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{
"blo":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": blue-black":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135903",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bloak":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of bloak variant spelling of bloke"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-161215",
"type":[]
},
"bloat":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a condition of large dogs marked by distension and usually life-threatening rotation of the stomach":[],
": bloated , puffy":[],
": digestive disturbance of ruminant animals and especially cattle marked by accumulation of gas in one or more stomach compartments":[],
": one that is bloated":[],
": swell":[],
": to cause abdominal distension in":[],
": to fill to capacity or overflowing":[],
": to make turgid or swollen":[],
": unwarranted or excessive growth or enlargement":[
"bureaucratic bloat"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"As is often the case, the scale of the obsession (as well as the responding compulsions) can bloat and expand over time. \u2014 Sadhbh O'sullivan, refinery29.com , 15 Oct. 2021",
"But that was four years ago, so inflation should bloat those projections a little. \u2014 Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com , 11 June 2021",
"The compromised hermetic seal may affect can integrity and may cause the cans to leak, bloat or allow bacteria to grow inside the product which could lead to serious illness. \u2014 Mike Wehner, BGR , 18 May 2021",
"Apple\u2019s macOS does tend to produce a lot of log files and system caches that can bloat and take up a lot of storage space. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Timothy has claimed to federal agents and a grand jury that Williams, through Burdett, pressured him to bloat the business write-offs. \u2014 Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com , 8 Jan. 2021",
"At the center of the government\u2019s case is an allegation that Williams, through Burdett, ordered the tax preparer to bloat Williams' business deductions by more than $700,000 over five years, reducing his tax liability by about $200,000. \u2014 John Simerman, NOLA.com , 25 Nov. 2020",
"Windows Update will still tend to bloat up the operating system pretty rapidly, and the SxS directory in particular still balloons with legacy versions of code that has been replaced in security upgrades. \u2014 Jim Salter, Ars Technica , 26 June 2020",
"There\u2019s a herd of dinosaur mobs, bloated with essence, between you and the three-vs-three teamfight. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 27 May 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"However, a research study from the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine suggests that elevated feeders may actually increase your dog\u2019s risk of bloat . \u2014 Lindsay Pevny, Popular Mechanics , 24 June 2022",
"There's also the matter of the oversized cast, which approaches Avengers levels of bloat . \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 8 June 2022",
"Several current and former officials described the Russian security service as rife with corruption, beset by bureaucratic bloat and ultimately out of touch. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The process has also been streamlined by having a small team of a couple dozen people and avoiding the bloat of modern AAA game design. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Which leads some critics to complain of bloat , while others, like me, feel like the app is full-featured. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 6 Apr. 2022",
"That lengthy digestion can lead to the classic post-burger-and-fries feeling of bloat and gassiness, per the MD Anderson Cancer Center. \u2014 Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Arizona voters in 1980 placed limits on school spending through a ballot initiative, preventing unrestrained budget bloat . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Cutting bloat is one way to help, but closing the commissaries is a hit below the belt. \u2014 WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1677, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1836, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English blout, blote soft, pliable, from Old Norse blautr soft, weak; akin to Old English bl\u0113at miserable":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u014dt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182816",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"bloat colic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": bloat":[
"\u2014 used especially of a horse"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004200",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bloated":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc.":[
"felt bloated from eating too much",
"a bloated body",
"\u2014 often used figuratively to describe something as having grown excessively large a bloated budget a bloated bureaucracy"
]
},
"examples":[
"I felt bloated from eating too much.",
"a bloated sense of his own importance",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There are many different things that can cause your stomach to become hard and bloated . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"Chief Executive Brian Cornell said that Target was taking the action to ensure that the bloated inventory levels don\u2019t cause problems throughout the year. \u2014 Colin Kellaher, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"Fans may have embraced the video, but it was regarded by many cultural tastemakers as excessive, indulgent and bloated . \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"Either way, a lot of money even by bloated NFL standards. \u2014 Terry Pluto, cleveland , 8 June 2022",
"The central government\u2019s senior finance officials ordered the bloated property giants to reduce their debt loads. \u2014 Grady Mcgregor And Clay Chandler, Fortune , 3 June 2022",
"Some say royalties have been replaced by front-loaded, bloated contracts, making flops all the more costly and obscuring creators\u2019 ability to see just how successful their works are. \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2022",
"The chain said a lightening quick return by consumers to more normalized spending left it with bloated inventory of items including TV sets that must be marked down to sell. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Now, on June 1, the Fed will start reducing their historically bloated balance sheet. \u2014 Bob Haber, Forbes , 26 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1656, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u014d-t\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"exaggerated",
"hyperbolized",
"inflated",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overblown",
"overdrawn",
"overweening"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041139",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bloated clay":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": clay caused to swell naturally or by gas-forming additives and used especially as insulation in concrete because of its porosity and lightness":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"bloated entry 2":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182953",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bloatedness":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being bloated":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175916",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bloater":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a large fat herring or mackerel lightly salted and briefly smoked":[],
": a small silvery cisco ( Coregonus hoyi ) of the Great Lakes having oily flesh":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1824, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1888, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"bloat entry 2":"Noun",
"obsolete bloat (to cure)":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u014d-t\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132551",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blob":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a daub or spot of color":[],
": a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick":[],
": something shapeless":[],
": to mark with blobs : splotch":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"That blue blob in the corner of the map is the lake we're headed for.",
"flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it around",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Like the blob , the federal government grows bigger by the day, and D.C. is a nightmare to exit with its Beltway traffic and gridlocked suburbs. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 18 June 2022",
"The vast volcanic caldera at Yellowstone National Park is just the latest in a long string of volcanic sites, all of which seem to be linked to a hot blob of material that may go all the way down to the Earth's mantle. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Looked at directly by a powerful telescope, those waves are one massive, glaring blob of starlight. \u2014 Chris Wright, Wired , 4 Jan. 2022",
"That was all there was: a six-year-old image of splintering glass, the blob of milk spreading over the dingy tiles like a diabolical hand. \u2014 Elif Batuman, The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022",
"As the teaser dramatically spells out the show\u2019s title, clips from the season show Nadia literally walking out of a grave, falling down a set of stairs, and approaching a door with a strange, glowy blue blob on it. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Great \u2014 but what are those of us who don\u2019t know how to read aura colors supposed to do with that blob of color",
"To end the video, the camera zooms out to show the CGI humanoids forming a large blob . \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Because of these changes, the researchers say, the magnetic blob lurking beneath Canada slowly elongated in the early aughts, weakening the corresponding magnetic intensity on Earth\u2019s surface. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Pacific Ocean off South America\u2014that big blue blob on the map\u2014resists extreme heat because of the upwelling of cold, deep waters. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 1 Feb. 2022",
"In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Dark matter can and does turn into black holes, but the scientists posit that Sagittarius A* is instead a blob -like mass that will require a lot more material in order to turn into a black hole. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 16 June 2021",
"The population blob that\u2019s forming around us has tremendous potential to create wealth. \u2014 Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News , 26 Mar. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English (Scots)":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u00e4b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"chunk",
"clod",
"clot",
"clump",
"dollop",
"glob",
"gob",
"gobbet",
"hunk",
"knob",
"lump",
"nub",
"nubble",
"nugget",
"wad"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012841",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bloc":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a combination of persons, groups, or nations forming a unit with a common interest or purpose":[
"a bloc of voters"
],
": a group of legislators who act together for some common purpose irrespective of party lines":[],
": a group of nations united by treaty or agreement for mutual support or joint action":[],
": a quantity, number, or section of things dealt with as a unit : block":[
"\u2026 seeking to buy and sell a large bloc of shares \u2026",
"\u2014 Stuart Washington",
"Potvin's outstanding bloc of games during his rookie campaign occurred during the 1993 playoffs.",
"\u2014 Stan Fischler"
],
": a temporary combination of parties in a legislative assembly":[]
},
"examples":[
"a voting bloc in the senate",
"a whole bloc of students got together to complain",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"European leaders last week opened a path for Ukrainian membership of the bloc . \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 26 June 2022",
"But even with the battlefield advances, the Kremlin was dealt another diplomatic setback on Friday as the European Union's executive recommended putting Kyiv on a path to membership of the bloc . \u2014 Patrick Smith, NBC News , 17 June 2022",
"Von der Leyen discussed at length with Zelenskyy the questionnaire submitted by his government in mid-April to assess the country's readiness to become a member of the bloc . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 12 June 2022",
"Should countries like Hungary be able to hold the rest of the bloc to ransom with its veto, and how can the EU reform that",
"But France, Italy and Germany, the biggest and richest countries of the bloc , are anxious about a long war or one that ends frozen in a stalemate, and nervous of the possible damage to their own economies. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Ireland has been participating in European Union battlegroups \u2014 part of the bloc \u2019s efforts to harmonize its militaries. \u2014 Jamey Keaten, ajc , 15 May 2022",
"Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, conducted in part to deter NATO expansion, has instead prompted a striking enlargement of the bloc . \u2014 Amy Cheng, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
"The latest round of sanctions would mark one of the bloc \u2019s most severe moves against Moscow. \u2014 Robert Hart, Forbes , 6 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1903, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, literally, block":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u00e4k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"block",
"body",
"coalition",
"faction",
"party",
"sect",
"set",
"side",
"wing"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214219",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"block":{
"antonyms":[
"bung",
"dam",
"fill",
"pack",
"plug",
"stop",
"stuff"
],
"definitions":{
": a compact usually solid piece of substantial material especially when worked or altered to serve a particular purpose":[
"a block of ice",
"blocks of cheese"
],
": a distinctive part of a building or integrated group of buildings":[
"a block of classrooms"
],
": a hollow rectangular building unit usually of artificial material":[
"a wall of concrete blocks"
],
": a large building divided into separate functional units":[
"an apartment block"
],
": a lightweight usually cubical and solid wooden or plastic building toy that is usually provided in sets":[
"children playing with blocks"
],
": a line of row houses":[],
": a mold or form on which articles are shaped or displayed":[
"a wooden hat block"
],
": a piece of material (such as wood or linoleum) having on its surface a hand-cut design from which impressions are to be printed":[
"wooden blocks used for printing books"
],
": a platform from which property is sold at auction":[
"went on the block and sold for nearly three million dollars"
],
": a quantity, number, or section of things dealt with as a unit":[
"bought a large block of shares",
"a half-hour block of music",
"a block of text"
],
": a usually rectangular space (as in a city) enclosed by streets and occupied by or intended for buildings":[
"She lived on our block ."
],
": a wooden or metal case enclosing one or more pulleys and having a hook, eye, or strap by which it may be attached":[],
": bloc sense 2":[
"popular among several voting blocks"
],
": blockade":[
"\u2026 a city \u2026 besieged and blocked about \u2026",
"\u2014 John Milton"
],
": for sale":[
"The business is now on the block ."
],
": head sense 1":[
"threatened to knock his block off"
],
": interruption or cessation especially of train of thought by competing thoughts or psychological suppression":[
"a mental block",
"an emotional block"
],
": local anesthesia (as by injection) produced by interruption of the flow of impulses along a nerve":[],
": obstacle":[
"putting a block on any future development"
],
": starting block":[
"the first swimmer off the blocks",
"a slow start out of the blocks"
],
": such as":[
"a block of ice",
"blocks of cheese"
],
": the casting that contains the cylinders of an internal combustion engine":[
"engine block"
],
": the distance along one of the sides of such a block":[
"The store is two blocks down on the right.",
"lived a block away from the school"
],
": the piece of wood on which the neck of a person condemned to be beheaded is laid for execution":[
"put her neck on the block"
],
": through many experiences":[
"\u2014 used especially to say that someone is no longer young or has become knowledgeable, capable, or mature because of past experience \u2026 it seemed possible that to fall for a woman who had been around the block a few times might be to rob himself of much of the purely ornamental elements \u2026 of first love. \u2014 Michael Chabon"
],
": to hinder the passage, progress, or accomplishment of by or as if by interposing an obstruction":[
"The ambulance was blocked by traffic.",
"senators trying to block passage of the bill"
],
": to hit (a ball or shot) inaccurately toward the right from a right-handed swing or toward the left from a left-handed swing : push":[
"\u2026 you get excited, don't finish your backswing and block your next drive into the foliage.",
"\u2014 Thomas Boswell"
],
": to interfere usually legitimately with (an opponent, an opponent's shot, etc.) in various games or sports":[
"practice blocking our opponents",
"blocked the shot with her hand"
],
": to interfere usually legitimately with an opponent : to block an opponent":[
"needs to practice blocking"
],
": to make (two or more lines of writing or type) flush at the left or at both left and right":[],
": to make unsuitable for passage or progress by obstruction":[
"The road was blocked by a rock slide."
],
": to mark or indicate the outline or chief lines of":[
"block out a design"
],
": to prevent normal functioning or action of":[
"block a nerve with novocaine"
],
": to restrict the exchange of (currency, checks, etc.)":[],
": to secure, support, or provide with a block (see block entry 1 sense 1 )":[
"blocking a plate for printing",
"block up the rear wheels"
],
": to shape on, with, or as if with a block (see block entry 1 sense 1b )":[
"block a hat"
],
": to shut off from view":[
"The building blocks our view of the ocean."
],
"American editorial cartoonist":[
"Herblock \\ \u02c8h\u0259r-\u200b\u02ccbl\u00e4k \\"
],
"Herbert Lawrence 1909\u20132001":[
"Herblock \\ \u02c8h\u0259r-\u200b\u02ccbl\u00e4k \\"
],
"\u2014 compare writer's block":[
"a mental block",
"an emotional block"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a wall built out of concrete blocks",
"We took a walk around the block .",
"She lived on our block .",
"The store is three blocks down on the right.",
"Our hotel is a block from the ocean.",
"Verb",
"There's an accident blocking the road.",
"The entrance was blocked by a gate.",
"Blood clots have completely blocked one of his arteries.",
"The protesters blocked the road with parked vehicles.",
"The ambulance was blocked by cars in the road.",
"An accident was blocking traffic.",
"Could you move to the left, please. You're blocking my light.",
"a shield that blocks the wind",
"Several senators are trying to block the passage of the bill.",
"His vote blocked the treaty.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Police were called at 9:55 p.m. to the 400 block of Curley Street in the Ellwood Park neighborhood where officers found a woman who had been shot in the back. \u2014 Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun , 24 June 2022",
"Officers were dispatched to the 3300 block of Port Union Road after a 911 hang-up call. \u2014 Erin Couch, The Enquirer , 24 June 2022",
"All the while, familiar sounds of Mexican American life play in the background, including the ring of the paletero man driving around the block and the hum of dancing feet. \u2014 Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Consider yoga, a quick walk around the block or even playing with the dog! \u2014 Deborah Goldstein, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Thousands of people, mostly unmasked, lined up around the block on West 176th Street to attend the event. \u2014 Antonio Ferme, Variety , 18 June 2022",
"The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, which has headquarters in Chicago, plans to move its offices around the block to the Aon Center. \u2014 Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"Your family can have your very own parade by decorating your bikes with flags, streamers, and ribbons, and setting off together for a few casual laps around the block . \u2014 Leigh Crandall, Country Living , 14 June 2022",
"Who could guess audiences would line up around the block for that",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Enlarge / Scott Atlas, a White House adviser, used his position to advocate for allowing the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread and tried to block testing for it, which would further that goal. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
"Here are a few things that will lower the thermometer: Plant trees to block sunlight on your house\u2019s east and west sides. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 18 June 2022",
"Under current government guidelines, Patel is able to block extradition requests only in a small number of circumstances. \u2014 Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"His attorneys tried unsuccessfully to block the subpoena. \u2014 Scott Bauer, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"His attorneys tried unsuccessfully to block the subpoena. \u2014 Scott Bauer, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"At an individual level, team members were asked to block time on calendars for personal wellness breaks. \u2014 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"But Republicans may look to other courts, particularly the Supreme Court, to block state laws on gun control after former President Donald J. Trump appointed a wave of conservative federal judges. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
"Senate Democrats, then in the minority, used the filibuster in June 2020 to block Scott's JUSTICE Act in 2020, which Scott's office claims would have addressed many of the issues in Biden's executive order. \u2014 Tyler O'neil, Fox News , 26 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1602, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English blok , from Middle French & Middle Dutch; Middle French bloc , from Middle Dutch blok ; akin to Old High German bloh block":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u00e4k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for block Verb hinder , impede , obstruct , block mean to interfere with the activity or progress of. hinder stresses causing harmful or annoying delay or interference with progress. rain hindered the climb impede implies making forward progress difficult by clogging, hampering, or fettering. tight clothing that impedes movement obstruct implies interfering with something in motion or in progress by the sometimes intentional placing of obstacles in the way. the view was obstructed by billboards block implies complete obstruction to passage or progress. a landslide blocked the road",
"synonyms":[
"array",
"assemblage",
"band",
"bank",
"batch",
"battery",
"bunch",
"clot",
"clump",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"collection",
"constellation",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"muster",
"package",
"parcel",
"passel",
"set",
"suite"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211900",
"type":[
"biographical name",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"block (off)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point the square is temporarily blocked off for the street fair"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-171158",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blockade":{
"antonyms":[
"beleaguerment",
"investment",
"leaguer",
"siege"
],
"definitions":{
": block , obstruct":[],
": something that blocks":[],
": to subject to a blockade":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"They blockaded the country's ports.",
"the militant protestors blockaded the whole area around city hall",
"Noun",
"it was the blockade of all the enemy's major ports that finally won the war",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said Russian forces had attacked Sievierodonetsk\u2019s industrial zone on Friday and also attempted to enter and blockade Lysychansk. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 25 June 2022",
"At talks in Turkey last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov indicated support for a UN proposal that would create shipping corridors to ease the ports blockade and allow Russia to export grain and fertilizer. \u2014 Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Moscow continues to blockade Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea ports, preventing the export of millions of tons of grain to countries around the world. \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"Ukrainian defenders continue to hold a last redoubt, a sprawling steelworks plant, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to blockade . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Earlier Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his defense minister that Russian forces should not storm the plant but blockade it instead. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Slouching and gripping the table with his right hand, Putin ordered Shoigu to blockade the city\u2019s Azovstal steel plant \u2014 a final Ukrainian holdout \u2014 rather than storm the facility. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 May 2022",
"Putin told troops on Thursday morning to blockade the plant, saying a breach wasn\u2019t necessary. \u2014 Fox News , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Russian naval forces continue to blockade the Ukrainian coast on the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, preventing resupply by sea, British military intelligence said Sunday. \u2014 NBC News , 3 Apr. 2022",
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"Indeed, in the days leading up to Jan. 6, Mr. Kushner was in the Middle East brokering a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Qatar to end a three-year blockade of the small Gulf state. \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
"In May 1949, the Soviets agreed to end the blockade . \u2014 Daniel Henninger, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Ottawa residents, meanwhile, are increasingly taking matters into their own hands to end the blockade that has eroded faith in institutions, tarnished Canada\u2019s international reputation and inspired copycat demonstrations abroad. \u2014 Miriam Berger And Amanda Coletta, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Ottawa residents, meanwhile, are increasingly taking matters into their own hands to end the blockade that has eroded faith in institutions, tarnished Canada\u2019s international reputation and inspired copycat demonstrations abroad. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Five days later -- on Friday evening -- a judge granted an injunction that allowed police to begin clearing the bridge area and end the blockade . \u2014 Theresa Waldrop, CNN , 14 Feb. 2022",
"After a virtual hearing, Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz of the Ontario Superior Court ordered protesters to end the blockade of the bridge. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 12 Feb. 2022",
"The Biden administration has urged Trudeau\u2019s government to end the blockade , and Michigan's governor likewise called for a quick resolution to the standoff. \u2014 Rob Gillies, ajc , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Ontario Premier Doug Ford, in a news conference Friday alongside his solicitor general, said the government is enacting new powers to end the blockade , including issuing fines of up to C$100,000 ($78,800) and jail time. \u2014 Brian Platt, Fortune , 11 Feb. 2022"
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"Following every gripping second of Stone's fight for survival, Gravity is both a groundbreaking technical accomplishment and a hell of a blockbuster . \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 17 June 2022",
"Others, meanwhile, have predicted the hearings will not only garner public attention and intrigue, but will have an audience and impact similar to that of a summer blockbuster , like the new Top Gun. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 3 June 2022",
"The idea that there's an entire blockbuster out there in this fictional world starring the supe of very few words is tickling. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 27 Jan. 2022",
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"Stults believes that a lot of forces are coming together at once to propel the latest film into becoming an instant blockbuster given the delay of the film\u2019s release and theaters being closed for quite a while due to the pandemic. \u2014 David Sharos, chicagotribune.com , 9 July 2021",
"Less stressful than many of the movies on this list, The Martian is a wildly entertaining blockbuster about a man's solo struggle to survive on Mars. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 17 June 2022",
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"The 5th Circuit\u2014known to be one of the most conservative courts in the country\u2014set a hearing for the week of September 12, meaning the mandate will remain blocked at least until then. \u2014 Alison Durkee, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"She was never tested for blocked blood vessels, something that increases someone's odds of another heart attack. \u2014 Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
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"Paschal had his most productive year as a senior, playing in 12 games and totaling 53 tackles, a team-high 15.5 tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks, one forced fumble, a blocked kick and led the Wildcats with eight quarterback hurries. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The Lost City follows Bullock's Loretta, a successful but blocked romance novelist who, during her latest book tour with her handsome cover model, Alan (Channing Tatum), gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that lands them both in a jungle chase. \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"In addition to follicular occlusion, meaning the hair follicles become blocked and then ruptured, the development of hidradenitis suppurativa is also associated with having some kind of inflammation in the body, Dr. Sayed explains. \u2014 Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Despite missing some time and playing through injury, Overshown led the team with 74 total tackles and added 5.5 tackles for loss, two sacks, two fumble recoveries and one blocked kick. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 6 Dec. 2021"
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"Breen\u2019s partner, the strongwoman Lynne, also came out in an apron and workout clothes, as did Hexli, the belly dancer, and Moore, the human blockhead . \u2014 David Hill, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local blockhead and an aging and Mike Byrne, a low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate\u2014and transforms the future of her community with the theft of millions of dollars\u2019 worth of maple syrup. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Newsom\u2019s attendance with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, at a 50th birthday party for a longtime lobbyist friend at a fancy wine country restaurant was a blockhead move. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 19 Nov. 2020",
"Her big blockhead is always looking for pets and kisses, but that pales in comparison to her big block heart. \u2014 Arizona Republic, azcentral , 1 May 2020",
"Charlie Brown is, was, and always will be a blockhead . \u2014 Bruce Handy, The Atlantic , 29 Aug. 2019",
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"But those columns keep getting written for a reason: There are still far too many of you thoughtless blockheads out there. \u2014 Tony Long, WIRED , 19 Jan. 2006"
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"\u2014 E. Grisdale"
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"Of course, her new boss (Adam Demos) is a mysterious, rugged bloke and sparks fly \u2013 as does liquefied sheep poo. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 20 May 2022",
"One of the few mortal characters introduced in Eternals is Harington's Dane Whitman, a seemingly ordinary British bloke working at a museum and dating Gemma Chan's Sersi. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 9 Nov. 2021",
"But Jamie Dornan was so cute and such a down-to-earth bloke . \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 29 Oct. 2021",
"The origin of the painting was a Titian of a bloke playing an organ and a nude woman. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2021",
"But more than four years after Britain voted to split \u2014 and after thousands of anxious, raging, nationalistic, infuriated headlines \u2014 what next for the ordinary bloke ",
"Whereas Mrs von der Leyen speaks like a technocrat, Mr Johnson speaks like a bloke telling jokes in a pub. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Dec. 2020",
"Plaintive, breathless, and more than a little disappointed by the shabbiness of the place, Fagan is a nonthreatening figure, the sort of bloke who might wheedle a free pint in a Clerkenwell pub. \u2014 Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner , 10 Dec. 2020",
"For a lager-swilling bloke like Charlie, the proposition is as alien as going to the pub in a tutu. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 10 Sep. 2020"
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"Doctors quickly realized that Ashe had almost certainly been infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, during his 1983 heart operation, when there weren\u2019t yet tests to check the blood supply for the virus. \u2014 Barron H. Lerner, STAT , 28 June 2022",
"Frease crawled from the pile on all fours, blood pouring from his face. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 28 June 2022",
"Officers found Moore in the 700 block of North Shortridge, less than a half mile from the scene of the crash, and he was transported to a hospital for a blood draw and to be checked for injuries, according to police. \u2014 Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star , 27 June 2022",
"With today's medical advances, doctors are able to see when a fetus forms organs, how much blood is pumped through its heart and so on. \u2014 CNN , 27 June 2022",
"The doctors extracted blood stem cells from Janz\u2019s bone marrow and then began genetically modifying them in a lab. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 27 June 2022",
"We are related by blood distantly, but our family history and cultural ties are close. \u2014 Kristian Fanene Schmidt, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Per the Mayo Clinic, an aortic dissection occurs when the inner layer of the body\u2019s main artery tears, allowing blood to rush through and split the middle and inner layers of the aorta. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 27 June 2022",
"Black flies are small insects, some of which feed on human blood and bedevil outdoor adventure seekers in the state. \u2014 Fox News , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Haji believes Vipingo Ridge's efforts to blood the next generation of golfing talent are reflective of the sport's increasing popularity in Kenya. \u2014 Jack Bantock, CNN , 6 May 2022",
"How long after getting the J&J vaccine can blood clots occur",
"The challenge of 2020 will be starting to blood them in the big leagues without overwhelming them, allowing the players to finish their development at a reasonable pace. \u2014 Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com , 7 Apr. 2021",
"Some COVID-19 patients have been found to have blood oxygen levels below 65%. \u2014 Mark Johnson, USA TODAY , 18 May 2020",
"Some COVID-19 patients have been found to have blood oxygen levels below 65%. \u2014 Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 May 2020",
"Additionally, some research says that dinosaurs were neither warm- or cold- blooded but lived in the space in between, known as mesotherms. \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 19 Feb. 2020",
"White sharks, another winter visitor to Florida waters, are warm blooded , and can handle a wider range of temperatures. \u2014 Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY , 25 Jan. 2020",
"Connor made up for blooding Girard by scoring seven seconds into Nazem Kadri\u2019s ensuing penalty for interference. \u2014 Mike Chambers, The Denver Post , 31 Dec. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But if the problem now is blood doping , what explains the difference",
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"Trainers experiment with anything that may give their horses an edge, including chemicals that bulk up pigs and cattle before slaughter, cobra venom, Viagra, blood doping agents, stimulants and cancer drugs. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2021"
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"Pentedattilo, Calabria Founded by Greeks in the seventh century B.C., the town is famous for a 17th-century blood feud between aristocrats. \u2014 Ferdinando Cotugno, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Mar. 2022",
"This was a blood feud that was just getting started. \u2014 Troy L. Smith, cleveland , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The two have been at each other\u2019s throats since the financial drama debuted in 2016, their blood feud at the core of the Showtime series. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Huck\u2019s story is the version of America that includes poverty, murder, alcoholism, child abuse, race prejudice, blood feud and imbecility. \u2014 Lance Morrow, WSJ , 21 Jan. 2022",
"They have long been portrayed as locked in a blood feud originating with Galswintha\u2019s murder, blinded by an intense hatred for each other. \u2014 Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Most of the players associated with the blood feud have retired. \u2014 Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com , 4 Dec. 2021",
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"The teens not only navigate lingering feelings from their past romance and a longtime blood feud , but are forced to work together to end a vicious madness that threatens Shanghai. \u2014 Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com , 17 Nov. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The creatures are also are known to host blood flukes \u2014or parasitic flatworms\u2014that can infect endangered loggerhead sea turtles. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 6 Apr. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Every day, countless calls on social media ask for plasma from a particular blood group , often for critical patients in the ICU. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 11 May 2021",
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"Nurses neglected to tell them O-negative blood can be given to patients of any blood group . \u2014 Max Bearak, BostonGlobe.com , 1 Feb. 2020"
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"Moronga, the exceptional blood sausage , became an accompanying signature. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
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"An unassuming cazuela filled with garbanzo beans, raisins, pine nuts and ground morcilla was infused with the blood sausage \u2019s comforting spice. \u2014 Michael Russell, oregonlive , 1 Sep. 2021",
"At Orlando Meats, experimental sausage is often the rule, but the blood hot dog is just a blood sausage , something familiar to cultures around the world, from Europe to Asia and Latin America. \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 1 Sep. 2021",
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"But this will be countered by anticipated trends in obesity, high blood sugar , and smoking, which are expected to result in an additional 6\u00b78 million dementia cases. \u2014 Sophie Okolo, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
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"Announcements about these studies have raised questions about the science behind blood typing . \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 30 June 2020",
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"The test looks at levels of 14 immune system proteins called cytokines that the company says indicate the blood vessel inflammation specific to long Covid. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Mar. 2022",
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"Patients also had a 17% heightened risk of developing a pulmonary embolism, a clot that develops in a blood vessel and travels to a lung artery, up to six months after having the virus. \u2014 Mary Kekatos, ABC News , 6 Apr. 2022",
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"Nonetheless, that bloodbath (just briefly glimpsed before a long sequence at the one-hour mark) is undeniably a nasty sight that literally turns the sea red. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 1 Apr. 2022"
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"Take Sumner Welles, for instance, a high-ranking official in Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s State Department and a member of that era\u2019s blue- blooded establishment, who had a penchant for propositioning train porters. \u2014 Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic , 8 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Julian using nothing more than the power of music and the talent which flows through his bloodline is about to share a classic musical moment from history with everyone who has $11 to help Ukraine. \u2014 Eric Fuller, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Inevitably, there\u2019s a terrible sense of needless loss, the terror of Nazi persecution exacerbated by our heroine\u2019s realization that mental illness and suicide have run through her family bloodline . \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Roscoe was one of many in the bloodline to die young. \u2014 Isabella Cueto, STAT , 2 May 2022",
"Rainier needed a wife who could have children because, under a 1918 treaty with Paris, the principality would revert to France if his bloodline died out. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Something about this play feels like it\u2019s the bloodline of my family or something. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"The filly whose bloodline includes both Curlin and AP Indy has won both of her starts this year and four out of her five overall. \u2014 Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal , 5 May 2022",
"The horses are then categorized by a different bloodline , genotype, breed, gender and color coat, resulting in over 90,000 potential combinations. \u2014 J.l. Kirven, USA TODAY , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Certainly Fury, who is of Irish-Gypsy heritage and comes from a bloodline of bare-knuckle champions, is the more skilful of the two boxers. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 23 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Conversely, below ground there is a vast entertainment area with a private bowling alley\u2014a nod to the couple\u2019s sense of fun\u2014where the walls are upholstered in a bloodred velvet. \u2014 Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor , 16 Oct. 2019",
"At Balenciaga, models wore bloodred contact lenses like cyborg contract killers. \u2014 Steff Yotka, Vogue , 27 Mar. 2019",
"This year\u2019s decorations have taken a different dystopian tack: Walking through a strange assemblage of bloodred trees, Trump looks to be channeling The Handmaid\u2019s Tale. \u2014 Bridget Read, Vogue , 26 Nov. 2018",
"His avatar is a simple color-field of his take on Valentino red, a shade imbued with a touch more coral than Mr. Garavani\u2019s original bloodred hue. \u2014 Steff Yotka, Vogue , 8 May 2018"
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"had to throw away the bloodstained washcloth after a particularly bad nosebleed",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The bloodstained bedding was still there when a Wall Street Journal reporter visited last month. \u2014 Isabel Coles, WSJ , 15 May 2022",
"After a mother is murdered at her house, police focus on their best clues: a bloodstained hammer and a dusty footprint. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Othram\u2019s pitch is simple: Government labs lack the expensive equipment needed to process DNA evidence \u2014 cigarette butts, bloodstained fabric, bone \u2014 which may be decades old, degraded or mixed with nonhuman materials. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Mar. 2022",
"The deal has others flaws, such as letting the ayatollahs get their bloodstained hands on nearly $100 billion in foreign currencies. \u2014 Steve Forbes, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Is God Is, a murderous modern myth about vengeful twin sisters on a bloodstained mission to kill their father. \u2014 Sagal Mohammed, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 Feb. 2022",
"For the next two weeks, their safety, security, and privacy will be in the bloodstained hands of the CCP. \u2014 Tom Cotton, National Review , 5 Feb. 2022",
"In the imagery of Bloody Sunday, the 17-year-old seems limp, and Daly waves a bloodstained handkerchief as an impromptu flag of truce. \u2014 Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com , 29 Jan. 2022",
"In the imagery of Bloody Sunday, the 17-year-old seems limp, and Father Daly waves a bloodstained handkerchief as an impromptu flag of truce. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Jan. 2022"
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"Our landlord, the bloodsucker , just raised our rent again.",
"the union accused the company executives of being bloodsuckers , since they had given themselves raises at a time when the rank and file were forced to take cuts in their benefits",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The luxe fabrics and floor-skimming hemlines read as darkly romantic\u2014ideal for a bloodsucker 's alluring companion. \u2014 Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country , 23 June 2022",
"As Claudia, an orphan turned bloodsucker with an ever-youthful appearance, Dunst has to inject years of wisdom into her tiny physique. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Those methods have failed to make a tick detach and could also cause the tiny bloodsucker to regurgitate into the bite, causing other issues. \u2014 Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2021",
"Still, at least one citizen scientist sees the chupacabra as both a cultural phenomenon and a modern spin on the world\u2019s most storied bloodsucker . \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News , 24 Feb. 2021",
"The team behind the reboot of Sherlock that turned Benedict Cumberbatch into a star \u2013 Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat \u2013 collaborate again on this modern take on the Bram Stoker classic, starring Claes Bang as the legendary bloodsucker . \u2014 Brian Tallerico, Vulture , 1 Feb. 2021",
"Klaus Kinski plays Count Dracula, Isabelle Adjani is Lucy Harker, and Bruno Ganz is Jonathan Harker in this unforgettable mood piece, a movie that\u2019s so unsettling that one wonders if Kinski might actually be a bloodsucker . \u2014 Brian Tallerico, Vulture , 23 Jan. 2021",
"Eddie Murphy plays the titular bloodsucker in this comedic vamp around \u201990s Brooklyn. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Oct. 2020",
"The real estate company behind all these shuttered businesses and bougie new development plans isn\u2019t just a figurative bloodsucker . \u2014 Emma Grey Ellis, Wired , 2 Oct. 2020"
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"the Goths were a wild and bloodthirsty people",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Numerous scenes show angry and bloodthirsty Muslims leering at Hindu women, and inflicting torture and humiliations upon Hindu families. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 21 June 2022",
"She was often seen alongside Cheol-su, a cherubic schoolboy with a bowl cut who, in the disturbing world of the show, is sure to be just as bloodthirsty as his partner. \u2014 Radhika Seth, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
"Building on Picasso\u2019s 1937 anti-war masterpiece, 11-year-old Andres Valencia contemplates the horrors of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s bloodthirsty Invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Directors can emphasize its witchy aura, its bloodthirsty politics, its marital drama or critique of masculinity without endangering its essential stageworthiness. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Their success at eluding Daiyu\u2019s predatory madam and the Hip Yee tong, the bloodthirsty gang that controls the brothel, is one of many junctures where Zhang\u2019s novel seems to tilt toward a conventional redemption story. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Russians are represented as bloodthirsty bears, serpents, dead-eyed zombies and red-skinned goons. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2022",
"He was also considered to be a violent and bloodthirsty god, as well as a being thought to rule over evil spirits. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The whole bloody history of Russia, as imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet, is based on the bloodthirsty attitude towards its neighbors and its people, who have never been united ethnically or culturally. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 7 Mar. 2022"
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"\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u02ccth\u0259r-st\u0113"
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"\u2014 David Wild"
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"He hit me and gave me a bloody nose.",
"after the fight, her shirt was all bloody",
"Verb",
"He hit me and bloodied my nose.",
"the politician's reputation was permanently bloodied by the rumors of corruption",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"After watching in terror as a man violently attacked a police officer in an El Cajon fast-food restaurant, Iesha Booker checked for a pulse on the bloody , unconscious officer and yelled into the radio on his belt. \u2014 Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com , 19 July 2017",
"Photos of the man in a hospital bed with a bloody mouth were also posted. \u2014 Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com , 14 July 2017",
"A man found the baby bloody but still breathing and asked security at the building to call 911, prosecutors said at the time. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com , 10 July 2017",
"His comments came after weeks of saber-rattling in New Delhi and Beijing, as officials from both sides talk up a potential clash even bloodier than their 1962 war that left thousands dead. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 6 July 2017",
"For example, at Chester\u2019s Roman Amphitheatre, centurion Marcus Aurelius Nepos tells about England\u2019s bloody combat history at the spot. \u2014 Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian , 30 June 2017",
"Collapsing the roof isn\u2019t a spur-of-the-moment thing, either\u2014our experience involved about three minutes, two swearing fits, and at least one bloody knuckle. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 30 June 2017",
"Instead, there\u2019s glee for Trump\u2019s base in watching Trump bring justice to the streets of media Gotham, flinging Batarangs of acerbic nastiness at Mika Brzezinski\u2019s bloody face. \u2014 Ben Shapiro, National Review , 5 July 2017",
"His next memory was waking up on the floor with a bloody nose and painful headache. \u2014 Michael Osipoff, Post-Tribune , 3 July 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Bruised, bloodied , and reeking of fuel, the three men were handcuffed in the back of a police truck and driven to a hospital in Toluca. \u2014 Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2020",
"Videos showed people being beaten on the floor and left bloodied and dazed. \u2014 James Griffiths, CNN , 24 July 2019",
"Bruised, bloodied , and reeking of fuel, the three men were handcuffed in the back of a police truck and driven to a hospital in Toluca. \u2014 Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2020",
"Cordon\u2019s face was bloodied during a home invasion in the early hours of July 10. \u2014 John Wawrow, The Seattle Times , 13 Aug. 2018",
"The woman was bloodied , and her hair was cut by the blades of the arrow, the sheriff\u2019s office said. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Mar. 2020",
"Meanwhile, Democrats bloodied each other in a debate battle ahead of today\u2019s Nevada caucuses that candidate Michael Bloomberg said Trump won. \u2014 Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner , 22 Feb. 2020",
"News photos showed rescue workers with lights bringing out people, some bloodied by the collapse. \u2014 USA TODAY , 9 Mar. 2020",
"Bruised, bloodied , and reeking of fuel, the three men were handcuffed in the back of a police truck and driven to a hospital in Toluca. \u2014 Seth Harp, Harper's magazine , 2 Mar. 2020"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for bloody Adjective bloody , sanguinary , gory mean affected by or involving the shedding of blood. bloody is applied especially to things that are actually covered with blood or are made up of blood. bloody hands sanguinary applies especially to something attended by, or someone inclined to, bloodshed. the Civil War was America's most sanguinary conflict gory suggests a profusion of blood and slaughter. exceptionally gory , even for a horror movie",
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},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When the moves would backfire, people would scream bloody murder . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Dec. 2021",
"The lady was hurrying but stumbling with her arms full of the weight of a kid screaming bloody murder , banging his fists against her like a right little Mike Tyson. \u2014 Hermione Hoby, Harper's Magazine , 22 June 2021",
"The child stood exactly on the chalk line itself\u2014and screamed bloody murder if asked to take a step inside or outside. \u2014 Amy Weiss-meyer, The Atlantic , 9 Sep. 2020",
"The image of Derek Chauvin\u2019s knee slowly squeezing the warm, rich life out of Floyd inspired millions to march, chant, pray, pull down statues, throw projectiles and scream bloody murder . \u2014 Donna Britt, Washington Post , 26 June 2020",
"Never mind that whenever a mouse appeared in our actual house, my mother would scream bloody murder . \u2014 Lauren Le Vine, refinery29.com , 6 May 2020",
"But if a Democratic president acted similarly \u2014 Republicans would be screaming bloody murder . \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Compelled by the smell of blood, the bats descend on Morbius, who screams bloody murder . \u2014 Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com , 15 Jan. 2020",
"Their first Valentine\u2019s Day together, Clark surprised his then-new girlfriend with a bloody murder -themed date night. \u2014 Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com , 6 Aug. 2019"
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"1584, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u2014 used of bodies of water"
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"\u2014 Ren\u00e9e Loux Underkoffler"
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"flowers blooming in the garden",
"Their love was just beginning to bloom ."
],
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"Middle English blome , from Old Norse bl\u014dm ; akin to Old English bl\u014dwan to blossom \u2014 more at blow":"Noun",
"Middle English blome lump of metal, from Old English bl\u014dma":"Noun"
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"flush",
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"verb"
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"ashen",
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"doughy",
"livid",
"lurid",
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"pale",
"paled",
"palish",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"sallow",
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"\u2026 ever since she was a blooming lass of twenty.",
"\u2014 George Eliot",
"\u2026 a smart, pretty girl of nineteen, with \u2026 a round face, bright, blooming cheeks, glossy, clustering curls, and little merry brown eyes.",
"\u2014 Anne Bront\u00eb"
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"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"probably euphemism for bloody":""
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"\u02c8bl\u00fc-m\u0259n"
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"flush",
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"red",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"ruddy",
"sanguine"
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"Noun",
"Her hair smelled of apple blossoms .",
"in the full blossom of her career as a writer",
"Verb",
"Their friendship blossomed into romance.",
"the fruit tree seemed to blossom overnight once the warm spring weather arrived",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Now, fans will get to see their love story blossom throughout the upcoming competition reality series. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"Two ensuites\u2014one pink blossom , the other black and gold\u2014contain elaborate gold baths, showers and walk-in dressing rooms. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 10 June 2022",
"Every spring, crowds flock to admire Japan's cherry blossom -- a dazzling pink and white bloom that has been revered in the country for more than a thousand years. \u2014 Helen Regan, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"Product placement in Korean media also helped the multi-balm trend blossom , both Hong and Cho note. \u2014 Devon Abelman, Allure , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Fans can also expect to watch the romance blossom between Kardashian and Davidson, who met on the SNL set. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 8 Apr. 2022",
"An elegant orange- blossom and neroli scent accompanies you following each use. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Around the booths, visitors and artists alike dressed up for the affair, cladding themselves in their best ribbon skirts or turquoise squash- blossom necklaces. \u2014 Christian Allair, Vogue , 25 Aug. 2021",
"In our climate and soils, blossom end rot is caused by uneven watering. \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The danger in trading the pick is passing up on a rising talent who could blossom into a star down the road. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 June 2022",
"On a rainy spring morning, an old cherry tree was beginning to blossom in a little park along Cherry Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"And that was Neal's final lesson, the example of a life that can blossom into that kind of gratitude. \u2014 John Dickerson, CBS News , 12 Oct. 2018",
"Shortly after, a breakfast meeting between the two solidified the friendship that would blossom into a relationship \u2014 though Griffin knew right away that Krusen was the one. \u2014 Sarah Michaud, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"With the Los Angeles Olympics looming, Jake and Rupert are pitted against each other to land a spot on the national team while also fighting for the affection of the English roses who blossom around the show jumpers. \u2014 Courtney Maum, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Whoever lands the California corner will be getting one of the fastest-rising defensive players in America, one that could blossom into a future NFL draft pick. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Jan. 2022",
"While larger agencies would overlook these smaller deals, Hochberg views them as an opportunity to grow a partnership that could eventually blossom into a long-term contract. \u2014 Nick Diunte, Forbes , 29 Sep. 2021",
"The league offers a unique collegiality, Mathre said, where friendships born at track meets can blossom into lifelong bonds. \u2014 Rachel Blount, Star Tribune , 6 Feb. 2021"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"Middle English blosme , from Old English bl\u014dstm ; akin to Old English bl\u014dwan":"Noun"
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"\u02c8bl\u00e4-s\u0259m"
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"bloom",
"florescence",
"floruit",
"flower",
"flush",
"heyday",
"high noon",
"prime",
"salad days",
"springtime"
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": a soiling or disfiguring mark : spot":[],
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": to remove with absorbing material":[
"blotting up spilled water"
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": to spot, stain, or spatter with a discoloring substance":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Don't rub the wine stain. Blot it dry with a paper towel.",
"Blot your lipstick with a tissue."
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1595, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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"Middle English":"Noun",
"perhaps from Dutch bloot naked, exposed, from Middle Dutch; akin to Middle High German bloz bare":"Noun"
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"\u02c8bl\u00e4t"
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"brand",
"onus",
"slur",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"spot",
"stain",
"stigma",
"taint"
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
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": wipe out , destroy":[]
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"blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device",
"bushes blotted out the shed from our view"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1549, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"black out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162145",
"type":[
"verb"
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"dapple",
"dot",
"eyespot",
"fleck",
"mottle",
"patch",
"pip",
"point",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot"
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": a spot or mark (as of color or ink) especially when large or irregular":[],
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"Verb",
"blotched the bedroom walls with various shades of blue to give them a textured effect",
"my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket",
"Noun",
"blotches on the tree's leaves",
"a dog with a single small blotch of black",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Still, in the contents of this collection, some blotched with stray fingerprints or grease splatters, O\u2019Keeffe left traces of her daily effort to maintain Abiquiu as a sanctuary. \u2014 Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times , 7 Feb. 2020",
"The friend spotted a big male Chinook \u2014 its fins torn, its back blotched with the fungus of decay. \u2014 Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com , 5 May 2018",
"Inside the box there's a pile of mint-green paint chips, blotched with brown stains and cracked like a dehydrated lake bed. \u2014 Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader , 24 Oct. 2017",
"As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia\u2019s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. \u2014 Lauren Young, Smithsonian , 6 Feb. 2017",
"People emerged from the pools, their pale white skin blotched with red. \u2014 James Hamblin, The Atlantic , 9 June 2017",
"As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia\u2019s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. \u2014 Lauren Young, Smithsonian , 6 Feb. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"At-home stain removal comes with many risks: setting that wine blotch forever, rubbing a hole in your favorite shirt, making dye bleed. \u2014 Kevin Brasler, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Last night, the only blotch on his record was a leadoff bunt single in the 1st inning. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
"To say the least, my skin looked radiant and bright from the exfoliating mask, and not a blotch of redness or irritation was in sight. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Vineyards at harvest time are a popular subject for photographers and romantics, but those beautiful red leaves betray a disease called red blotch virus. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
"One sin was for attempting to hire Ben Johnson, the notorious drug cheater from Canada, who left a blotch on the Seoul Olympics in 1988 by winning the 100 meters and quickly testing positive for steroids. \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
"However, the real purpose of this conversation is for Heather to talk about her stress rash, which is really just a red blotch on her forehead. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Look for a nearby blotch of green space or set off in search of a sunset or a playground full of happy memories. \u2014 New York Times , 5 July 2021",
"The woman is definitely experiencing some kind of stress- blotch breakout. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 16 Mar. 2021"
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"1604, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1619, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"perhaps blend of blot entry 1 and botch entry 3":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8bl\u00e4ch"
],
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"dapple",
"dot",
"fleck",
"freckle",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pepper",
"shoot",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"stipple"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012818",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
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": drunk sense 1a":[]
},
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"He came home blotto after the party.",
"She got blotto on cheap wine."
],
"first_known_use":{
"1917, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"probably irregular from blot entry 2":""
},
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"\u02c8bl\u00e4-(\u02cc)t\u014d"
],
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"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
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},
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"antonyms":[
"blast",
"flurry",
"gust",
"scud",
"williwaw",
"windblast"
],
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": a forcible or sudden act or effort : assault":[
"\u2026 such a language \u2026 would solve many of his \u2026 difficulties at a single blow .",
"\u2014 Edward Sapir"
],
": a forcible stroke delivered with a part of the body (such as the fist) or with an instrument":[
"a mighty blow with his club",
"boxers exchanging blows"
],
": a hostile act or state : combat":[
"nations coming to blows"
],
": an act or instance of blowing (see blow entry 1 )":[
"gave his nose a good blow",
"a blow of the horn"
],
": an instance of air moving with speed or force : a blowing of wind especially when strong or violent":[],
": an unfortunate or calamitous happening":[
"failure to land the job came as a blow"
],
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"lilacs in full blow"
],
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": boast":[
"blowing about his accomplishments"
],
": botch sense 1":[
"actors blowing their lines"
],
": brag , boasting":[],
": cocaine":[],
": damn":[
"blow the expense"
],
": erupt , explode":[
"The bridge was about to blow .",
"The windows blew out in the explosion."
],
": flower , bloom":[
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows \u2026",
"\u2014 Shakespeare"
],
": pant , gasp":[
"The horse blew heavily."
],
": sound entry 2":[
"a horn blowing",
"waiting for the whistle to blow"
],
": the quantity of metal refined during that time":[],
": the time during which air is forced through molten metal to refine it":[],
": to act on with a current of gas or vapor":[
"The breeze blew my hair dry."
],
": to be extremely bad in quality or execution : suck , stink":[
"So how come this oddball dramedy \u2026 never received a U.S. theatrical release \u2026 !",
"\u2014 Bruce Fretts"
],
": to be favorable at one moment and adverse the next":[],
": to be in motion":[
"A breeze blew gently."
],
": to become damaged or destroyed as a result of an electrical overload":[
"The fuse blew .",
"A Western Massachusetts Electric Company power substation blew yesterday afternoon, cutting power for 90 minutes to more than 9,100 customers \u2026",
"\u2014 Patrick Johnson"
],
": to become enraged":[],
": to become violently angry":[],
": to call public or official attention to something (such as a wrongdoing) kept secret":[
"\u2014 usually used with on blew the whistle on the firm's unethical practices"
],
": to cause (a fuse) to blow":[
"blew a fuse"
],
": to clear of contents by forcible passage of a current of air":[
"blow your nose"
],
": to deposit eggs or larvae on or in":[
"wounds blown by flies"
],
": to distend with or as if with gas":[
"blow a balloon"
],
": to drive or speed through or past (a traffic signal or stop sign) without stopping":[
"He blew several red lights and stop signs before smashing into a pole and a fence, cops said.",
"\u2014 Jessica Simeone et al."
],
": to drive with a current of gas or vapor":[
"The storm blew the boat off course."
],
": to eject moisture-laden air from the lungs through the blowhole":[
"heard a whale blow nearby"
],
": to expend (something, such as money) extravagantly":[
"blew her allowance on a pair of jeans"
],
": to fail to keep or hold":[
"They blew a big lead."
],
": to go crazy":[],
": to leave hurriedly":[
"blew town"
],
": to let (an animal, such as a horse) pause to catch the breath":[
"paused to blow the horses"
],
": to lose one's composure":[],
": to lose or miss (an opportunity) because of mistakes or poor judgment":[
"blow a chance to make a good impression"
],
": to make a sound by or as if by blowing":[
"hear the train blow"
],
": to move or be carried by or as if by wind":[
"just blew into town for the weekend"
],
": to move or run quickly":[
"The linebacker blew past the tackle."
],
": to move with speed or force":[
"The wind was blowing ."
],
": to overwhelm one with wonder or bafflement":[
"an idea that's sure to blow your mind"
],
": to play (something) on a wind instrument":[
"blow a tune"
],
": to play or sound on (a wind instrument)":[
"blow their horns"
],
": to produce or shape by the action of blown or injected air":[
"blowing bubbles"
],
": to project (a gesture or sound made with the mouth) by blowing":[
"blew him a kiss"
],
": to propel with great force or speed":[
"blew a fastball by the batter"
],
": to put out of breath with exertion":[
"Take care not to blow the horses."
],
": to release pent-up emotions":[],
": to release the contained air through a spontaneous rupture":[
"\u2014 usually used with out blew out a tire"
],
": to reveal one's real identity":[],
": to rupture by too much pressure":[
"blow a seal"
],
": to send forth a current of air or other gas":[
"Don't blow on your soup."
],
": to set (gas or vapor) in motion":[
"The fan blew hot air on us."
],
": to shatter, burst, or destroy by explosion":[
"blow the safe open"
],
": to speak idly, misleadingly, or boastfully":[],
": to spread by report":[
"\u2026 through the court his courtesy was blown \u2026",
"\u2014 John Dryden"
],
": to talk in an empty or boastful way":[
"\u2026 if it wasn't true, and he was just blowing , it wouldn't be so hard to take.",
"\u2014 James Jones"
],
": to treat with unusual expenditure":[
"I'll blow you to a steak."
],
": vomit sense 1":[
"The basement is the sort of dim, subterranean space the players don't seem to mind trashing, and every now and then, one of them will turn to a corner and urinate or blow chunks .",
"\u2014 Jonathon Blum"
]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1710, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English (northern dialect) blaw ; probably akin to Old High German bliuwan to beat":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English bl\u0101wan ; akin to Old High German bl\u0101en to blow, Latin flare , Greek phallos penis":"Verb and Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English bl\u014dwan ; akin to Old High German bluoen to bloom, Latin flor\u0113re to bloom, flor-, flos flower":"Verb and Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"gasp",
"heave",
"hyperventilate",
"pant",
"puff",
"wheeze"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040707",
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"blow (out)":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a bursting of a container (such as a tire) by pressure of the contents on a weak spot":[],
": a festive social affair":[],
": a hairstyle in which the hair is blow-dried while being styled with a round brush":[
"As discovered by one Twitter user, however, [Meghan] Markle isn't just the queen of a beautiful blowout . She has rocked natural curls in the past, which has the internet praising \"curls in the royal palace.\"",
"\u2014 Summer Arlexis"
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": a valley or depression created by the wind in areas of shifting sand or of light cultivated soil":[],
": an easy or one-sided victory":[],
": an uncontrolled eruption of an oil or gas well":[],
": to become extinguished by a gust":[],
": to damage severely":[
"she blew out her knee in the race"
],
": to defeat easily":[],
": to dissipate (itself) by blowing":[
"\u2014 used of storms"
],
": to erupt out of control":[
"\u2014 used of an oil or gas well"
],
": to extinguish by a gust":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The car crashed after one of its tires had a blowout .",
"We had a big blowout to celebrate his promotion.",
"The game was expected to be close but it turned out to be a blowout .",
"Verb",
"blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But if that same manager once found himself in a similar position -- taking the mound in a blowout -- there are lessons that can be learned. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"Comebacks can and do happen, but the unwritten rules frown on the winning team trying too hard in a blowout ; at a certain point, only the losing team is allowed to try. \u2014 Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star , 27 June 2022",
"Colorado took the best-of-seven series in six games, winning Games 1 and 4 in overtime and Game 2 in a 7-0 blowout . \u2014 David K. Li, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
"Since Kentucky was cruising at the time \u2014 the Wildcats' best win came in a blowout at Kansas at the end of January \u2014 there was little reason to force him into the rotation. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 24 June 2022",
"But after assessing all that went wrong in that blowout , Kerr still replaced Looney with Otto Porter Jr. in the starting lineup for Game 4 on Friday night. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 June 2022",
"Here\u2019s how that figure compares with representatives of other major networks: Kind of a blowout , huh",
"Despite the Warriors turning it into a blowout in the third quarter, viewership for Game 2 was up 24 percent over the second game of last season\u2019s Bucks-Suns Finals. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"One thing that stays the same regardless of the outfit is her chestnut haircolor, which shines here in a blowout thanks to hairstylist and Virtue Labs creative director Adir Abergel. \u2014 Alexis Gaskin, Glamour , 19 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Voice coach was all smiles and took hold of the cake, showing it off and pretending to blow out the candles, which were unlit. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 21 June 2022",
"Cadillac decided to blow out the competition in 1959. \u2014 A.j. Baime, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"More significant has been the infrequency of situations where the game hinges on a single pitch; the Red Sox\u2019 ability to blow out opponents resulted in just 79 high-leverage plate appearances since May 10, 17th in the big leagues. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"It's been more than four decades since Vincent Simmons has had a birthday cake -- candles to blow out and make a wish. \u2014 CBS News , 25 May 2022",
"Ballard dominated from start to finish as the Seventh Region champs used a nine-run second inning to blow out 15th Region representative Johnson Central 10-0 in five innings at the University of Kentucky's John Cropp Stadium. \u2014 Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal , 4 June 2022",
"As Klarman began to blow out the candles on a day that gifted him his second Preakness winner on the five-year anniversary of Cloud Computing, the baseball connections flowed. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2022",
"Other trends surrounding the film have also sprung up on TikTok, including the #candle trend, in which creators blow out the family candle as Mirabel does in the movie. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 23 Mar. 2022",
"And do stay tuned for an event next week to blow out some inventory. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 29 Apr. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u014d-\u02ccau\u0307t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"bash",
"binge",
"blast",
"do",
"event",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"function",
"get-together",
"party",
"reception",
"shindig"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181455",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": to defeat soundly":[
"blew their rivals away in the first game"
],
": to dissipate or remove as if with a current of air":[
"their doubts were blown away"
],
": to impress very strongly and usually favorably":[],
": to kill by gunfire : shoot dead":[]
},
"examples":[
"the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"annihilate",
"bomb",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"drub",
"dust",
"flatten",
"paste",
"rout",
"shellac",
"skin",
"skunk",
"smoke",
"smother",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trim",
"tromp",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"whomp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161650",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blow gas":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": gas leaving the generator during a blow period in the manufacture of water gas":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105335",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blow in":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to arrive casually or unexpectedly":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1882, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175947",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blow off":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to end a relationship with":[],
": to fail to attend or show up for":[
"blew off an official dinner"
],
": to outperform in a contest":[],
": to refuse to take notice of, honor, or deal with : ignore":[
"decided to blow off two billion viewers",
"\u2014 Harry Homburg"
]
},
"examples":[
"before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off",
"blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1631, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"break off (with)",
"ditch",
"dump",
"jilt",
"kiss off",
"leave"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021543",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blow one's own horn":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to talk about oneself or one's achievements especially in a way that shows pride or too much pride":[
"We've had a very successful year, and I think we have a right to blow our own horn a little."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190030",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"blow one's own trumpet":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to talk about oneself or one's achievements especially in a way that shows that one is proud or too proud":[
"He had a very successful year and has every right to blow his own trumpet ."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162241",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"blow out of proportion":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to cause (something) to become larger than it should be or to be treated as something worse or more important than it really is":[
"You are blowing things (all/way) out of proportion .",
"The story was blown out of proportion in the newspapers."
]
},
"examples":[],
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111906",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"blow town":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to leave a town especially quickly":[
"He packed his bags and blew town without even saying goodbye."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"The blowup of the photograph was easy to frame.",
"The two of them had a big blowup about something trivial.",
"The coach's latest blowup occurred when one of his players arrived late.",
"Verb",
"she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day",
"the building blew up because of a gas leak",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Saban\u2019s pontifications about Jackson State were slightly overshadowed by the subsequent, juicy blowup with Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 24 May 2022",
"Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband\u2019s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person\u2019s sense of identity. \u2014 Time , 1 June 2022",
"Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband\u2019s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person\u2019s sense of identity. \u2014 Lynn Elber, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"On April 26, three days after the blowup , Lin announced his departure on the Fast social media channels. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 May 2022",
"But unlike the events leading to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008, the financial community is divided on whether a crypto blowup could lead to systemic risk for financial markets. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 12 May 2022",
"People reported that Jeff addressed his longtime collaborator\u2019s blowup at the Oscars at Dorian\u2019s Through The Record Shop in Chicago, during the Closed Sessions Legend Conversation: DJ Jazzy Jeff last Thursday. \u2014 Jude Zhu, Billboard , 13 Apr. 2022",
"To fully prove blowup , mathematicians need to show that, given the approximate singularity, a true one exists nearby. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Spoelstra suggested Wednesday's blowup could help the Heat in the long run. \u2014 Jace Evans, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Since single-person pose estimation is a doable task, multiperson tracking is expected to blow up in the coming years. \u2014 Oleg Lola, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Two Northern California militia members are in federal custody after being charged with plotting to blow up the state Democratic headquarters in Sacramento. \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"According to Bates, the group's plan was to kidnap Whitmer at her vacation home and blow up several bridges in the area to thwart law enforcement, according to the BBC. \u2014 Danielle Wallace, Fox News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Did expenses unexpectedly blow up because of an unplanned event",
"With the mask, users can blow up balloons, hold their breath to steady a toy gun, and do several other things. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 1 June 2022",
"These floaties are easy to blow up , too, thanks to the single-nozzle design. \u2014 Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022",
"But, of course, all of these options and plans could ultimately blow up in the Blazers\u2019 faces, as did the lottery. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 May 2022",
"Simply blow up the pad, attach it to a hose, and adjust the water pressure depending on how high your kids want the sprinkler to go. \u2014 Kylee Mcguigan, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022"
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"1921, in the meaning defined above":""
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"What demon dreamed up \" blow-in cards \"\u2014those subscription cards that drop out of a magazine as you pick it up to read",
"\u2014 Alan L. Otten , Wall Street Journal , 21 Nov. 1974",
"Inside the magazine there were lots of blow-in cards offering subscription deals, but he didn't want to have to fill out a coupon and mail it in and wait six weeks for his subscription to kick in.",
"\u2014 Harvey Mackay , Albany (New York) Times Union , 13 Apr. 1997"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Anthropology professor Terry Castro and a few students meet men of the tribe in the jungle and Castro is accidentally poisoned after handling a dart from a blowgun . \u2014 Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities , 16 June 2019",
"The attacks occurred almost a year to the day after two pedestrians on the Golden Gate Bridge were hit by blowgun darts the afternoon of Feb. 12. \u2014 Robert Salonga, The Mercury News , 17 Feb. 2017",
"Images posted to social media in recent months appear to show at least two birds going about their lives with blowgun darts embedded in their head and neck. \u2014 Mike Mcphate, New York Times , 6 June 2017"
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": an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart , windbag":[
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"a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard",
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"The president of the United States is a blowhard \u2014 again. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 1 June 2022",
"His actions bespeak a prime-time TV blowhard who understands how objectionable his rhetoric has become. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"That\u2019s the argument, anyway\u2014and it\u2019s advanced by athletes, coaches, cable-news pundits, blowhard musicians, and more. \u2014 Jason Feifer, Men's Health , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The man\u2019s an oblivious, ignorant, overconfident blowhard . \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Stan plays the character as an entitled blowhard who ignites Gauthier\u2019s class fury and masculine jealousy. \u2014 Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Jesse, a hedonist blowhard who\u2019s mulling a takeover; Kelvin (Adam Devine), an earnest youth minister; and Judy (the incredible Edi Patterson), the lone daughter, undervalued by Eli because of her gender. \u2014 Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
"In the Czech Republic the right-wing blowhard Prime Minister Andrej Babis recently lost narrowly against a coalition of center-left and center-right parties. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 15 Oct. 2021",
"An ambitious, boastful, obnoxious blowhard takes a totally unnecessary swipe at Jaimie Lannister, a knight whose sword hand was amputated. \u2014 Andrew Pulrang, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021"
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"babbler",
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"\u2014 Brian J. Cantwell"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Someone had hacked off its flukes, and another person, or perhaps the same one, had stuck a cigar butt in its blowhole . \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"After that, the orcas jumped onto the whale's blowhole to exhaust the animal and prevent it from breathing. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Feb. 2022",
"During the session, VanderVelde spotted water spouting out of a whale's blowhole in the ocean about 200 yards from the shore, per KAKE. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Again through manipulation and dissection, the researchers figured out that when the animal was ready to swallow its latest meal, the oral plug shifted upward to protect the upper respiratory tract, including the nasal cavities and blowhole . \u2014 New York Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Ascend their tails to get to the blowhole on their heads, then get launched a great distance upwards to escape a tricky situation. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"During dives, the blowhole is sealed by a nasal plug that opens when the animal surfaces. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Baleen whales have two openings in their blowhole , while toothed whales have one. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Aug. 2021",
"The parts aren\u2019t exactly alike, but both animals have a dorsal fin and a blowhole . \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 20 Apr. 2021"
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": the unevenly distributed pattern of shotgun pellets that results from the charge of shot overtaking the front wadding of the shell and being disrupted in flight":[]
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": produced by blow molding in a mold of two or more pieces and designed to simulate hand-cut glass":[]
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": a blast in which the explosive action breaks little or no coal or rock":[]
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"As discovered by one Twitter user, however, [Meghan] Markle isn't just the queen of a beautiful blowout . She has rocked natural curls in the past, which has the internet praising \"curls in the royal palace.\"",
"\u2014 Summer Arlexis"
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"Noun",
"The car crashed after one of its tires had a blowout .",
"We had a big blowout to celebrate his promotion.",
"The game was expected to be close but it turned out to be a blowout .",
"Verb",
"blew out a smoke ring and began to tell us a good yarn",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But if that same manager once found himself in a similar position -- taking the mound in a blowout -- there are lessons that can be learned. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"Comebacks can and do happen, but the unwritten rules frown on the winning team trying too hard in a blowout ; at a certain point, only the losing team is allowed to try. \u2014 Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star , 27 June 2022",
"Colorado took the best-of-seven series in six games, winning Games 1 and 4 in overtime and Game 2 in a 7-0 blowout . \u2014 David K. Li, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
"Since Kentucky was cruising at the time \u2014 the Wildcats' best win came in a blowout at Kansas at the end of January \u2014 there was little reason to force him into the rotation. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 24 June 2022",
"But after assessing all that went wrong in that blowout , Kerr still replaced Looney with Otto Porter Jr. in the starting lineup for Game 4 on Friday night. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 June 2022",
"Here\u2019s how that figure compares with representatives of other major networks: Kind of a blowout , huh",
"Despite the Warriors turning it into a blowout in the third quarter, viewership for Game 2 was up 24 percent over the second game of last season\u2019s Bucks-Suns Finals. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"One thing that stays the same regardless of the outfit is her chestnut haircolor, which shines here in a blowout thanks to hairstylist and Virtue Labs creative director Adir Abergel. \u2014 Alexis Gaskin, Glamour , 19 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Voice coach was all smiles and took hold of the cake, showing it off and pretending to blow out the candles, which were unlit. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 21 June 2022",
"Cadillac decided to blow out the competition in 1959. \u2014 A.j. Baime, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"More significant has been the infrequency of situations where the game hinges on a single pitch; the Red Sox\u2019 ability to blow out opponents resulted in just 79 high-leverage plate appearances since May 10, 17th in the big leagues. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"It's been more than four decades since Vincent Simmons has had a birthday cake -- candles to blow out and make a wish. \u2014 CBS News , 25 May 2022",
"Ballard dominated from start to finish as the Seventh Region champs used a nine-run second inning to blow out 15th Region representative Johnson Central 10-0 in five innings at the University of Kentucky's John Cropp Stadium. \u2014 Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal , 4 June 2022",
"As Klarman began to blow out the candles on a day that gifted him his second Preakness winner on the five-year anniversary of Cloud Computing, the baseball connections flowed. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2022",
"Other trends surrounding the film have also sprung up on TikTok, including the #candle trend, in which creators blow out the family candle as Mirabel does in the movie. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 23 Mar. 2022",
"And do stay tuned for an event next week to blow out some inventory. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"a large, blowsy woman in frumpy clothes runs the diner",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The queen of Playland was Laughing Sal, a tall, blowsy figure of fun, with a maniacal laugh. \u2014 Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 Mar. 2018"
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"The blowup of the photograph was easy to frame.",
"The two of them had a big blowup about something trivial.",
"The coach's latest blowup occurred when one of his players arrived late.",
"Verb",
"she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Saban\u2019s pontifications about Jackson State were slightly overshadowed by the subsequent, juicy blowup with Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 24 May 2022",
"Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband\u2019s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person\u2019s sense of identity. \u2014 Time , 1 June 2022",
"Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband\u2019s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person\u2019s sense of identity. \u2014 Lynn Elber, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"On April 26, three days after the blowup , Lin announced his departure on the Fast social media channels. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 May 2022",
"But unlike the events leading to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008, the financial community is divided on whether a crypto blowup could lead to systemic risk for financial markets. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 12 May 2022",
"People reported that Jeff addressed his longtime collaborator\u2019s blowup at the Oscars at Dorian\u2019s Through The Record Shop in Chicago, during the Closed Sessions Legend Conversation: DJ Jazzy Jeff last Thursday. \u2014 Jude Zhu, Billboard , 13 Apr. 2022",
"To fully prove blowup , mathematicians need to show that, given the approximate singularity, a true one exists nearby. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Spoelstra suggested Wednesday's blowup could help the Heat in the long run. \u2014 Jace Evans, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Since single-person pose estimation is a doable task, multiperson tracking is expected to blow up in the coming years. \u2014 Oleg Lola, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Two Northern California militia members are in federal custody after being charged with plotting to blow up the state Democratic headquarters in Sacramento. \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"According to Bates, the group's plan was to kidnap Whitmer at her vacation home and blow up several bridges in the area to thwart law enforcement, according to the BBC. \u2014 Danielle Wallace, Fox News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Did expenses unexpectedly blow up because of an unplanned event",
"With the mask, users can blow up balloons, hold their breath to steady a toy gun, and do several other things. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 1 June 2022",
"These floaties are easy to blow up , too, thanks to the single-nozzle design. \u2014 Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022",
"But, of course, all of these options and plans could ultimately blow up in the Blazers\u2019 faces, as did the lottery. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 May 2022",
"Simply blow up the pad, attach it to a hose, and adjust the water pressure depending on how high your kids want the sprinkler to go. \u2014 Kylee Mcguigan, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022"
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"The queen of Playland was Laughing Sal, a tall, blowsy figure of fun, with a maniacal laugh. \u2014 Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 Mar. 2018"
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"Years of violence and bloodshed have left much of the country in ruins.",
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"The Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the bloodshed , France\u2019s worst terrorist attacks since World War II. \u2014 Rick Noack, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"The harp represents harmony and creativity, the opposite of a weapon, which is used for bloodshed or violence. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"But for the genetics researchers who discovered their work cited in the screed as justification for the bloodshed , there are only questions \u2014 how did this happen",
"Columnist Sandy Banks, who wrote about the massacre on its 50th anniversary, noted that in a Gallup poll taken days after the shootings, 58% of respondents blamed the students for the bloodshed . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
"In detailed broadcasts to millions of viewers, correspondents and hosts of Russian state TV channels said Tuesday that some photo and video evidence of the killings were fake while others showed that Ukrainians were responsible for the bloodshed . \u2014 Amanda Seitz And Arijeta Lajka, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The bloodshed occurred at St. Francis Catholic Church in the town of Owo in Ondo state, more than 200 miles northwest of Lagos, Nigeria\u2019s largest city, and over 200 miles southwest of Abuja, the Nigerian capital. \u2014 James Bwala, ABC News , 9 June 2022",
"Children inside the adjoining classrooms where the bloodshed ensued made multiple calls to 911 while officers waited outside the classrooms. \u2014 Travis Caldwell, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"The unrelenting bloodshed has renewed a push for broader gun control, but some lawmakers have focused their calls on improving school infrastructure \u2014 something Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg decried Sunday. \u2014 Mar\u00eda Luisa Pa\u00fal, Washington Post , 6 June 2022"
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"The doctor says he has high blood pressure .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Normally the protein helps to regulate things such as blood pressure and inflammation by allowing specific protein fragments into or out of the cell. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 18 May 2022",
"Rigorous control of blood pressure \u2014 a major risk factor for progression of kidney disease \u2014 can be difficult to achieve in those who have the variants. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"BChE is an enzyme of the cholinergic system, part of the autonomic system, which controls functions like blood pressure and breathing. \u2014 Katherine Dillinger And Jen Christensen, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"The wearable might measure key parameters like blood pressure and blood glucose. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 2 May 2022",
"Her blood pressure spiked throughout the day, at one point reaching 210/153 - greatly exceeding the 120/70 considered normal. \u2014 Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"His blood pressure is back to normal, and his waist has shrunk four inches. \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2022",
"After being placed in a car to Rikers Island, Weinstein was seized by chest pains; his blood pressure shot up. \u2014 Ken Auletta, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Previously diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Maria was enrolled in the high-risk pregnancy program at Scripps Health when her blood pressure spiked in her second trimester. \u2014 Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Although females were likely to have mating success in their lives, competition for mates among the males was a winner-take-all blood sport in which male mastodons would likely sire many offspring or none at all. \u2014 Peter Brannen, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022",
"Given the importance of self-care, business should not be about the survival of the fittest, and politics should not be a blood sport . \u2014 Gina Lodge, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"Now, the stars and producers behind the global smash are about to face the real-life blood sport that is awards season. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Think of how social media turns the promise of authentic interpersonal interaction into a dreary, theatrical, moralizing blood sport . \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Now, the stars and producers behind the global smash are about to face the real-life blood sport that is awards season. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Now, the stars and producers behind the global smash are about to face the real-life blood sport that is awards season. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Now, the stars and producers behind the global smash are about to face the real-life blood sport that is awards season. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The announcement of Justice Stephen Breyer\u2019s retirement has whistled the start of that Washington blood sport known as a Supreme Court confirmation. \u2014 Jonathan Turley, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
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"the blood money earned by people who profited from the tragedy",
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"The questions came again Tuesday as reports were published saying West Palm Beach\u2019s Brooks Koepka would sign on for the LIV Tour\u2019s blood money . \u2014 Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel , 21 June 2022",
"Those hands are your hands \u2014 stained with the blood money of the National Rifle Association. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Dems take blood money from the NRA and gun manufacturers, too. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 26 May 2022",
"But some convicts have been rescued by the practice of blood money , which their victims\u2019 families choose to receive as restitution out of compassion, poverty, pressure or another motivation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"The latest round of western economic reprisals against Russia are shining a harsh light on Formula 1\u2019s love of blood money . \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 10 Mar. 2022",
"So is payment, and David brings 1,000 euros along as blood money . \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 11 Sep. 2021",
"Her group was active in pushing the state to stop issuing permits for the bulldozing of tortoises in exchange for what many decried as blood money . \u2014 Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com , 22 Apr. 2021",
"There were the foreign officials\u2014including those specifically cited by the U.S. Congress for their gobsmacking corruption\u2014patronizing Trump\u2019s hotels and buildings, buoying a Trump Organization willing to house kleptocrats soaked in blood money . \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 23 Dec. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Josue, a 15-year-old from Honduras who had recently spent about six weeks in a hospital for malnutrition and blood count abnormalities, likely had undiagnosed cystic fibrosis, Dr. Steptoe decided after examining him. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Those results showed that my white blood count was really high. \u2014 Colleen Murphy, Health.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Your doctor might advise you to have regular blood tests since this medication can lower your white blood count . \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Glatter said it\u2019s important to monitor white blood count , as mentioned by Clinton\u2019s doctors. \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Your doctor may order various lab tests, including a complete blood count to rule out other bleeding disorders, as well as an ultrasound to help identify the location and size of the possible fibroids. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Despite these encouraging trends, some Americans remain reluctant to get one due to concerns about severe adverse effects, such as blood clots and blood count abnormalities recently reported with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. \u2014 Joshua Liao, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2021",
"If a second miscarriage occurs, women should be offered an appointment at a dedicated miscarriage clinic for full blood count and thyroid function tests, as well as a discussion of their risk factors. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 26 Apr. 2021",
"In pathology, and specifically for complete blood count (CBC), first-generation automation has been applied since the 1960s by running cells through pipes using a technology called flow cytometry. \u2014 Sarah Levy, Forbes , 5 Apr. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even then some aren\u2019t dead before they are boiled, butchered or roasted with a blowtorch . \u2014 Liza Lentini, SPIN , 16 June 2022",
"Earlier in the morning, a man ran in the middle of the street after another man chased him with a small blowtorch , while around the corner paramedics were responding to an apartment. \u2014 Ruben Vivesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"As the victim lay on the floor, unable to move due to her injuries, the man lit a blowtorch and held the flame close to her leg. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 9 June 2022",
"The thief used a blowtorch to crack the glass door without setting off the alarm and took tens of thousands of dollars worth of high-end North Face jackets. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Don't worry, no blowtorch is needed for these custards because this TikTok recipe found a home kitchen-friendly alternative. \u2014 Janae Mckenzie, Glamour , 5 May 2022",
"For that brittle, glassy sugar topping, a mini blowtorch is your friend\u2014and a worthy investment. \u2014 Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine , 28 Apr. 2022",
"According to multiple outlets, the fire occurred exactly 13 years after a blaze broke out in the back lot of the park as a result of a worker using a blowtorch to warm asphalt shingles. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Then, the group diligently and purposefully took a blowtorch to five of the constitution\u2019s most egregious sections, working through last summer, and submitted their revision to lawmakers during the current session. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Wilson gave her fans a sneak peek of her Britney moment in Senior Year, channeling the pop star in curly blond locks, an sequined green top and black pants in a 2021 Instagram post. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 11 May 2022",
"Reflecting his Orange County roots, Luke Williams looks more surfer than multi-position baseball player, the result of long blond locks grown during the pandemic. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The flowing blond locks are a wig, but the women in the audience don\u2019t know and don\u2019t care. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 24 Mar. 2022",
"If Brad Pitt is your kryptonite, his character \u2014 a tattooed ex-Navy SEAL action star with long blond locks and light wash jeans \u2014 will delight. \u2014 Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic , 21 Mar. 2022",
"On a recent Monday afternoon, the Sadat family peered out of an upstairs window as a woman with curly blond hair parked a black Honda Pilot outside their empty apartment. \u2014 Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times , 30 Aug. 2021",
"Nearly two years later, the 19-year-old star graces the cover once more \u2014 this time shot in soft focus, wearing a minimalist button-down blouse and her new blond locks. \u2014 Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone , 28 June 2021",
"The commissioner\u2019s remit was broad, and so Harrison, with his curly blond hair and his big smile, also supervised many of the camps in which Americans with Japanese ancestry were interned. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 2 Nov. 2020",
"Meanwhile, Gosling underwent a transformation by dying his hair to platinum blond and is seen showing it off. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 28 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"My second guess narrowed the remaining options to just three: blood, blond and flood. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"The Los Angeles colorist Daniel Moon took the singer Hayley Kiyoko from a bright blond to a sandy gingerbread color. \u2014 Kristen Bateman, New York Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Meyer was caught on video getting cozy with a young blond . \u2014 Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com , 6 Oct. 2021",
"His cheeks were pink and high and his hair was a ruddy blond . . . . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Nov. 2021",
"But more than anything for me, this version of Diana called to mind another blond who became famous as a teen, struggled with her mental health and became a kind of captive of her own celebrity: Britney Spears. \u2014 Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times , 8 Nov. 2021",
"His hair, which is naturally a dirty blond , had been colored a luscious auburn, and tumbled in waves around his shoulders. \u2014 Piczo, The New Yorker , 20 Sep. 2021",
"This is a typical Lake Michigan scene \u2014 the blond of the sand, the blue of the lake, and of the sky. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 24 Aug. 2021",
"The amazing footage of Taylor, often shown on National Geographic, featured the petite blond wearing her signature pink wetsuit swimming around with some quite sizeable sharks. \u2014 Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure , 21 Aug. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Blood tests such as an eosinophil level -- a type of blood cell that is increased in many parasitic diseases -- can be helpful, and occasionally stool tests are of benefit. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 15 June 2022",
"Since the diagnosis, Gonzalo has kept up with immunosuppression treatments that have slowly raised his blood cell counts. \u2014 Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
"The first part of evaluating a blood cell count is to get a breakdown of the different types. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 12 May 2022",
"At issue is a rare but potentially life-threatening side effect called agranulocytosis, a serious decline in neutrophils, a type of blood cell important for fighting infection. \u2014 Brian Barnett, STAT , 9 May 2022",
"After these treatments, researchers analyzed the RNA of each blood cell sample to determine how gene expression differed between the samples. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Acute exposure to high doses of radiation can damage a person's bone marrow and lead to a mild, moderate, or severe loss in blood cell production. \u2014 Parija Kavilanz, CNN , 29 Mar. 2022",
"This summons platelets, a type of blood cell that begins to form clots, hindering blood flow to the organ. \u2014 Megan Molteni, STAT , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Ferritin, a blood cell protein that contains iron, is vital to athletic performance, particularly in female runners who tend to suffer from iron deficiency more often than males. \u2014 Cammy Garvelink, Outside Online , 23 Feb. 2021"
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"examples":[
"He would never betray me\u2014he's my blood brother .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lil Gotit, Render\u2019s blood brother and fellow Atlanta rapper, shared the news on Instagram late Friday evening. \u2014 Shirley Ju, Variety , 14 May 2022",
"Bon, his blood brother , is still determined to kill communists and has no idea that the narrator is one. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Feb. 2021",
"His blood brother Storm Shadow is also his archenemy. \u2014 NBC News , 10 Jan. 2020",
"All of this \u2013 as well as the way race poisons the relation between blood brothers \u2013 is baked into his play; the opening performance at APT made clear that Parson is much too good a director to ignore it. \u2014 Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 June 2018",
"Even the central drama of the Winter Olympics \u2014 the rapprochement between blood brothers North and South Korea \u2014 feeds into the narrative of ethnic nationalism. \u2014 Brook Larmer, New York Times , 20 Feb. 2018",
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"It can be used for monitoring weight, lung capacity, pulse, oxygen saturation in blood, blood pressure, blood glucose, temperature, blood test , pain management, pill tracker, mental health and so much more. \u2014 Prabhat Sharma, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"This led to another blood test that revealed antibodies associated with alpha-gal, a sugar found in the meat and fat of nonprimate mammals. \u2014 Sara Goudarzi, Scientific American , 23 May 2022",
"At 15 weeks, another blood test , for anomalies such as spina bifida. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 20 May 2022",
"When the rubber meets the road\u2014or office, or blood test \u2014friction with the real world slows growth. \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Following a camp-wide medical examination and blood test , a specific tissue match with a wealthy individual looking for a new heart, lung, or liver is determined, and the camp guards will remove the targets \u2014 but quietly, in the middle of the night. \u2014 Ethan Gutmann, National Review , 19 Feb. 2022",
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"In a larger 2022 study that Commins was not part of, researchers associated heart attacks with a positive blood test for alpha-gal allergy. \u2014 Sara Goudarzi, Scientific American , 23 May 2022",
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"The Vitalant bloodmobile will be in the church parking lot. \u2014 Shirley Macfarland, cleveland , 12 May 2022",
"In response to blood bank shortages, the San Diego Blood Bank will hold blood drives at the bloodmobile in the following parking lots: 24 Hour Fitness Corporate 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Apr. 2022",
"In response to blood bank shortages, the San Diego Blood Bank will hold the following blood drives at the bloodmobile in the following parking lots: Poway City Hall, front parking lot, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 Apr. 2022",
"In response to blood bank shortages, the San Diego Blood Bank will hold the following blood drives at the bloodmobile in the following parking lots: \ue816St. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The third bloodmobile for the year at OHS will be June 8. \u2014 cleveland , 25 Mar. 2022",
"In response to blood bank shortages, the San Diego Blood Bank will hold the following blood drives at the bloodmobile in the following parking lots: \ue816Eric Proul Blood Drive hosted by MHaus, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
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"Eight years later, Peterson was granted a retrial, when a judge ruled that bloodstain expert Duane Deaver misled the jury, as CNN reported. \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"In one photo, a man is lying next to puddles of blood, just inches from another man who is leaning on a pillar with what appears to be a large bloodstain on his leg. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Apr. 2022",
"During the trial, prosecutors presented evidence that in the hours after his mother\u2019s death, Peck withdrew money from her bank account and bought items, including rug cleaner to remove a bloodstain from his mother\u2019s bedroom carpeting. \u2014 Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com , 2 Feb. 2022",
"After the attack, a bloodstain on Belhassen\u2019s shirt was found to match McGhee\u2019s DNA, and prosecutors said McGhee was featured in Powell\u2019s Instagram feed. \u2014 Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times , 28 Feb. 2022",
"After the attack, it was discovered that a bloodstain on Belhassen\u2019s shirt matched McGhee\u2019s DNA, and prosecutors said McGhee was featured in Powell\u2019s Instagram feed. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Though he was allowed to testify, after a bruising cross-examination prosecutors decided not to rely on him as an expert in bloodstain -pattern analysis. \u2014 Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Ghost Deb encourages Dexter/Jim to just kill him, manifesting a bloodstain on her shirt to prove her point as to just what can go wrong when things are left for the police to solve. \u2014 Kelly Mcclure, Vulture , 19 Dec. 2021",
"What Crumbley and his enabling parents are charged with having done to this community is horrific and permanent, as devastating as an atom bomb, as tough to remove as a bloodstain . \u2014 Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press , 5 Dec. 2021"
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"As water temperatures plunge and ice covers the surface, the bluegill buffet shifts to bloodworms , freshwater shrimp and scuds, and even tiny zooplankton. \u2014 Outdoor Life , 27 Jan. 2020",
"But Miike, adapting a manga by Hiroaki Samura, has something else in store for Manji: a creepy old woman shows up and bestows upon him the gift of immortality, inserting magical bloodworms under his skin that will keep him alive forever. \u2014 Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader , 9 Mar. 2018",
"Maine\u2019s catch of bloodworms has dropped from more than 600,000 pounds in 2004 to less than half that last year. \u2014 Patrick Whittle, The Seattle Times , 27 Apr. 2017",
"Maine\u2019s catch of bloodworms has dropped from more than 600,000 pounds in 2004 to less than half that last year. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2017",
"These baits are a good imitation of a bloodworm , which is a common food source for a variety of fish in most waters. \u2014 Terry Wickstrom, The Denver Post , 14 Mar. 2017",
"Maine harvesters are by far the U.S.\u2019s largest suppliers of sandworms and bloodworms , twisty, fat critters that can grow longer than a foot and have teeth that inflict a painful bite. \u2014 Patrick Whittle, The Seattle Times , 27 Apr. 2017",
"The price for bloodworms at the dock has more than doubled since 2001, to nearly $16 per pound, and that cost is eventually borne by consumers. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2017",
"An October study in the journal Fish and Fisheries said bloodworms are the most valuable marine worm species on the retail bait market, and sandworms aren\u2019t far behind. \u2014 Patrick Whittle, The Seattle Times , 27 Apr. 2017"
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"In the brain, P-glycoprotein is present at high levels at the junction points, or the blood-brain barrier , between neurons and the dense network of blood vessels surrounding them. \u2014 Dallas News , 29 June 2021",
"Ultrasound is used to open the blood-brain barrier in medical procedures, and acoustic stimulation of the aforementioned anatomical areas could produce symptoms consistent with AHIs. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 3 Feb. 2022",
"These metals also have the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier , a feature of the human nervous system that defends the brain from pathogens and toxins in the blood, according to a 2015 study. \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The same protein may be able to whisper its chemical message across the notoriously choosy blood-brain barrier and trigger anti-inflammatory processes in the brain. \u2014 Emily Willingham, Scientific American , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Because of their molecular structure, endorphins cannot cross the blood-brain barrier . \u2014 Outside Online , 7 Apr. 2021",
"The team also found that clusterin readily attached to the cells that form the blood-brain barrier . \u2014 Emily Willingham, Scientific American , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Researchers have found signs that the virus can establish a foothold of sorts on the periphery of the brain, where the protective blood-brain barrier opens up to allow key molecules to slip through. \u2014 Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Due to the blood-brain barrier , biomarkers couldn\u2019t be found in sufficient quantities. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 25 Nov. 2021"
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"Trumpet, a bloodhound , won the best in show prize at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Wednesday night. \u2014 Thomas Derpinghaus, WSJ , 23 June 2022",
"Trumpet the bloodhound won the coveted best in show prize at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Wednesday night, but victories like his don\u2019t come cheap. \u2014 Christine Mui, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"And Trumpet the bloodhound won Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show last night. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"This year\u2019s Best in Show was awarded to a bloodhound named Trumpet. \u2014 Alan Taylor, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"Talk about a pampered pooch \u2013 a bloodhound named Trumpet took home the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Wednesday night in Tarrytown, New York. \u2014 Lorraine Taylor, Fox News , 23 June 2022",
"Investigators, including a deputy with a bloodhound , continued arriving at the scene in waves hours after the shooting. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 May 2022",
"But in a hunter's miracle, the whitetail instead sniffed the paddleboat and, like a bloodhound , tracked Kevin's footsteps all the way to his tree stand. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Nov. 2021",
"For Fairfax trainers, one of the first steps in the bloodhound puppies\u2019 training as police dogs will be acclimating them to such loud sounds as a siren, gunfire and construction noise. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Aug. 2021"
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"Now, fans will get to see their love story blossom throughout the upcoming competition reality series. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"Two ensuites\u2014one pink blossom , the other black and gold\u2014contain elaborate gold baths, showers and walk-in dressing rooms. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 10 June 2022",
"Every spring, crowds flock to admire Japan's cherry blossom -- a dazzling pink and white bloom that has been revered in the country for more than a thousand years. \u2014 Helen Regan, CNN , 20 May 2022",
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"Fans can also expect to watch the romance blossom between Kardashian and Davidson, who met on the SNL set. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 8 Apr. 2022",
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"Around the booths, visitors and artists alike dressed up for the affair, cladding themselves in their best ribbon skirts or turquoise squash- blossom necklaces. \u2014 Christian Allair, Vogue , 25 Aug. 2021",
"In our climate and soils, blossom end rot is caused by uneven watering. \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
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"The danger in trading the pick is passing up on a rising talent who could blossom into a star down the road. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 June 2022",
"On a rainy spring morning, an old cherry tree was beginning to blossom in a little park along Cherry Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"And that was Neal's final lesson, the example of a life that can blossom into that kind of gratitude. \u2014 John Dickerson, CBS News , 12 Oct. 2018",
"Shortly after, a breakfast meeting between the two solidified the friendship that would blossom into a relationship \u2014 though Griffin knew right away that Krusen was the one. \u2014 Sarah Michaud, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"With the Los Angeles Olympics looming, Jake and Rupert are pitted against each other to land a spot on the national team while also fighting for the affection of the English roses who blossom around the show jumpers. \u2014 Courtney Maum, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Whoever lands the California corner will be getting one of the fastest-rising defensive players in America, one that could blossom into a future NFL draft pick. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Jan. 2022",
"While larger agencies would overlook these smaller deals, Hochberg views them as an opportunity to grow a partnership that could eventually blossom into a long-term contract. \u2014 Nick Diunte, Forbes , 29 Sep. 2021",
"The league offers a unique collegiality, Mathre said, where friendships born at track meets can blossom into lifelong bonds. \u2014 Rachel Blount, Star Tribune , 6 Feb. 2021"
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"But if that same manager once found himself in a similar position -- taking the mound in a blowout -- there are lessons that can be learned. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"Comebacks can and do happen, but the unwritten rules frown on the winning team trying too hard in a blowout ; at a certain point, only the losing team is allowed to try. \u2014 Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star , 27 June 2022",
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"Since Kentucky was cruising at the time \u2014 the Wildcats' best win came in a blowout at Kansas at the end of January \u2014 there was little reason to force him into the rotation. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 24 June 2022",
"But after assessing all that went wrong in that blowout , Kerr still replaced Looney with Otto Porter Jr. in the starting lineup for Game 4 on Friday night. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 June 2022",
"Here\u2019s how that figure compares with representatives of other major networks: Kind of a blowout , huh",
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"One thing that stays the same regardless of the outfit is her chestnut haircolor, which shines here in a blowout thanks to hairstylist and Virtue Labs creative director Adir Abergel. \u2014 Alexis Gaskin, Glamour , 19 May 2022",
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"The Voice coach was all smiles and took hold of the cake, showing it off and pretending to blow out the candles, which were unlit. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 21 June 2022",
"Cadillac decided to blow out the competition in 1959. \u2014 A.j. Baime, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"More significant has been the infrequency of situations where the game hinges on a single pitch; the Red Sox\u2019 ability to blow out opponents resulted in just 79 high-leverage plate appearances since May 10, 17th in the big leagues. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"It's been more than four decades since Vincent Simmons has had a birthday cake -- candles to blow out and make a wish. \u2014 CBS News , 25 May 2022",
"Ballard dominated from start to finish as the Seventh Region champs used a nine-run second inning to blow out 15th Region representative Johnson Central 10-0 in five innings at the University of Kentucky's John Cropp Stadium. \u2014 Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal , 4 June 2022",
"As Klarman began to blow out the candles on a day that gifted him his second Preakness winner on the five-year anniversary of Cloud Computing, the baseball connections flowed. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2022",
"Other trends surrounding the film have also sprung up on TikTok, including the #candle trend, in which creators blow out the family candle as Mirabel does in the movie. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 23 Mar. 2022",
"And do stay tuned for an event next week to blow out some inventory. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"Few, though, wander over to see the actual Fort Kent, a wooden blockhouse constructed during the Aroostook War of 1838-9, a border dispute between England and the United States that ended without a shot being fired. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2021",
"To see the historic blockhouse that once stood at the site, head east to Courthouse Square Park in downtown Dayton. \u2014 oregonlive , 29 May 2021",
"Originally built to limit conflict between white settlers and local Native American communities, the blockhouse was later used for storage and as a jail on the Grand Ronde Reservation. \u2014 oregonlive , 29 May 2021",
"The latest iteration in this illustrious line is awesomely fast, refined enough to drive every day, and built like a blockhouse . \u2014 Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver , 27 Nov. 2020",
"Clark rushed his team back into the blockhouse , but even within the thick walls, the level of radiation was still climbing. \u2014 Carl Zimmer, The Atlantic , 20 Mar. 2020",
"Another benefit of the blockhouse size and shape is cargo capacity. \u2014 Jim Resnick, Ars Technica , 14 Feb. 2020",
"The old launch-pad blockhouses there had a single restroom \u2014 for men. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 July 2019",
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"That \u2014 more than bloodlust , indifference, or the gun lobby \u2014 is why school shootings have done less than gun control proponents would have hoped to move the needle on legislation. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 27 May 2022",
"That said, though, this is also an exceedingly dark season, unfolding against a backdrop of bloodlust and revenge, as well as the rise of fascism that seduced some corners of pre-WWII England. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 13 June 2022",
"The eternal bloodlust and sensitivity to the sun relegates The Girl With No Name (Sheila Vand) to a shadowy existence of haunting cruel men and skateboarding the empty streets of Bad City. \u2014 Vulture Editors, Vulture , 25 Oct. 2021",
"These scenes aren\u2019t any more convincing than the ones that preceded them \u2014 from the spurts of blood to the bloodlust behind each pull of the trigger, would-be climaxes feel like bad theater. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 18 Mar. 2022",
"But Squid Game was a blunt instrument, a melodrama weaponized for memes and bloodlust . \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 19 Nov. 2021",
"If so, this season feels like a real waste of Jennifer Beals, who got the one good scene where Garsa tried to ease Black Krrsantan\u2019s bloodlust , and almost nothing else of note to do. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 2 Feb. 2022",
"The show dialed up the crazy in last week\u2019s penultimate Season 1 episode, Doomcoming, when the girls unwittingly took psychedelic mushrooms and were possessed by a wild bloodlust that almost got Travis (Kevin Alves) killed. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s just something about wildly infeasible bloodlust that keeps us coming back for more. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 25 Oct. 2021"
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"\u2014 Helen Garner , The First Stone , 1995",
"\u2026 the way in which the great French hostesses of the seventeenth century, \u2026 converted society from a blokeish and witless boys' club into the locus of refinement and wit.",
"\u2014 Times Literary Supplement , 6 Dec. 2002",
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"Twice-daily injections of a blood thinner took care of Colton's blood clot. \u2014 Mark Johnson, jsonline.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
"His doctor began treating the man with a blood thinner , 15 mg of rivaroxaban two times a day. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"With too much blood thinner , patients can bleed to death. \u2014 Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Katie uses a syringe to extract a dose of the Heparin blood thinner , then injects it through a valve into the solution bag. \u2014 John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star , 4 Feb. 2022",
"As a result he was told by his doctor to stop taking his blood thinner , warfarin, and switch to a less potent medicine. \u2014 Nicole Goodkind, Fortune , 4 Jan. 2022",
"So in December 2011, her doctor put her on a blood thinner . \u2014 John Fauber And Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 Aug. 2021",
"The blood thinner heparin is derived from pig intestines. \u2014 Time , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Aspirin is best known as a pain reliever but is also a blood thinner that can reduce the chance of blood clots. \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 13 Oct. 2021"
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"\u2014 William Grimes , New York Times , 12 June 2002",
"Brownies, with their brash \u2026 chocolate flavor, are the plunging necklines of baking, whereas the more subtle, butterscotch-flavored blondies have real style.",
"\u2014 Matthew Card , Cook's Illustrated , July 2005"
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"The buck was given a low dose of tranquilizer, Tarbox said, delivered from a blowpipe . \u2014 Joan Morris, The Mercury News , 12 Sep. 2019",
"Guests can learn to weave, hunt with a blowpipe , and fish sustainably with poisonous roots, but there are also opportunities to teach in the local school. \u2014 Alex Postman, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 17 Dec. 2018",
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"Its leaves are deciduous and sometimes white- blotched . \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 16 Aug. 2021",
"Click on the state Division of Oil, Gas & Geo-thermal Resources well-finder map, which shows both active and inactive sites, and L.A. becomes blotched with black. \u2014 Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine , 5 Feb. 2018",
"The study sheds light on the late emergence of the blotched or striped coat markings, which began to appear in domesticated tabby cats in the Middle Ages. \u2014 National Geographic , 19 June 2017"
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"Parents are urged to monitor for prolonged fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, bloodshot eyes, skin rash, and change in skin color, difficultly feeding, trouble breathing, racing heart, lethargy, irritability or confusion. \u2014 Fox News , 13 May 2020",
"Officers noted that the woman had a swollen and bloodshot left eye. \u2014 cleveland , 16 Nov. 2019",
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"Cohn had bloodshot eyes, a botched face-lift, thinning hair, and a leathery tan, as if he\u2019d been left too long on the griddle. \u2014 Dwight Garner, Town & Country , 20 Sep. 2019",
"Police have said Beaudoin smelled of alcohol following the crash, was slurring his words and had bloodshot eyes when he was stopped near the scene at Prairie Lane and Cedar Road. \u2014 Phil Rockrohr, chicagotribune.com , 17 July 2019",
"Lawmen at the scene noticed the boy had knots and bruising on his forehead and bloodshot eyes. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 8 Sep. 2019",
"The officer said Karl had bloodshot eyes and smelled of booze. \u2014 Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post , 3 July 2019",
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"They are trimmed flush to the panel surfaces with a block plane after the glue has set [1]. \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 13 Feb. 2021",
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"Complete each tenon by working down to the scribe lines using a shoulder plane, block plane , and a chisel. \u2014 Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics , 25 Feb. 2020",
"Next, carefully examine the face (the 3-inch width) of each piece and use a block plane to remove any small bumps where two pieces of veneer overlap. \u2014 Richard Romanski, Popular Mechanics , 18 Jan. 2020",
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"The serious and potentially fatal illness, which can cause infections in the brain, spinal cord and bloodstream , has infected at least 46 people in Florida since December, a spokesman for the state Department of Health said Wednesday. \u2014 Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ , 22 June 2022",
"The lead atoms make their way into the bloodstream , where they are absorbed by soft tissues and organs such as the liver, kidneys, lungs, brain, spleen, muscles, and heart (children absorb as much as five times more than adults). \u2014 Quartz , 16 June 2022",
"It can be injected into a patient's bloodstream to highlight different structures on scans. \u2014 Michael Nedelman, Amanda Sealy And Nadia Kounang, CNN , 7 June 2022",
"Bach\u2019s music runs deep in this ensemble\u2019s collective bloodstream , and at the same time, live music-making of this nature still feels too vitally important to be taken for granted. \u2014 Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"IgE antibodies attach to disease-fighting white blood cells called basophils in the bloodstream and mast cells in tissues. \u2014 Sara Goudarzi, Scientific American , 23 May 2022",
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"Wildfire smoke contains fine particulate matter called PM 2.5, which can enter the lungs and bloodstream to create serious health problems. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022"
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"Still, in the contents of this collection, some blotched with stray fingerprints or grease splatters, O\u2019Keeffe left traces of her daily effort to maintain Abiquiu as a sanctuary. \u2014 Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times , 7 Feb. 2020",
"The friend spotted a big male Chinook \u2014 its fins torn, its back blotched with the fungus of decay. \u2014 Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com , 5 May 2018",
"Inside the box there's a pile of mint-green paint chips, blotched with brown stains and cracked like a dehydrated lake bed. \u2014 Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader , 24 Oct. 2017",
"As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia\u2019s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. \u2014 Lauren Young, Smithsonian , 6 Feb. 2017",
"People emerged from the pools, their pale white skin blotched with red. \u2014 James Hamblin, The Atlantic , 9 June 2017",
"As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia\u2019s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. \u2014 Lauren Young, Smithsonian , 6 Feb. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"At-home stain removal comes with many risks: setting that wine blotch forever, rubbing a hole in your favorite shirt, making dye bleed. \u2014 Kevin Brasler, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Last night, the only blotch on his record was a leadoff bunt single in the 1st inning. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
"To say the least, my skin looked radiant and bright from the exfoliating mask, and not a blotch of redness or irritation was in sight. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Vineyards at harvest time are a popular subject for photographers and romantics, but those beautiful red leaves betray a disease called red blotch virus. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
"One sin was for attempting to hire Ben Johnson, the notorious drug cheater from Canada, who left a blotch on the Seoul Olympics in 1988 by winning the 100 meters and quickly testing positive for steroids. \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
"However, the real purpose of this conversation is for Heather to talk about her stress rash, which is really just a red blotch on her forehead. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Look for a nearby blotch of green space or set off in search of a sunset or a playground full of happy memories. \u2014 New York Times , 5 July 2021",
"The woman is definitely experiencing some kind of stress- blotch breakout. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 16 Mar. 2021"
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"He fought his bloodless battles in the courtroom.",
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"Her speeches are dull and bloodless .",
"a bunch of bloodless numbers and statistics",
"His face was bloodless with fear.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But Fitz, who\u2019d already drained a couple long and bloodless putts on the back 9, hit the approach from the sand to 18 feet from the hole. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 20 June 2022",
"In 1966, the British installed his father as the ruler of Abu Dhabi in a bloodless coup against Sheikh Zayed\u2019s elder brother. \u2014 Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"In 1966, the British installed his father as the ruler of Abu Dhabi in a bloodless coup against Sheikh Zayed\u2019s elder brother. \u2014 Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"In 1966, the British installed his father as the ruler of Abu Dhabi in a bloodless coup against Sheikh Zayed\u2019s elder brother. \u2014 Ben Hubbard, New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"The house, created by the production designer Jon Henson, is smooth and bloodless , a diagram of clean lines and monochromatism. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Russia seized Crimea, a peninsula on Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea coast, in a largely bloodless but internationally condemned referendum in March 2014, after Ukrainians ousted a pro-Russian president in a popular uprising. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"That structure allows Conrad to come to the fore as leading character in his own right \u2014 a bright but haunted young man with demons of his own, and not just a bloodless memory or symbol from someone else\u2019s story. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Oppressive governments in India, Romania, Poland, East Germany, South Africa, and Ukraine were brought down in bloodless coups amid the stalling out of civil society. \u2014 Steven Tian, Fortune , 16 Mar. 2022"
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"Noun",
"She wore a blouse and a skirt to work.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In a series of images posted to social media, the fashion icon is seen wearing a darling pink gingham blouse with a pair of jeans while working with dough and icing alongside her children. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 19 June 2022",
"Conrad Volle stood in the dining room area of Iowa House wearing a flapper-style blouse . \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"For the outing, Kate wore a monochrome, all-blue outfit consisting of matching navy trousers and an overcoat, and an azure blouse with a mock turtleneck. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 11 May 2022",
"The Reveal and Conceal Play peek-a-boo by pairing an unbuttoned blouse with your favorite swim top. \u2014 Vogue , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Jones said Deletrez's appearance at Fendi headquarters wearing a geometric print blouse from her mother's closet inspired the new collection's archival deep dive. \u2014 Colleen Barry, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"One large portrait by painter and artist Carlos Gamez De Francisco features Vartan wearing a colorful blouse . Applause! \u2014 Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Speaking in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., to honor its 10th anniversary and advocate for Congress to pass a bill to expand voting rights, Vice President Kamala Harris wore a purple blouse under her blazer. \u2014 NBC News , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Take for example this pretty chiffon blouse from Timeson. \u2014 Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com , 19 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Most recently, she was photographed in Miami in 2020 wearing a jungle print Versace blouse with matching skinny jeans for brunch. \u2014 Eliza Huber, refinery29.com , 11 May 2021",
"The key is finding something that's polished yet comfortable, like this puff sleeve blouse with nearly 8,000 reviews on Amazon or this breezy button-down from H&M. \u2014 Amanda Tarlton, USA TODAY , 10 Mar. 2021"
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"French":"Noun"
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"1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"Verb",
"blotched the bedroom walls with various shades of blue to give them a textured effect",
"my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket",
"Noun",
"blotches on the tree's leaves",
"a dog with a single small blotch of black",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Still, in the contents of this collection, some blotched with stray fingerprints or grease splatters, O\u2019Keeffe left traces of her daily effort to maintain Abiquiu as a sanctuary. \u2014 Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times , 7 Feb. 2020",
"The friend spotted a big male Chinook \u2014 its fins torn, its back blotched with the fungus of decay. \u2014 Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com , 5 May 2018",
"Inside the box there's a pile of mint-green paint chips, blotched with brown stains and cracked like a dehydrated lake bed. \u2014 Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader , 24 Oct. 2017",
"As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia\u2019s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. \u2014 Lauren Young, Smithsonian , 6 Feb. 2017",
"People emerged from the pools, their pale white skin blotched with red. \u2014 James Hamblin, The Atlantic , 9 June 2017",
"As Ghosh writes, back in 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia\u2019s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. \u2014 Lauren Young, Smithsonian , 6 Feb. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"At-home stain removal comes with many risks: setting that wine blotch forever, rubbing a hole in your favorite shirt, making dye bleed. \u2014 Kevin Brasler, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Last night, the only blotch on his record was a leadoff bunt single in the 1st inning. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
"To say the least, my skin looked radiant and bright from the exfoliating mask, and not a blotch of redness or irritation was in sight. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Vineyards at harvest time are a popular subject for photographers and romantics, but those beautiful red leaves betray a disease called red blotch virus. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
"One sin was for attempting to hire Ben Johnson, the notorious drug cheater from Canada, who left a blotch on the Seoul Olympics in 1988 by winning the 100 meters and quickly testing positive for steroids. \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
"However, the real purpose of this conversation is for Heather to talk about her stress rash, which is really just a red blotch on her forehead. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Look for a nearby blotch of green space or set off in search of a sunset or a playground full of happy memories. \u2014 New York Times , 5 July 2021",
"The woman is definitely experiencing some kind of stress- blotch breakout. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 16 Mar. 2021"
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"perhaps blend of blot entry 1 and botch entry 3":"Noun"
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"1604, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The world's largest bourbon and music festival returns to Louisville with a blockbusting line-up featuring several rock icons, and Kentucky's finest mash and celebrity chefs. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The same goes for overtly racist policies of the past that are no longer on the books, like urban renewal, redlining and blockbusting . \u2014 Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Oct. 2021",
"The latest exploration of this general theme comes via the blockbusting bestseller The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, in which Nora, the protagonist, attempts to kill herself one evening. \u2014 Pavel Krapivin, Forbes , 4 Apr. 2021",
"The notorious blockbusting schemes of the postwar period provide just one example of how real estate has actively courted racial tension in the service of profit. \u2014 Colin Kinniburgh, New Republic , 9 Aug. 2017",
"Carter led protests against the Baltimore real estate tycoon Morris Goldseker, whom Carter and other activists accused of blockbusting \u2014 a practice through which developers stoked racial fears to increase profits. \u2014 Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com , 20 May 2017"
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"1951, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"People celebrating Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community at a block party on Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach were on edge after police said a teenager threatened to carry out a mass shooting at the event Sunday. \u2014 Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel , 6 June 2022",
"At no time in recent months has the firepower been on such stark display as early Sunday, when police said as many as four gunmen fired at least 100 rounds amid a crowd of hundreds at a block party in Southeast Washington, hitting 22 people. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Aug. 2020",
"Both before and after the parade festivities, there will be a block party in front of the Veteran's Memorial Plaza on North Street. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Just before the start of the Rams Super Bowl parade Wednesday, the corner of Figueroa Street and Jefferson Blvd was a block party . \u2014 Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The free block party will celebrate Juneteenth on June 18 in Ziegler Park with food trucks, vendors, live performances and music, speakers, live demonstrations and games. \u2014 Keely Brown, The Enquirer , 6 June 2022",
"Longtime community leader Joe Young, founder of Joe Young Entertainment and a 40-year friend of Hardrick\u2019s, brought hip-hop artists and other entertainers to perform on the block party \u2019s stage. \u2014 Don Stacom, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
"Christina was dressed in a red elf costume, having come straight from the Grinch block party up in Daytona. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Members of the Indianapolis Ceili Band will be performing at the block party following the St. Patrick's Day parade, from 12:15-2:15 p.m. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 15 Mar. 2022"
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Clint got out of horse ownership in 2010 to focus on his family and growing software business, while Mark remained in the game as a bloodstock agent, picking out horses to buy for others. \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"David Fiske, a racing and bloodstock advisor to Winchell Thoroughbreds, said there are other plans for the horse. \u2014 John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2021",
"But bad news was waiting from Alex Solis Jr., the bloodstock agent who selected the horse. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Mar. 2021",
"Her estate contains a successful stud farm run by a world class bloodstock agent who attracts outside clients. \u2014 David Mcclure, Town & Country , 19 Sep. 2020",
"David Fiske, racing and bloodstock manager of Winchell Thoroughbreds, wants no part of Derby Fever in 2020. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 15 Aug. 2020",
"Billionaires rub shoulders with bloodstock agents, trainers and jockeys all jostling to find the perfect racehorse from the 22 lots at the Goffs London Sale. \u2014 Matt Majendie, CNN , 26 June 2019",
"The bloodstock boom of the 1980s is widely attributed to Coolmore\u2019s bidding wars with the rulers of Dubai, a rivalry whose bitterness eventually boiled over into a 12-year boycott of Coolmore by Sheikh Mohammed\u2019s Godolphin racing. \u2014 Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal , 3 May 2018",
"In 2002, Walden took over training of the WinStar Farm racing stable and in 2003 was appointed vice president of racing and bloodstock services. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 15 June 2018"
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"\u02c8bl\u00e4t\u0113",
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"flower",
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"Noun",
"Her hair smelled of apple blossoms .",
"in the full blossom of her career as a writer",
"Verb",
"Their friendship blossomed into romance.",
"the fruit tree seemed to blossom overnight once the warm spring weather arrived",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Now, fans will get to see their love story blossom throughout the upcoming competition reality series. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"Two ensuites\u2014one pink blossom , the other black and gold\u2014contain elaborate gold baths, showers and walk-in dressing rooms. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 10 June 2022",
"Every spring, crowds flock to admire Japan's cherry blossom -- a dazzling pink and white bloom that has been revered in the country for more than a thousand years. \u2014 Helen Regan, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"Product placement in Korean media also helped the multi-balm trend blossom , both Hong and Cho note. \u2014 Devon Abelman, Allure , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Fans can also expect to watch the romance blossom between Kardashian and Davidson, who met on the SNL set. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 8 Apr. 2022",
"An elegant orange- blossom and neroli scent accompanies you following each use. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Around the booths, visitors and artists alike dressed up for the affair, cladding themselves in their best ribbon skirts or turquoise squash- blossom necklaces. \u2014 Christian Allair, Vogue , 25 Aug. 2021",
"In our climate and soils, blossom end rot is caused by uneven watering. \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The danger in trading the pick is passing up on a rising talent who could blossom into a star down the road. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 June 2022",
"On a rainy spring morning, an old cherry tree was beginning to blossom in a little park along Cherry Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"And that was Neal's final lesson, the example of a life that can blossom into that kind of gratitude. \u2014 John Dickerson, CBS News , 12 Oct. 2018",
"Shortly after, a breakfast meeting between the two solidified the friendship that would blossom into a relationship \u2014 though Griffin knew right away that Krusen was the one. \u2014 Sarah Michaud, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"With the Los Angeles Olympics looming, Jake and Rupert are pitted against each other to land a spot on the national team while also fighting for the affection of the English roses who blossom around the show jumpers. \u2014 Courtney Maum, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Whoever lands the California corner will be getting one of the fastest-rising defensive players in America, one that could blossom into a future NFL draft pick. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Jan. 2022",
"While larger agencies would overlook these smaller deals, Hochberg views them as an opportunity to grow a partnership that could eventually blossom into a long-term contract. \u2014 Nick Diunte, Forbes , 29 Sep. 2021",
"The league offers a unique collegiality, Mathre said, where friendships born at track meets can blossom into lifelong bonds. \u2014 Rachel Blount, Star Tribune , 6 Feb. 2021"
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"Middle English blosme , from Old English bl\u014dstm ; akin to Old English bl\u014dwan":"Noun"
},
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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"The Akron polymer system is essentially an extension of a block copolymer of styrene and dienes (e.g., isoprene, butadiene) developed in the early 1960s \u2026",
"\u2014 Chemical Week"
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": filled with or made up of blocks or patches":[]
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"a shoe with a thick, blocky heel",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This game isn't subtle about being directly inspired by GoldenEye 007, right down to its blocky polygons and limited character animations. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 18 June 2022",
"Dubbed the EVolved, the reborn sports car keeps its forebear\u2019s trick door design but ditches its blocky styling. \u2014 Greg Fink, Car and Driver , 30 May 2022",
"Nearby, up on dry land, sits a blocky , industrial-looking thing about 270 feet long and more than 100 feet tall. \u2014 al , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Modern truck and full-size SUVs favor blocky , muscular styling at the front end, rather than the more gently sloping transition from grille to hood that cars and some compact SUVs have. \u2014 Joe Lindsey, Outside Online , 4 May 2020",
"Using a haircutting razor instead of scissors achieves a lighter feel and encourage swishy movement so that the finished result has a natural texture to it, rather than looking or feeling blocky . \u2014 Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The town \u2014 white, blocky houses under uniform ocher roofs \u2014 was like a handful of gravel thrown onto the shore. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Despite its blocky appearance, this style gives the models a few advantages. \u2014 Sam Jones, Scientific American , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The calligraphers drew from an armory of Arabic scripts, each taking years to master, such as the bold and simple Thuluth, the dainty and curvy Farsi, the blocky and thick Kufi scripts. \u2014 Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small bright red starfish ( Henricia sanguinolenta ) lacking pedicellaria and widely distributed in shallow seas":[]
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"noun"
],
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"the bushes were in the blowth"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a heavy elongated metal vessel attached to the jaw of a table bird to catch the blood during dressing":[]
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
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"definitions":{
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"A breeze blew gently."
],
": to move with speed or force":[
"The wind was blowing ."
],
": to move or run quickly":[
"The linebacker blew past the tackle."
],
": to send forth a current of air or other gas":[
"Don't blow on your soup."
],
": to make a sound by or as if by blowing":[
"hear the train blow"
],
": sound entry 2":[
"a horn blowing",
"waiting for the whistle to blow"
],
": boast":[
"blowing about his accomplishments"
],
": to talk in an empty or boastful way":[
"\u2026 if it wasn't true, and he was just blowing , it wouldn't be so hard to take.",
"\u2014 James Jones"
],
": pant , gasp":[
"The horse blew heavily."
],
": to eject moisture-laden air from the lungs through the blowhole":[
"heard a whale blow nearby"
],
": to move or be carried by or as if by wind":[
"just blew into town for the weekend"
],
": erupt , explode":[
"The bridge was about to blow .",
"The windows blew out in the explosion."
],
": to become damaged or destroyed as a result of an electrical overload":[
"The fuse blew .",
"A Western Massachusetts Electric Company power substation blew yesterday afternoon, cutting power for 90 minutes to more than 9,100 customers \u2026",
"\u2014 Patrick Johnson"
],
": to release the contained air through a spontaneous rupture":[
"\u2014 usually used with out blew out a tire"
],
": to be extremely bad in quality or execution : suck , stink":[
"So how come this oddball dramedy \u2026 never received a U.S. theatrical release \u2026 !",
"\u2014 Bruce Fretts"
],
": to set (gas or vapor) in motion":[
"The fan blew hot air on us."
],
": to act on with a current of gas or vapor":[
"The breeze blew my hair dry."
],
": to play or sound on (a wind instrument)":[
"blow their horns"
],
": to play (something) on a wind instrument":[
"blow a tune"
],
": to spread by report":[
"\u2026 through the court his courtesy was blown \u2026",
"\u2014 John Dryden"
],
": damn":[
"blow the expense"
],
": to drive with a current of gas or vapor":[
"The storm blew the boat off course."
],
": to clear of contents by forcible passage of a current of air":[
"blow your nose"
],
": to project (a gesture or sound made with the mouth) by blowing":[
"blew him a kiss"
],
": to distend with or as if with gas":[
"blow a balloon"
],
": to produce or shape by the action of blown or injected air":[
"blowing bubbles"
],
": to deposit eggs or larvae on or in":[
"wounds blown by flies"
],
": to shatter, burst, or destroy by explosion":[
"blow the safe open"
],
": to put out of breath with exertion":[
"Take care not to blow the horses."
],
": to let (an animal, such as a horse) pause to catch the breath":[
"paused to blow the horses"
],
": to expend (something, such as money) extravagantly":[
"blew her allowance on a pair of jeans"
],
": to treat with unusual expenditure":[
"I'll blow you to a steak."
],
": to cause (a fuse) to blow":[
"blew a fuse"
],
": to rupture by too much pressure":[
"blow a seal"
],
": botch sense 1":[
"actors blowing their lines"
],
": to fail to keep or hold":[
"They blew a big lead."
],
": to lose or miss (an opportunity) because of mistakes or poor judgment":[
"blow a chance to make a good impression"
],
": to leave hurriedly":[
"blew town"
],
": to propel with great force or speed":[
"blew a fastball by the batter"
],
": to drive or speed through or past (a traffic signal or stop sign) without stopping":[
"He blew several red lights and stop signs before smashing into a pole and a fence, cops said.",
"\u2014 Jessica Simeone et al."
],
": to become enraged":[],
": vomit sense 1":[
"The basement is the sort of dim, subterranean space the players don't seem to mind trashing, and every now and then, one of them will turn to a corner and urinate or blow chunks .",
"\u2014 Jonathon Blum"
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": to be favorable at one moment and adverse the next":[],
": to release pent-up emotions":[],
": to lose one's composure":[],
": to reveal one's real identity":[],
": to overwhelm one with wonder or bafflement":[
"an idea that's sure to blow your mind"
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": to go crazy":[],
": to speak idly, misleadingly, or boastfully":[],
": to call public or official attention to something (such as a wrongdoing) kept secret":[
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": brag , boasting":[],
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"a blow of the horn"
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": the time during which air is forced through molten metal to refine it":[],
": the quantity of metal refined during that time":[],
": cocaine":[],
": flower , bloom":[
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows \u2026",
"\u2014 Shakespeare"
],
": blossoms":[],
": bloom entry 2 sense 1b":[
"lilacs in full blow"
],
": a forcible stroke delivered with a part of the body (such as the fist) or with an instrument":[
"a mighty blow with his club",
"boxers exchanging blows"
],
": a hostile act or state : combat":[
"nations coming to blows"
],
": a forcible or sudden act or effort : assault":[
"\u2026 such a language \u2026 would solve many of his \u2026 difficulties at a single blow .",
"\u2014 Edward Sapir"
],
": an unfortunate or calamitous happening":[
"failure to land the job came as a blow"
]
},
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"\u02c8bl\u014d"
],
"synonyms":[
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"heave",
"hyperventilate",
"pant",
"puff",
"wheeze"
],
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"blast",
"flurry",
"gust",
"scud",
"williwaw",
"windblast"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English bl\u0101wan ; akin to Old High German bl\u0101en to blow, Latin flare , Greek phallos penis":"Verb and Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English bl\u014dwan ; akin to Old High German bluoen to bloom, Latin flor\u0113re to bloom, flor-, flos flower":"Verb and Noun",
"Middle English (northern dialect) blaw ; probably akin to Old High German bliuwan to beat":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1710, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001051"
},
"bloodstanch":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": horseweed sense 1":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001358"
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"bloodproof paper":{
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": butcher paper":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002139"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the clear yellowish fluid that remains from blood plasma after clotting factors (such as fibrinogen and prothrombin) have been removed by clot formation":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Their blood serum samples are then archived in the Department of Defense Serum Repository and can be retested for other pathogens. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"For the study, researchers led by Harvard neuroepidemiologist Dr. Kjetil Bjornevik mined an exceptionally rich repository of blood serum samples taken from a cohort of more than 10 million active-duty military personnel between 1993 and 2013. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Lab tests on omicron have already indicated that the blood serum of vaccinated people is less able to stop the virus from invading cells. \u2014 al , 24 Dec. 2021",
"Lab tests on Omicron have already indicated that the blood serum of vaccinated people is less able to stop the virus from invading cells. \u2014 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times , 23 Dec. 2021",
"The companies conducted laboratory experiments that pitted antibodies from the blood serum of vaccinated people against a pseudovirus engineered to mimic the omicron variant. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 8 Dec. 2021",
"About one-fifth of the weight of your blood serum is made up of this whitish gunk. \u2014 Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Last week, separate groups at New York University and Yale University posted preprints analyzing blood serum from people vaccinated with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. \u2014 Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS , 28 July 2021",
"Such experiments involve taking antibodies from the blood serum of vaccinated people and adding more and more of a virus to see how well the antibodies attach. \u2014 Jv Chamary, Forbes , 29 June 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004949"
},
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
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": a compact usually solid piece of substantial material especially when worked or altered to serve a particular purpose":[
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"blocks of cheese"
],
": such as":[
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"blocks of cheese"
],
": the piece of wood on which the neck of a person condemned to be beheaded is laid for execution":[
"put her neck on the block"
],
": a mold or form on which articles are shaped or displayed":[
"a wooden hat block"
],
": a hollow rectangular building unit usually of artificial material":[
"a wall of concrete blocks"
],
": a lightweight usually cubical and solid wooden or plastic building toy that is usually provided in sets":[
"children playing with blocks"
],
": the casting that contains the cylinders of an internal combustion engine":[
"engine block"
],
": starting block":[
"the first swimmer off the blocks",
"a slow start out of the blocks"
],
": obstacle":[
"putting a block on any future development"
],
": local anesthesia (as by injection) produced by interruption of the flow of impulses along a nerve":[],
": interruption or cessation especially of train of thought by competing thoughts or psychological suppression":[
"a mental block",
"an emotional block"
],
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"an emotional block"
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"threatened to knock his block off"
],
": a wooden or metal case enclosing one or more pulleys and having a hook, eye, or strap by which it may be attached":[],
": a piece of material (such as wood or linoleum) having on its surface a hand-cut design from which impressions are to be printed":[
"wooden blocks used for printing books"
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": a usually rectangular space (as in a city) enclosed by streets and occupied by or intended for buildings":[
"She lived on our block ."
],
": the distance along one of the sides of such a block":[
"The store is two blocks down on the right.",
"lived a block away from the school"
],
": a large building divided into separate functional units":[
"an apartment block"
],
": a line of row houses":[],
": a distinctive part of a building or integrated group of buildings":[
"a block of classrooms"
],
": a platform from which property is sold at auction":[
"went on the block and sold for nearly three million dollars"
],
": a quantity, number, or section of things dealt with as a unit":[
"bought a large block of shares",
"a half-hour block of music",
"a block of text"
],
": bloc sense 2":[
"popular among several voting blocks"
],
": through many experiences":[
"\u2014 used especially to say that someone is no longer young or has become knowledgeable, capable, or mature because of past experience \u2026 it seemed possible that to fall for a woman who had been around the block a few times might be to rob himself of much of the purely ornamental elements \u2026 of first love. \u2014 Michael Chabon"
],
": for sale":[
"The business is now on the block ."
],
"Herbert Lawrence 1909\u20132001":[
"Herblock \\ \u02c8h\u0259r-\u200b\u02ccbl\u00e4k \\"
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"American editorial cartoonist":[
"Herblock \\ \u02c8h\u0259r-\u200b\u02ccbl\u00e4k \\"
],
": to make unsuitable for passage or progress by obstruction":[
"The road was blocked by a rock slide."
],
": blockade":[
"\u2026 a city \u2026 besieged and blocked about \u2026",
"\u2014 John Milton"
],
": to hinder the passage, progress, or accomplishment of by or as if by interposing an obstruction":[
"The ambulance was blocked by traffic.",
"senators trying to block passage of the bill"
],
": to shut off from view":[
"The building blocks our view of the ocean."
],
": to interfere usually legitimately with (an opponent, an opponent's shot, etc.) in various games or sports":[
"practice blocking our opponents",
"blocked the shot with her hand"
],
": to prevent normal functioning or action of":[
"block a nerve with novocaine"
],
": to restrict the exchange of (currency, checks, etc.)":[],
": to mark or indicate the outline or chief lines of":[
"block out a design"
],
": to shape on, with, or as if with a block (see block entry 1 sense 1b )":[
"block a hat"
],
": to secure, support, or provide with a block (see block entry 1 sense 1 )":[
"blocking a plate for printing",
"block up the rear wheels"
],
": to make (two or more lines of writing or type) flush at the left or at both left and right":[],
": to hit (a ball or shot) inaccurately toward the right from a right-handed swing or toward the left from a left-handed swing : push":[
"\u2026 you get excited, don't finish your backswing and block your next drive into the foliage.",
"\u2014 Thomas Boswell"
],
": to interfere usually legitimately with an opponent : to block an opponent":[
"needs to practice blocking"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8bl\u00e4k"
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"synonyms":[
"array",
"assemblage",
"band",
"bank",
"batch",
"battery",
"bunch",
"clot",
"clump",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"collection",
"constellation",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"muster",
"package",
"parcel",
"passel",
"set",
"suite"
],
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"bung",
"dam",
"fill",
"pack",
"plug",
"stop",
"stuff"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for block Verb hinder , impede , obstruct , block mean to interfere with the activity or progress of. hinder stresses causing harmful or annoying delay or interference with progress. rain hindered the climb impede implies making forward progress difficult by clogging, hampering, or fettering. tight clothing that impedes movement obstruct implies interfering with something in motion or in progress by the sometimes intentional placing of obstacles in the way. the view was obstructed by billboards block implies complete obstruction to passage or progress. a landslide blocked the road",
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a wall built out of concrete blocks",
"We took a walk around the block .",
"She lived on our block .",
"The store is three blocks down on the right.",
"Our hotel is a block from the ocean.",
"Verb",
"There's an accident blocking the road.",
"The entrance was blocked by a gate.",
"Blood clots have completely blocked one of his arteries.",
"The protesters blocked the road with parked vehicles.",
"The ambulance was blocked by cars in the road.",
"An accident was blocking traffic.",
"Could you move to the left, please. You're blocking my light.",
"a shield that blocks the wind",
"Several senators are trying to block the passage of the bill.",
"His vote blocked the treaty.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Officers discovered the man shortly after 3 a.m. at a camp in a wooded area near the 4200 block of Smokey Lane after receiving a report of an unresponsive person. \u2014 Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online , 6 July 2022",
"The rebounding and block numbers rank in the top eight of the tournament, which began the Round of 16 on Wednesday. \u2014 Greg Levinsky, BostonGlobe.com , 6 July 2022",
"The 500 and 700 block of East North Avenue will be shutdown indefinitely while the city demolishes several homes at risk by a sinkhole. \u2014 Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun , 5 July 2022",
"The detached ice block was massive, estimated at 200 meters (yards) wide, 80 meters tall and 60 meters deep. \u2014 Frances D'emilio, Anchorage Daily News , 4 July 2022",
"The detached ice block was massive, estimated at 200 meters (yards) wide, 80 meters tall and 60 meters deep. \u2014 al , 4 July 2022",
"The victim was thrown onto the shoulder of the road near the 1400 block of Austell Road, according to the release. \u2014 Rosana Hughes, ajc , 3 July 2022",
"Ukrainian officials believe the deadly strikes on an apartment block and a recreation center in the Odessa region were retaliation by Russia after it was forced to withdraw from strategically important Snake Island earlier this week. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"The virtual disappearance of the outside world that Curry had been trying to draw inspiration from was the very trigger that began to dissolve his writer\u2019s block . \u2014 Khari Nixon, SPIN , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Enlarge / Scott Atlas, a White House adviser, used his position to advocate for allowing the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread and tried to block testing for it, which would further that goal. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
"Here are a few things that will lower the thermometer: Plant trees to block sunlight on your house\u2019s east and west sides. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 18 June 2022",
"Under current government guidelines, Patel is able to block extradition requests only in a small number of circumstances. \u2014 Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"His attorneys tried unsuccessfully to block the subpoena. \u2014 Scott Bauer, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"His attorneys tried unsuccessfully to block the subpoena. \u2014 Scott Bauer, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"At an individual level, team members were asked to block time on calendars for personal wellness breaks. \u2014 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"But Republicans may look to other courts, particularly the Supreme Court, to block state laws on gun control after former President Donald J. Trump appointed a wave of conservative federal judges. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
"Senate Democrats, then in the minority, used the filibuster in June 2020 to block Scott's JUSTICE Act in 2020, which Scott's office claims would have addressed many of the issues in Biden's executive order. \u2014 Tyler O'neil, Fox News , 26 May 2022"
],
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"Middle English blok , from Middle French & Middle Dutch; Middle French bloc , from Middle Dutch blok ; akin to Old High German bloh block":"Noun and Verb"
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1602, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005304"
},
"block and tackle":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": pulley blocks with associated rope or cable for hoisting or hauling":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1717, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005845"
},
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"type":[
"noun phrase"
],
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": a large building that has several or many apartments":[]
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": a worker who shapes highway curbs or lays paving blocks":[]
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"by respelling":""
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"1972, in the meaning defined above":""
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"a blockage in a coronary artery"
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"\u02c8bl\u00e4k-ij",
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"trying to prevent blockage of the artery",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That does not include losses faced by owners of more than 400 ships delayed by the blockage or the losses to owners of cargo on those ships. \u2014 John Bacon, USA TODAY , 7 Apr. 2021",
"The alleged blockage of vehicles has impacted the surrounding area, including unsuspecting motorists and nearby businesses, the city claimed. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Reaching the Russian public has been a challenge given state censorship, including the Kremlin\u2019s blockage of Facebook and Twitter. \u2014 Georgi Kantchev, WSJ , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Recently, a cardiac CT scan showed blockage in two arteries: 70% in one and 80% in the other. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Its blockage has resulted in miles-long backups at the Blue Water Bridge as trucks rerouted there instead. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Biliary atresia is a blockage of the ducts that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder. \u2014 Deanese Williams-harris, chicagotribune.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The urine never gets completely emptied due to the partial blockage at the prostate, leading to crystallization of the minerals in urine. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Some people also just naturally produce more earwax, which also can lead to a blockage . \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 30 Mar. 2022"
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": a plant ( Sanguinaria canadensis ) of the poppy family having a red root and sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring":[]
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"\u02c8bl\u0259d-\u02ccr\u00fct",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Waukesha, Linder said her blended gardens lean cottage style but also include a variety of woodland natives including wild geranium, mayapple, bloodroot , wild ginger and both red and white trillium. \u2014 Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"Other spring species to look for include hepatica, trout lily, Gleason's trillium, bloodroot and spring beauty, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The move cut off a valuable supply of river cane, bloodroot , sage and other plants, which can be difficult to find on the Cherokee Nation\u2019s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma, on the border with Arkansas. \u2014 Alyssa Lukpat, New York Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Wild indigo, river cane, wild onion, hickory, bloodroot and sage are among the species that members of the tribe can now gather at Buffalo National River, which was established in 1972 as the country\u2019s first national river. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This perennial native is in the poppy family, and gets its common name bloodroot , because the root, when cut exudes a red sap which was used as a red dye. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Inspired by the bloodroot herb, which has historically been used as a tool of protection for families in the southern Creole culture, models walked the runway wearing Victorian lace dresses and military workwear. \u2014 Vogue , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Early spring native flowers such as bloodroot , wild geranium, Virginia bluebells and shooting star are key in helping them before much else is blooming. \u2014 Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Apr. 2021",
"Where happy, bloodroot naturalizes into a charming patch from both rhizomes and seeds. \u2014 Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com , 7 Apr. 2021"
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"1724, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"definitions":{
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"The children were blowing bubbles ."
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020111"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": surgery performed with a minimum effusion of blood (as by electrocoagulation or with the patient in a state of hypothermia)":[]
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"definitions":{
": visually or superficially appealing but lacking in substance":[
"They have fought out in the open, with blizzards of faxes and blow-dried sincerity, and underground, with private detectives and well-connected lawyers.",
"\u2014 Michael Isikoff et al."
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"1977, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021713"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": squared stone masonry with good close joints to give great strength and soundness":[]
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"type":[
"idiom"
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"definitions":{
": to kill someone with a shot to the head":[
"When he refused to hand over the money, the robbers threatened to blow his brains out ."
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