders, the dystopian thriller Spiderhead examines guilt, love, trauma, redemption, and the morality of using technology to manipulate human emotions. \u2014 Clarissa Cruz, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Utilitarianism, for example, judges the morality of an action based on its outcomes. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 8 June 2022",
"When the story begins, in 895 A.D., Amleth is a boy (played, at that age, by Oscar Novak) being raised by his father, King Aurvandill (Ethan Hawke), in the ways of war and the morality of revenge. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Consequentialism is an ethical theory that judges the morality of an action based on its consequences. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 12 Apr. 2022",
"As oil and gas fuel a new war in Europe, Alex Perry pieces together, shot by shot, a stunning morality tale for the global economy. \u2014 Alex Perry, Outside Online , 1 June 2022",
"Humans love a good, old-fashioned morality tale told from the perspective of an animal. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"The mini-series by Shonda Rhimes works as a clich\u00e9d morality tale but stumbles as a piece of storytelling, writes our critic. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Unless Irene\u2019s judgment and fear of Clare is seen in the context of her desire to be and possess her, there isn\u2019t anything to the story but a conventional passing morality tale. \u2014 Rebecca Hall, Los Angeles Times , 18 Jan. 2022"
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"m\u022f-",
"m\u0259-\u02c8ra-l\u0259-t\u0113"
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"goodness",
"honesty",
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"rightness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
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": to explain or interpret morally":[],
": to give a moral quality or direction to":[],
": to improve the morals of":[],
": to make moral reflections":[]
},
"examples":[
"an essay moralizing about the evils of alcohol",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And in retrospect, this refusal to moralize makes its comics sort of heroic. \u2014 Scott Bradfield, The New Republic , 16 Dec. 2021",
"The book doesn\u2019t lecture, moralize or lavishly mourn but rather considers three lives and the meaningful points in those lives where promise stalls, improves or goes south. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 3 Sep. 2021",
"In depicting these situations, Krauss is notably dispassionate, reticent to moralize about the men who force women into positions of submission. \u2014 Timothy Aubry, The New Republic , 17 Dec. 2020",
"That dismissal also jibes with the music geek\u2019s tendency to moralize suffering: a belief that pleasure needs to be both earned and accounted for. \u2014 Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker , 4 Dec. 2020",
"International conservation and animal welfare organizations are using the outbreak to moralize about the traditional Chinese practice of eating a wider range of animal species than people of European heritage consider acceptable. \u2014 Robert Dingwall, Wired , 29 Jan. 2020",
"My job here is not moralizing , just to assess the numbers. \u2014 Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner , 11 Jan. 2020",
"There\u2019s no such danger in the movie, which offers some of the stories\u2019 more gruesome elements but, by framing them skillfully, moralizes their fabrications by undergirding them with (fictitious) facts. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 12 Aug. 2019",
"The more dynamic relationship is between Williams\u2019 moralizing Serena and Blue\u2019s Bess. \u2014 Crystal Paul, The Seattle Times , 14 Aug. 2018"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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"\u02c8m\u00e4r-",
"\u02c8m\u022fr-\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
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"Adjective",
"Nor did these lawyers and bankers walk about suffused with guilt. They had the moral equivalent of teflon on their soul. Church on Sunday, foreclose on Monday. \u2014 Norman Mailer , New York Review of Books , 27 Mar. 2002",
"\u2026 trip-wire sensitivity to perceived insult often leads to unjustifiable firings and other moral and legal imbroglios. \u2014 John McWhorter , New Republic , 14 Jan. 2002",
"The modern liberal state was premised on the notion that in the interests of political peace, government would not take sides among the differing moral claims made by religion and traditional culture. \u2014 Francis Fukuyama , Atlantic , May 1999",
"It was our desire for a moral world, the deep wish to assert the existence of goodness, that generated, as it continues to do, political fantasy. \u2014 Arthur Miller , Timebends , 1987",
"The author avoids making moral judgments.",
"Each story teaches an important moral lesson.",
"He felt that he had a moral obligation to help the poor.",
"We're confident she has the moral fiber to make the right decision.",
"Their behavior was not moral .",
"Animals are not moral creatures and are not responsible for their actions.",
"Noun",
"The moral of the story is to be satisfied with what you have.",
"The moral here is: pay attention to the warning lights in your car.",
"Socrates was accused of corrupting the morals of the youth of Athens.",
"The author points to recent cases of fraud as evidence of the lack of morals in the business world.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But moral or immoral, Mulye\u2019s most important contribution to the national debate on drug pricing was his transparency. \u2014 Robert Pearl, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Some women, especially conservative Christians, reveled in the decision as a moral and legal victory. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"Does the arc of the moral universe, as has become almost clich\u00e9, really bend toward justice",
"Human beings are inclined by nature to make moral judgments of right and wrong, fairness and unfairness, justice and injustice. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 27 June 2022",
"For any disease, there is a moral case against neglecting those who are most vulnerable; for COVID, there\u2019s also still a self-interested case for even the privileged and powerful to resist the pull of neglect. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"The moral streak in the play occasionally edges into moralizing and didacticism, but Watkins creates an atmosphere of real portent. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"And credit Barry for extending its comedy of moral degradation in unexpected directions. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 27 June 2022",
"In this sense, the North owes its own debt\u2014one both ecological and moral , built up from centuries of colonialism, of brutal imperialist extraction. \u2014 Rohan Montgomery, The New Republic , 26 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The moral of the story is to think unconventionally and experiment with different things\u2014if only to give you a reason to host more barbecues. \u2014 Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"The moral of this story is plants ultimately reach a point when the rate of growth slows considerably. \u2014 Chris Mckeown, The Enquirer , 18 June 2022",
"The moral of the story is that, much like the spirits haunting its fringes, Supernatural will never truly die. \u2014 Samantha Highfill, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"The moral of the story is part of what attracted ICAF co-founder, Katty Guerami, to the project. \u2014 Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"There\u2019s a certain moral repeated a few times throughout Hulu\u2019s Candy, including in its first few minutes and its last. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 May 2022",
"The stories read like fables, and like Aesop\u2019s, are mostly populated by archetypes and come with a too-neat moral at the end. \u2014 Jenna Scherer, Rolling Stone , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This movie comes with a very powerful moral : Never, ever underestimate a hottie. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 25 Mar. 2022",
"She was turned into a saint so that her life could be turned into a moral . \u2014 Blair Mcclendon, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"circa 1528, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin moralis , from mor-, mos custom":"Adjective and Noun"
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"\u02c8m\u00e4r-",
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"a legal morass"
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"a morass of traffic jams",
"\u2014 Mary Roach"
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"examples":[
"advised against becoming involved in that country's civil war, warning that escape from that morass might prove nigh impossible",
"the distracted driver had driven his car off the road and into a morass",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But several critics focus on the CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio, in part because it\u2019s one of the clearest numbers in the morass of proxy-statement legalese. \u2014 Maria Aspan, Fortune , 27 May 2022",
"In Washington, much of the Biden agenda is frozen in a congressional morass . \u2014 New York Times , 22 May 2022",
"And Jordan Poole, out of the morass of Golden State\u2019s two seasons on dynastic hiatus, has emerged as one of the most dynamic young scorers in the league. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"The way out of this morass is unclear, but McArthur argues that tech companies are just responding to the environment, so a broader societal shift will be required. \u2014 Sam Lipsyte, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"This chant has risen ceaselessly over the past many weeks from the depths of fury raging in Sri Lanka, a country deep in an economic morass . \u2014 Quartz , 4 May 2022",
"The Father\u2014lost in the morass of his own mind, always falling through trap doors to alternate realities. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Howard, the Financial Planner, devotes hours to guiding my father through the monetary morass of buying, selling, and moving. \u2014 Longreads , 20 Apr. 2022",
"All the while, questions are mounting about how a Russian leader steeped in security policy and known for railing against the folly of regime-change wars could have sleepwalked into a such a strategic morass . \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022"
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"1655, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Dutch moeras , modification of Old French maresc , of Germanic origin; akin to Old English mersc marsh \u2014 more at marsh":""
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"examples":[
"In 2000, Illinois declared a moratorium on executions after 13 death-row inmates were exonerated. \u2014 Evan Thomas et al. , Newsweek , 19 Nov. 2007",
"But one country's moratorium is another country's protectionism, and the U.S. is suspicious of Europe's actions. \u2014 Jeffrey Kluger , Time , 13 Sept. 1999",
"The striped bass are recovering strongly after a moratorium on catching them. \u2014 John P. Wiley, Jr. , Smithsonian , November 1993",
"Her office was crammed with ungraded school papers, some of them dating back five years. She was far behind in her work\u2014so far behind that she had declared a moratorium on school work until she could catch up on her grading. \u2014 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. , The Sirens of Titan , 1959",
"The treaty calls for a nuclear testing moratorium .",
"the director of the blood bank called for a moratorium in donations until the surplus could be used up",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Biden administration issued a new eviction moratorium , responding to pressure from progressive Democrats. \u2014 Andrew Ackerman, WSJ , 7 Jan. 2022",
"The city\u2019s new moratorium on new subdivisions and multi-unit complexes like apartments, however, is not retroactive. \u2014 al , 26 Dec. 2021",
"Congress didn\u2019t act and progressives instead pressured President Joe Biden to issue a new, slightly narrower moratorium . \u2014 Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News , 27 Aug. 2021",
"The moratorium on student loan payments and interest has been in effect for over two years at this point following multiple prior extensions by both President Trump and President Biden. \u2014 Adam S. Minsky, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Even Campos himself now acknowledges the moratorium was not a good idea. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Last year, in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a class represented by a female RV dweller in Venice, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the law \u2014 as long as the moratorium was in place. \u2014 Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Conservative advocacy groups, led by Grover Norquist\u2019s Americans for Tax Reform, say the moratorium has been overly generous to those with student loan debt at the expense of those without a higher education. \u2014 Chris Quintana, USA TODAY , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The Biden administration allowed the federal evictions moratorium to lapse at the end of July, then revived it a few days later in response to pressure from political allies. \u2014 Ashraf Khalil, ajc , 25 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"New Latin, from Late Latin, neuter of moratorius dilatory, from Latin morari to delay, from mora delay":""
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"\u02ccm\u00e4r-",
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"grey",
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"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
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"plutonian",
"saturnine",
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"examples":[
"Some of the material has been disclosed before, but it is wonderful to have the quotations from President Nixon and his aides gathered here in all their morbid splendor. \u2014 Anthony Lewis , New York Review of Books , 7 Apr. 2005",
"Danger can be sexy, but morbid proselytizing is a real buzzkill. \u2014 Emily Gordon , Nation , 5 May 1997",
"She suffered from a morbid streak which in all the life of the family reached out on occasions\u2014the worst occasions\u2014and touched us, clung around us, making it worse for her; her unbearable moments could find nowhere to go. \u2014 Eudora Welty , One Writer's Beginnings , 1983",
"She has a morbid interest in funerals.",
"He has a morbid sense of humor.",
"a morbid fascination with death",
"wanting to learn about a celebrity's downfall out of morbid curiosity",
"suffering from a morbid condition",
"The child has a morbid fear of snakes.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most people who have been infected with the Heartland virus have made a full recovery with this kind of supportive care, the CDC says, but there have been several deaths among elderly individuals with co- morbid conditions. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Not to get too morbid , but death looms over season 4 in unexpected ways. \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 25 Feb. 2022",
"If that\u2019s too morbid for you, consider Philly neuroscientist Brian Salzberg, 76, who has run every single Falmouth road race. \u2014 Amby Burfoot, Outside Online , 11 Feb. 2019",
"The researchers also dug deeper into the association between social anxiety and relationship satisfaction, exploring its connection with co- morbid depression. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
"For instance, even though individuals ages 19 to 29 with no co- morbid conditions were the group least likely to have complications, 21.2% of them\u2014about one in five\u2014still had at least one complication. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 26 July 2021",
"Okay, that might have gotten too morbid for a second. \u2014 Devon Abelman, Allure , 3 July 2021",
"Set up a Legacy Contact \u2013 Not to get too morbid , but the harsh reality is that when a loved one dies, accessing their iPhone can be impossible if the device is secured. \u2014 Yoni Heisler, BGR , 14 June 2021",
"And Leona had a reason for such a seemingly morbid request. \u2014 Hayley Vaughn, NBC News , 1 June 2021"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin morbidus diseased, from morbus disease":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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": a sharply critical or bitter quality of thought or feeling : harshness":[]
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"the surprising mordancy with which the two physicians contested each other's claim to having discovered an effective vaccine for polio"
],
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"circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"Adjective",
"a writer famous for her mordant humor",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Even Komireddi, a mordant critic of Indian politics, ends his book with an appreciation of what the Congress Party had built before. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"The director has reunited with his Lonely Island comrade Andy Samberg, who voices the happy-go-lucky doofus Dale, while John Mulaney lends mordant energy to his straight-arrow partner, Chip. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 21 May 2022",
"Although they have been edited for this book, the journal entries are rawer and more honest than his polished essays, but with his same mordant humor and gentle crankiness. \u2014 Pat Saperstein, Variety , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Known for his whipsaw plotting and razor-sharp dialogue, McDonagh is back on Broadway with his spectacularly mordant Hangmen (at the Golden Theater, with previews opening April 8), helmed by Matthew Dunster and starring Alfie Allen. \u2014 Liz Appel, Vogue , 20 Apr. 2022",
"This mordant novel takes the form of a diary, with sections named for the women who have most profoundly shaped the narrator\u2019s life: his mistress, his girlfriend, his sister-in-law, his sister, and his mother. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Maureen Howard, a writer acclaimed for the mordant humor and refined, shimmering prose of novels that often examined the lives of self-critical women seeking to find their place in the world, died March 13 at a hospital in Manhattan. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Narrating from the perspective of a chorus of unseen Jidadans, Bulawayo displays a mordant wit with a delightful, off-kilter edge. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Mar. 2022",
"In James\u2019s often mordant writing, the series follows a chorus of shape-shifting characters who live at the edges of the animal and human worlds and are in search of an unidentified missing boy. \u2014 Tiana Reid, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The actors are nimble with Letts\u2019 mordant , deceptively situational humor, and in embodying their characters\u2019 chilling complacency. \u2014 Naveen Kumar, Variety , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Loudon, 70-something patriarch, inhabits the canopy; from folkie to singing surgeon to some measure of each, adjoining the mordant to the serious. \u2014 Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 1 Nov. 2021",
"But Stewart\u2019s take on Diana gives this film a wicked sense of humor too, emphasizing how her mordant sarcasm clashed just as uncomfortably with the royal family as her independent streak did. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 25 Sep. 2021",
"But another three words, albeit unspoken, also pulse beneath this mordant and inventive satire by James Ijames: Examine your assumptions. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 1 May 2021",
"Petite, quietly savage, with a sense of humor that can skew either goofy or mordant , Milioti, 35, is not the girl next door. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Mar. 2021",
"The writing is brilliant, bringing to life a narrator with a penetrating gaze and a mordant , misanthropic voice. \u2014 Scott W. Stern, The New Republic , 11 Feb. 2021",
"Narrator George Blagden beautifully captures the tenor of Nana\u2019s mordant wit, his lofty view of himself, and his frequent spates of umbrage at human presumption and sheer stupidity. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Dec. 2020"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"Middle French, present participle of mordre to bite, from Latin mord\u0113re ; perhaps akin to Sanskrit m\u1e5bdn\u0101ti he presses, rubs":"Adjective and Noun"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for mordant Adjective caustic , mordant , acrid , scathing mean stingingly incisive. caustic suggests a biting wit. caustic comments mordant suggests a wit that is used with deadly effectiveness. mordant reviews of the play acrid implies bitterness and often malevolence. acrid invective scathing implies indignant attacks delivered with fierce severity. a scathing satire",
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"The district has nearly 68,000 more Republicans than Democrats and hasn't elected a Democrat to Congress since 1964. \u2014 Brian Melley, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"Add 1 tablespoon more milk for a thinner dip, if desired. \u2014 Ellie Krieger, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Renter finances are being pushed to their limits in more cities, according to a new report from Moody\u2019s Analytics. \u2014 Will Parker And Nicole Friedman, WSJ , 28 June 2022",
"But basketball, like art, is worth more than a final score or a price tag. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"Arredondo ordered the officers to wait for more tactical gear and a key to unlock the classroom door, McCraw said. \u2014 Fox News , 28 June 2022",
"Kid-friendly activities with bounce house, arts and crafts, prizes and more . \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 28 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",
"There are worries that creating a Guard structure would mean more overhead costs, including the need for a Space Guard commander and other senior staff. \u2014 Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The more recent addition, Space Center Houston, opened in 1992. \u2014 Fox News , 29 June 2022",
"In a time when retention is the new acquisition, frankly, great customer experience has never been more important. \u2014 Sara Jurmain Richter, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Some of the questions felt bigger \u2014 more important. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"Vaccine makers have tested new versions of their vaccines against the BA.1 version of omicron, but not against these more recent subvariants. \u2014 Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"Famously, Justice Antonin Scalia appeared to consider financial costs more important than public health, in his majority opinion. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 28 June 2022",
"The proliferation of wireless handheld devices that charge at lower voltages makes surge protection more important than ever. \u2014 Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics , 28 June 2022",
"Battery range and charging time will probably be more important to most owners than 0-60 mph time. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 28 June 2022",
"But even more important than the butter: the moisture and sugar content. \u2014 Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon App\u00e9tit , 28 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Letters are leaky in all sorts of ways \u2014 the baby wakes from the nap and cries; the air-raid siren sounds; the social mores and psychodynamics of other eras filter in. \u2014 Megan O\u2019grady, New York Times , 17 Apr. 2020",
"Readers will recall Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia, cast in a light similar to Austen\u2019s portrayal, each reflecting the social mores of their day. \u2014 Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Gone are the outdated mores and fancy window dressings of Barrie\u2019s story, however. \u2014 Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press , 12 Mar. 2020",
"Strong, smart women battle tricky cultural and political mores in a series of intertwined stories set on both sides of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. \u2014 Elizabeth Mccracken, Washington Post , 21 Nov. 2019",
"By that day, as Factchecker.in reported, only three airports had begun screening passengers (four more started on that day), and then only travellers from Hong Kong and China, although 20 countries had reported infections. \u2014 Samar Halarnkar, Quartz India , 10 May 2020",
"Then there\u2019s the subtle, lasting impact on psyches, cultural mores , desires. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 19 Mar. 2020",
"Here are words that have changed history, governments, laws, morals, mores , marriages, and minds. \u2014 Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker , 29 Jan. 2020",
"But the extraordinary nature of the coronavirus crisis, its reach into every aspect of life, means that the country\u2019s economy, state apparatus, and social mores need rebuilding as well. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 12 Apr. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The tilt gives Earth its seasons, causing different parts of the planet to receive more or less sunlight. \u2014 Aylin Woodward, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"This marketing power is why shoe companies like Nike NKE +2.5% and Adidas more or less stick to marketing with celebrities in the music and professional sports space. \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Where Mungiu\u2019s layered storytelling doesn\u2019t quite work is in a finale so suggestive as to remain more or less obtuse, which is unfortunate because until then, R.M.N. was building toward something powerful. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"Those will determine the makeup of France\u2019s lower and more powerful house of Parliament, the National Assembly, and give Mr. Macron more or less leeway to get his bills passed. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"Watching McCartney come up with masterpieces more or less on the spot. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 30 Nov. 2021",
"At more or less this very moment, the radical activist group ACT UP was forming in New York. \u2014 Michael Waters, The New Yorker , 31 May 2022",
"Slaw Device also remains more or less a one-man show, with Oziab\u0142o doing all the manufacturing out of his home. \u2014 Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica , 14 Apr. 2022",
"For those unfamiliar with the roving literary carnival, here\u2019s a rundown of AWP by the numbers ( more or less ). \u2014 Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"The ruling\u2019s impact, moreover , could be wider-ranging, touching on initiatives from the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other agencies, legal analysts said. \u2014 Amara Omeokwe, WSJ , 1 July 2022",
"His bill would, moreover , also block tax breaks that could cover gender transition or travel for abortions\u2014indeed, this seems like its ultimate purpose. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 29 June 2022",
"The proclamation moreover guaranteed freedom to enslaved people in secessionist states like Texas, but not Union states like Maryland, which did not secede during the Civil War. \u2014 Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"This year marks the 30th anniversary of Everclear and moreover , the anniversary of their first LP, World of Noise. \u2014 Niko Stratis, SPIN , 14 June 2022",
"The scale of the fruit, moreover , shifts the viewer\u2019s perception of the figure of the friar himself\u2014who, suddenly, appears to be shown on a much larger scale than the trees around him. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 9 June 2022",
"During Rector\u2019s time there, moreover , Detroit recorded the highest rate of childhood asthma among the nation\u2019s largest cities. \u2014 Scott W. Stern, The New York Review of Books , 8 June 2022",
"Abbott, moreover , has refused to back away from his own loosening of gun regulations in Texas. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"Her job on the network, moreover , ultimately won\u2019t be that different than the former acting chief-of-staff\u2019s\u2014or, for that matter, her former one. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 May 2022"
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"Time and changing social mores would eventually do what Bolles\u2019 journalism couldn\u2019t: turn off the cash spigot at the dog track. \u2014 Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic , 1 June 2022",
"The Court\u2019s ruling in the case was simply not grounded either in what the Constitution says or in the long-standing, widely embraced mores and practices of the country. \u2014 Akhil Reed Amar, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"Perhaps the best example of a social network whose mores are now working against it is Meta, n\u00e9e Facebook. \u2014 Kira Bindrim, Quartz , 26 Apr. 2022",
"In a world focussed on buying better and mores sustainably, a purchase could be an investment piece that lasts even if that is from a reseller or the cyclical fashion marketplace. \u2014 Kate Hardcastle, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Thousands of vampire films and shows have followed in the century since, several hundred featuring Dracula, with depictions evolving to reflect changing tastes and mores . \u2014 Roy Schwartz, CNN , 2 Apr. 2022",
"And through the rhythms of migration and relocation, the island\u2019s confluence of cultures and mores changed forms, taking what it was given and continually adapting. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The declaration arrives as Playboy struggles to navigate changing gender mores and A&E airs a 10-part documentary series examining its seedier side. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Giving the work its ache as well as its edge is the tension created between the deeply felt emotions of the characters\u2019 inner lives and the restrained formality of the language and mores of the period. \u2014 Frank Rizzo, Variety , 31 Jan. 2022"
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"an actor who is trying to revive his moribund career",
"The peace talks are moribund .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The mainland China box office remained moribund over the latest weekend, lacking direction or new releases and achieving nationwide revenue of just $11.4 million. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 15 May 2022",
"China\u2019s central bank cut a key interest rate while keeping another unchanged, an unexpected policy shift that economists said would likely help the country\u2019s moribund housing market but bring only limited relief to its struggling economy. \u2014 Jason Douglas, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Long before much of the current Red Sox Nation was even born, the American League champion Red Sox of 1967 breathed new life into a moribund franchise with a magical season unlike any other. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 May 2022",
"Pre-Roe bans are currently moribund because the courts would block them under Roe if someone tried to enforce them. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 9 May 2022",
"Now all diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Russia are moribund . \u2014 Carlo Rovelli, Scientific American , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The wave of violence comes as Israel\u2019s government faces the prospect of fresh elections after losing its fragile parliamentary majority, and as peace negotiations between Israel and the widely unpopular Palestinian leadership remain moribund . \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Although the dollar amounts pale compared to Biden's moribund $2 trillion Build Back Better proposal, these bills \u2014 once they're smooshed together \u2014 actually have a good chance of passing. \u2014 James Pethokoukis, The Week , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Allowing a moribund corporate culture also makes for a miserable employee experience. \u2014 Joe Mckendrick, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022"
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"my herald of the morn is my cat, sticking his paw in my face to wake me up",
"so, how are you this lovely morn ",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The next morn , my son had those beignets for breakfast! \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In the gray and murky darkness of each night, there's a promise up ahead of a new and glorious morn \u2014 and its coming doesn't depend on us working harder or being better. \u2014 Carrie Mckean, The Week , 25 Dec. 2021",
"As of Tuesday morn , Pastrnak led the league with 20 strikes, followed by Edmonton\u2019s Connor McDavid (18). \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Nov. 2019",
"The same amount of time separates you from the next frosty morn with a rifle or bow in your hand. \u2014 The Editors, Field & Stream , 13 Jan. 2020",
"As of Wednesday morn , the Bruins had led for 61.8 percent of their playing time through 12 games. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
"The next several years were a sorry mixture of supermarket pastries or yogurt smoothies to greet the dewy morn . \u2014 Bulletin Board, Twin Cities , 23 June 2019",
"Media: Buzz 60 Winning tickets None Next jackpot 3/28 $19.25 Pick 3 morn .: 3/24 0-3-4 Sum: 7 Pick 3 day: 4-4-6 Sum: 14 Pick 3 even. \u2014 Texas Lottery Commission, Houston Chronicle , 24 Mar. 2018",
"ForgeRock provides identity management services for customers such as investment manager Morningstar ( morn , -0.19%), telecom firm Vodafone (vod, -0.60%), and insurer Geico as well as the governments of Norway, New Zealand, and Belgium. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 5 Sep. 2017"
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"I worked in the yard for part of the morning .",
"I saw him this morning , and I'll be meeting with him again tomorrow morning .",
"We have a meeting scheduled for 10 o'clock Wednesday morning .",
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"the morning after a storm",
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"We sat around drinking coffee all morning .",
"We won't find out until morning .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"White-water rafting on the Deschutes River, with morning and afternoon departures. \u2014 Chris Santella, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"According to correspondence shared with the Globe Monday, a summary of the measure was provided to Secretary of State William F. Galvin in the morning . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"When to exercise: First thing in the morning or at night",
"That's when all the lookouts across the Mogollon Rim go into service in the morning . \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 22 June 2022",
"Bays are $45 per hour in the morning (10 a.m.-noon), $55 in the afternoon (noon-5 p.m.), and $65 in peak time (5 p.m. till close) on Mondays through Thursdays. \u2014 Michael Mcknight, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"Those were the days of hunting down hand sanitizer, spraying groceries with disinfectant and listening to then-Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s rasping voice on the morning and evening news. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"The serum is a gel base that can be used morning and night. \u2014 Megan Decker, refinery29.com , 15 June 2022",
"Kwon and Flores\u2019s success in both the morning and the evening iterations of Kasama owes a lot to the incredible amount of talent between these two chefs, both experts in flavor and technique. \u2014 Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report , 14 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But unlike very temporary morning breath and mussed hair, there can be a long-lasting impact on our skin's smoothness. \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 12 Apr. 2022",
"But mind reading causes problems for the couple when Alexa orders mouthwash because of Johansson\u2019s morning breath and activates a blender when Johansson doesn\u2019t want to hear Jost talk about a spray tan. \u2014 Mae Anderson, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Trump\u2019s family are a far departure from the authentic intimacy the Obama family revealed (think Michelle talking about Barack\u2019s morning breath ). \u2014 Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com , 26 Aug. 2020",
"Few things are as immediate of a mood killer as coffee-and-Mountain-House-Curry morning breath . \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 23 Apr. 2018",
"These same gases also contribute to the stink of morning breath . \u2014 Sam Kean, Slate Magazine , 24 July 2017"
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"Emergency contraception, such as the morning-after pill , and intrauterine devices (IUDs) are particularly under attack. \u2014 Olivia Goldhill, STAT , 28 June 2022",
"Stix, a reproductive health company, told The New York Times that sales of its morning-after pill Restart surged more than 600% in the 24 hours after the Supreme Court decision was released. \u2014 Andrew Marquardt, Fortune , 27 June 2022",
"Also known as the morning-after pill , Plan B is a progesterone medication that delays ovulation to help prevent a pregnancy in the first place. \u2014 Erica Sweeney, Good Housekeeping , 24 June 2022",
"Think about it as the right for each person to make intimate decisions about heart and home, decisions about the right to start a family, including contraception and the morning-after pill . \u2014 Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"Buddy comedy meets road trip movie in Natalie Morales\u2019 charming film about two South Dakotan teens\u2019 panicked, chaotic search for the morning-after pill . \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 May 2022",
"The morning-after pill is less effective in people who weigh more than 155 pounds. \u2014 Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News , 5 Oct. 2021",
"After losing her virginity, Sunny (Kuhoo Verma) tries to track down the morning-after pill with the help of her best friend, Lupe (Victoria Moroles). \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 28 May 2021",
"Kevin Grundy, a consumer goods analyst at Jefferies, said condoms have been losing market share in recent years to other forms of contraception, including the morning-after pill for women. \u2014 Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN , 30 Apr. 2021"
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"\u2014 Richard Ford"
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"I can't believe I did something so stupid. I feel like a complete moron ."
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"She thought of the bootlegger at home\u2014a raddled, skinny old man, morose and suspicious. He sat on his front step with a shotgun on Halloween night. \u2014 Alice Munro , Runaway , 2004",
"We have little finished footage to go by, but enough to give us pause: an exquisite clip of Rochefort, sitting with a book in the half-darkness, his eyes wet, gleaming, and morose . \u2014 Anthony Lane , New Yorker , 3 Feb. 2003",
"I have never known if Momma sent for us, or if the St. Louis family just got fed up with my grim presence. There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child. \u2014 Maya Angelou , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , 1969",
"He became morose and withdrawn and would not talk to anyone.",
"those morose job seekers who have grown accustomed to rejection",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But if that\u2019s too morose , imagine a lifetime achievement award. \u2014 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Between the album\u2019s many attempts at confessional music is a sprinkling of the indistinct pop that Post has been refining over the years, clearly meant to keep things from getting too morose . \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 9 June 2022",
"In the first couple of episodes of the new show, Pike is morose and obsessing about his future. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 May 2022",
"While one game in the collection hinges on death and the afterlife in a slightly morose way, and another includes black-and-white, small-sprite samurai combat (and is awesome), this content is fine for anyone 12 and up. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 18 Apr. 2022",
"All of Degas\u2019s ironic, morose and unsentimental intelligence is on display in these sentences. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Nov. 2021",
"This is a morose serial-killer thriller, visually muted like a TV movie. \u2014 Gem Seddon, Vulture , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Campus was quiet and morose , the silences quivering with early-term nerves. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Feb. 2021",
"Even as tech optimism is obvious, sentiment in much of the rest of the market remains morose . \u2014 James Mackintosh, WSJ , 6 Sep. 2020"
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"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Latin morosus , literally, capricious, from mor-, mos will":""
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"m\u0259-\u02c8r\u014ds",
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"depressing",
"depressive",
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"dire",
"disconsolate",
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"drear",
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"dreich",
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"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
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"cheering",
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"She thought of the bootlegger at home\u2014a raddled, skinny old man, morose and suspicious. He sat on his front step with a shotgun on Halloween night. \u2014 Alice Munro , Runaway , 2004",
"We have little finished footage to go by, but enough to give us pause: an exquisite clip of Rochefort, sitting with a book in the half-darkness, his eyes wet, gleaming, and morose . \u2014 Anthony Lane , New Yorker , 3 Feb. 2003",
"I have never known if Momma sent for us, or if the St. Louis family just got fed up with my grim presence. There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child. \u2014 Maya Angelou , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , 1969",
"He became morose and withdrawn and would not talk to anyone.",
"those morose job seekers who have grown accustomed to rejection",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But if that\u2019s too morose , imagine a lifetime achievement award. \u2014 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Between the album\u2019s many attempts at confessional music is a sprinkling of the indistinct pop that Post has been refining over the years, clearly meant to keep things from getting too morose . \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 9 June 2022",
"In the first couple of episodes of the new show, Pike is morose and obsessing about his future. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 May 2022",
"While one game in the collection hinges on death and the afterlife in a slightly morose way, and another includes black-and-white, small-sprite samurai combat (and is awesome), this content is fine for anyone 12 and up. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 18 Apr. 2022",
"All of Degas\u2019s ironic, morose and unsentimental intelligence is on display in these sentences. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Nov. 2021",
"This is a morose serial-killer thriller, visually muted like a TV movie. \u2014 Gem Seddon, Vulture , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Campus was quiet and morose , the silences quivering with early-term nerves. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Feb. 2021",
"Even as tech optimism is obvious, sentiment in much of the rest of the market remains morose . \u2014 James Mackintosh, WSJ , 6 Sep. 2020"
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"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"dire",
"disconsolate",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Already, America is watching BA.2\u2014the speedier sister to the viral morph that clobbered the country this winter (now retconned as BA.1)\u2014overtake its sibling and spark outbreaks, especially across the northeast. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The weather conditions were extreme for the rare 'blue morph ' Arctic fox. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"But should the current war morph into a longer-term insurgency, the scene for foreign fighters and supporters can change, with some sharpening ideological or political views or favoring extremist narratives. \u2014 Naureen Chowdhury Fink, CNN , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Nearly 80 percent of lemon frost geckos\u2014a type of genetic morph bred for their sunny color\u2014will develop this skin cancer that arises from pigment-producing cells called iridophores. \u2014 Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Dec. 2021",
"There have been some truly memorable fashion moments this year; from Amanda Gorman\u2019s Prada headband to Kim Kardashian\u2019s haute Balenciaga morph suit. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 19 Dec. 2021",
"As the years went by, Melfo saw the landscape morph . \u2014 Jonathan Moens, Wired , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Collins sported a green morph suit and a watermelon tunic. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 17 Sep. 2021",
"But the Fed is watching closely to see which sectors continue to see prices climb, and if peoples\u2019 expectations around inflation morph over time, too. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 July 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"So says Kristin Smith, president of the DTC furniture and d\u00e9cor rental service helping spaces morph into homes. \u2014 Jeffrey Steele, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"As parts of swathing budget cuts, the BBC announced late May that CBBC will morph from a broadcast to online channel. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 12 June 2022",
"For a country which is not linked to French colonization, this could be a warning sign that events in the Sahel may eventually morph into something much more significant in Africa. \u2014 Tom Collins, Quartz , 6 June 2022",
"Hands that morph from a tree trunk gently hold a bird\u2019s nest. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"For now, there's no word on whether the O2 will morph into a real production model. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 2 Mar. 2022",
"As the virus continues to morph , Dr. Walensky said the CDC must evaluate the efficacy of vaccines, therapeutics and tests for each new variant. \u2014 Chip Cutter, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"In the song\u2019s music video, Lamar stands alone, using deepfake technology to morph into famous doppelg\u00e4ngers. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Like Facebook, YouTube and other internet companies, Twitter was forced to morph from hard-liner on free expression to speech nanny. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022"
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"1947, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"Noun",
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"searching for any morsel of useful information",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Spring practice is complete, coaching staffs are set, the transfer cycle is coming to a close and a morsel of clarity has emerged from the Pac-12 haze. \u2014 oregonlive , 9 May 2022",
"So is five seconds on the floor the critical threshold that separates an edible morsel from a case of food poisoning",
"Naming some prospective new morsel of California is the easy, fun part. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Their young core \u2014 Smith, freshman Destiny Agubata, sophomore Jaiya Mix \u2014 went into the offseason with just a morsel of what a championship team could feel like. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Consumer audiences are being constructed from every morsel of data that companies can get their hands on. \u2014 Anil Malhotra, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The gulls began tearing at the morsel with violent enthusiasm. \u2014 Colin Barrett, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Junior guard Ellie Esplin actually found the first morsel in Springville\u2019s five-steal first half and finished with four of her own, as well as 13 points. \u2014 Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Dibi finds chunks of lamb or goat that benefit from an overnight sit with garlic and chile powder and Omar\u2019s knack for making sure each morsel leaves the charcoal fire crisp on all sides, but never burnt. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 June 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The actual act of killing gets morseled out as a tension-creating Big Reveal, fodder for flashforwards and cliffhangers. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 28 May 2020"
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"Every living creature is mortal .",
"He suffered a mortal wound in the battle.",
"Noun",
"stories about gods interfering in the lives of mortals",
"the troubles that come to ordinary mortals",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Realizing the bird was in mortal danger, a rescue team was dispatched to save it. \u2014 Allison Moses, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"The survivors realize soon enough this is no simple accident but a zombie apocalypse in which their very lives are in mortal danger. \u2014 Angela Dawson, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The mortal danger being invoked calls for brave heroes willing to sacrifice all on the altar of the cause. \u2014 Arie Kruglanski, The Conversation , 19 May 2022",
"In one retelling, Zeus\u2019s dear dog was stolen by the mortal Pandareus. \u2014 Liza Lentini, SPIN , 16 June 2022",
"Her husband, Tim, had suffered mortal injuries in a hard parachute landing at a New Mexico wildfire. \u2014 Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"One of two Republicans on the nine-person committee, Cheney has been dressed in shades of blue with her blonde hair glinting under the lights and her speech measured and unflinching, like a coroner detailing a body\u2019s mortal wounds. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"Sailors' paradise Since Morpheus has been gone, several dreams and nightmares have ended up scattered across the mortal realm. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 7 June 2022",
"Kevin Durant looked more mortal than ever, Kyrie Irving was reduced to spectator status after Game 1, and Ben Simmons never even saw the floor. \u2014 Rahat Huq, Chron , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The butterfly is an attribute of both the heroine Psyche (the mortal made immortal) and the soul. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The closest thing to one is Lemercier\u2019s insistence that Dion wasn\u2019t simply a larger-than-life icon but a mortal , too, with relatable worries about her children, her sleep schedule and, er, getting lost in her 40-room mansion. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Embedded in an experimental comedy is the tale of a tragic overreacher, a mortal who has come to assume a godlike dominion over the rest of the planet. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Semele, a pretty young mortal , caught the eye of Jupiter. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Then a mortal named Kid Cudi wanders by with an evenhanded guest verse, reminding us that this music is still of this world. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Enraged by the mortal \u2019s hubris, the gods seek vengeance and sentence her to an eternity of lower-back pain and overcooked steaks. \u2014 Laura Mishkin, The New Yorker , 9 July 2021",
"The all-powerful wizard or a mere mortal \u2014 the man behind the curtain",
"While the six-figure sum for the 2002 card may sound high to a mere mortal , Brady cards have gone for far more. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French mortel, mortal , from Latin mortalis , from mort-, mors death \u2014 more at murder":"Adjective and Adverb",
"see human entry 1":"Noun"
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"\u02c8m\u022fr-t\u1d4al",
"\u02c8m\u022frt-\u1d4al"
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"They've been mortal foes for many years."
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"nominally",
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]
},
"examples":[
"I'm mortally certain that I've seen that guy before.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Police said Edward Manier was mortally wounded in an altercation with another man in the parking lot off Convoy Street shortly after 12:20 a.m. after a gathering inside Hive. \u2014 Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"On June 15, 2012, Crenshaw was serving with the SEALs in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an IED mortally wounded his interpreter and severely wounded him. \u2014 Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"History suggests that Monday\u2019s vote leaves Mr. Johnson mortally wounded. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
"Alfredo Gonzalez, who was mortally wounded and awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. \u2014 Sam Roberts, New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"Officers would mortally wound the alleged hit man in a firefight at his house, police said. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Analysts said Johnson was badly bruised, but not mortally wounded in the local elections. \u2014 Amanda Ferguson And Karla Adam, Anchorage Daily News , 6 May 2022",
"The invasion force is not yet mortally wounded or ready to collapse. \u2014 David Hambling, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"In Sloviansk, a town in northern Donbas, the AP witnessed two soldiers arriving at the town\u2019s hospital, one of them mortally wounded. \u2014 David Keyton, Yesica Fisch, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Apr. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"sorely",
"spanking",
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"stinking",
"such",
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"supremely",
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"that",
"thumping",
"too",
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"way",
"whacking",
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"wildly"
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": glanders":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"probably modification of (assumed) obsolete French mort d'\u00e9chine , literally, death of the spine, from Middle French mort de eschine":""
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"\u02c8m\u022f(r)t\u0259(r)\u02ccsh\u0113n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113202",
"type":[
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"took out a mortgage in order to buy the house"
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},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He will have to take out a mortgage in order to buy the house.",
"They hope to pay off the mortgage on their home soon.",
"Verb",
"She mortgaged her house in order to buy the restaurant.",
"I've mortgaged all my free time this week to the hospice and won't be able to come to the party.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Thanks in part largely to the increase in mortgage rates due to the rate hikes announced by the Federal Reserve, the once very hot housing market in the United States has been experiencing a serious cooling off in recent months. \u2014 Andrew Depietro, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The typical calculations for buying vs. renting also are under new strains as mortgage rates surge alongside rental fees. \u2014 Alina Dizik, WSJ , 29 June 2022",
"America's red-hot housing market is starting to cool as mortgage rates spike. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
"This time, high mortgage rates, which began climbing earlier this year, have narrowed his prospects even further. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"Those rising mortgage rates have already had a huge impact. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 28 June 2022",
"The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set mortgage rates, held steady at 3.19%. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"And even at 6%, mortgage rates sit well below the May CPI reading of 8.5%. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 26 June 2022",
"Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates inched up this week following last week\u2019s mammoth jump, the biggest in 35 years. \u2014 Matt Ott, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The additional interest associated with higher rates is adding hundreds of dollars to mortgage payments. \u2014 Michele Lerner, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"Germany\u2019s decision to mortgage its energy future (and economy) to Russian oil and gas looks to be a strategic blunder of the first order \u2014 achieving neither energy security nor a more climate-friendly outcome. \u2014 John Hillen, National Review , 26 Mar. 2022",
"And coach Kyle Shanahan and GM John Lynch didn't mortgage the future to keep youngster Trey Lance, the No. 3 pick of the 2021 draft, on the bench for another year. \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The bill also proposed lowering the limit to mortgage debt of $250,000 or less. Supporters, including the Oregon Association of Realtors, have billed the policy as one that benefits and rewards homeowners. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Now that rates are spiking, so will mortgage payments for new borrowers. \u2014 Fortune , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The operation of the law school, however, was hampered by conflicts between the Cahns and the faculty, disorganization and financial woes that prompted the couple, at one point, to mortgage their house to sustain its operation. \u2014 Emily Langer, Washington Post , 27 Jan. 2022",
"And with numerous Fed rate hikes expected, the rate on the 10-year note could rise over time \u2014 and by extension, so would mortgage rates. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The company offers homebuyers mortgage financing and title agency services through its financial services segment. \u2014 Charles Rotblut, Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English morgage , from Anglo-French mortgage , from mort dead (from Latin mortuus ) + gage gage \u2014 more at murder":"Noun and Verb"
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"\u02c8m\u022fr-gij"
],
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"commit",
"engage",
"pledge",
"troth"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110111",
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"verb"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-131043",
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": to borrow a large amount of money that will have to be paid back in the future":[
"The city has mortgaged its future to pay for the new stadium.",
"\u2014 sometimes used figuratively Some critics say that she has mortgaged her political future on a program that is likely to fail."
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190400",
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]
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"definitions":{
": a person who mortgages property":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Anatoliy and Nataliya were listed in court records as mortgagors for a property that was part of a sheriff sale June 6, 2019. \u2014 Anna Kim, chicagotribune.com , 20 Nov. 2019",
"The less home price appreciation, the higher probability of default the mortgagor will have. \u2014 Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post , 15 Feb. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1543, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02ccm\u022fr-gi-\u02c8j\u022fr"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114741",
"type":[
"noun"
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"type":[]
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": undertaker sense 2":[]
},
"examples":[
"the mortician will take care of all of the arrangements for the funeral",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Years before her death last summer at the age of 85, Lois Woodburn cornered a mortician at a party to ask if she could be buried in the ocean. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The mortician explained that a full body burial at sea is a bit more complicated than simply heaving a corpse overboard. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
"In the embalming room of Compassion and Serenity, the mortician had finished his work. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Mar. 2022",
"There was the time an elderly neighbor died, and Holley carefully prepared her body for the mortician . \u2014 Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com , 9 Jan. 2022",
"But could a host of new challenges threaten its dominance",
"As a mortician , Miranda believes that viewing the body is of the utmost importance. \u2014 Megan Decker, refinery29.com , 29 July 2021",
"If a person dies with contacts in...does a mortician take them out",
"Bruce, a mortician and a high-school English teacher, concealed his homosexuality from his three children, and died at the age of forty-four; Helen, a devoted amateur actor, cultivated a chilly reserve. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 3 May 2021"
],
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"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin mort-, mors death":""
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"m\u022fr-\u02c8tish-\u0259n",
"m\u022fr-\u02c8ti-sh\u0259n"
],
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070420",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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": a headdress formerly worn by certain high functionaries of the law in France":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, mortier, vessel in which substances are pounded or rubbed":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031521",
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]
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"antonyms":[],
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": deadly , fatal":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin mortifer, mortiferus , from morti- (from mort-, mors death) + -fer, -ferus -fer, -ferous":""
},
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"(\u02c8)m\u022f(r)\u00a6tif(\u0259)r\u0259s"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131018",
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"noun,"
]
},
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": a sense of humiliation and shame caused by something that wounds one's pride or self-respect":[
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"\u2014 Washington Irving"
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"was customary to practice mortification during Lent"
]
},
"examples":[
"the mortification of being dumped the night before the prom",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"He\u2019s fascinated by ritual, runic mysticism and physical mortification , as well as visual compositions that favor firelight, shadows and bravura camera work. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"This metamorphosis is triggered by that all-powerful force known as matriarchal mortification , or in layman\u2019s terms, an embarrassing mom. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Now, after years of admiring such filmmakers to the point of mortification , Hader, 43, is becoming something more akin to a peer, taking on greater creative responsibility for one of TV\u2019s most cinematic shows. \u2014 Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 Mar. 2022",
"But both actors dive into the setup with such zeal that the characters\u2019 helplessness, the threat of social mortification and their frustrated inability to communicate with their daughter become quite endearing. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Mar. 2022",
"That the flippant nickname stuck to so august a trophy was a source of mortification to Mrs. Herrick. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Recent novels, however, are marked by mortification . \u2014 Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker , 25 Oct. 2021",
"There\u2019s mortification , bewilderment, klutzy desire and sometimes, between rounds of beer pong, the stirrings of self-discovery. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Nov. 2021",
"In another, Vincent casually but cruelly subjects himself to a self- mortification of vast symbolic import. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 5 Oct. 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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"\u02ccm\u022frt-\u0259-f\u0259-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u02ccm\u022fr-t\u0259-f\u0259-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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"fluster"
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"\u2014 Jane Austen"
]
},
"examples":[
"It mortified me to have to admit that I'd never actually read the book.",
"was mortified by her children's atrocious manners",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Combining meticulous scholarship with chilling storytelling, her book should mortify any reader who still doubts that America was in many ways built on a foundation of white supremacy and black oppression. \u2014 Harold Holzer, WSJ , 21 Mar. 2021",
"Sometimes someone would burst in without knocking, and I\u2019d be mortified at having to spit out what had accumulated before conversation could begin. \u2014 Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times , 20 Jan. 2020",
"Being stalked by an invisible enemy surely mortifies those with an obsessive-compulsive fear of germs, and deepens the distress of many who have experienced waves of uncontrollable anxiety before the epidemic. \u2014 Benedict Carey, New York Times , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Viewers of the Hulu drama were mortified at Elena's behavior throughout the episode, shocked that the woman could behave so terribly without a shred of remorse. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 16 Apr. 2020",
"Jane\u2019s skill at Mozart\u2019s Sonata in F shocks and amuses but isn\u2019t pleasing enough in the film to mortify us on Emma\u2019s account. \u2014 The Conversation , 27 Mar. 2020",
"Environmental groups that fended off oil rigs in the Arctic Refuge for four decades were mortified . \u2014 Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Oct. 2019",
"Environmental groups that fended off oil rigs in the Arctic Refuge for four decades were mortified . \u2014 Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Oct. 2019",
"In the aftermath, Emira, mortified , resolves to find a new job, while the well-meaning but delusional mom-blogger who employs her becomes obsessed with winning her affection and loyalty. \u2014 Elizabeth C. Gorski, The New Yorker , 13 Jan. 2020"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English mortifien , from Anglo-French mortifier , from Late Latin mortificare , from Latin mort-, mors":""
},
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"\u02c8m\u022fr-t\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b",
"\u02c8m\u022frt-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b"
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"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
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"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"nonplus",
"rattle"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003225",
"type":[
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"verb"
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},
"mortuary":{
"antonyms":[],
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": of, relating to, or characteristic of death":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the huge department store's mortuary atmosphere in its sad, last weeks of operation",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Fowles studied mortuary science on and off during her playing career and will eventually return to school. \u2014 New York Times , 8 May 2022",
"His future ambitions are to offer a free hospice and mortuary service in Mogadishu and to expand the ambulance service beyond the capital, eventually catering to the entire country. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"Kwok Hoi-bong, chairman of the Funeral Business Association, said that public mortuary refrigerators are so overwhelmed that temporary ones had to be installed outside the facilities. \u2014 Shibani Mahtani And Theodora Yu, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Mar. 2022",
"During his peaceful and prosperous reign, Amenhotep III built his mortuary temple in the ancient city of Thebes along the Nile River, now modern-day Luxor. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Archaeologists in Egypt recently rediscovered two sphinxes that guarded the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 27 Jan. 2022",
"These mortuary tablets represent people who migrated from Vietnam to Japan with the promise of a job or education. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Feb. 2022",
"No other animal species is so consistently included in human mortuary rituals. \u2014 Virginia Morell, Scientific American , 1 July 2015",
"At the start of the war, Sparks' attention was almost exclusively on the mortuary staff. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 24 July 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The convoy escorted the body of Darin Banks, 26, on Friday from Modesto to a mortuary in his home city of Red Bluff, 125 miles north of Sacramento. \u2014 Fox News , 13 May 2022",
"The same night, a body landed in the local mortuary with wounds all over. \u2014 Supriya Sharma, Quartz , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Authorities have placed 50 repurposed storage containers in a parking deck near an overflowing public mortuary to house 2,300 bodies. \u2014 Dan Strumpf And Elaine Yu, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Enlarge / Health care workers wearing personal protective equipment transport the body of a deceased patient onto a hearse outside the mortuary at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Father Timothy celebrated Mass for his St. Therese community in private home parlors, a tavern, even a mortuary . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Amelia is in her late 20s and working at her stepfather\u2019s mortuary . \u2014 New York Times , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Two days after her husband hanged himself, Rebecca Brown went to a mortuary to make final arrangements. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Bhekinkosi Ngcobo's family found his body at a local mortuary with a deep gash across his neck. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1865, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"Latin mortuarius of the dead, from mortuus dead":"Adjective"
},
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"\u02c8m\u022fr-ch\u0259-\u02ccwer-\u0113",
"-ch\u00fc-\u02ccer-"
],
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"dead",
"deadly",
"deathly",
"mortal"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095458",
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"noun"
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a globular solid mass of blastomeres formed by cleavage of a zygote that typically precedes the blastula":[]
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"\u02c8m\u022fr-(y)\u0259-l\u0259, \u02c8m\u00e4r-",
"\u02c8m\u022fr-(y)\u0259-l\u0259",
"\u02c8m\u00e4r-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin (in a German context), from Latin m\u014drum \"black mulberry, blackberry\" + New Latin -ula (as in gastrula , planula ) \u2014 more at mulberry":""
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"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145702"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163907"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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"Thanks in part largely to the increase in mortgage rates due to the rate hikes announced by the Federal Reserve, the once very hot housing market in the United States has been experiencing a serious cooling off in recent months. \u2014 Andrew Depietro, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The typical calculations for buying vs. renting also are under new strains as mortgage rates surge alongside rental fees. \u2014 Alina Dizik, WSJ , 29 June 2022",
"America's red-hot housing market is starting to cool as mortgage rates spike. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
"This time, high mortgage rates, which began climbing earlier this year, have narrowed his prospects even further. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"Those rising mortgage rates have already had a huge impact. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 28 June 2022",
"The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set mortgage rates, held steady at 3.19%. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"And even at 6%, mortgage rates sit well below the May CPI reading of 8.5%. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 26 June 2022",
"Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates inched up this week following last week\u2019s mammoth jump, the biggest in 35 years. \u2014 Matt Ott, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
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"The additional interest associated with higher rates is adding hundreds of dollars to mortgage payments. \u2014 Michele Lerner, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"Germany\u2019s decision to mortgage its energy future (and economy) to Russian oil and gas looks to be a strategic blunder of the first order \u2014 achieving neither energy security nor a more climate-friendly outcome. \u2014 John Hillen, National Review , 26 Mar. 2022",
"And coach Kyle Shanahan and GM John Lynch didn't mortgage the future to keep youngster Trey Lance, the No. 3 pick of the 2021 draft, on the bench for another year. \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The bill also proposed lowering the limit to mortgage debt of $250,000 or less. Supporters, including the Oregon Association of Realtors, have billed the policy as one that benefits and rewards homeowners. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Now that rates are spiking, so will mortgage payments for new borrowers. \u2014 Fortune , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The operation of the law school, however, was hampered by conflicts between the Cahns and the faculty, disorganization and financial woes that prompted the couple, at one point, to mortgage their house to sustain its operation. \u2014 Emily Langer, Washington Post , 27 Jan. 2022",
"And with numerous Fed rate hikes expected, the rate on the 10-year note could rise over time \u2014 and by extension, so would mortgage rates. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The company offers homebuyers mortgage financing and title agency services through its financial services segment. \u2014 Charles Rotblut, Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021"
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"The groom wore a morning coat .",
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"Jonas matched his wife in a white morning coat styled with silver necklaces and black trousers. \u2014 Glamour , 2 May 2022",
"The future king originally purchased the suit, which includes a morning coat , in 1984 from the brand Anderson & Sheppard. \u2014 Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country , 15 June 2021",
"The congregation will wear masks for the service and members of the royal family will wear day dress or morning coat with medals. \u2014 Maria Puente, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2021",
"Maurice Dancer, dressed in a black morning coat , stood with perfect posture at the concierge desk, behind a shield of plexiglass. \u2014 Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker , 15 Mar. 2021",
"And every March, the doctor donned a morning coat and joined a select group of guests in watching the St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade from the mansion\u2019s terrace \u2014 until the city shortened the route a decade ago. \u2014 Dan Barry, New York Times , 13 Mar. 2021",
"Torn between a crisp navy-and-gold lace suit or a severe black morning coat , Charles Francis Adams fretted over his first day of work. \u2014 Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine , 16 Jan. 2020",
"Instead, he's chosen to wear the traditional British morning coat . \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 12 Oct. 2018",
"For his part, Nadal wore what appeared to be an all-gray take on a morning suit, complete with a waistcoat and morning coat . \u2014 Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country , 21 Oct. 2019"
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"In 1735, a novel disease that looked a lot like morbillivirus in humans broke out in dogs in Ecuador and Peru. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Tigers are known to be vulnerable to rabies, anthrax and canine distemper, an often fatal morbillivirus commonly spread by stray dogs. \u2014 Gloria Dickie, New York Times , 22 Apr. 2020",
"Plus, there\u2019s currently no vaccine to inoculate monk seals from toxoplasmosis the way that HMSRP has been doing as a preventative against a morbillivirus outbreak. \u2014 Kim Steutermann Rogers, Smithsonian , 9 July 2018",
"The School of Oceanography at the State University of Rio de Janeiro confirmed that cetacean morbillivirus , which can infect dolphins, porpoises, and whales, killed the marine mammals. \u2014 Elaina Zachos, National Geographic , 12 Jan. 2018",
"Some 1,500 dolphins were killed by a single outbreak of morbilliviruses on the East Coast several years ago. \u2014 New York Times , 9 July 2018",
"Plus, there\u2019s currently no vaccine to inoculate monk seals from toxoplasmosis the way that HMSRP has been doing as a preventative against a morbillivirus outbreak. \u2014 Kim Steutermann Rogers, Smithsonian , 9 July 2018",
"In the northeastern United States, strains of morbillivirus killed harbor seals in 2006 and bottlenose dolphins between 1987 and 1988. \u2014 Elaina Zachos, National Geographic , 12 Jan. 2018",
"The last major mass casualty event for marine mammals in this part of the world took place from 2013 to 2015, when a resurgence of the morbillivirus killed thousands of bottlenose dolphins on the Eastern Seaboard. \u2014 Tatiana Schlossberg, New York Times , 27 Apr. 2017"
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"The kicker on the new loans will be an entirely new concept: Principal repayment is due only upon death of the mortgagee ! \u2014 Scott Burns, Dallas News , 31 Dec. 2020",
"Warren's plan also includes a suite of bankruptcy protections and pro-borrower policies, including allowing people to modify their mortgagees in bankruptcy. \u2014 Zak Hudak, CBS News , 7 Jan. 2020"
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"The disease causes high morbidity , with approximately 70 percent of cases requiring hospitalization. \u2014 Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune , 31 May 2022",
"Harris said investments in the latest federal budget proposal include, for example, about half a billion dollars to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity rates. \u2014 NBC News , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The bill would also likely increase the state\u2019s already-high infant and woman morbidity and mortality rates, intrude on the patient-physician relationship and possibly result in physicians fleeing the state, obstetricians and gynecologists said. \u2014 cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"So how does sitting in a sauna for 20 minutes multiple times a week achieve reductions in morbidity on par or exceeding that of prescription medication and other Western medicine interventions",
"Mortality and morbidity \u2014 the words their profession uses for death and illness \u2014 are on one side of the equation, and tools like seat belts, blood pressure medication, smoking-cessation programs and vaccines are on the other. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
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"Of 225 drug approvals for which mortality and morbidity information was listed on the FDA plan website, only 20% had data showing benefits and side effects for Black patients, according to the analysis, which was published in Health Affairs. \u2014 Ed Silverman, STAT , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The organization cited a new study, included in its weekly morbidity and mortality report, that examined the electronic health records of millions of patients at 40 U.S. health care systems between Jan. 1, 2021, and Jan. 31 of this year. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 2 Apr. 2022"
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"Each of the, say, two hundred and fifty passengers on each flight hanging unwittingly on each morpheme . \u2014 Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker , 12 Feb. 2017"
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"For tickets, go to theavalon.org/films/ morgan -wootten-godfather-basketball/. \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 12 Sep. 2017",
"MORGAN \u2019S JOURNEY\u2019 at the Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts Center, Kingsborough Community College (May 13, 2 p.m.). \u2014 Laurel Graeber, New York Times , 11 May 2017"
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"\u2014 H. J. Nelson"
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"While many shark species have the same tooth morphology throughout, the Port Jackson has teeth that looks different in the front and back. \u2014 Melissa Cristina M\u00e1rquez, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"No doubt Neandertals had a distinctive morphology , but many of their traits are also found much later in the modern people who followed them. \u2014 David W. Frayer, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Co-author John Capano of Brown University performed the x-ray experiments, using a technique known as XROMM (X-ray reconstruction of moving morphology ) to create X-ray movies of the snakes. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Rather there was probably a lot of variation in Neandertal morphology , and in later times some interbreeding occurred between them and our modern European ancestors. \u2014 David W. Frayer, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Researchers have identified three main smile subtypes, each with its own morphology and social functions: reward smiles, affiliation smiles and dominance smiles. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The team also examined the nits\u2019 morphology and attachment for information about their hosts\u2019 lives. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Dec. 2021",
"In healthy subjects screened with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), hs-cTns were associated with cardiac morphology (that is, cardiac mass and volume). \u2014 Christos Varounis, Scientific American , 3 Nov. 2021"
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"Deaths have plagued San Diego County\u2019s jails for more than a decade, according to a six-month investigation published by the Union-Tribune in 2019, which found San Diego County had the highest jail- mortality rate among California\u2019s largest counties. \u2014 Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 July 2022",
"The mortality cost can be used to quantitatively consider the impact of carbon emitting choices upon human life. \u2014 Matthew Meyer, Scientific American , 1 July 2022",
"Women of color, in particular, have a 41% higher mortality rate (per 100,000) from breast cancer than white women, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \u2014 Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer , 1 July 2022",
"States colored gray have maternal mortality figures that are too low to be reported or compared accurately. \u2014 Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News , 30 June 2022",
"Breast cancer mortality has fallen for everyone, but it\u2019s still 40% higher for Black women than for white women. \u2014 Angus Chen, STAT , 30 June 2022",
"In the Nigerian outbreak in 2017 (West African clade), mortality was as high as 3%. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 27 June 2022",
"Further research will be needed to confirm the findings and dig deeper into a possible link between all-cause mortality and respiratory illness, the researchers said. \u2014 Robert Hart, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Griffin\u2019s proposal includes a potential $35 million for home repairs and other housing assistance, plus money for other programs related to crime prevention and response, reducing infant mortality , arts and culture, and workforce development. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 27 June 2022"
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"noun"
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": a cheese-flavored cream sauce":[]
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"Philippe de Mornay":""
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"mortality rates of lung cancer patients",
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"noun"
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": wool taken from a dead sheep":[]
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"Middle English morlyng , probably modification (influenced by Middle English -lyng, -ling -ling) of Middle French morticine carrion":""
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"examples":[
"The students donned robes and mortarboards for graduation.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Meza then moved the tassel from one side of Hannah\u2019s mortarboard to the other. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"The ceremony took place quickly as Ebony Miller walked to a table in Indiana University Northwest\u2019s Anderson Library and flipped a blue tassel on a black mortarboard . \u2014 Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com , 9 June 2021",
"Angela Analoak-Bordenelli beaded forget-me-nots into her mortarboard . \u2014 Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2021",
"For the East High School graduation Tuesday, Melrose Meneses adorned her mortarboard with the golden sun of the flag of the Philippines. \u2014 Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2021",
"The material is taped to a cable beneath the helicopter\u2019s solar panel, which is perched on top like a graduate\u2019s mortarboard . \u2014 NBC News , 24 Mar. 2021",
"The material is taped to a cable beneath the helicopter's solar panel, which is perched on top like a graduate's mortarboard . \u2014 Marcia Dunn, The Enquirer , 24 Mar. 2021",
"The RiseUP mural shows a young woman wearing a mortarboard , a globe in the background, like a halo. \u2014 Susan Dunne, courant.com , 26 Sep. 2020",
"Inside or outside though, the graduates still moved their mortarboard tassels from right to left and received their diplomas. \u2014 Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle , 18 June 2020"
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": the influence of the past regarded as controlling the present":[]
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"New Latin matrimonium ad morganaticam , literally, marriage with morning gift":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"According to the Social Security Administration\u2019s mortality tables , an American man who turned 65 in 2014 (the most recent data available) had no greater risk of dying in the coming year than one who turned 60 in 1990, 55 in 1957, or 50 in 1900. \u2014 Fortune , 5 June 2018",
"The use of outdated mortality tables came to light during an earlier stage of the audit when Baker Tilly checked a random sample of pension files, Pechacek said Wednesday in correspondence to Milwaukee County Board supervisors. \u2014 Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 Oct. 2017",
"That prompted a closer look at the use of mortality tables and led to Wednesday's disclosure of additional costly errors. \u2014 Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 Oct. 2017"
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"\u2014 Boris von Anrep"
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"Middle English morter , from Anglo-French morter, mortier , from Latin mortarium":"Noun"
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"\u2014 Robert Browning"
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"noun"
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": a sin (such as murder) that is deliberately committed and is of such serious consequence according to Thomist theology that it deprives the soul of sanctifying grace \u2014 compare venial sin sense 1":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Leaving your children is only a mortal sin , apparently, when women do it. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 25 Jan. 2022",
"During La Russa\u2019s managerial heyday, swinging at a 3-0 pitch in a rout was considered a mortal sin . \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 19 May 2021",
"But more telling is that social media lights the fuse to the mortal sin of comparison. \u2014 Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online , 15 May 2021",
"The 13-year-old Lizzie learns how to navigate middle school, from begging her parents for a bra to trying to avoid the mortal sin of being \u2014 gasp! \u2014 an outfit repeater. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 10 May 2021",
"Cheney has committed what is considered to be a mortal sin by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Trump by not toeing the party line. \u2014 Star Tribune , 11 May 2021",
"In the eyes of the GOP, Cheney's mortal sin is her temerity in stating the truth about Trump's 2020 election loss and refusal to absolve the former president of his role in inciting the insurrection of January 6th. \u2014 Charlie Dent, CNN , 10 May 2021",
"So far from being an absolute moral imperative, voting was proscribed in Italy under pain of mortal sin as recently as a century ago. \u2014 Matthew Walther, TheWeek , 16 Aug. 2020",
"Staying home from Sunday Mass under these circumstances is not a mortal sin , the archdiocese said. \u2014 Peggy O\u2019hare, ExpressNews.com , 13 Mar. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fenwick stands 50-1 on the morning line , an afterthought amid the entries of blue-blooded, monied heavyweights like Steve Asmussen, Chad Brown and Doug O\u2019Neill. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 May 2022",
"Fourth-place Derby finisher Simplification is the 6-1 fourth choice in the morning line . \u2014 Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun , 16 May 2022",
"Rich Strike was not expected to be the morning line favorite for the Preakness, with Derby runner-up Epicenter and Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Oath set to be part of the field. \u2014 Stephen Whyno, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
"There\u2019s plenty of respect for the chances of 6-1 Simplification, who was fourth in the Derby, as well as 7-2 second choice on the morning line Early Voting. \u2014 Stephen Whyno, Hartford Courant , 20 May 2022",
"Epicenter is the heavy 6-5 favorite in the morning line and will be tough to beat. \u2014 Jason Frakes, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"Epicenter could be favored in the morning line over Rich Strike, who had won just once in seven career starts before the Derby. \u2014 Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun , 11 May 2022",
"Epicenter has morning-line odds of 7-2, and Mo Donegal is at 10-1, tied with White Abarrio for fourth-best in the morning line . \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 2 May 2022",
"Trained by John Ortiz, Barber Road is the 9-2 second choice in the Rebel morning line . \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 24 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In real life, the interaction between big-money philanthropy and philanthropy-reliant institutions like universities, charities, and museums is more of a business negotiation than a morality play . \u2014 Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Everyone knows how bubble stock stories like this usually end, but Jakab moves this particular morality play into new territory. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Amid grinding tension and flares of violence, the series had fundamentally been a morality play that captured life\u2019s ordinary texture in arresting ways. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Moses\u2019 life changes forever \u2014 initially feels like a morality play with everyone playing the most obvious version of their part. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 8 Apr. 2022",
"But the morality play involving Pete will be relevant as long as morality plays exist. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The morality play of that era involved the misdeeds of record labels, who had a long history of exploiting musicians, and who responded to file sharing by suing college students. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 2 Feb. 2022",
"That leaves us with one morality play neverending and two guys with their noses pressed to the Cooperstown glass. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 26 Jan. 2022",
"His novels, rich in themes and scenes drawn from his own peasant beginnings, amounted to a continuing morality play about the poverty and class divisions of the Philippines, a nation seemingly in thrall to fiefs, oligarchies and political dynasties. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Jan. 2022"
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"\u2014 Times Literary Supplement"
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"\u2014 Pauline R. Fadiman"
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"(\u02c8)m\u022f(r)\u00a6d\u0101sh\u0259s"
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"For tickets, go to theavalon.org/films/ morgan -wootten-godfather-basketball/. \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 12 Sep. 2017",
"MORGAN \u2019S JOURNEY\u2019 at the Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts Center, Kingsborough Community College (May 13, 2 p.m.). \u2014 Laurel Graeber, New York Times , 11 May 2017"
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"Justin Morgan \u20201798 American teacher":"Noun"
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"True blue is a rare color in the garden, but 'Blue Daze' Evolvulus, a dwarf morning glory , offers it in spades. \u2014 Terri Robertson, Country Living , 22 June 2022",
"Calico aster, eastern white pine, southern sugar maple, scarlet morning glory . \u2014 Tiana Clark, The Atlantic , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Lastly, ground morning glory (Convolvulus sabatius) is my go-to ground cover that will make do with very little water once established and is useful for helping to stabilize hills that suffer soil erosion. \u2014 Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Using everything from oyster castles to water boulevards, morning glory vines to dune fences, the push is on to create living coastlines, engineered to channel nature\u2019s powers rather than hold them at bay. \u2014 Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Sep. 2021",
"Continue to plant summer color such as lantana and pentas, but add fall color plants like asters, celosia, cosmos, marigolds, morning glory , Joseph\u2019s coat, ornamental grasses, Mexican bush sage and zinnias. \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 28 June 2021",
"The National Autonomous University's botanical gardens are filled with flowering morning glory , agave plants and cactuses that provide the bats with food; their long tongues and noses have evolved to drink nectar from the blooms. \u2014 Fabiola Sanchez, Star Tribune , 21 May 2021",
"Pre-order a brunch kit with spring strata, local greens salad, spelt flour morning glory bread and super seedy granola. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 3 May 2021",
"So far, however, more than a dozen of the seed types identified by the agency have turned out to be innocuous species such as mustard, cabbage and morning glory as well as herbs like mint, sage, rosemary and lavender. \u2014 Alain Sherter, CBS News , 7 Sep. 2020"
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"William Thomas Green 1819\u20131868 American dentist":[]
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"m\u022f-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Their best strain is Variant 195, a type of black morel that develops fast and can be harvested early. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 May 2022",
"The Society not only does morel identification but offers courses on edible mushrooms of other varieties as well. \u2014 Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star , 19 Apr. 2022",
"From travel destinations to seminars for fishing, morel mushroom hunting and training hunting dogs, there's something for every outdoors lover. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Throughout it all, woodland ingredients were ever present, whether as a focal point (a single morel roasted and served with onion jus as an amuse bouche) or garnish (a confetti of wild rose petals to accent a spring-pea dish). \u2014 Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Across the country only Oregon (Pacific Northern chanterelle) and Minnesota (common morel ) have made the motion to designate an official state mushroom, this summer, Texas became the third. \u2014 Chron , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Our state mushroom since 1984, the common morel makes fabulous eating but not raw. \u2014 Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune , 6 May 2021",
"So give a sister a chance, and go to La Griglia for its short-rib agnolotti accompanied by a botanical blend of baby carrots, English peas and morel as well as beech mushrooms, in a slightly sweet sherry wine reduction. \u2014 Joanna O'leary, Chron , 27 Oct. 2020",
"Those include potato gnocchi with morels , a half chicken and a lamb leg roast in the $28-$31 range (feeds 2-3). \u2014 Michael Russell, oregonlive , 6 May 2020"
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"\u2014 P. A. Sorokin"
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"city southeast of San Jose in western California population 37,882":[]
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}
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