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{
"Terry":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"(Alice) Ellen 1847\u20131928 English actress":[],
": an absorbent fabric with such loops":[],
": the loop forming the pile in uncut pile fabrics":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This crewneck has the feel of your college varsity crewneck and the sophisticated look of a PhD professor, thanks to the dense, mid-weight cotton French terry . \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 17 May 2022",
"Mack Weldon and Buck Mason's terry sweatpants are equal parts soft and slightly scratchy. \u2014 Sarah Madaus, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"James Perse collection includes a variety of styles, for both men and women, that range from T-shirts similar to the team's jersey to comfortable hoodies and sweatpants made from French terry , as well as other essential accessories. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 1 June 2022",
"The traditional athletic cut ensures a snug fit while the French terry cotton fabric gets better with every wash. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 17 May 2022",
"Think rugby and polo shirts featuring a new 1977 insignia, cable knit turtleneck sweaters, \u201990s barn jackets redone in cool cotton blends, and wardrobe staples rendered in French terry and jersey. \u2014 Kristen Bateman, Vogue , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Made from The Organic Company's Calm fabric, a two-sided cotton terry that's soft to the touch, this robe is perfect for lounging around the house. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 14 Apr. 2022",
"As its name implies, the crew neck top is something that can be worn often thanks to its soft and lightweight, yet cozy French terry and cotton fabrication. \u2014 Ariel Scotti, PEOPLE.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Tech flex sports bras and French terry rugby tops can be mixed to match the day\u2019s class. \u2014 Vogue , 3 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1784, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps modification of French tir\u00e9 , past participle of tirer to draw":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ter-\u0113",
"\u02c8te-r\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032744",
"type":[
"biographical name",
"noun"
]
},
"Terry clock":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": pillar and scroll":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"after Eli Terry \u20201852 American clock manufacturer":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6ter\u0113-",
"-ri-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090019",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"tergiversate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to engage in tergiversation":[]
},
"examples":[
"shamelessly tergiversating , the witness replied, \u201cWell, it depends upon what your definition of \u2018truth\u2019 is\u201d"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1590, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin tergiversatus , past participle of tergiversari to show reluctance, from tergum back + versare to turn, frequentative of vertere to turn \u2014 more at worth":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8gi-",
"\u02cct\u0259r-\u02c8ji-v\u0259r-\u02ccs\u0101t",
"\u02cct\u0259r-j\u0259-\u02c8v\u0259r-",
"\u02c8t\u0259r-j\u0259-v\u0259r-\u02ccs\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"equivocate",
"fudge",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"waffle",
"weasel"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103050",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"tergiversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith":[],
": evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement : equivocation":[]
},
"examples":[
"like most politicians, he has the gift for tergiversation"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cct\u0259r-\u02ccji-v\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u02cct\u0259r-ji-(\u02cc)v\u0259r-",
"-\u02ccgi-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"circumlocution",
"equivocation",
"shuffle"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220508",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"terlinguaite":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mineral Hg 2 ClO consisting of a mercuric oxychloride and occurring in yellow monoclinic crystals (hardness 2\u20133, specific gravity 8.7)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Terlingua , Brewster county, Texas + English -ite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)t\u0259r\u02c8li\u014bgw\u0259\u02cc\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105441",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"term":{
"antonyms":[
"baptize",
"call",
"christen",
"clepe",
"denominate",
"designate",
"dub",
"entitle",
"label",
"name",
"nominate",
"style",
"title"
],
"definitions":{
": a quadrangular pillar often tapering downward and adorned on the top with the figure of a head or the upper part of the body":[],
": a state of acceptance or understanding":[
"came to terms with the failure of his marriage"
],
": a unitary or compound expression connected with another by a plus or minus sign":[],
": a word or expression that has a precise meaning in some uses or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or subject":[
"legal terms"
],
": agreement , concord":[
"come to terms after extensive negotiations"
],
": an element of a fraction or proportion or of a series or sequence":[],
": any of the three substantive elements of a syllogism":[],
": division in a school year during which instruction is regularly given to students":[],
": expression of a specified kind":[
"described in glowing terms"
],
": in accordance with one's wishes : in one's own way":[
"prefers to live on his own terms"
],
": mutual relationship : footing":[
"on good terms"
],
": provisions that determine the nature and scope of an agreement : conditions":[
"terms of sale",
"liberal credit terms"
],
": the time at which a pregnancy of normal length terminates":[
"had her baby at full term"
],
": the time during which a court is in session":[],
": to apply a term to : call , name":[],
": with respect to or in relation to":[
"thinks of everything in terms of money"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"\u201cI had the feeling that I had been there before.\u201d \u201cThe term for that is \u2018d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.\u2019\u201d",
"That's an outdated term that no one uses anymore.",
"He spoke about them in glowing terms .",
"The law had been understood in broad terms .",
"The governor will run for a second term .",
"He is currently serving his third term in the U.S. Senate.",
"He was sentenced to a ten-year term in the state penitentiary.",
"The term of the contract is 60 months.",
"His grades have improved since last term .",
"English 122 is not offered this term .",
"Verb",
"They termed the structure a \u201cdouble helix.\u201d",
"The project was termed a success.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Some conservative lawmakers in Iran have told news outlets that the replacement of Taeb was nothing out of the ordinary and that his term had simply come to an end. \u2014 Ronen Bergman, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"Leavitt is in his first term as Utah County attorney. \u2014 Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart was seeking his fifth term Tuesday, facing off against Chicago police Sgt. \u2014 Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"First elected in 2016, Huntsville City Councilman Devyn Keith is in his second term as the District 1 representative. \u2014 al , 28 June 2022",
"Now Murthy is leaning heavily into mental health initiatives, the unfinished business of his first term . \u2014 Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"But seeing Cheney excel in Washington made losing easier \u2014 she was elected GOP Conference chair at the end of her first term in office, the No. 3 spot in party leadership. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Igot to Budapest on May 16th, the day Viktor Orb\u00e1n was sworn in for his fourth consecutive term as Prime Minister. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Barca kick off the 2022/2023 season against the same opposition in mid-August, and finishing trophyless in his first full term might spell the exit door for Xavi too. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Beijing has so far declined to criticize Russia or even to term its actions in Ukraine an invasion, expressing sympathy with the security concerns Moscow has cited as among the reasons for the military assault. \u2014 Alex Leary And Lingling Wei, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"As laid out in a TIME examination of the case, their common account has since been contradicted by forensic evidence gathered by Franklin\u2019s family, who term his death an assassination. \u2014 Karl Vick, Time , 7 Oct. 2021",
"In those critical pre-landfall hours, the storm underwent a process that scientists term rapid intensification \u2014 and this is where warming temperatures plays a pivotal role in generating more powerful hurricanes. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 31 Aug. 2021",
"To put it mildly, this is not a great way to embark on the road towards a \u2018new world order\u2019 as many politicians now term it, or the building of the post COVID economy. \u2014 Mike O'sullivan, Forbes , 29 May 2021",
"Vogel said James came out of Monday's practice fine and would not term Tuesday's absence as precautionary. \u2014 Joe Reedy, Star Tribune , 11 May 2021",
"It\u2019s that experienced depth that has caused head coach Kane Wommack to term the defensive line the leaders of the South Alabama defense. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 9 Apr. 2021",
"The Lions are in a state of rebuild, no matter how Holmes wants to term it, and the only way to do that properly is to tear the organization down to its studs. \u2014 Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press , 24 Jan. 2021",
"At the same time, Gov. Jerry Brown was set to term out in 2018. \u2014 Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com , 3 Nov. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 6b":"Noun",
"1545, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English terme , from Anglo-French, from Latin terminus boundary marker, limit; akin to Greek term\u014dn boundary, end, Sanskrit tarman top of a post":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8t\u0259rm"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"hitch",
"stint",
"tenure",
"tour"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015315",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"term insurance":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": insurance for a specified period that provides for no payment to the insured except on losses during the period and that becomes void upon its expiration":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Visitors insurance is short- term insurance , primarily focused on medical coverage, to protect you during your travels. \u2014 Christopher Elliott, Forbes , 15 Oct. 2021",
"People who hold life insurance, term insurance , disability insurance and many annuities receive dividends from Northwestern Mutual. \u2014 Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Many older homeowners prefer to leave their home equity alone as long- term insurance against unexpected expenses like health costs, and instead take out a home equity credit line as needed. \u2014 Next Avenue, Forbes , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Customers also need to take out short- term insurance and items must be returned to the shop in the condition they were loaned. \u2014 Roxanne Robinson, Forbes , 24 May 2021",
"However, a whole-life or universal-life policy may cost 5 to 15 times more than a term insurance policy with the same death benefit. \u2014 Brandon Marz, Forbes , 21 May 2021",
"Policy owners purchase term insurance for all types of great reasons, including to coincide with paying off major financial obligations, such as a mortgage, college tuition or expenses for raising children. \u2014 Brandon Marz, Forbes , 21 May 2021",
"Officials plan to tighten the rules for private short- term insurance plans that are not required to cover a full set of benefits. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Feb. 2021",
"Pope, though, says that short- term insurance markets offer plans with different levels of quality, and consumers can choose those higher-quality plans. \u2014 David Hogberg, Washington Examiner , 18 Jan. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1897, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233334",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"termagancy":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being termagant : habitual bad temper : scolding disposition":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"termagant + -cy":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8t\u0259rm\u0259g\u0259ns\u0113",
"\u02c8t\u0259im-",
"\u02c8t\u0259\u0304m-",
"-si"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205044",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"termagant":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a deity erroneously ascribed to Islam by medieval European Christians and represented in early English drama as a violent character":[],
": an overbearing or nagging woman : shrew":[],
": overbearing , shrewish":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the film belongs to Moreno, clearly relishing the chance to play an unapologetic termagant . \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Rita may be a bossy termagant , but her adoring Beppe appears to love being whacked around from time to time, so what\u2019s the harm"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1546, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-g\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"battle-ax",
"battle-axe",
"dragon lady",
"fury",
"harpy",
"harridan",
"shrew",
"virago",
"vixen"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055133",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"termed":{
"antonyms":[
"baptize",
"call",
"christen",
"clepe",
"denominate",
"designate",
"dub",
"entitle",
"label",
"name",
"nominate",
"style",
"title"
],
"definitions":{
": a quadrangular pillar often tapering downward and adorned on the top with the figure of a head or the upper part of the body":[],
": a state of acceptance or understanding":[
"came to terms with the failure of his marriage"
],
": a unitary or compound expression connected with another by a plus or minus sign":[],
": a word or expression that has a precise meaning in some uses or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or subject":[
"legal terms"
],
": agreement , concord":[
"come to terms after extensive negotiations"
],
": an element of a fraction or proportion or of a series or sequence":[],
": any of the three substantive elements of a syllogism":[],
": division in a school year during which instruction is regularly given to students":[],
": expression of a specified kind":[
"described in glowing terms"
],
": in accordance with one's wishes : in one's own way":[
"prefers to live on his own terms"
],
": mutual relationship : footing":[
"on good terms"
],
": provisions that determine the nature and scope of an agreement : conditions":[
"terms of sale",
"liberal credit terms"
],
": the time at which a pregnancy of normal length terminates":[
"had her baby at full term"
],
": the time during which a court is in session":[],
": to apply a term to : call , name":[],
": with respect to or in relation to":[
"thinks of everything in terms of money"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"\u201cI had the feeling that I had been there before.\u201d \u201cThe term for that is \u2018d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.\u2019\u201d",
"That's an outdated term that no one uses anymore.",
"He spoke about them in glowing terms .",
"The law had been understood in broad terms .",
"The governor will run for a second term .",
"He is currently serving his third term in the U.S. Senate.",
"He was sentenced to a ten-year term in the state penitentiary.",
"The term of the contract is 60 months.",
"His grades have improved since last term .",
"English 122 is not offered this term .",
"Verb",
"They termed the structure a \u201cdouble helix.\u201d",
"The project was termed a success.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Some conservative lawmakers in Iran have told news outlets that the replacement of Taeb was nothing out of the ordinary and that his term had simply come to an end. \u2014 Ronen Bergman, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"Leavitt is in his first term as Utah County attorney. \u2014 Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart was seeking his fifth term Tuesday, facing off against Chicago police Sgt. \u2014 Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"First elected in 2016, Huntsville City Councilman Devyn Keith is in his second term as the District 1 representative. \u2014 al , 28 June 2022",
"Now Murthy is leaning heavily into mental health initiatives, the unfinished business of his first term . \u2014 Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"But seeing Cheney excel in Washington made losing easier \u2014 she was elected GOP Conference chair at the end of her first term in office, the No. 3 spot in party leadership. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Igot to Budapest on May 16th, the day Viktor Orb\u00e1n was sworn in for his fourth consecutive term as Prime Minister. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Barca kick off the 2022/2023 season against the same opposition in mid-August, and finishing trophyless in his first full term might spell the exit door for Xavi too. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Beijing has so far declined to criticize Russia or even to term its actions in Ukraine an invasion, expressing sympathy with the security concerns Moscow has cited as among the reasons for the military assault. \u2014 Alex Leary And Lingling Wei, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"As laid out in a TIME examination of the case, their common account has since been contradicted by forensic evidence gathered by Franklin\u2019s family, who term his death an assassination. \u2014 Karl Vick, Time , 7 Oct. 2021",
"In those critical pre-landfall hours, the storm underwent a process that scientists term rapid intensification \u2014 and this is where warming temperatures plays a pivotal role in generating more powerful hurricanes. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 31 Aug. 2021",
"To put it mildly, this is not a great way to embark on the road towards a \u2018new world order\u2019 as many politicians now term it, or the building of the post COVID economy. \u2014 Mike O'sullivan, Forbes , 29 May 2021",
"Vogel said James came out of Monday's practice fine and would not term Tuesday's absence as precautionary. \u2014 Joe Reedy, Star Tribune , 11 May 2021",
"It\u2019s that experienced depth that has caused head coach Kane Wommack to term the defensive line the leaders of the South Alabama defense. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 9 Apr. 2021",
"The Lions are in a state of rebuild, no matter how Holmes wants to term it, and the only way to do that properly is to tear the organization down to its studs. \u2014 Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press , 24 Jan. 2021",
"At the same time, Gov. Jerry Brown was set to term out in 2018. \u2014 Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com , 3 Nov. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 6b":"Noun",
"1545, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English terme , from Anglo-French, from Latin terminus boundary marker, limit; akin to Greek term\u014dn boundary, end, Sanskrit tarman top of a post":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8t\u0259rm"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"hitch",
"stint",
"tenure",
"tour"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213201",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"terminal":{
"antonyms":[
"beginning",
"earliest",
"first",
"foremost",
"headmost",
"inaugural",
"initial",
"leadoff",
"maiden",
"opening",
"original",
"pioneer",
"primary",
"starting"
],
"definitions":{
": a combination of a keyboard and output device (such as a video display unit) by which data can be entered into or output from a computer or electronic communications system":[],
": a device attached to the end of a wire or cable or to an electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections":[],
": a freight or passenger station that is central to a considerable area or serves as a junction at any point with other lines":[],
": a part that forms the end : extremity , termination":[],
": a terminating usually ornamental detail : finial":[],
": a town or city at the end of a carrier line : terminus":[],
": approaching or close to death : being in the final stages of a fatal disease":[
"a terminal patient"
],
": either end of a carrier line having facilities for the handling of freight and passengers":[],
": extremely or hopelessly severe":[
"terminal boredom"
],
": growing at the end of a branch or stem":[
"a terminal bud"
],
": leading ultimately to death : fatal":[
"terminal cancer"
],
": not intended as preparation for further academic work":[
"a terminal curriculum"
],
": occurring at or constituting the end of a period or series : concluding":[
"the terminal moments of life"
],
": of or relating to an end, extremity, boundary, or terminus":[
"a terminal pillar"
],
": of or relating to patients with a terminal illness":[
"terminal care"
],
": of, relating to, or occurring in a term or each term":[
"terminal payments"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"She was diagnosed with terminal cancer.",
"I was suffering from terminal boredom.",
"another person with terminal stupidity",
"branches that end in a terminal bud",
"Noun",
"I will meet you outside the bus terminal .",
"Flight 1584 is now departing from Gate 6 in Terminal A.",
"You are not allowed in the terminal without a ticket.",
"Ten terminals are connected to this server.",
"You will need to clean the corrosion off the battery terminals .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"In 2014, Zauner's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. \u2014 Ken Olshansky, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"The following year, after her stepmother, Randy Milden, a psychologist and writer, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in January 2020, Ms. Mayer went to Berkeley to be with Ms. Milden and her father, Steven Mayer, who is also a lawyer. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"Schjeldahl, a heavy smoker all his life, is diagnosed with terminal cancer (to date, he's held it at bay). \u2014 Joan Frank, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Nate Affleck, who unsuccessfully ran for the Utah House this year, contacted The Tribune claiming Stevenson may have terminal cancer and was attempting to hide the information from voters ahead of the election. \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"This memoir by a neurosurgeon grappling with his own terminal cancer diagnosis is both gutting and illuminating. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
"Other studies suggest that psychedelics can help with major depression and existential anxiety resulting, for instance, from a terminal cancer diagnosis. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Glioblastoma, also known as GBM, is a rare form of terminal cancer that kills more than 10,000 Americans a year, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 18 Apr. 2022",
"After Hitchens was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Collins offered to help, visited Hitchens in his home, and got to know his family. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Delta also poured a ton of energy into the terminal itself. \u2014 Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
"On March 13, Luba walked into the terminal at Sacramento International Airport, now one of the 6 million refugees who, according to the U.N.\u2019s International Organization for Migration, have fled the Russian forces in Ukraine. \u2014 Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle , 15 May 2022",
"The route runs from the Medyka terminal on the Polish-Ukrainian border to the Port of Klaipeda in Lithuania. \u2014 Drew Hinshaw, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"More displaced Ukrainians had packed into the main terminal , bundled in heavy coats, sleeping on benches or on the cold tile floor. \u2014 Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Marty Chavez stepped into the terminal at Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport for his flight to Ohio early Tuesday and frantically began to search for his mask. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Arrivals and departures are continuing but local arriving passengers are temporarily not being allowed into the terminal , for the time being, CLT said. \u2014 Fox News , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Our favorite nighttime destination was Heavenly Village, and collection of shops, restaurants, outdoor music, and a skating rink by the California-Nevada line on Route 50, not far from the terminal for the Heavenly gondola. \u2014 David Mckay Wilson, USA TODAY , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The revenue offsets the outstanding bond payments on the cruise terminal . \u2014 al , 5 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3a":"Adjective",
"1838, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin terminalis , from terminus":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8t\u0259rm-n\u0259l",
"\u02c8t\u0259rm-n\u0259l, -\u0259n-\u1d4al",
"\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-n\u1d4al"
],
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"latest",
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"rearmost",
"terminating",
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"adjective",
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": an intonation pattern signaling the end of an utterance or a break between utterances":[]
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"noun"
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": a final leave consisting of accumulated unused leave granted to a member of the armed forces just prior to separation or discharge from service":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1944, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"begin",
"commence",
"inaugurate",
"open",
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"terminate a marriage by divorce",
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": to come to an end in time":[],
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"review questions terminate each chapter"
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": to serve as an ending, limit, or boundary of":[]
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"The branches of that tree terminate in flower clusters.",
"The rail line terminates in Boston.",
"You have to terminate the program before the computer will shut down properly.",
"His contract was terminated last month.",
"He was terminated last month.",
"Plans are being made to terminate unproductive employees.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"For example, a movement by the anti-privacy contingent is suggesting that companies who help employees terminate their pregnancies, even in another state, should not be able to do business in Texas. \u2014 Carrie Siubutt, Fortune , 22 June 2022",
"On the archipelago, pregnant individuals can terminate a pregnancy without restrictions during any stage in their pregnancy \u2014 but this right is attacked more and more each day. \u2014 Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com , 16 June 2022",
"Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine has caused the international market to terminate relationships with Russian oil companies, shrinking the global supply. \u2014 Rebecca Schneid, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"The city has repeatedly threatened to terminate the company\u2019s lease, as recently as January, according to court records. \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Match and Google can terminate their new agreement, but Match retains the option to reinstate its request for a temporary restraining order if that happens, Match said. \u2014 Will Feuer, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"In Delaware, physicians can legally terminate a pregnancy up until the point the fetus becomes viable, after which abortions are banned unless the procedure is essential to protect the pregnant person's life or health. \u2014 Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"The lease would run 10 years with options for two five-year extensions \u2014 but would terminate immediately, turning over control of the site to UMBC, whenever the state vacates the hospital complex. \u2014 Alison Knezevich, Baltimore Sun , 9 May 2022",
"Women can terminate pregnancy up to 20 weeks, but only on a doctor's advice. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 7 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"That control gave Puglisi the sole authority to set up new credit card accounts, change spending limits, manage card access and terminate accounts. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Aug. 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English, from Latin terminatus , past participle of terminare , from terminus":"Adjective"
},
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"\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-n\u0259t",
"\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for terminate Verb close , end , conclude , finish , complete , terminate mean to bring or come to a stopping point or limit. close usually implies that something has been in some way open as well as unfinished. close a debate end conveys a strong sense of finality. ended his life conclude may imply a formal closing (as of a meeting). the service concluded with a blessing finish may stress completion of a final step in a process. after it is painted, the house will be finished complete implies the removal of all deficiencies or a successful finishing of what has been undertaken. the resolving of this last issue completes the agreement terminate implies the setting of a limit in time or space. your employment terminates after three months",
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"close",
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"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
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"wind up",
"wrap up"
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"verb"
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"terminate a marriage by divorce",
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": to serve as an ending, limit, or boundary of":[]
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"Verb",
"The branches of that tree terminate in flower clusters.",
"The rail line terminates in Boston.",
"You have to terminate the program before the computer will shut down properly.",
"His contract was terminated last month.",
"He was terminated last month.",
"Plans are being made to terminate unproductive employees.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"For example, a movement by the anti-privacy contingent is suggesting that companies who help employees terminate their pregnancies, even in another state, should not be able to do business in Texas. \u2014 Carrie Siubutt, Fortune , 22 June 2022",
"On the archipelago, pregnant individuals can terminate a pregnancy without restrictions during any stage in their pregnancy \u2014 but this right is attacked more and more each day. \u2014 Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com , 16 June 2022",
"Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine has caused the international market to terminate relationships with Russian oil companies, shrinking the global supply. \u2014 Rebecca Schneid, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"The city has repeatedly threatened to terminate the company\u2019s lease, as recently as January, according to court records. \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Match and Google can terminate their new agreement, but Match retains the option to reinstate its request for a temporary restraining order if that happens, Match said. \u2014 Will Feuer, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"In Delaware, physicians can legally terminate a pregnancy up until the point the fetus becomes viable, after which abortions are banned unless the procedure is essential to protect the pregnant person's life or health. \u2014 Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"The lease would run 10 years with options for two five-year extensions \u2014 but would terminate immediately, turning over control of the site to UMBC, whenever the state vacates the hospital complex. \u2014 Alison Knezevich, Baltimore Sun , 9 May 2022",
"Women can terminate pregnancy up to 20 weeks, but only on a doctor's advice. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 7 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"That control gave Puglisi the sole authority to set up new credit card accounts, change spending limits, manage card access and terminate accounts. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Aug. 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
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"Middle English, from Latin terminatus , past participle of terminare , from terminus":"Adjective"
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"\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t",
"\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-n\u0259t"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for terminate Verb close , end , conclude , finish , complete , terminate mean to bring or come to a stopping point or limit. close usually implies that something has been in some way open as well as unfinished. close a debate end conveys a strong sense of finality. ended his life conclude may imply a formal closing (as of a meeting). the service concluded with a blessing finish may stress completion of a final step in a process. after it is painted, the house will be finished complete implies the removal of all deficiencies or a successful finishing of what has been undertaken. the resolving of this last issue completes the agreement terminate implies the setting of a limit in time or space. your employment terminates after three months",
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"end",
"finish",
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"wind up",
"wrap up"
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"terminate a marriage by divorce",
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"Verb",
"The branches of that tree terminate in flower clusters.",
"The rail line terminates in Boston.",
"You have to terminate the program before the computer will shut down properly.",
"His contract was terminated last month.",
"He was terminated last month.",
"Plans are being made to terminate unproductive employees.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"For example, a movement by the anti-privacy contingent is suggesting that companies who help employees terminate their pregnancies, even in another state, should not be able to do business in Texas. \u2014 Carrie Siubutt, Fortune , 22 June 2022",
"On the archipelago, pregnant individuals can terminate a pregnancy without restrictions during any stage in their pregnancy \u2014 but this right is attacked more and more each day. \u2014 Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com , 16 June 2022",
"Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine has caused the international market to terminate relationships with Russian oil companies, shrinking the global supply. \u2014 Rebecca Schneid, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"The city has repeatedly threatened to terminate the company\u2019s lease, as recently as January, according to court records. \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Match and Google can terminate their new agreement, but Match retains the option to reinstate its request for a temporary restraining order if that happens, Match said. \u2014 Will Feuer, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"In Delaware, physicians can legally terminate a pregnancy up until the point the fetus becomes viable, after which abortions are banned unless the procedure is essential to protect the pregnant person's life or health. \u2014 Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"The lease would run 10 years with options for two five-year extensions \u2014 but would terminate immediately, turning over control of the site to UMBC, whenever the state vacates the hospital complex. \u2014 Alison Knezevich, Baltimore Sun , 9 May 2022",
"Women can terminate pregnancy up to 20 weeks, but only on a doctor's advice. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 7 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"That control gave Puglisi the sole authority to set up new credit card accounts, change spending limits, manage card access and terminate accounts. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Aug. 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin terminatus , past participle of terminare , from terminus":"Adjective"
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"\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-n\u0259t",
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for terminate Verb close , end , conclude , finish , complete , terminate mean to bring or come to a stopping point or limit. close usually implies that something has been in some way open as well as unfinished. close a debate end conveys a strong sense of finality. ended his life conclude may imply a formal closing (as of a meeting). the service concluded with a blessing finish may stress completion of a final step in a process. after it is painted, the house will be finished complete implies the removal of all deficiencies or a successful finishing of what has been undertaken. the resolving of this last issue completes the agreement terminate implies the setting of a limit in time or space. your employment terminates after three months",
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"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"round (off ",
"wind up",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170125",
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"noun",
"verb"
]
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"termination":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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": end in time or existence : conclusion":[
"the termination of life"
],
": the act of terminating":[],
": a limit in space or extent : bound":[],
": outcome , result":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cct\u0259r-m\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"bound",
"boundary",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"confines",
"end",
"extent",
"limit",
"limitation",
"line"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"The law protects against unfair contract termination .",
"the termination of a lease",
"an early termination of the contract",
"The company noted over 300 terminations last quarter.",
"Are there plans for the termination of unproductive employees",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The two men claim neither was given any advance notice of the termination . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"While some reported threats of termination occurred, very rarely was someone actually fired (only 6.3% of the time). \u2014 Chloe Berger, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
"Spears, 40, was freed from her conservatorship in November after a judge ruled in favor of termination , ending the 13-year arrangement, which had legally stripped her from making her own personal and financial decisions. \u2014 Saba Hamedy, NBC News , 9 June 2022",
"Jarmon declined to comment on Lowe's accusations, citing her pending federal lawsuit against the agency over allegations of wrongful termination . \u2014 Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Online , 7 May 2022",
"Broward\u2019s ordinance would require landlords and tenants to give at least 60 days\u2019 notice of termination of their contract for properties who don\u2019t have a standard lease, specifically month-to-month or quarterly rentals. \u2014 Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Slack, most recently assigned to the North District, has been suspended pending a recommendation of termination to the Civilian Police Merit Board. \u2014 Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Yet employees said the presenters offered no satisfactory explanation for the timing of the termination or the rationale behind it. \u2014 Nadia Drake, Scientific American , 14 Mar. 2022",
"At the time of the termination , Rosan was working as a venture capitalist investor. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 10 Mar. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 5":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-085433"
},
"terminize":{
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": to supply (as a science) with nomenclature":[
"conceptions that owe their present definiteness \u2026 to felicitous terminizing",
"\u2014 Popular Science Monthly",
"the industrious terminizing of a cherished colleague",
"\u2014 C. F. Talman"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin terminus term + English -ize":""
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112647",
"type":[
"transitive verb"
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064058",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
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},
"examples":[
"a lexicon covering the terminologies of several scientific fields",
"the terminology favored by sportscasters",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"No fancy terminology , no eight-step triangles or psychological methods. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Only minor tweaks had to made to the text, for instance an updating of the terminology for an ahead-of-its-time episode featuring a trans character. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 5 May 2022",
"Regardless of the terminology , the sentiment is the same. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 May 2022",
"Though the terminology may be specific to Google, lots of companies evaluate job candidates on culture fit. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Metaverse\u2014a word that until last year only existed in science fiction\u2014is now the mainstay terminology when world economies look into the future. \u2014 Faustine Ngila, Quartz , 20 May 2022",
"The terminology isn't particularly communicative and can be daunting. \u2014 Laura Smith-spark, CNN , 15 Oct. 2021",
"But for Cleveland, the name change comes amid a volatile global struggle over labels and terminology that occasionally plays out in the world of sports. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
"How to get started: Crypto can be difficult to understand at first\u2014particularly because of its terminology , which is unfamiliar to the everyday person. \u2014 Jessica Mathews, Fortune , 14 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1770, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin terminus term, expression (from Latin, limit) + English -o- + -logy":""
},
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"argot",
"cant",
"dialect",
"jargon",
"jive",
"language",
"lingo",
"patois",
"patter",
"shop",
"shoptalk",
"slang",
"vocabulary"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225233",
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"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"terminus":{
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": a post or stone marking a boundary":[],
": an extreme point or element : tip":[
"the terminus of a glacier"
]
},
"examples":[
"Stockholm is the terminus for the southbound train.",
"Geologists took samples from the terminus of the glacier.",
"the terminus of the DNA strand",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In 2021, a five-year-old named Harvey Sutton reached the AT\u2019s northern terminus , forsaking the first two weeks of kindergarten to do so. \u2014 Outside Online , 13 June 2022",
"Afterward a motorcade of notables followed a dozen snowplows to a celebratory luncheon in a restaurant at the Lake-Cook county line, the highway\u2019s northern terminus . \u2014 Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"At Sant Feliu de Gu\u00edxols, the northern terminus of the impossibly photogenic Road of 1,000 Bends, I am tempted to lunch at one of the many outdoor restaurants overlooking the town\u2019s beach and harbor. \u2014 Dina Mishev, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"One of the best opportunities, however, comes near the northern terminus of the trail: a two-waterfall loop that is perfect for the fall. \u2014 oregonlive , 30 Oct. 2021",
"At the terminus , a cleaner was collecting the first detritus\u2014coffee cups\u2014from the gleaming trains. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 27 May 2022",
"Also visible to freeway motorists is Lareau\u2019s Barnes Tennis Center, which opened in 1995 at the western terminus of Interstate 8, and is devoted to training young tennis players. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 May 2022",
"Parts of Division, 4th, 8th and 16th streets and Plaza Boulevard create its jagged western terminus . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Apr. 2022",
"One of the lines took passengers between Savannah and Atlanta, which has a history as a major rail terminus . \u2014 J.d. Capelouto, ajc , 20 May 2022"
],
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"circa 1617, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, boundary marker, limit \u2014 more at term entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-n\u0259s"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183305",
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"noun"
]
},
"terminus a quo":{
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1549, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, literally, limit from which":""
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"-\u02cc\u00e4-\u02c8kw\u014d"
],
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": a goal, object, or course of action : destination , purpose":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Such is, of course, the entire purpose of our systems of uniform laws and the terminus ad quem of the Uniform Law Commission. \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1549, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, literally, limit to which":""
},
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"-\u02cc\u00e4d-\u02c8kwem"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105523",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"definitions":{
": a termites' nest":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1855, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cct\u0259r-m\u0259-\u02c8ter-\u0113-\u0259m",
"-\u02ccm\u012b-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083603",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1826, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-\u02ccter-\u0113",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083449",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"definitions":{
": any of numerous pale-colored soft-bodied social insects (order Isoptera) that live in colonies consisting usually of winged sexual forms, wingless sterile workers, and soldiers, feed on wood, and include some which are very destructive to wooden structures and trees":[]
},
"examples":[
"The house has a lot of termite damage.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even though this research uncovered more than 100 instances, Hart-Davidson and Ridolfo clearly say this is more of a warning sign than a solution - like finding a single termite or two instead of the whole nest. \u2014 Derek Newton, Forbes , 25 Feb. 2021",
"For a less toxic way to kill termites , use boric acid. \u2014 Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 17 Feb. 2020",
"These \u2018 termites of the sea\u2019 convert wood into animal tissue, forming the base of a food chain that can support a rich diversity of fish, invertebrates, and microorganisms in communities that resemble thriving coral reefs. \u2014 Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living , 4 Apr. 2020",
"There are Wiffle balls in the gutters and termites in the porch. \u2014 Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 16 Apr. 2020",
"Old termites blow themselves up to protect the nest Certainly our most explosive animal story of the past 10 years. \u2014 David Grimm, Science | AAAS , 20 Dec. 2019",
"However, in most cases, there are a several DIY treatments that are effective at killing termites . \u2014 Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 17 Feb. 2020",
"Visitors to the bluff overlooking the confluence of two great American rivers must bat away swarming termites \u2014 perhaps the only constituency that has profited from the last 13 years in Harpers Ferry. \u2014 Peter Jamison, Washington Post , 17 Feb. 2020",
"The deck had termites and the carpet and furnishings were worn. \u2014 Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot , 17 Sep. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1781, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Termit-, Termes , genus of termites, from Late Latin, a worm that eats wood, alteration of Latin tarmit-, tarmes ; akin to Greek tetrainein to bore \u2014 more at throw entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8t\u0259r-\u02ccm\u012bt"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082601",
"type":[
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]
},
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"definitions":{
": constructed or treated so as to prevent entrance of termites":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"termite + proof":""
},
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"The main terrace is bordered on each side by saltwater infinity pools and centered by a long dining table under the umbrella trees. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 27 June 2022",
"The family strung a tarpaulin across the terrace and moved upstairs. \u2014 Sadiq Naqvi, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Choose room three for space and a little spot of your own on the terrace or room four for quiet away from the restaurant hubbub. \u2014 Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"In June 2020, Kate joined families to plant a new patio garden and transform the terrace area at The Nook. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"Meals are cooked on an outdoor grill and the dining terrace looks out onto Campanella point. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 17 June 2022",
"The roof terrace features a hot tub, fire pit, and herb garden. \u2014 Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful , 9 June 2022",
"Biggers\u2019 piece is the ideal sculpture to mark the terrace \u2019s debut, Zuckerman says. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"The cantilever extending over the terrace is the most dramatic feature of the house. \u2014 Elizabeth Hosang, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The end result is 40 hillside residences designed by EYRC architects that neatly terrace down from just below Sunset Boulevard (across a plaza from the fashionable Pendry West Hollywood hotel) to Franklin Avenue. \u2014 Kathy A. Mcdonald, Variety , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Finally, one last floor up is the private rooftop deck, with its lap pool and terrace both enclosed by sliding glass and topped by a retractable sun awning for shade. \u2014 Howard Walker, Robb Report , 7 Dec. 2021",
"But this is just the start of an upgrade to the 50-year-old venue that will expand and terrace its seating and improve entry points in hopes of making the small hillside bowl into a regional attraction in the sunny southeast corner of the city. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Sep. 2021",
"Paths, fences, a pool, and terrace grace these picture-perfect grounds. \u2014 courant.com , 14 May 2021",
"Paths, fences, a pool, and terrace grace these picture-perfect grounds. \u2014 courant.com , 14 May 2021",
"Paths, fences, a pool, and terrace grace these picture-perfect grounds. \u2014 courant.com , 14 May 2021",
"Paths, fences, a pool, and terrace grace these picture-perfect grounds. \u2014 courant.com , 14 May 2021",
"Paths, fences, a pool, and terrace grace these picture-perfect grounds. \u2014 courant.com , 14 May 2021"
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"1515, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":"Noun",
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"Middle French, platform, terrace, from Old French, from Old Occitan terrassa , from terra earth, from Latin, earth, land; akin to Latin torr\u0113re to parch \u2014 more at thirst":"Noun"
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"\u02c8te-r\u0259s",
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"balcony",
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"Latin terra earth + English -aceous":""
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"We had to drive over some rough terrain .",
"We hiked through a variety of terrains .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Based on where Ty\u2019s possessions had been found, Koester helped the team analyze the mountainous terrain to create rings of probability for where the teen might be. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"As crossing became exponentially more difficult after the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S., migrants were led through more perilous terrain and paid thousands of dollars more. \u2014 Eric Gay And Elliot Spagat, Chicago Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"As crossing became exponentially more difficult after the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S., migrants were led through more perilous terrain and paid thousands of dollars more. \u2014 Eric Gray And Elliot Spagat, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
"The melt turned much of the North American continent into wet ground, with long chains of swamps gouged by no-brakes glaciers that plowed across the terrain . \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"As crossing became exponentially more difficult after the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S., migrants were led through more dangerous terrain and paid thousands of dollars more. \u2014 Eric Gay And Elliot Spagat, Chron , 27 June 2022",
"As crossing became exponentially more difficult after the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S., migrants were led through more dangerous terrain and paid thousands of dollars more. \u2014 Eric Gay And Elliot Spagat, Sun Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
"With burly tires and carbon frame, the Radiant Carbon is designed to be more forgiving over rough terrain , absorbing bumps better than any other suspension-less bike. \u2014 Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report , 25 June 2022",
"Lancia said that although Army training activity around San Diego is limited, the 160th SOAR trains in the area to take advantage of the terrain and environment. \u2014 Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 June 2022"
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"1766, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
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"French, land, ground, from Old French terrein , from Vulgar Latin *terranum , alteration of Latin terrenum , from neuter of terrenus of earth \u2014 more at terrene":""
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"\u02c8ter-\u02cc\u0113n",
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"1591, in the meaning defined above":""
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"The toad has terrestrial habits, spending most of its time on shore.",
"scientists haven't even found all the terrestrial life on our planet",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Scientists have long suspected that metallic cores lurk deep within terrestrial planets like Earth. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 16 June 2022",
"The space community is already quite familiar with the workings of the terrestrial planets in our solar system, such as Earth and Mars, and NASA is already lining up new missions to Venus. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Tracking these new aphids might just be the key to terrestrial success. \u2014 Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press , 1 June 2022",
"How can listeners who want to hear more women on terrestrial radio make their voices heard",
"Hammerhead worms are part of the terrestrial flatworms species and are more common in Southern states, including North Carolina or Florida. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 17 May 2022",
"Globalstar\u2019s exclusive electromagnetic real estate is located near frequencies reserved for terrestrial uses. \u2014 Tim Fernholz, Quartz , 12 May 2022",
"Juggling even more than terrestrial weather, GOES-18 will have a hand in monitoring space weather, too. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 11 May 2022",
"The analysis finds that invasions by semi-aquatic and aquatic taxa have been causing a greater monetary burden to the economy compared to taxa inhabiting terrestrial ecosystems. \u2014 Sahana Ghosh, Quartz , 10 May 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"Middle English, from Latin terrestris , from terra earth \u2014 more at terrace entry 1":""
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"t\u0259-\u02c8re-st(r)\u0113-\u0259l",
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"-\u02c8resh-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211832",
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": the second of three Mormon degrees or kingdoms of glory attainable in heaven \u2014 compare celestial glory , telestial glory":[]
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": latitude on the earth \u2014 compare astronomical latitude , geocentric latitude , geographical latitude":[]
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"Traffic was held up by a terrible accident.",
"I have a terrible cold.",
"The service at that restaurant is terrible .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The federal gas tax holiday is a terrible idea whose time, once again, has come and gone. \u2014 Charlie Dent, CNN , 26 June 2022",
"New York City Mayor Eric Adams called it a terrible tragedy and said the injured were in the city\u2019s prayers. \u2014 Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News , 20 June 2022",
"Then, Carlos tackles why the LIV Tour is a terrible idea and the fellas share their favorite things of the week. \u2014 Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press , 16 June 2022",
"When terrible things happen, at the end of the day, no matter what, that's a heavier weight in the gym that you're supposed to lift. \u2014 Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer , 13 June 2022",
"Or saying terrible things about trans people that aren\u2019t true about glory holes and bathrooms. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"The book is anathema to respectability politics, drawing power from the stories of people who thought, said and did terrible things in their time. \u2014 Lorenzo Marquez, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
"Scott also mentioned the terrible tragedy that happened recently in Uvalde, Texas, where a shooter came into an elementary school building and killed 19 students and two teachers. \u2014 Linda Gandee, cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"Some people are undoubtedly tired of powerful men getting away with terrible things and turning the blame on their victims. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 May 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2c":""
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"\u02c8ter-\u0259-b\u0259l",
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"alarming",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050425",
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": in a terrible way : very badly, poorly, or unpleasantly":[
"behaving terribly",
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"This can be regarded as a somewhat progressive attitude because it is true that women were terribly abused in the Roman world.",
"\u2014 Norman F. Cantor",
"And then the next year I played terribly and finished close to last.",
"\u2014 Gene Littler"
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"\u2014 Walter Cronkite",
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"\u2014 Virginia Foster Durr"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092711",
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"antonyms":[
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"examples":[
"She's given me some terrific ideas.",
"Your test scores were terrific .",
"They did a terrific job painting the house.",
"I had a terrific time.",
"I've recovered completely. In fact, I feel terrific .",
"We were hit by a terrific snowstorm last week.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The good news is that the regular 340-horsepower, rear-wheel-drive 2023 Lyriq has all the same equipment and sells for $61,795 and is still a terrific value for a luxurious, roomy, sporty five-seat luxury SUV. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 28 June 2022",
"And yet, when the game looked all but sure to be a Tide loss, Young guided an instantly memorable 97-yard drive to tie the game on a terrific 28-yard throw to freshman Ja\u2019Corey Brooks with 24 seconds left in the game. \u2014 John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Mullins\u2019 defensive highlights were typically in the form of a sensational catch rather than a terrific throw, and advanced metrics seem to back that up. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com , 29 Oct. 2021",
"First baseman Eric Hosmer, who many thought might have been traded by now, is having a terrific season at the plate. \u2014 Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"For the girls, Selvan is coming off a terrific freshman season as the No. 1 singles player, finishing the regular season undefeated. \u2014 Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun , 31 Mar. 2022",
"For Houston, which had a terrific season despite losing Marcus Sasser and Truman Mark to injury, this is a potentially tricky matchup. \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 13 Mar. 2022",
"David Bednar had a terrific first full season with Pittsburgh last year, with a 2.23 ERA in relief, earning him Rookie of the Year consideration. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Sandler was terrific , giving a nasty, overactive performance that drove a nasty, overactive movie. \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1667, in the meaning defined at sense 3b":""
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"Latin terrificus , from terr\u0113re to frighten":""
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"t\u0259-\u02c8ri-fik"
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"A-OK",
"A1",
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"No. 1",
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"The thought of dying alone terrifies her.",
"the prospect of speaking in front of a huge crowd of people absolutely terrifies me",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There aren\u2019t too many things that terrify Maya Rudolph. \u2014 Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"Regardless of precautions and incident plans, cyberattacks terrify c-suites. \u2014 Noah Barsky, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The Gay Agenda which, to terrify all of my loyal conservative fans, always has been and always will be about making as many people gay as possible. \u2014 Tom Rasmussen, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
"Based on the series of books that used to terrify you as a child, this movie follows a group of kids who have to investigate a bunch of local legends \u2014 before the legends wind up getting the better of them. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"One suspect, age 25, is facing charges of possessing a destructive device near a church and on public streets, possessing material with intent to make explosives, exploding a device with intent to terrify , felony evading and child endangerment. \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 May 2022",
"Arnold is not trying to shock or terrify the viewer (this is not a sensationalist PETA video) but simply offers an invitation to bear witness to what the industrialization of food production means for animals. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Martin McDonagh writes plays that gleefully terrify . \u2014 Liz Appel, Vogue , 20 Apr. 2022",
"These numbers should terrify Democrats who are on the ballot this fall, barring a rapid turnaround in inflation, which most economists believe is unlikely. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"There aren\u2019t too many things that terrify Maya Rudolph. \u2014 Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"Regardless of precautions and incident plans, cyberattacks terrify c-suites. \u2014 Noah Barsky, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The Gay Agenda which, to terrify all of my loyal conservative fans, always has been and always will be about making as many people gay as possible. \u2014 Tom Rasmussen, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
"Based on the series of books that used to terrify you as a child, this movie follows a group of kids who have to investigate a bunch of local legends \u2014 before the legends wind up getting the better of them. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"One suspect, age 25, is facing charges of possessing a destructive device near a church and on public streets, possessing material with intent to make explosives, exploding a device with intent to terrify , felony evading and child endangerment. \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 May 2022",
"Arnold is not trying to shock or terrify the viewer (this is not a sensationalist PETA video) but simply offers an invitation to bear witness to what the industrialization of food production means for animals. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Martin McDonagh writes plays that gleefully terrify . \u2014 Liz Appel, Vogue , 20 Apr. 2022",
"These numbers should terrify Democrats who are on the ballot this fall, barring a rapid turnaround in inflation, which most economists believe is unlikely. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Here are 24 of the most tubular horror picks featuring slashers, vampires, ghosts, zombies, demons, aliens, and a few creatures too terrifying to describe. \u2014 Katie Rife, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Someone recommended it to me as being absolutely terrifying . \u2014 Elizabeth Nicholas, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
"La Huesera is at times spine-chillingly terrifying . \u2014 Manuel Betancourt, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"Anything that remotely smells of change is absolutely terrifying . \u2014 The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"Her vendetta may turn out to be as terrifying as the grotesque violence of her enemies. \u2014 Joan Macdonald, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"This route yet again confirmed to me that few things are more terrifying to my brain than being behind the wheel on a mountain pass. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 24 May 2022",
"What's more terrifying than a ghost story inspired by true events",
"The thought of my brother being a patient was, and still is, terrifying . \u2014 Amanda Joy Calhoun, STAT , 4 May 2022"
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"\u2014 Charles T. Feazel"
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"The sound of guns being fired fills me with terror .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Klaus also discovers Grace praying in front of the orb, so at least now one of the Umbrellas has seen where this ball of terror is. \u2014 Maggie Fremont, EW.com , 22 June 2022",
"In Irpin, the bodies of 290 victims, with a disproportionate number of women, were recovered after Russian forces inflicted a month of terror , the BBC reported. \u2014 Libby Cathey, ABC News , 21 June 2022",
"But Paradis realized something was wrong when the look in her teacher\u2019s eye shifted to one of terror . \u2014 Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant , 12 June 2022",
"In the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, the Orlando Sentinel focuses not on the gunman and the act of terror , but on the victims, stories of hope and how Orlando became a city forever changed. \u2014 Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel , 12 June 2022",
"The haunted house will recreate some of the most iconic scenes from Halloween as guests make their way through his dilapidated home, trying to avoid becoming one of his victims in the knife-wielding maniac\u2019s relentless and bloody campaign of terror . \u2014 Simon Thompson, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The moment of terror at Spring Mills High School in Martinsburg, about 80 miles northwest of Washington happened May 23, the day before a gunman fatally shot 19 children and two teachers in a classroom in Uvalde, Texas. \u2014 John Raby, Anchorage Daily News , 4 June 2022",
"In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool of terror . \u2014 Rayna Reid, Essence , 3 June 2022",
"Cuba remains on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terror ; Trump restored that designation after losing the 2020 election. \u2014 Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul, Washington Post , 2 June 2022"
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"Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, is being held in the Oakland County Jail on first-degree murder and terrorism charges. \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022",
"Ethan Crumbley, 16, has been charged with murder and terrorism in the Nov. 30 shootings at Oxford High School, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Detroit, that also left six other students and a teacher wounded. \u2014 Corey Williams, ajc , 17 June 2022",
"Charges depend on each specific case, but mass shooters often face murder, terrorism and/or hate crime charges. \u2014 Wyatte Grantham-philips, USA TODAY , 5 June 2022",
"The list of charges will apparently include murder, terrorism and conspiracy. \u2014 NBC News , 26 Feb. 2022",
"Ethan Crumbley is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder, terrorism and gun charges in the Nov. 30 shooting at Oxford High School, about 30 miles north of Detroit. \u2014 Corey Williams, chicagotribune.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Ethan Crumbley, the boy accused in the shooting, is facing first-degree murder and terrorism charges. \u2014 Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Dec. 2021",
"Their 15-year-old son is charged with murder, terrorism and other charges in the shooting. \u2014 Adrienne Vogt, CNN , 4 Dec. 2021",
"Israel has survived wars and waves of terrorism without ever losing sight of its core values. \u2014 Yair Lapid, WSJ , 9 June 2022"
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"\u2014 Gary J. Laughlin"
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"Such operations are incredibly dangerous: a C.I.A. officer or an asset recruited to work secretly for the agency\u2014a courier for the terrorist ; the finance minister\u2019s personal chef\u2014must surreptitiously implant the malware by hand. \u2014 Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Such laws would prevent the purchase of guns by those like the Buffalo terrorist who had made the threat that had come to the attention of law enforcement. \u2014 Peter Bergen, CNN , 25 May 2022",
"The terrorist had succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the leader of ISIS; U.S. forces killed al-Baghdadi during a similar raid in 2019. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 4 Feb. 2022",
"In the end, Mr. Biden said, Mr. al-Qurayshi died when the terrorist exploded a bomb that killed him as well as members of his own family. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The critical moment occurred after the anti-Semitic, America-hating terrorist had held Rabbi Cytron-Walker and two congregants hostage for 11 hours. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 18 Jan. 2022",
"The statement, which was released late Sunday, does not identify the terrorist serving an 86-year prison sentence in the U.S. on terrorism charges, but may shed new light on a possible motive. \u2014 Fox News , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Lacenaire, with his inchoate, vaguely republican politics\u2014which seemed to exist as a kind of ex post facto justification for his crimes\u2014was a type Dostoevsky believed to be emerging among Russia\u2019s youth: the student terrorist . \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic , 28 Dec. 2021",
"And the reader comes to learn of the dangers of secrets and misreadings \u2014 with consequences for Seymour, the young eco- terrorist , as well as Zeno, who hid his love for a male wartime comrade. \u2014 Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Some with terrorist connections may seek to travel to the United States and apply for tourist visas, DHS says. \u2014 Luke Barr, ABC News , 23 June 2022",
"The terrorist network Al-Shabab is known to traffic in poached wood and charcoal from Somalia. \u2014 Lyndsie Bourgon, WSJ , 23 June 2022",
"Russia\u2019s aspiration to make it into the \u2018Big 4\u2019 has turned to dust with the war, while Mozambique\u2019s hopes to be a major force are on indefinite hold after the terrorist insurgency underway since 2019. \u2014 Wood Mackenzie, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Just last week, a Department of Homeland Security threat bulletin warned that domestic violent extremism remains one of the biggest terrorist threats in the country. \u2014 CBS News , 12 June 2022",
"Fluke-Ekren engaged in terrorist activity from around 2011 to 2019, according to the Justice Department. \u2014 Ken Dilanian, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
"In that earlier mission, the team took out a terrorist leader. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 12 May 2022",
"Al Qaeda was dislodged from its terrorist bases and the Taliban was chased from power. \u2014 Richard Bernstein, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"Under Facebook\u2019s strike system, certain actions, such as posting child pornography, a Nazi flag in a person\u2019s profile or a terrorist image, will result in immediate removal from the platform, the people said. \u2014 Naomi Nix, Washington Post , 9 June 2022"
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"\u2014 V. R. Berghahn"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bennett had been charged with felony terroristic threats and harassing phone calls after allegedly threatening to kill Keashawn Washington, the mother of his 14-month-old daughter, Jaquari Bennett. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"Quartavius Mender was booked into the Fulton jail last week on 23 charges of making terroristic threats, records show. \u2014 Shaddi Abusaid, ajc , 3 June 2022",
"California has seen dozens of seizures from people who made terroristic threats \u2013 none of whom carried out any attack after the civil order was issued against them. \u2014 Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor , 27 May 2022",
"He was wanted on charges of domestic violence, strangulation, assault and terroristic threats, police said. \u2014 Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 27 May 2022",
"Javier Torres, 37, was charged with making a terroristic threat. \u2014 Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News , 31 May 2022",
"The 16-year-old was charged with making a terroristic threat and aggravated harassment, which are crimes that are not bail eligible, according to the report. \u2014 Adam Sabes, Fox News , 27 May 2022",
"He was arrested and charged with one count of making a terroristic threat. \u2014 Corky Siemaszko, NBC News , 16 May 2022",
"In 2019, Stovall was arrested in an unusual incident that led to charges of impersonating an officer and making terroristic threats, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. \u2014 Henri Hollis, ajc , 13 May 2022"
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"As a child she terrorized her younger siblings.",
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"Employees were terrorized into accepting abysmal working conditions.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"During two formative wars there, Russia\u2019s artillery and air forces turned city blocks to rubble, and its ground troops massacred civilians in what was widely seen as a deliberate campaign to terrorize the population into submission. \u2014 Max Fisher, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Zachary Abuza, a professor at the National War College in Washington who studies Southeast Asian security issues, said the threat to execute renowned activists is part of a wider strategy the junta hopes will terrorize people into submission. \u2014 Rebecca Tan, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"In the years since, little legislative progress has been made, and school shootings have continued to terrorize students. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"During two formative wars there, Russia\u2019s artillery and air forces turned city blocks to rubble and its ground troops massacred civilians in what was widely seen as a deliberate campaign to terrorize the population into submission. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
"As the 20th century went on, racists would bomb Black churches, terrorize civil rights activists, lynch and otherwise murder countless Black people, and assassinate one of America\u2019s most influential Black leaders, Martin Luther King Jr. \u2014 Char Adams, NBC News , 18 May 2022",
"The country has grown weary of endless bloodshed, of the gangs that terrorize them, of the lawlessness that has inspired so many to travel more than 1,000 miles to the American border. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Two other motives for using them, including away from the battlefields, would be to terrorize the country, in an effort to influence decision makers in Kyiv or to encourage Western governments to pressure Ukraine to pursue peace. \u2014 Stephen Fidler, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Lynchings were used to murder and terrorize the Black community in the U.S., predominantly in the South, from the 1880s to 1960s, the NAACP states. \u2014 Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News , 29 Mar. 2022"
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"During two formative wars there, Russia\u2019s artillery and air forces turned city blocks to rubble, and its ground troops massacred civilians in what was widely seen as a deliberate campaign to terrorize the population into submission. \u2014 Max Fisher, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Zachary Abuza, a professor at the National War College in Washington who studies Southeast Asian security issues, said the threat to execute renowned activists is part of a wider strategy the junta hopes will terrorize people into submission. \u2014 Rebecca Tan, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"In the years since, little legislative progress has been made, and school shootings have continued to terrorize students. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"During two formative wars there, Russia\u2019s artillery and air forces turned city blocks to rubble and its ground troops massacred civilians in what was widely seen as a deliberate campaign to terrorize the population into submission. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
"As the 20th century went on, racists would bomb Black churches, terrorize civil rights activists, lynch and otherwise murder countless Black people, and assassinate one of America\u2019s most influential Black leaders, Martin Luther King Jr. \u2014 Char Adams, NBC News , 18 May 2022",
"The country has grown weary of endless bloodshed, of the gangs that terrorize them, of the lawlessness that has inspired so many to travel more than 1,000 miles to the American border. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Two other motives for using them, including away from the battlefields, would be to terrorize the country, in an effort to influence decision makers in Kyiv or to encourage Western governments to pressure Ukraine to pursue peace. \u2014 Stephen Fidler, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Lynchings were used to murder and terrorize the Black community in the U.S., predominantly in the South, from the 1880s to 1960s, the NAACP states. \u2014 Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News , 29 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This crewneck has the feel of your college varsity crewneck and the sophisticated look of a PhD professor, thanks to the dense, mid-weight cotton French terry . \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 17 May 2022",
"Mack Weldon and Buck Mason's terry sweatpants are equal parts soft and slightly scratchy. \u2014 Sarah Madaus, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"James Perse collection includes a variety of styles, for both men and women, that range from T-shirts similar to the team's jersey to comfortable hoodies and sweatpants made from French terry , as well as other essential accessories. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 1 June 2022",
"The traditional athletic cut ensures a snug fit while the French terry cotton fabric gets better with every wash. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 17 May 2022",
"Think rugby and polo shirts featuring a new 1977 insignia, cable knit turtleneck sweaters, \u201990s barn jackets redone in cool cotton blends, and wardrobe staples rendered in French terry and jersey. \u2014 Kristen Bateman, Vogue , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Made from The Organic Company's Calm fabric, a two-sided cotton terry that's soft to the touch, this robe is perfect for lounging around the house. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 14 Apr. 2022",
"As its name implies, the crew neck top is something that can be worn often thanks to its soft and lightweight, yet cozy French terry and cotton fabrication. \u2014 Ariel Scotti, PEOPLE.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Tech flex sports bras and French terry rugby tops can be mixed to match the day\u2019s class. \u2014 Vogue , 3 Dec. 2021"
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"Everything about him is tidy, from his terse wit to the flecks of gray hair that fall in precise iterations around the edges of his scalp. \u2014 Devin Gordon , Newsweek , 29 July 2002",
"\u2026 Johnston stays bolted to the wheelhouse floor, wrestling the helm and jotting down notes in the ship log. His entries are terse , bullet descriptions of the unending chaos outside. \u2014 Sebastian Junger , The Perfect Storm , 1997",
"This vicious cycle was captured succinctly in Gandhi's terse warning that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. \u2014 David McCabe , Commonweal , 11 Apr. 1997",
"She accepts the caller's terse expression of sympathy and duly expresses in return her appreciation for that unenviable bit of message-bearing. \u2014 John Barth , Harper's , January 1994",
"She gave me a few terse instructions and promptly left the room.",
"could tell from his terse replies to my questions that he was in no mood to talk",
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"Yet while Lader and Walker\u2019s script teases a more acidic strain of social satire, the film\u2019s generally terse approach extends to its commentary. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The information was terse , only that Giffords had been shot. \u2014 Lisa Kennedy, Variety , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The dialogue is terse , aphoristic, cutting, and delivered frankly, plainly, with little artifice or mannerism. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 14 July 2021",
"His exchanges with Rob are terse to the point of being hostile. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 15 July 2021",
"As a result, communication with his team was terse and brief. \u2014 Ashton Shanks, Forbes , 25 May 2021",
"Answers are terse , short, and hugely telling stories unto themselves. \u2014 Brian Boone, Vulture , 7 Apr. 2021",
"The protagonist is terse , isolated, with a fetish for self-sabotage that ranges from recreational to all-consuming. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 21 Nov. 2020",
"At the same time, however, Orlando attorney John Morgan, a major Democratic donor who had been vigorously touting Demings \u2014 and criticizing Harris \u2014 had a terse reaction to the Harris pick. \u2014 Steven Lemongello, orlandosentinel.com , 11 Aug. 2020"
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"Everything about him is tidy, from his terse wit to the flecks of gray hair that fall in precise iterations around the edges of his scalp. \u2014 Devin Gordon , Newsweek , 29 July 2002",
"\u2026 Johnston stays bolted to the wheelhouse floor, wrestling the helm and jotting down notes in the ship log. His entries are terse , bullet descriptions of the unending chaos outside. \u2014 Sebastian Junger , The Perfect Storm , 1997",
"This vicious cycle was captured succinctly in Gandhi's terse warning that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. \u2014 David McCabe , Commonweal , 11 Apr. 1997",
"She accepts the caller's terse expression of sympathy and duly expresses in return her appreciation for that unenviable bit of message-bearing. \u2014 John Barth , Harper's , January 1994",
"She gave me a few terse instructions and promptly left the room.",
"could tell from his terse replies to my questions that he was in no mood to talk",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet while Lader and Walker\u2019s script teases a more acidic strain of social satire, the film\u2019s generally terse approach extends to its commentary. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The information was terse , only that Giffords had been shot. \u2014 Lisa Kennedy, Variety , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The dialogue is terse , aphoristic, cutting, and delivered frankly, plainly, with little artifice or mannerism. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 14 July 2021",
"His exchanges with Rob are terse to the point of being hostile. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 15 July 2021",
"As a result, communication with his team was terse and brief. \u2014 Ashton Shanks, Forbes , 25 May 2021",
"Answers are terse , short, and hugely telling stories unto themselves. \u2014 Brian Boone, Vulture , 7 Apr. 2021",
"The protagonist is terse , isolated, with a fetish for self-sabotage that ranges from recreational to all-consuming. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 21 Nov. 2020",
"At the same time, however, Orlando attorney John Morgan, a major Democratic donor who had been vigorously touting Demings \u2014 and criticizing Harris \u2014 had a terse reaction to the Harris pick. \u2014 Steven Lemongello, orlandosentinel.com , 11 Aug. 2020"
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"Everything about him is tidy, from his terse wit to the flecks of gray hair that fall in precise iterations around the edges of his scalp. \u2014 Devin Gordon , Newsweek , 29 July 2002",
"\u2026 Johnston stays bolted to the wheelhouse floor, wrestling the helm and jotting down notes in the ship log. His entries are terse , bullet descriptions of the unending chaos outside. \u2014 Sebastian Junger , The Perfect Storm , 1997",
"This vicious cycle was captured succinctly in Gandhi's terse warning that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. \u2014 David McCabe , Commonweal , 11 Apr. 1997",
"She accepts the caller's terse expression of sympathy and duly expresses in return her appreciation for that unenviable bit of message-bearing. \u2014 John Barth , Harper's , January 1994",
"She gave me a few terse instructions and promptly left the room.",
"could tell from his terse replies to my questions that he was in no mood to talk",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet while Lader and Walker\u2019s script teases a more acidic strain of social satire, the film\u2019s generally terse approach extends to its commentary. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The information was terse , only that Giffords had been shot. \u2014 Lisa Kennedy, Variety , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The dialogue is terse , aphoristic, cutting, and delivered frankly, plainly, with little artifice or mannerism. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 14 July 2021",
"His exchanges with Rob are terse to the point of being hostile. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 15 July 2021",
"As a result, communication with his team was terse and brief. \u2014 Ashton Shanks, Forbes , 25 May 2021",
"Answers are terse , short, and hugely telling stories unto themselves. \u2014 Brian Boone, Vulture , 7 Apr. 2021",
"The protagonist is terse , isolated, with a fetish for self-sabotage that ranges from recreational to all-consuming. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 21 Nov. 2020",
"At the same time, however, Orlando attorney John Morgan, a major Democratic donor who had been vigorously touting Demings \u2014 and criticizing Harris \u2014 had a terse reaction to the Harris pick. \u2014 Steven Lemongello, orlandosentinel.com , 11 Aug. 2020"
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"Many offshore lenders like Finance of America file foreclosure lawsuits in federal court in San Juan, where proceedings move much faster than in the island\u2019s territorial courts . \u2014 Matthew Goldstein, New York Times , 16 Dec. 2017"
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"Bill Clinton \u2026 has passed through the tertiary and quaternary stages and is well on his way to millenary integrity. \u2014 Cullen Murphy , Atlantic , January/February 2003",
"A tertiary care doctor at a cushy academic medical center, a plastic surgeon, and a dentist in a Pleasantville suburb don't spend much time taking care of poor patients who lack basic insurance. \u2014 Siddhartha Mukherjee , New Republic , 17 Sept. 2001",
"The most learned philosopher knew little more. He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery. He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him. \u2014 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Frankenstein , 1818",
"Headaches often occur during the tertiary stage of the illness.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Stahlmann\u2019s study examined the co-occurrence of primary, secondary, and tertiary primals with various character strengths in a sample of 1100 German-speaking adults. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Is there a secondary or tertiary income option \u2014 sideline, freelance or consulting work that could result in extra cash flow",
"Statistically, your next job or career step is likely to come not from your primary network, but from your secondary or tertiary networks. \u2014 Tracy Brower, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Pierce said the hospital system now has a level 4 trauma center, has partnered with tertiary centers in Jonesboro to care for heart attack patients and has a stroke telemedicine program. \u2014 Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Their wines have a fantastic structure which allows their Cabernet Sauvignon to age ten years or more with beautiful tertiary notes of leather and spice onto the rich blackberry palate. \u2014 Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Perhaps if Larry were not a tertiary character, barely fleshed out in Furth\u2019s script, this might not seem like a directorial hail-Mary pass. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Most everyday wines lack the proper tannin, acidity, sugar and alcohol levels to develop secondary and tertiary flavors while in the bottle. \u2014 Anthony Zhang, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"For instance, data from the McKinsey Global Institute reveals that around 35% of those people living outside their country of birth have at least a tertiary education. \u2014 Adi Gaskell, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Texans paid handsomely for a player whose career was revived in part due to serving as a tertiary option and operating out of the slot. \u2014 Michael Middlehurst-schwartz, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many rural hospitals, including Whitfield, typically transfer those patients to tertiary care centers like UAB \u2014 which wasn\u2019t always possible during the summer surge. \u2014 Katie Palmer, STAT , 5 Oct. 2021",
"As the chair of medicine for a large tertiary care hospital in Connecticut, I was used to getting requests from across New England for patients to be transferred to the higher level of care our hospital could offer. \u2014 Suparna Dutta, STAT , 20 Sep. 2021",
"At times in recent weeks, hospital staff have struggled to find a tertiary care hospital in the region that would accept a patient in need of more advanced treatment, Horner said, as these hospitals have been going on diversion more often. \u2014 Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Avera serves a 72,000-square-mile territory across South Dakota and neighboring states, with one tertiary care center in Sioux Falls and 15 small hospitals in rural settings. \u2014 Kimberlee Mckay, STAT , 17 Aug. 2021",
"Freedman did not appear to grasp the economics of tertiary care , the specialty practices that generate costly procedures. \u2014 Chris Pomorski, The New Yorker , 31 May 2021",
"Over the years, though, the emphasis moved to for-profit tertiary care hospitals, mainly in big cities, with state-of-the-art that provided care mainly to the urban rich. \u2014 Kalpana Jain, STAT , 4 May 2021",
"Alameda\u2019s network includes tertiary care hospitals in Cairo, as well as diagnostic centers, outpatient clinics and specialist care facilities. \u2014 Mirette Magdy, Bloomberg.com , 26 Dec. 2020",
"The need right now is to address primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care . \u2014 Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India , 15 Sep. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"In 1994, Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for guarantees from the United States, the U.K., and Russia to respect and defend Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity. \u2014 Robert Zubrin, National Review , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The Ukrainian president again ruled out any compromise over Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity and said the issue of easing sanctions on Russia can\u2019t be raised before the war is over. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The bill would further strengthen the law so the U.S. could punish Russia for its attacks on Ukrainian civilians and for violating Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity. \u2014 Michael Collins, USA TODAY , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Only a handful of governments on the continent have spoken out in the aftermath of the attacks, with the African Union urging Russia's respect for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. \u2014 Nimi Princewill, CNN , 5 Mar. 2022",
"In exchange for this concession, Russia and the West pledged to respect the former Soviet state\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity. \u2014 John Ullyot And Thomas D. Grant, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country unequivocally sees Putin's action as a violation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. \u2014 NBC News , 22 Feb. 2022",
"German Chancellor Olaf Scholz brought a message of solidarity to Kyiv, telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity are not negotiable. \u2014 Geir Moulson, ajc , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Biden assured Zelenskyy of the unwavering U.S. support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. \u2014 Star Tribune , 14 June 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"TERRITORIAL Most nations aim to impose taxes on economic activity that takes place within their borders. \u2014 N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times , 21 Apr. 2017"
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"Cape Cod: The highlights included an exceptionally late record of an Arctic tern at Race Point in Provincetown where a Western sandpiper, three Iceland gulls, and a snowy owl were also seen. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Nov. 2021",
"The crew wants one last big catch in an overfished world; ornithologist Franny wants to follow the last migration of the Arctic tern , and believes that doing so will also help lead the crew to that rare last stash of fish. \u2014 Erin Berger, Outside Online , 3 Oct. 2020",
"Wachusett Reservoir hosted 16 common mergansers, three Bonaparte\u2019s gulls, a laughing gull, and a common tern . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Aug. 2021",
"Bristol County: There was an American white pelican at Cockeast Pond in South Dartmouth, a Caspian tern and a clay-colored sparrow at Gooseberry Neck in Westport, and a sedge wren at Broad Cove in Somerset. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Oct. 2021",
"Middlesex County: Reports included a white ibis and three orchard orioles at the Heard Conservation Area in Wayland, a little blue heron in Westford, and a Caspian tern in Wakefield. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Aug. 2021",
"During the most recent migration season, the project attached 35 GPS transponders to several species, including the Eurasian wigeon, Caspian tern , and the Heuglin\u2019s gull. \u2014 Lindsey Mcginnis, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 Oct. 2021"
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"a scientific study of territoriality in bears",
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"Those records were essential to end any territoriality dispute between Denmark and America. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 Feb. 2022",
"On the one hand, QBAI is what territoriality looks like \u2014 and the sales pitch for the TCJA did promise territorial results. \u2014 Robert Goulder, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
"On the other hand, nobody said territoriality would be free of guardrails. \u2014 Robert Goulder, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
"The formation was seen to deal with problems resulting from the lack of agreement on contract ownership, salaries, territoriality , and other issues. \u2014 David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 24 Apr. 2021",
"Overall, however, the results of this study suggest that factors such as familiarity and territoriality may be playing a bigger role than spectator support, Memmert says. \u2014 Diana Kwon, Scientific American , 31 Mar. 2021",
"Their neurological capabilities were dominated by the brainstem (a.k.a. the reptilian brain), which was in charge of survival, territoriality , and reproduction. \u2014 Luis E. Romero, Forbes , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Other, less privacy and territoriality -minded countries, have cabanas, which are essentially vast sunbeds of conviviality. \u2014 Sarah Turner, Forbes , 26 Feb. 2021",
"While the basics of coyote hunting are simple\u2014set up with visibility and minimize movement; keep the wind in your face or crossing; call in dogs by appealing to their stomach, territoriality , or libido\u2014success hinges on the details. \u2014 Toby Walrath, Outdoor Life , 25 Jan. 2021"
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"Silver Lake home, the recreation room has a terrarium vibe as a result of its low location and broad Fleetwood windows, including one at chest level that conveniently opens to allow Lucy, the couple\u2019s cat, easy access to the unit. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 7 May 2022",
"These tiny terrarium candles are popular for many reasons. \u2014 Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping , 24 May 2022",
"Beset by a debilitating disease, the author was too weakened to do much other than watch a snail inside a terrarium . \u2014 The Week Staff, The Week , 9 May 2022",
"Giving each seed about 1 gram of regolith each, scientists added and placed them into terrarium boxes. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 14 May 2022",
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"Silver Lake home, the recreation room has a terrarium vibe as a result of its low location and broad Fleetwood windows, including one at chest level that conveniently opens to allow Lucy, the couple\u2019s cat, easy access to the unit. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 7 May 2022",
"Silver Lake home, the recreation room has a terrarium vibe as a result of its low location and broad Fleetwood windows, including one at chest level that conveniently opens to allow Lucy, the couple\u2019s cat, easy access to the unit. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
"After cocktails, guests moved to a large reception hall to dine on, among other things, chocolate cake that resembled a mini terrarium . \u2014 Gina Cherelus, New York Times , 6 Apr. 2022"
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"If may even have been possible to see sliver of frost on the M0on\u2019s terminator \u2014the divider between sunlight and darkness (so, day and night) \u2014though no humans were around at the time. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 21 May 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The vegetation on the trail\u2014 terebinth and spiny hawthorn\u2014was dry and gnarled. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The vegetation on the trail\u2014 terebinth and spiny hawthorn\u2014was dry and gnarled. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The vegetation on the trail\u2014 terebinth and spiny hawthorn\u2014was dry and gnarled. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The vegetation on the trail\u2014 terebinth and spiny hawthorn\u2014was dry and gnarled. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The vegetation on the trail\u2014 terebinth and spiny hawthorn\u2014was dry and gnarled. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The vegetation on the trail\u2014 terebinth and spiny hawthorn\u2014was dry and gnarled. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The vegetation on the trail\u2014 terebinth and spiny hawthorn\u2014was dry and gnarled. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The vegetation on the trail\u2014 terebinth and spiny hawthorn\u2014was dry and gnarled. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Noncollaboration and territorialism breed divisiveness and often result in painful and detrimental outcomes. \u2014 John Daugherty, Rolling Stone , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Issues such as Hawaiian sovereignty, territorialism and the islands\u2019 historical and present-day issues with mainland decisions are deftly addressed in the Koa K\u0101ne novels, but McGraw presents them in a way that doesn\u2019t feel preachy or appropriative. \u2014 Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Jan. 2022",
"This territorialism , says Gehrt, could be a factor that will limit their spread. \u2014 National Geographic , 29 Nov. 2019",
"The leaders also see growing territorialism and climate change as the top risks to their businesses from overseas. \u2014 Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India , 11 July 2019",
"Experts say the turkey\u2019s extreme territorialism , especially in males, programs them to assert their dominance \u2014 whether over another turkey or a human. \u2014 Aditi Shrikant, BostonGlobe.com , 13 July 2018",
"Accounts of bullying for Birds and territorialism over Limes are showing up across the internet, complete with reports of break-ins and shakedowns. \u2014 Anna-sofia Lesiv, The Seattle Times , 10 July 2018",
"The less kindly purpose, though valuable in its own right, is to signal to Bro that any territorialism around their couple time is coming from inside his house!! \u2014 Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman , 9 Jan. 2018",
"Hill: There\u2019s a certain territorialism that comes along with being a fan of something for a long time when new fans come along. \u2014 USA TODAY , 21 Aug. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sumner and Stevens\u2019s plan to territorialize the Confederate states might have kept any reinvigorated Southern elite from storming back into Congress and joining forces with their one-time Northern Democratic allies. \u2014 Allen C. Guelzo, Time , 30 Apr. 2018"
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