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{
"Indian States":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"former semi-independent states of the Indian Empire ruled by native princes subject to varying degrees of British authority; area now part of India and Pakistan \u2014 see british india":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032109",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Indian redroot":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": redroot":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 2":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200245",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian redwood":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": indian mahogany":[],
": sappanwood":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192330",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian reed":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a tall American grass ( Cinna arundinacea ) resembling reed":[],
": indian shot":[],
": wood grass sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185716",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian rhubarb":{
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"definitions":{
": a stout herb ( Peltiphyllum peltatum ) of the family Saxifragaceae of the Pacific coast of North America with leaves that have edible petioles":[],
": himalayan rhubarb":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193345",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian sarsaparilla":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an East Indian shrub ( Hemidesmus indicus ) of the family Asclepiadaceae":[],
": the root of Indian sarsaparilla used as a substitute for sarsaparilla":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-155052",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian senna":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": tinnevelly senna":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214934",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian shamrock":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": purple trillium":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 2":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232633",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian shoe":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": stemless lady's-slipper":[],
": yellow lady's-slipper":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 2":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031211",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian shot":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a plant of the genus Canna (especially C. indica ) that has hard black seeds about the size of buckshot":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074703",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian sign":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": hex , spell":[]
},
"examples":[
"the Indian sign has apparently been put on that rugby team, which has lost 10 straight games"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"hex",
"hoodoo",
"jinx",
"whammy"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075634",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian slipper":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": stemless lady's-slipper":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 2":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092224",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian soap":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": soapberry tree":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Indian entry 2 2":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103846",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian strawberry":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a low East Indian herb ( Duchesnea indica ) naturalized in eastern North America and resembling the true strawberry but having yellow flowers and tasteless involucrate fruit":[],
": strawberry blite":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from Indian entry 2 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205040",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian summer":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a happy or flourishing period occurring toward the end of something":[
"the crowning performance of the Indian summer of her career",
"\u2014 Octavio Roca"
],
": a period of warm or mild weather in late autumn or early winter":[]
},
"examples":[
"She is in the Indian summer of her career."
],
"first_known_use":{
"1790, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185905",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indian tapir":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": malayan tapir":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202816",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indicatoridae":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a family of birds (order Piciformes) that comprises the honey guides and is sometimes considered a subfamily of Capitonidae":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Indicator , type genus + -idae":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccind\u0259\u0307k\u0259\u02c8t\u022fr\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062410",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"Indo Red MV-6632":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a red thioindigoid organic pigment":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps from ind- entry 2":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8in(\u02cc)d\u014d-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024219",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indo-Pacific":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the Indo-Malayan areas of the Pacific Ocean":[
"an Indo-Pacific fish",
"Indo-Pacific coral reefs"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6in(\u02cc)d\u014d+"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060501",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"Indonesia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"an overseas territory of the Netherlands; capital Jakarta area 735,358 square miles (1,904,569 square kilometers), population 262,787,000 \u2014 see also indonesian sense 1":[
"(as the Netherlands Indies )"
],
"country in southeastern Asia in the Malay Archipelago comprising Sumatra, Java, southern and eastern Borneo, Sulawesi, western Timor, western New Guinea, the Moluccas, and many adjacent smaller islands; formerly":[
"(as the Netherlands Indies )"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-sh\u0259",
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8n\u0113-zh\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060124",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Indonesian":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a native or inhabitant of the Malay Archipelago":[],
": a native or inhabitant of the Republic of Indonesia":[],
": the language based on Malay that is the national language of the Republic of Indonesia":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1850, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8n\u0113-zh\u0259n",
"-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-120103",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"Indonesian cinnamon":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1988, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231955",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Indore":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city in the northwest central India state of Madhya Pradesh population 2,067,000":[],
"former state of central India in valley of the Narmada River; capital Indore":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u022fr"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091526",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Indos":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of Indos plural of indo"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-005414",
"type":[]
},
"indebtedness":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": something (such as an amount of money) that is owed":[],
": the condition of being indebted":[]
},
"examples":[
"his total indebtedness exceeded a year's income",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Both sides are still in discussions to reduce the country\u2019s budget gap and indebtedness , and minimize risks from the country\u2019s adoption of the virtual currency. \u2014 Santiago P\u00e9rez, WSJ , 14 May 2022",
"This indebtedness limits how many interest rate hikes the Fed can implement before causing problems in the stock market, the housing market, and the Treasury bond market. \u2014 Adam Strauss, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The pandemic had pushed up total indebtedness of the countries to a 50-year high, or the equivalent of more than 2.5 times government revenues. \u2014 Yuka Hayashi, WSJ , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Household indebtedness does not stop with these formal forms of debt. \u2014 Christian Weller, Forbes , 26 Dec. 2021",
"Despite rising living standards, the financing of a college education has become a huge problem, witness a huge student loan indebtedness problem. \u2014 Richard Vedder, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Notes with concern the growing needs of developing country Parties, in particular due to the increasing impacts of climate change and increased indebtedness as a consequence of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic; 42. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Nov. 2021",
"The flip side to refusing indebtedness is that the collection ends up suffering from an aversion to citation. \u2014 Jordan Taliha Mcdonald, Vulture , 9 Nov. 2021",
"This model considers the full scope of how incarceration perpetuates indebtedness . \u2014 Malaika Jabali, Essence , 28 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1647, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8de-t\u0259d-n\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"arrearage",
"arrears",
"debt",
"liability",
"liabilities",
"obligation",
"score"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103404",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indecency":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": something (such as a word or action) that is indecent":[],
": the quality or state of being indecent":[]
},
"examples":[
"The book has been criticized for indecency .",
"I was shocked by the indecency of their language.",
"He was accused of sexual indecencies .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Owen Michael Calkins, 71, of the 1700 block of Killdeer Drive, Naperville, was arrested on a charge of public indecency /lewd exposure at 3:31 p.m. May 9 at Starling Lane and Killdeer Road. \u2014 Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune , 18 May 2022",
"Plumb also had a prior state conviction for indecency with a minor. \u2014 Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Depaz has been arrested multiple times since 2015 by Atlanta, Georgia World Congress Center, Georgia State University and MARTA police on charges ranging from criminal trespass to public indecency . \u2014 Matt Bruce, ajc , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Portland police arrived and arrested a 20-year-old man, Bill Glenn Fomonyuy, at 8:39 a.m. Monday on allegations of coercion, luring a minor and public indecency . \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Throughout the 1900s, historians say law enforcement had several avenues to pursue against LGBTQ people, via laws against disorderly conduct, indecency , loitering, lewdness and more. \u2014 Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News , 7 May 2022",
"The suspect was charged with two counts of public indecency and two counts of breach of peace. \u2014 Christine Dempsey, Hartford Courant , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The 53-year-old was charged with interfering with police, public indecency and other charges. \u2014 Christine Dempsey, Hartford Courant , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Cameron John Huber, 22, of the 600 block of Bedford Drive, Crystal Lake, was arrested on charges of battery, disorderly conduct and public indecency /lewd exposure at 12:35 p.m. March 16 in the 900 block of South Route 59. \u2014 Steve Metsch, chicagotribune.com , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1589, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8d\u0113-s\u1d4an(t)-s\u0113",
"in-\u02c8d\u0113-s\u1d4an-s\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bawdiness",
"blueness",
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"dirt",
"dirtiness",
"filth",
"filthiness",
"foulness",
"grossness",
"impureness",
"impurity",
"lasciviousness",
"lewdness",
"nastiness",
"obscenity",
"profanity",
"raunch",
"raunchiness",
"ribaldry",
"smut",
"smuttiness",
"vulgarity",
"wantonness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172318",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indecent":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"nonobscene",
"wholesome"
],
"definitions":{
": grossly improper or offensive":[
"indecent language"
],
": not decent: such as":[],
": unseemly , inappropriate":[
"he took indecent pleasure in her troubles"
]
},
"examples":[
"He took indecent pleasure in her troubles.",
"paintings of nude figures are artistic, not indecent",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"California\u2019s top military brass has been rocked by homophobia, antisemitism and indecent -exposure scandals. \u2014 Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times , 25 June 2022",
"The chef, 61, was found not guilty on charges of indecent battery and assault on Tuesday after less than two days of testimonies in Boston Municipal Court. \u2014 Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022",
"Decent rapture can\u2019t help but conjure the indecent variety; Millay knew both well. \u2014 Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"The woman who has accused the celebrity chef Mario Batali of groping her at a Boston bar in April 2017 spent several contentious hours testifying on Monday, the opening day of his criminal trial on charges of indecent battery and assault. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
"Damian Patrick Van Winkle, 41, the school district\u2019s athletic director, was charged Thursday with indecent contact with a child. \u2014 Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News , 29 Apr. 2022",
"England is found guilty of four counts of maltreating detainees, one count of conspiracy and one count of committing an indecent act. \u2014 CNN , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Donald Edward Robinson, 76, of Bonita Springs, Florida., is charged by criminal complaint with one count of lewd, indecent and obscene acts while in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, federal authorities said in a statement. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 10 Apr. 2022",
"McGarity is now facing charges for lewd, indecent or obscene acts on an aircraft. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 6 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1587, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French or Latin; Middle French ind\u00e9cent , from Latin indecent-, indecens , from in- + decent-, decens decent":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u0113-s\u1d4ant",
"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8d\u0113-s\u1d4ant"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bawdy",
"blue",
"coarse",
"crude",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"gutter",
"impure",
"lascivious",
"lewd",
"locker-room",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"pornographic",
"porny",
"profane",
"raunchy",
"ribald",
"smutty",
"stag",
"trashy",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"wanton",
"X-rated"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060830",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"indecipherable":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"decipherable",
"fair",
"legible",
"readable"
],
"definitions":{
": incapable of being deciphered":[
"indecipherable writing",
"an indecipherable message"
]
},
"examples":[
"His handwriting is almost indecipherable .",
"after so many years the paper label in the drawer of the antique desk is indecipherable",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But for offshore audiences, mostly coming in cold, a general sense of the narrative\u2019s direction will be indecipherable for a good stretch of the running time. \u2014 Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"Most Comically 2002 Moment: Way before millennial artists were dropping vowels from their monikers, Linkin Park was ahead of the game by also remixing every song title into cryptic, near- indecipherable codes. \u2014 Bianca Gracie, Billboard , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Neural nets are notorious for being indecipherable black boxes, but there are ways to peek inside \u2014 such as by examining the net\u2019s input and output, layer by layer, to see how the training data flows through. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The source of the crowd\u2019s discontent remains unclear, though perhaps they were underwhelmed by the indecipherable Rams takeover of the Hollywood sign. \u2014 Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times , 19 Feb. 2022",
"In his remarks to the audience, Tilson Thomas offered a personal tour of the signposts for what, at first exposure, can prove an indecipherable 20 minutes of bewildering complexity. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Jan. 2022",
"She was given a second shot, and images began rushing through her mind: indecipherable hieroglyphics, ancient calligraphy. \u2014 Emily Witt, The New Yorker , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Nintendo, meanwhile, operates on its own, indecipherable logic and doesn\u2019t offer its consumers any choice in how to play old games besides either playing them on old devices or repurchasing them on the Nintendo Switch. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2021",
"Some of the post captions are short and indecipherable to those who don\u2019t watch the show in question, but if Netflix\u2019s high engagement is any indication, inducing FOMO generates buzz. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1802, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8s\u012b-f(\u0259-)r\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"illegible",
"undecipherable",
"unreadable"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115623",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"indecision":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution":[]
},
"examples":[
"They were paralyzed by indecision .",
"her indecision about where to go for dinner, while everyone was getting hungrier by the minute, was frustrating",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sarah Longwell, the founder of the Republican Accountability Project, which conducted the focus group last week, said that Mr. Trump\u2019s limited involvement could be playing a role in some voters\u2019 indecision . \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"But then, something strange happened: The applications would go nowhere for months as higher-up officials seemed paralyzed by indecision . \u2014 Lydia Depillis, ProPublica , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Life isn\u2019t about staying stuck in indecision or in your mistakes. \u2014 Ellevate, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Overthinking can happen at any time of day or night and can leave people frozen in indecision . \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 4 June 2021",
"Could immersion therapy cure nostalgia and romantic indecision ",
"When asked if Krejci\u2019s indecision put him in a bind, Bruins general manager Don Sweeney shook his head. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 25 July 2021",
"The history buffs among us might recall how President Abraham Lincoln fired one of his top generals, George B. McClellan, because of the general\u2019s timidity and indecision . \u2014 Svetlana Whitener, Forbes , 15 June 2021",
"In the months following the Buccaneers' loss to the Los Angeles Rams during last season's playoffs, Gronkowski has been open about his indecision to continue his football career. \u2014 Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1763, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French ind\u00e9cision , from ind\u00e9cis undecided, from Late Latin indecisus , from Latin in- + decisus , past participle of decidere to decide":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8si-zh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"faltering",
"fence-sitting",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"irresolution",
"pause",
"shilly-shally",
"shilly-shallying",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070445",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indecisive":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": marked by or prone to indecision : irresolute":[
"an indecisive state of mind"
],
": not clearly marked out : indefinite":[],
": not decisive : inconclusive":[
"an indecisive battle"
]
},
"examples":[
"She's always been very indecisive .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"His cousin and mayor of the northern Philippines city of Laoag, Michael Marcos Keon, described Mr. Marcos as sensible, though sometimes indecisive , and said a Marcos presidency\u2019s foreign policy would seek balance. \u2014 Feliz Solomon, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"Even with solid-but-not-superlative reviews (75% fresh and 6.5/10 on Rotten Tomatoes) and a (frustratingly indecisive ) B+ from Cinemascore, this isn\u2019t a #CanThisFranchiseBeSaved",
"If attendees are indecisive , encourage them to choose a topic that relates to a current or recent issue within the business. \u2014 Lisa Bodell, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"New for Tortuga 2022 is the decision by Live Nation to not sell the single-day tickets that allowed the cash-strapped, the time-challenged and the indecisive a way to get their country-music fix. \u2014 Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"For that, insiders place a fair share of blame on the indecisive and slow-moving nature of CEO Ben Silbermann, The Information reported Friday. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 25 Mar. 2022",
"For the adventurous or the merely indecisive , Tandem pours a latte flight that flexes its skill with cinnamon, maple, gingerbread and even chile de \u00e1rbol. \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 23 Mar. 2022",
"During the tense and emotional breakup, which Echard chose to do at once, Windey slammed the 28-year-old for being indecisive and playing with her emotions. \u2014 Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com , 15 Mar. 2022"
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"His cousin and mayor of the northern Philippines city of Laoag, Michael Marcos Keon, described Mr. Marcos as sensible, though sometimes indecisive , and said a Marcos presidency\u2019s foreign policy would seek balance. \u2014 Feliz Solomon, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
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"If attendees are indecisive , encourage them to choose a topic that relates to a current or recent issue within the business. \u2014 Lisa Bodell, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"New for Tortuga 2022 is the decision by Live Nation to not sell the single-day tickets that allowed the cash-strapped, the time-challenged and the indecisive a way to get their country-music fix. \u2014 Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"For that, insiders place a fair share of blame on the indecisive and slow-moving nature of CEO Ben Silbermann, The Information reported Friday. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 25 Mar. 2022",
"For the adventurous or the merely indecisive , Tandem pours a latte flight that flexes its skill with cinnamon, maple, gingerbread and even chile de \u00e1rbol. \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 23 Mar. 2022",
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"The yelling crowd outwardly appeared to be indecorous and vulgar, failing to properly respect the solemn circumstances. \u2014 Monica Hesse, Washington Post , 25 Sep. 2020",
"Given the lack of actual harm and the indecorous behavior on all sides, this is not an episode over which a national consensus would support the president\u2019s removal. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 27 Oct. 2019",
"Yet Harvard, too, was caught in the indecorous (but perfectly legal) act of giving preferences to white, wealthy kids who already enjoy the massive advantage of being . . . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Oct. 2019"
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"Hurston often ran afoul of her contemporaries because of her indecorous proclamations. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 25 Feb. 2022",
"However indecorous her comments, those facts take her commentary out of the purview of the school district. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 2 July 2021",
"The eyebrows would go up, the smile would fade, a silent but oh-so-sharp rebuke to the rude, the entitled, the indecorous . \u2014 Washington Post , 7 May 2021",
"Trump\u2019s performances were riddled with misinformation, contradictions and indecorous boasts, while also predicting miracles and promoting cure-all therapeutics. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 20 Dec. 2020",
"The yelling crowd outwardly appeared to be indecorous and vulgar, failing to properly respect the solemn circumstances. \u2014 Monica Hesse, Washington Post , 25 Sep. 2020",
"Given the lack of actual harm and the indecorous behavior on all sides, this is not an episode over which a national consensus would support the president\u2019s removal. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 27 Oct. 2019",
"Yet Harvard, too, was caught in the indecorous (but perfectly legal) act of giving preferences to white, wealthy kids who already enjoy the massive advantage of being . . . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Oct. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And indeed , Hutchinson\u2019s testimony could bring legal implications for Trump or some in his inner circle as the Justice Department probes the scheme to promote false electors in swing states. \u2014 Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"Tragic, indeed , and part of our climate-change anguish. \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"One is growing uncertainty about what shows platforms, and indeed European free-to-air networks, really want. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 27 June 2022",
"Thanasis indeed signed to play with Maroussi BV, though the details were perhaps a little different in real life. \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
"But any fallout won't be national in nature -- and, indeed , will be intensely personal for countless women. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 27 June 2022",
"And, indeed , a recent report from UCLA\u2019s Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy found that between 8,000 and 16,000 more women are expected to travel to California every year for abortions. \u2014 Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 26 June 2022",
"To err is indeed human, to forgive may be divine, but forgiveness is also optional. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 26 June 2022",
"To err is indeed human, to forgive may be divine, but forgiveness is also optional. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 26 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Game in and game out, nobody on Michigan\u2019s roster played harder \u2014 save for the indefatigable shooting guard Eli Brooks. \u2014 Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press , 1 June 2022",
"Woltz is an indefatigable advocate for meaningful public spaces and authentic landscapes. \u2014 Victoria Johnson, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"And all of a sudden, with 18 seconds left, the lead down to 2, and everything \u2014 the season, reputations, all of it \u2014 hanging in the balance, the Heat\u2019s indefatigable Jimmy Butler hauled in a rebound and took off, with Horford back to defend. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2022",
"Every funnyman has his calling card, and Sam Richardson\u2019s is a mien of indefatigable bafflement. \u2014 The New Yorker , 29 May 2022",
"With the start the indefatigable 26-year-old is off to so far this season, Craig Counsell might honor his request. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 May 2022",
"Jeremiah Stamler, an indefatigable cardiovascular researcher who was at the forefront of studies that identified risk factors for heart disease and ways to prevent it, died on Wednesday at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., on Long Island. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Jan. 2022",
"The indefatigable David Attenborough is your guide in this five-part series. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 22 May 2022",
"Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her political allies are indefatigable in their attempt to railroad Congress into agreeing to a global tax deal, and their latest argument is that the pact will be good for U.S. competitiveness. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 8 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Those inequalities related to working conditions, some of which had existed for decades but were patently indefensible when exposed to sunlight by the women\u2019s team, were resolved amicably in 2020. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"During opening statements in the case, defense attorneys admitted their clients had each expressed offensive and indefensible opinions about Black people. \u2014 NBC News , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Ableism is both morally indefensible and literally harmful to disabled. \u2014 Andrew Pulrang, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"This has been mentioned ad nauseam, but the Udoka Azubuike over Bane selection is utterly indefensible by anyone with access to game film, a stat sheet, or just good ol\u2019 common sense. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 Jan. 2022",
"As a policy priority, boosting the SALT cap to $80,000 is utterly indefensible . \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Instead, the Democrats\u2019 proposal would actually create indefensible exceptions in terrorism law. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 19 May 2022",
"Underlying all these knotty questions is the conundrum of whether America is willing to grant Putin any reward for his morally indefensible war and the war crimes that have gone with it. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This action is an indefensible attack on the innocent, and is an assault on culture and creators everywhere, including those in Russia. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 14 Mar. 2022"
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"He has an indefinable quality that draws people to him.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The complexity of the metaverse, its indefinable nature, means more pathways to attack and spread. \u2014 Rob Mason, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"The movie's unvarnished exploration of motherhood in all its messy, indefinable facets struck a chord even for cast members who haven't yet had that experience themselves. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Let Johns\u2019s sensual, strange, almost indefinable images and sculptures relight your visual-cerebral wick. \u2014 Jerry Saltz, Vulture , 1 Sep. 2021",
"While there is data to support the importance of culture, the phenomenon itself is intangible, and the goal at my own company became: to define the indefinable . \u2014 Gatis Dukurs, Forbes , 5 July 2021",
"His working-class Catholic family was not 10 miles down the road, but R. had accrued a certain indefinable sophistication from his travels. \u2014 Hannah Selinger, Bon App\u00e9tit , 2 July 2021",
"It\u2019s about embracing the nuances of sexuality and gender and defining ourselves as indefinable . \u2014 Rebecca Woolf, refinery29.com , 17 June 2021",
"The images have the feel of something pulled from someone else\u2019s camera, from some indefinable time in the past. \u2014 Sophie Haigney, New York Times , 19 May 2021",
"Immensely more than an intangible, indefinable force. \u2014 Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star , 10 Mar. 2021"
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"1810, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Their plans have been put on indefinite hold.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bobby Neuwirth\u2019s positive influence on the world will be arcane but felt for decades, for centuries, for the indefinite future. \u2014 Randy Lewis, Variety , 4 June 2022",
"The PGA Tour announced indefinite suspensions for at least 17 players who participated in the LIV Golf event, with more potentially coming in the future. \u2014 Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY , 21 June 2022",
"The automaker, formerly known as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, plans indefinite layoffs at its Sterling Stamping Plant in Sterling Heights beginning next week. \u2014 Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press , 15 June 2022",
"Some plumbers estimate that cast iron pipes can last between 75 to 100 years, compared to PVC drain lines that have an indefinite shelf life. \u2014 Timothy Bella, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"The flooding across parts of southern Montana and northern Wyoming forced the indefinite closure of Yellowstone National Park just as a summer tourist season that draws millions of visitors annually was ramping up. \u2014 CBS News , 15 June 2022",
"The flooding across parts of southern Montana and northern Wyoming forced the indefinite closure of Yellowstone National Park just as a summer tourist season that draws millions of visitors annually was ramping up. \u2014 Amy Beth Hanson And Matthew Brown, Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"The package has stalled in recent days because of an objection from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who apparently has won an indefinite exemption after repeatedly claiming his nation's economy would shatter without Russian oil. \u2014 John Bacon, USA TODAY , 30 May 2022",
"With Tops indefinite closure, many people need alternatives to get food and other essential resources. \u2014 Essence , 17 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bobby Neuwirth\u2019s positive influence on the world will be arcane but felt for decades, for centuries, for the indefinite future. \u2014 Randy Lewis, Variety , 4 June 2022",
"The PGA Tour announced indefinite suspensions for at least 17 players who participated in the LIV Golf event, with more potentially coming in the future. \u2014 Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY , 21 June 2022",
"The automaker, formerly known as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, plans indefinite layoffs at its Sterling Stamping Plant in Sterling Heights beginning next week. \u2014 Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press , 15 June 2022",
"Some plumbers estimate that cast iron pipes can last between 75 to 100 years, compared to PVC drain lines that have an indefinite shelf life. \u2014 Timothy Bella, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"The flooding across parts of southern Montana and northern Wyoming forced the indefinite closure of Yellowstone National Park just as a summer tourist season that draws millions of visitors annually was ramping up. \u2014 CBS News , 15 June 2022",
"The flooding across parts of southern Montana and northern Wyoming forced the indefinite closure of Yellowstone National Park just as a summer tourist season that draws millions of visitors annually was ramping up. \u2014 Amy Beth Hanson And Matthew Brown, Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"The package has stalled in recent days because of an objection from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who apparently has won an indefinite exemption after repeatedly claiming his nation's economy would shatter without Russian oil. \u2014 John Bacon, USA TODAY , 30 May 2022",
"With Tops indefinite closure, many people need alternatives to get food and other essential resources. \u2014 Essence , 17 May 2022"
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"But the most indelible evening of the rebellion for me was the night I had first got beaten. \u2014 Amiri Baraka , The Autobiography of Leroi Jones , 1984",
"All wars change society and hence leave an indelible imprint on literary culture. \u2014 Michiko Kakutani , New York Times Book Review , 15 Apr. 1984",
"The illustrator of children's books surpasses other artists in the impressionability of his audience; it is beyond calculation, no doubt, what touches will produce an indelible effect, when the receiving surface of a child's psyche is so soft and mysteriously laden and momentous with its own raw energy. \u2014 John Updike , New York Times Book Review , 4 Dec. 1983",
"winning the state basketball championship was our team's most indelible experience",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This indelible , extraordinary show about trans women and gay men gave us a rich perspective on families of choice and their sustaining power during times of emotional, physical, and financial hardship. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"My third indelible moment came not long after the softball game. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"Christensen, wearing the famous suit, imbues Vader with an intimidating physicality made more chilling by James Earl Jones\u2019 indelible voice work. \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 14 June 2022",
"While the United States\u2019 involvement in Vietnam was already coming to an end (all troops would leave the country by 1973), the image became an indelible symbol of the horrors of war. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 June 2022",
"In 2010, the peak of an indelible pop era that brought us Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and so much more glorious pop, who else would launch a big-band ensemble, complete with a horn section, that blended soul, R&B, blues and Southern rock",
"Even if Lady Macbeth appears in substantially fewer scenes than her husband, her cunning mind \u2014 and Negga\u2019s command of Shakespeare\u2019s verse \u2014 leave an indelible imprint. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"Using Murray\u2019s own words and excavating the personal history that informed the distinguished lawyer, poet, priest, and writer, Cohen and West have crafted an indelible portrait of a figure who deserves to be better known. \u2014 Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"The music unfolded rhythmically as drummer SimiSho churned out precise 8 note grooves over the distinctive synthesizer phrases while Gyoshi\u2019s biting guitar solo embellished the indelible number. \u2014 Billboard Japan, Billboard , 23 May 2022"
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"But the most indelible evening of the rebellion for me was the night I had first got beaten. \u2014 Amiri Baraka , The Autobiography of Leroi Jones , 1984",
"All wars change society and hence leave an indelible imprint on literary culture. \u2014 Michiko Kakutani , New York Times Book Review , 15 Apr. 1984",
"The illustrator of children's books surpasses other artists in the impressionability of his audience; it is beyond calculation, no doubt, what touches will produce an indelible effect, when the receiving surface of a child's psyche is so soft and mysteriously laden and momentous with its own raw energy. \u2014 John Updike , New York Times Book Review , 4 Dec. 1983",
"winning the state basketball championship was our team's most indelible experience",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This indelible , extraordinary show about trans women and gay men gave us a rich perspective on families of choice and their sustaining power during times of emotional, physical, and financial hardship. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"My third indelible moment came not long after the softball game. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"Christensen, wearing the famous suit, imbues Vader with an intimidating physicality made more chilling by James Earl Jones\u2019 indelible voice work. \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 14 June 2022",
"While the United States\u2019 involvement in Vietnam was already coming to an end (all troops would leave the country by 1973), the image became an indelible symbol of the horrors of war. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 June 2022",
"In 2010, the peak of an indelible pop era that brought us Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and so much more glorious pop, who else would launch a big-band ensemble, complete with a horn section, that blended soul, R&B, blues and Southern rock",
"Even if Lady Macbeth appears in substantially fewer scenes than her husband, her cunning mind \u2014 and Negga\u2019s command of Shakespeare\u2019s verse \u2014 leave an indelible imprint. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"Using Murray\u2019s own words and excavating the personal history that informed the distinguished lawyer, poet, priest, and writer, Cohen and West have crafted an indelible portrait of a figure who deserves to be better known. \u2014 Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"The music unfolded rhythmically as drummer SimiSho churned out precise 8 note grooves over the distinctive synthesizer phrases while Gyoshi\u2019s biting guitar solo embellished the indelible number. \u2014 Billboard Japan, Billboard , 23 May 2022"
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"the indelicacy of their dinner conversation made the other guests wince in embarrassment",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Trump era is one of indelicacy , profanity, and real\u2014not imagined\u2014misogyny, and its flacks deserve a language that matches up. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 5 June 2018",
"Trump added, seemingly referring to the indelicacy of directly attacking a war hero who is fighting brain cancer. \u2014 Callum Borchers, Washington Post , 28 Feb. 2018",
"These are only some of the indelicacies that have issued forth from Trump\u2019s mouth: But the current era of political obscenity also must be put in historical context. \u2014 Jeet Heer, New Republic , 8 June 2017"
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"Many consider it indelicate to talk about such things in mixed company.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And oversteer never feels more than an indelicate throttle-prod away, especially on damp roads and with modest tires. \u2014 Tim Pitt, Robb Report , 31 May 2022",
"Noom is hardly the only company to be accused of indelicate messaging. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 1 Feb. 2022",
"It has been estimated that at least a million limericks \u2014 good, mediocre and indelicate \u2014 are in existence today. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Dec. 2021",
"The loss of Lawrence is a huge blow, but at the risk of sounding indelicate , Lawrence was the unit\u2019s best player last season and how did that turn out",
"For example, someone who remains calm and refrains from using indelicate words in high-pressure situations gives off a feeling of control even when those around them are losing their heads. \u2014 Jon Michail, Forbes , 4 Mar. 2021",
"There is her decadence and indelicate sense of fancy; her fascination with animals and with bodies, both otherworldly and profane. \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 21 Dec. 2020",
"At first, Louisa had been horrified by the clumsy, indelicate house, though her horror was silent. \u2014 Susan Choi, The New Yorker , 31 Aug. 2020",
"Some in Fall River are less than excited to be known as Lizzietown or Bordenville or any number of indelicate nicknames. \u2014 Andrea Simakis, cleveland , 20 Oct. 2019"
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"Many consider it indelicate to talk about such things in mixed company.",
"the company considered his indelicate handling of such a personal matter to be unprofessional",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And oversteer never feels more than an indelicate throttle-prod away, especially on damp roads and with modest tires. \u2014 Tim Pitt, Robb Report , 31 May 2022",
"Noom is hardly the only company to be accused of indelicate messaging. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 1 Feb. 2022",
"It has been estimated that at least a million limericks \u2014 good, mediocre and indelicate \u2014 are in existence today. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Dec. 2021",
"The loss of Lawrence is a huge blow, but at the risk of sounding indelicate , Lawrence was the unit\u2019s best player last season and how did that turn out",
"For example, someone who remains calm and refrains from using indelicate words in high-pressure situations gives off a feeling of control even when those around them are losing their heads. \u2014 Jon Michail, Forbes , 4 Mar. 2021",
"There is her decadence and indelicate sense of fancy; her fascination with animals and with bodies, both otherworldly and profane. \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 21 Dec. 2020",
"At first, Louisa had been horrified by the clumsy, indelicate house, though her horror was silent. \u2014 Susan Choi, The New Yorker , 31 Aug. 2020",
"Some in Fall River are less than excited to be known as Lizzietown or Bordenville or any number of indelicate nicknames. \u2014 Andrea Simakis, cleveland , 20 Oct. 2019"
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"that insurance company is known to be slow when processing claims for indemnification",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The agreements include a broad indemnification provision that the insurer said would not be covered under its policy. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 June 2022",
"Deveney also requested indemnification for any legal action taken against her as a city employee and asked the city to refrain from disparaging her and not disclose the circumstances of her resignation. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"The legislature can give what is called indemnification to UHSAA, meaning compensation for any expenses from a lawsuit. \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The indemnification must be paid into a court account within 72 hours. \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Cox has argued for indemnification , as has Speaker of the House Brad Wilson. \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Mar. 2022",
"His attorneys are seeking to invoke the indemnification clause of his producer contract, which would force Smith and the production entity to assume liability for all legal claims and pay Baldwin\u2019s defense costs. \u2014 Gene Maddaus, Variety , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Furthermore, enterprises can leverage the indemnification provided by their cybersecurity provider in lieu of getting their own cyber insurance coverage. \u2014 Emil Sayegh, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The indemnification deal was classified until it was finally made public in 2012. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Jan. 2022"
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"in-\u02ccdem-n\u0259-f\u0259-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n",
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"Again, let's look at auto insurance, which indemnifies the holder against loss. If a policy-holder's car is wrecked, the insurance company sends him a check for the value of the car \u2026 \u2014 John Steele Gordon , American Heritage , May\u2013June 1992",
"We moved quickly, and the House approved an appropriation of $60,000 to indemnify Hamilton Jordan for his legal fees. \u2014 Tip O'Neill , in Man of the House , 1987",
"Likewise, the \"sexagenarians law,\" which freed slaves over 60 years old, required those slaves to indemnify their masters, as did nearly every act of manumission. \u2014 Shepard Foreman , New York Times Book Review , 2 Nov. 1986",
"the company generously indemnifies workers who are injured on the job",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The installation must meet all applicable codes, the homeowner can be required to indemnify the HOA from any loss or damage arising from the system and to maintain, replace or repair the roofs under the system. \u2014 Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"North Korea had completed some of the requirements for accepting Covax deliveries, but there were ongoing negotiations on whether North Korea is willing to indemnify the vaccine manufacturer against unexpected side effects. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2022",
"According to a summary filed in court on March 1, the court has ordered the Rochester Hills Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership, where the incident occurred, to indemnify Diaz-Navarro if he is found liable of negligence. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 7 May 2022",
"Please like, subscribe, indemnify and hold blameless. \u2014 John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Needless to say, the humanitarian agencies that are sometimes the only point of contact with the buffer\u2019s populations of concern are in no position to indemnify multibillion-dollar corporations for unlimited amounts of liability. \u2014 Seth Berkley, STAT , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Logan said the company was never fully paid for the audit, nor did the Senate indemnify the company as was required by the company's contract. \u2014 Derek Gilliam, The Arizona Republic , 8 Jan. 2022",
"To allow Covid-19 vaccine doses to be sent to any country, manufacturers require governments to indemnify them against any liability in the extremely rare cases where people might suffer injury from the vaccine. \u2014 Seth Berkley, STAT , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The city is asking a judge to enforce the provision in the operating agreements that calls for the companies to indemnify the city against any damages and to pay the city\u2019s costs to defend any lawsuits generated by the scooters. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Nov. 2021"
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"1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"examples":[
"an agreement providing indemnity against prosecution",
"has paid $2 million in indemnities",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The state paid Fairchild Whitetails $298,000 in indemnity . \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 27 May 2022",
"Protection and indemnity , meanwhile, covers against liability from third parties, as in the cases of collision or pollution. \u2014 Julie Steinberg, WSJ , 7 May 2022",
"The side that lost would, in the course of negotiations, cede a border march or a colony to the victor or pay an indemnity . \u2014 Mark Antonio Wright, National Review , 26 May 2022",
"Details are unclear, since the companies are still arguing with each other over an indemnity agreement. \u2014 Ed Silverman, STAT , 14 May 2022",
"To help bring down the cost, the groups offer guidance on maximizing all sorts of arcane systems, from hotel rewards to credit-card points to hospital indemnity insurance. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
"Wouldn't Chicago have been smart to take an indemnity deal and reveal the truths of Burge's conduct much earlier, Bell wondered. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Nineteen of the 37 have been depopulated and indemnity paid to the owners. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Producers who want to ensure eligibility for government indemnity payments in case of disaster must have a biosecurity protocol on hand that is updated regularly. \u2014 David Pitt, ajc , 15 Feb. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"in-\u02c8dem-n\u0259-t\u0113",
"in-\u02c8dem-n\u0259t-\u0113"
],
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"compensation",
"damages",
"indemnification",
"quittance",
"recompense",
"recoupment",
"redress",
"remuneration",
"reparation",
"reprisal(s)",
"requital",
"restitution",
"satisfaction"
],
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"noun"
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"noun"
]
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"\u00a6in+"
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"noun"
]
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": incapable of being demonstrated : not subject to proof":[]
},
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"1570, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"(\u02cc)in-\u02c8de-m\u0259n-str\u0259-",
"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8m\u00e4n(t)-str\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113636",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
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": a certificate issued by the U.S. at the close of the American Revolution for the principal or interest on the public debt":[],
": a purchase order for goods especially when sent from a foreign country":[],
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": indenture":[],
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": the blank space produced by indenting : indention":[
"Begin each paragraph with an indent .",
"a half-inch indent"
],
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": to draw on":[],
": to draw up (something, such as a deed) in two or more exactly corresponding copies":[],
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": to form a dent in":[],
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": to make a formal or express agreement":[],
": to make a requisition on":[],
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},
"examples":[],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 5a":"Verb",
"1596, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English endenten , from en- + denten to dent":"Verb",
"Middle English, from Anglo-French endenter , from en- + dent tooth, from Latin dent-, dens \u2014 more at tooth":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8in-\u02ccdent",
"in-\u02c8dent"
],
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"chip",
"hack",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"kerf",
"nick",
"notch"
],
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"bulge",
"camber",
"convexity",
"jut",
"projection",
"protrusion",
"protuberance"
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": a usually deep recess (as along a coastline)":[
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],
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"indentations along the edge of a leaf"
],
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"\u2014 Carole Sugarman"
],
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],
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],
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"indentation of a line of text",
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]
},
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"Our style guidelines call for indentation of the first line of each paragraph.",
"a coastline with many indentations",
"There were several small indentations in the surface of the table.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Make a small dimple in the center of the patty\u2014this indentation will prevent your burger from puffing up like a balloon, ensuring an even and picturesque patty. \u2014 Mehreen Karim, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
"If the indentation remains, the dough is underworked. \u2014 Minerva Ordu\u00f1o Rinc\u00f3n, The Arizona Republic , 6 June 2022",
"There are numerous versions, including some that have a D-shaped indentation in the middle for your head, and others that are horseshoe-shaped. \u2014 Angela Haupt, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"Use your thumb to make a small indentation in the center of each patty. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 25 May 2022",
"Next to the body was a suede ottoman with a slight indentation . \u2014 Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Make a small indentation in the center of the spinach and crack an egg directly into it. \u2014 Jessica Battilana, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Videos verified by The Washington Post show extensive damage, as well as flames and plumes of smoke rising up from a large indentation in the middle of the building. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Press each one down slightly to make a mini burger patty, pressing in the center slightly to make an indentation . \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 13 Feb. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
},
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"\u02ccin-\u02ccden-\u02c8t\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"cavity",
"concavity",
"dent",
"depression",
"dint",
"hole",
"hollow",
"indenture",
"pit",
"recess"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164450",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 5a":"Verb",
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"Middle English endenten , from en- + denten to dent":"Verb",
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"in-\u02c8dent",
"\u02c8in-\u02ccdent"
],
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"notch"
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"verb"
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"antonyms":[],
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"indented (past participle of indent entry 3 ) + -ly":""
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": a tool used to make a physical impression or indentation":[
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"\u2014 Alexandra Goho"
],
": something (such as a device or software function) that indents a text or document":[
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"\u2014 Steve Oualline"
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"1876, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"2000, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"in-\u02c8den-t\u0259r"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103122",
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"noun"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One side of the fun collaboration will feature traditional Cheez-Its, which are mini salted cheese crackers with tiny indentions in the middle of each one. \u2014 Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY , 24 July 2019",
"But all of the hats had one thing in common: an indention carved into the bottom, which matches the rounded top of the statues' heads. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 5 June 2018",
"On each of the 50 hats Hixon and his colleagues studied, a stone rim lined the edge of the indention , and its presence provides the final piece of the puzzle. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 5 June 2018",
"Heise also testified that a indention found about 5 feet high in the wall across from Adrian\u2019s crib was determined to contain Adrian\u2019s DNA. \u2014 Deanna Boyd, star-telegram.com , 12 June 2017",
"This particular container also features unique grooves and indentions , which easily turns it into the focal point. \u2014 Lauren Smith, House Beautiful , 22 May 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1763, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
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"camber",
"convexity",
"jut",
"projection",
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"protuberance"
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": a document stating the terms under which a security (such as a bond) is issued":[],
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": a formal or official document usually executed in two or more copies":[],
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": to bind (someone, such as an apprentice) by or as if by indentures":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the dropped hammer left an indenture in the floor",
"made a small indenture to mark the spot where the plank was to be sawed",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Although most terms of indenture lasted for as long as seven years, de Sousa earned his freedom in 1638 by learning to be a fur trader and a sailor. \u2014 Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 11 June 2021",
"Chatterton was accused of plagiarism and soon lost his indenture . \u2014 Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's Magazine , 25 May 2021",
"Possibly the most glaring effect of Haskell\u2019s absence lies in Inej\u2019s indenture . \u2014 Devon Maloney, Vulture , 23 Apr. 2021",
"In this new version, Kaz is personally paying off her indenture in installments, meaning that she\u2019s technically still owned by Tante Heleen, the madam of the Menagerie. \u2014 Devon Maloney, Vulture , 23 Apr. 2021",
"People who are held at the Menagerie are forced to get a tattoo of a peacock feather, which Inej scrapes off the moment Kaz pays off Heleen to end her indenture , thereby freeing her. \u2014 Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2021",
"The exhibit also displays the indenture of the Native woman Alice Sachemus to the Otis family. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 Apr. 2021",
"And that is the way in which the European Union indentures British liberty and democracy. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 29 Oct. 2019",
"Aurelius and the trustee, U.S. Bank National Association, say the deal constituted a sale and leaseback transaction, which was prohibited by the indenture on the notes. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Feb. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"On their land, the colonists built plantations, fortified them, and brought in enslaved Africans and indentured Europeans to produce tobacco for the emerging world market and to defend the territory militarily. \u2014 Ol\u00faf\u1eb9\u0301mi T\u00e1\u00edw\u00f2, The New Republic , 3 Apr. 2020",
"He's indentured to a bunch of redneck fur trappers, scouring the ground for anything edible. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral , 11 Mar. 2020",
"Oil could change Guyana as radically as did sugar, which brought African slaves in the 18th century and indentured labourers from India in the 19th. \u2014 The Economist , 27 Feb. 2020",
"The clause should be read, Sumner held, as referring to apprentices, convicts, and indentured servants. \u2014 Timothy Sandefur, National Review , 12 Sep. 2019",
"During the next two centuries, New England Indians also suffered indentured servitude, convict labor, and debt peonage, which often resulted in the enslavement of the debtor\u2019s children. \u2014 Philip Deloria, The New Yorker , 18 Nov. 2019",
"Her grandparents were indentured servants who worked six days a week, 16-hours a day on sugar plantations. \u2014 Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know , 26 Oct. 2019",
"For this reason, some commentators have likened the H-1B program to indentured servitude. \u2014 Noah Smith, The Denver Post , 22 Oct. 2019",
"Along the way, they are held captive by a mad farmer who treats them as quasi family and indentured servants, visit homeless camps and meet train-hopping hobos. \u2014 Oline Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com , 16 Sep. 2019"
],
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},
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"in-\u02c8den-ch\u0259r"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163759",
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},
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"antonyms":[
"dependence",
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"She asserted her independence from her parents by getting her own apartment.",
"He has shown a fierce independence of spirit.",
"A month after independence , elections were held.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The revival of Irish trad music went mainstream in the 1960s, emblematic of a new national pride in this still young nation, which this year marks 100 years of independence . \u2014 Maureen O'hare And Richard Quest, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"The film turns into an extended piece of psychological warfare between a chipper mad scientist and his lab rats, as Jeff rediscovers a spark of independence , helped by another prisoner named Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett). \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 20 June 2022",
"John Adams anticipated the celebration of independence would occur on July 2nd every year. \u2014 Maggie Horton, Country Living , 10 June 2022",
"Besides gaining new friends, Coleman is looking forward to her first taste of independence and learning more about herself. \u2014 Steve Smith, Hartford Courant , 9 June 2022",
"The vehicle also found the wrecks of a colonial boat and a schooner thought to date to some 200 years ago, to the period shortly after Colombia\u2019s war of independence from Spain. \u2014 Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
"The other shipwrecks\u2014a colonial boat and a schooner\u2014are thought to date back to Colombia\u2019s war of independence from Spain, which took place more than 200 years ago. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 8 June 2022",
"The loss of the commons was, for women, a loss of independence . \u2014 Eula Biss, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
"The offensive group knows BYU\u2019s success in its final year of independence will be placed on their shoulders; the Cougars\u2019 defense is young, a unit that is likely a year away from truly being consistent. \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022"
],
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"1640, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8pen-d\u0259ns",
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"self-sufficiency",
"self-support"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081417",
"type":[
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"dependence",
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"heteronomy",
"subjection",
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": the Independent polity or movement":[]
},
"examples":[
"adolescence is typically an awkward time for young people, as they are making the difficult transition from the dependency of childhood to the independency of adulthood",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet the careful reader will appreciate the significance of the Puritan Cromwell\u2019s independency . \u2014 Barton Swaim, WSJ , 27 Dec. 2021",
"His seemingly daily attacks on freedom of speech, the independency of the judiciary, the right to vote and other pillars of our constitutional system are bolstered by an intensely loyal fan base. \u2014 Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8pen-d\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
],
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"autonomy",
"freedom",
"independence",
"liberty",
"self-determination",
"self-governance",
"self-government",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023300",
"type":[
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": a sectarian of an English religious movement for congregational autonomy originating in the late 16th century, giving rise to Congregationalists, Baptists, and Friends, and forming one of the major political groupings of the period of Cromwell":[],
": being enough to free one from the necessity of working for a living":[
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": of or relating to the Independents":[],
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]
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"The country recently became independent .",
"They have a good deal of independent authority.",
"She has an independent income.",
"Another laboratory has provided independent confirmation of the test results.",
"She is a very independent person.",
"She has an independent mind.",
"They lead an independent life.",
"Noun",
"She registered to vote as an Independent .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Boeing and some independent safety experts argue that the existing system has been proved safe over decades of use in the 737 family. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Regulators followed the recommendation of independent experts on an advisory panel, who voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of both vaccines. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"This comes after the FDA's committee of independent experts voted to recommend the Moderna vaccine for kids under 6, which is a two-dose vaccine, and the Pfizer vaccine for kids under 5, which is a three-dose vaccine, on Wednesday. \u2014 Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News , 17 June 2022",
"The independent experts reviewed data on Moderna's vaccine for infants 6 months old to children under the age of 6 years and Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine for infants 6 months to children under 5 years. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
"The group of independent experts voted 13-0 that the benefits of Bluebird\u2019s gene therapy outweigh its risks for patients with beta-thalassemia, a disease that leads to severe anemia and requires patients to undergo frequent blood transfusions. \u2014 Damian Garde, STAT , 13 June 2022",
"As part of the settlement, independent experts will review Google\u2019s hiring practices and pay equity studies. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"The actress also finished work on an independent movie titled In the Fire right before the trial began in April. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 31 May 2022",
"Shot four years ago in Wisconsin, the independent movie isn't a franchise, doesn't have big-name Hollywood stars and isn't in any way connected to a comic book. \u2014 Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Al Gross, an orthopedic surgeon who ran as an independent , was in third place after the June primary but dropped out with no notice and little explanation, and Alaska\u2019s top court ruled that the fifth-place primary finisher could not replace him. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 30 June 2022",
"Filippi was first elected as an independent in November 2014 to represent House District House District 36, which includes all of Block Island and Charlestown, and portions of Westerly and South Kingstown. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Holmoe and Sitake spoke to those overarching topics at BYU\u2019s final media day as an independent . \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Brown played a particularly crucial role in the 2006 race when Lieberman ran as an independent , said Matthew J. Hennessy, a longtime Hartford political operative and Brown\u2019s son-in-law. \u2014 Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant , 21 June 2022",
"Another candidate who could advance to the general is Gross, running as an independent . \u2014 Hannah Demissie, ABC News , 10 June 2022",
"Schultz ultimately abandoned that plan, concluding that running as an independent might make Trump more likely to win reelection. \u2014 Dan Alexander, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Walt Featherly, a former Anchorage School Board president who works as the top attorney for the Southwest Alaska Native regional corporation Calista, is running as an independent . \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"Enter Michael Shellenberger, 50, a former Democrat running for governor as an independent . \u2014 Allysia Finley, WSJ , 9 May 2022"
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"1644, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for independent Adjective free , independent , sovereign , autonomous mean not subject to the rule or control of another. free stresses the complete absence of external rule and the full right to make all of one's own decisions. you're free to do as you like independent implies a standing alone; applied to a state it implies lack of connection with any other having power to interfere with its citizens, laws, or policies. the colony's struggle to become independent sovereign stresses the absence of a superior power and implies supremacy within a thing's own domain or sphere. separate and sovereign armed services autonomous stresses independence in matters pertaining to self-government. in this denomination each congregation is regarded as autonomous",
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"self-subsistent",
"self-subsisting",
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"self-supported",
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"self-sustained",
"self-sustaining"
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": a mathematical variable that is independent of the other variables in an expression or function and whose value determines one or more of the values of the other variables":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Moreover, because price is the primary independent variable in a listing, the short time spent on the market suggests that sellers priced right. \u2014 John Walkup, Forbes , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Vaccine uptake is the dependent variable and trust in EU institutions is the independent variable . \u2014 Lutz Finger, Forbes , 6 May 2021",
"But hoarding is a dependent variable, as the economists would say, while the independent variable , that is, the factor causing the hoarding, was supply uncertainty or more prosaically, fear. \u2014 Michael Lynch, Forbes , 11 Mar. 2021",
"This property, where the change in value of a variable (its derivative) is proportional to itself for a unit change in an independent variable , is characteristic of an exponential curve. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 17 Jan. 2020",
"So awareness is something that's the independent variable . \u2014 CBS News , 26 June 2019",
"But since the league tables themselves are one of its main determinants, reputation is not an obviously independent variable . \u2014 The Economist , 17 May 2018",
"Whatever variation remains driven by independent variables of interest suggests a protest vote. \u2014 Elizabeth R. Nugent, Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2018",
"The only real deficit comes on the glass; the defensive rebounding issues that plagued Atlanta for years followed Horford to Boston, isolating the independent variable involved. \u2014 Ben Golliver And Rob Mahoney, SI.com , 13 Sep. 2017"
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"The country recently became independent .",
"They have a good deal of independent authority.",
"She has an independent income.",
"Another laboratory has provided independent confirmation of the test results.",
"She is a very independent person.",
"She has an independent mind.",
"They lead an independent life.",
"Noun",
"She registered to vote as an Independent .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Boeing and some independent safety experts argue that the existing system has been proved safe over decades of use in the 737 family. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Regulators followed the recommendation of independent experts on an advisory panel, who voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of both vaccines. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"This comes after the FDA's committee of independent experts voted to recommend the Moderna vaccine for kids under 6, which is a two-dose vaccine, and the Pfizer vaccine for kids under 5, which is a three-dose vaccine, on Wednesday. \u2014 Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News , 17 June 2022",
"The independent experts reviewed data on Moderna's vaccine for infants 6 months old to children under the age of 6 years and Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine for infants 6 months to children under 5 years. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
"The group of independent experts voted 13-0 that the benefits of Bluebird\u2019s gene therapy outweigh its risks for patients with beta-thalassemia, a disease that leads to severe anemia and requires patients to undergo frequent blood transfusions. \u2014 Damian Garde, STAT , 13 June 2022",
"As part of the settlement, independent experts will review Google\u2019s hiring practices and pay equity studies. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"The actress also finished work on an independent movie titled In the Fire right before the trial began in April. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 31 May 2022",
"Shot four years ago in Wisconsin, the independent movie isn't a franchise, doesn't have big-name Hollywood stars and isn't in any way connected to a comic book. \u2014 Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Al Gross, an orthopedic surgeon who ran as an independent , was in third place after the June primary but dropped out with no notice and little explanation, and Alaska\u2019s top court ruled that the fifth-place primary finisher could not replace him. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 30 June 2022",
"Filippi was first elected as an independent in November 2014 to represent House District House District 36, which includes all of Block Island and Charlestown, and portions of Westerly and South Kingstown. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Holmoe and Sitake spoke to those overarching topics at BYU\u2019s final media day as an independent . \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Brown played a particularly crucial role in the 2006 race when Lieberman ran as an independent , said Matthew J. Hennessy, a longtime Hartford political operative and Brown\u2019s son-in-law. \u2014 Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant , 21 June 2022",
"Another candidate who could advance to the general is Gross, running as an independent . \u2014 Hannah Demissie, ABC News , 10 June 2022",
"Schultz ultimately abandoned that plan, concluding that running as an independent might make Trump more likely to win reelection. \u2014 Dan Alexander, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Walt Featherly, a former Anchorage School Board president who works as the top attorney for the Southwest Alaska Native regional corporation Calista, is running as an independent . \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"Enter Michael Shellenberger, 50, a former Democrat running for governor as an independent . \u2014 Allysia Finley, WSJ , 9 May 2022"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for independent Adjective free , independent , sovereign , autonomous mean not subject to the rule or control of another. free stresses the complete absence of external rule and the full right to make all of one's own decisions. you're free to do as you like independent implies a standing alone; applied to a state it implies lack of connection with any other having power to interfere with its citizens, laws, or policies. the colony's struggle to become independent sovereign stresses the absence of a superior power and implies supremacy within a thing's own domain or sphere. separate and sovereign armed services autonomous stresses independence in matters pertaining to self-government. in this denomination each congregation is regarded as autonomous",
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"self-subsistent",
"self-subsisting",
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": a mineral CaMgB 6 O 11 .11H 2 O consisting of a hydrous borate of calcium and magnesium":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Russian inderborit , from Lake Inder , Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R., its locality + Russian bor- + -it -ite":""
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"\u02ccind\u0259r\u02c8b\u014d\u02ccr\u012bt",
"-b\u022f\u02cc-"
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": a mineral Mg 2 B 6 O 11 .15H 2 O consisting of a hydrous borate of magnesium":[]
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"Russian inderit , from Lake Inder , Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R., its locality + Russian -it -ite":""
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]
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"examples":[
"the indescribable immensity of Mount Everest",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And living with young babies has been indescribable ; their energy has affected me in the most beautiful ways. \u2014 Kristian Fanene Schmidt, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"There's something about the luxury of a hotel brunch that's indescribable . \u2014 Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure , 14 June 2022",
"Overcoming the intensity of cold water also brings an indescribable joy. \u2014 Anna Brones, Outside Online , 1 Oct. 2021",
"But even without that climactic thrill, the scenery alone would have been worth the price of admission, as DP Simone D\u2019Arcangelo elevates the somewhat grubby cinematography with shots of indescribable beauty. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Dean foresaw the Covid-19 catastrophe, thanks to an indescribable sixth sense from a childhood spent reading about past outbreaks. \u2014 Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Lee Bey, an adjunct professor of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, said the look of the kitchen was almost indescribable . \u2014 New York Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"From your typical boy-meets-girl and sparks fly scenario to the less common tale of girl-loses-boy and obsesses over how to get him back before it\u2019s too late, certain films just have a special way of conveying the indescribable . \u2014 Essence , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Today, as devices ever-more-sneakily blur the real and unreal, our cultural nightmares have turned toward the indescribable evils of A24 movies and constant paranoia about living in a simulation. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 11 Jan. 2022"
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"1751, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8skr\u012b-b\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"incommunicable",
"indefinable",
"ineffable",
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"nameless",
"uncommunicable",
"unspeakable",
"unutterable"
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"\"",
"\u0259n",
"(\u02c8)in+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071314",
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"destructible",
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"perishable"
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": incapable of being destroyed, ruined, or rendered ineffective":[]
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"examples":[
"diamonds are widely considered to be indestructible because they are one of the hardest known substances",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These annuals are nearly indestructible , surviving heat and dry spells and blooming nonstop from planting until a hard frost. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living , 26 May 2022",
"The indestructible Clint Eastwood, who boasts of the longest career of any major Hollywood star in history, hit it big in 1964 but by 1986 was playing a cantankerous old gunnery sergeant in Heartbreak Ridge and ... \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 1 June 2022",
"The sale closes June 7, so those who want to protect literature\u2014and own an indestructible piece of literary history\u2014still have time to throw their hat in the ring. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 24 May 2022",
"Eventually, Samsung wisened up and now their Galaxy line is rather indestructible . \u2014 Chris Hachey, BGR , 13 May 2022",
"The polyethylene grass itself is virtually indestructible . \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 30 Apr. 2022",
"And unlike nonstick and stainless steel pans, cast iron is virtually indestructible . \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"These are a different sort of memento mori: Plastic is cheap and perishable, yet at the molecular level nearly indestructible . \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Ombraz has a few models, all of which feature the same technology and are billed as nearly indestructible and prime for adventures like paddling, biking, and climbing. \u2014 Graham Averill, Outside Online , 22 Jan. 2021"
],
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"1667, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8str\u0259k-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
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": being one of the seven undefined mathematical expressions {latex}\\frac{0}{0}, \\frac{\\infty}{\\infty}, \\infty \\cdot 0, 1^{\\infty}, 0^{0}, \\infty^{0}, \\infty - \\infty{/latex}":[],
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"an indeterminate number of people",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If Butler looks elsewhere, the pool of candidates would be large and indeterminate . \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 1 Apr. 2022",
"For everyday grime, these tough problem solvers can tackle yesterday's muddy feet, a case of jam hands, and that smudge of indeterminate origin. \u2014 Better Homes & Gardens , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Look for a dedicated tomato-growing container, or a 20 gallon container that is at least 18 inches wide (or 24 inches for indeterminate tomatoes). \u2014 Christopher Michel, Country Living , 19 Apr. 2021",
"Gramsci, by contrast, burned by his experiences in Turin, viewed politics as a more indeterminate field of battle. \u2014 Thomas Meaney, The New Republic , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Results of qualitative tests are either positive, negative or indeterminate for neutralizing antibodies. \u2014 Tasnim Ahmed, CNN , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Vic is a simmering cauldron of repressed rage (and initially indeterminate homicidal tendencies), while de Armas\u2019s Melinda borders on the sociopathic. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Both blood tests must come out positive \u2014 or at least indeterminate \u2014 for a Lyme diagnosis to be made, the agency recommends. \u2014 Zhen Wang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The nightmare that unfolds might have felt dystopian a few short years ago but, made seven months after George Floyd\u2019s killing, the film\u2019s indeterminate timestamp only exacerbates its eventual, no longer futuristic horror. \u2014 Lesley O\u2019toole, Los Angeles Times , 15 Mar. 2022"
],
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"1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"Middle English indeterminat , from Late Latin indeterminatus , from Latin in- + determinatus , past participle of determinare to determine":""
},
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"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8t\u0259rm-(\u0259-)n\u0259t",
"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8t\u0259rm-n\u0259t",
"-\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-"
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": a theory that holds that not every event has a cause":[],
": a theory that the will is free and that deliberate choice and actions are not determined by or predictable from antecedent causes":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Quantum indeterminism implies that for a particular quantum state there are many (possibly infinite) alternative futures or potential realities. \u2014 Paul Davies, Scientific American , 24 Oct. 2014",
"His language is spare, strange, and evocative, with a tugging indeterminism . \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 23 Sep. 2019",
"The characteristic features are indeterminism and uncertainty: fire an electron at an atom and observe it bounce to the right. \u2014 Paul Davies, Slate Magazine , 16 Mar. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1874, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-\u02ccni-z\u0259m"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102448",
"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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},
"examples":[],
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"in- entry 1 + devotion":""
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"type":[
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"antonyms":[],
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": not devout":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English indevout (translation of Late Latin indevotus ), from in- entry 1 + devout":""
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"\u00a6in+"
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"adverb"
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"catalog",
"catalogue",
"enroll",
"enrol",
"enter",
"inscribe",
"list",
"put down",
"record",
"register",
"schedule",
"slate"
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": a character \u261e used to direct attention to a note or paragraph":[],
": a device (such as the pointer on a scale or the gnomon of a sundial) that serves to indicate a value or quantity":[],
": a list (as of bibliographical information or citations to a body of literature) arranged usually in alphabetical order of some specified datum (such as author, subject, or keyword): such as":[],
": a list of items (such as topics or names) treated in a printed work that gives for each item the page number where it may be found":[],
": a list of publicly traded companies and their stock prices":[],
": a number or symbol or expression (such as an exponent) associated with another to indicate a mathematical operation to be performed or to indicate use or position in an arrangement":[
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": something (such as a physical feature or a mode of expression) that leads one to a particular fact or conclusion : indication":[],
": the ratio of one dimension of a thing (such as an anatomical structure) to another dimension":[],
": thumb index":[],
": to index something":[],
": to list in an index":[
"all persons and places mentioned are carefully indexed"
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": to provide with an index":[],
": to regulate (wages, prices, interest rates, etc.) by indexation":[],
": to serve as an index of":[]
},
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"Noun",
"Look up the recipe for potato soup in the index .",
"Potato soup is listed under \u201csoup\u201d in the index .",
"The card catalog is an index to the materials in the library.",
"the index on a scale",
"Verb",
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"Yes, the choice was limited, but so was selection risk due to the offerings\u2019 index -like nature. \u2014 Joshua Strange, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The purchase index held steady, rising 0.1 percent. \u2014 Kathy Orton, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"The benchmark index has been on a dismal streak that dragged it into a bear market earlier this month and is now down 20% for the year. \u2014 Alex Viega, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
"The stock market might be in the doldrums, but the biotechnology index has fallen off a cliff. \u2014 David Wainer, WSJ , 30 June 2022",
"Comparatively, Panama is the least stressful country with a positive index score of 85. \u2014 Terry Collins, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
"For investors, that means the S&P 500 could drop another 10% from current levels, leaving the blue-chip index at a year-end value of 3,450. \u2014 Will Daniel, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"The index measures hospital social responsibility as a composite of 53 metrics across patient outcomes, value of care, and health equity. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"The consumer confidence index for June dropped to 98.7 from May\u2019s revised reading of 103.2, which was adjusted downward by more than 3 points. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 28 June 2022",
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"Most states with graduated income tax rates index their income tax brackets for inflation. \u2014 Patrick Gleason, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Currently, 13 states do not index their income tax brackets to inflation, mostly in the South and Mid-Atlantic regions. \u2014 Adam A. Millsap, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The 1940 census records were released a decade ago, but the federal government didn't transcribe and index the names. \u2014 Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Congress should ultimately index unemployment benefits nationwide, but in the short run, states must take the lead. \u2014 Jonathan Ingram, WSJ , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The original plan was a nonstarter for too many members, but a small group of senators is working on a proposal to index the price of a select number of drugs. \u2014 Lauren Fox And Phil Mattingly, CNN , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Republicans insisted on no change to corporate tax rates; the Biden Administration and congressional Democrats adamantly opposed proposals to index the gas tax or enact fees on electric vehicles. \u2014 Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker , 24 June 2021",
"In 1983, William Foege, the agency\u2019s director at the time, advised Congress to index a portion of total health care spending and reserve it for public health. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2021",
"After 2022, the order will also index the $15 minimum wage for federal contractors to inflation, so it will be automatically adjusted to reflect changes in the cost of living going forward. \u2014 Fin G\u00f3mez, CBS News , 27 Apr. 2021"
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"Irene Brady Barber showed participants in a therapy session at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens how to use their index finger to measure before cutting succulents for a horticultural therapy session project. \u2014 Nicole Cammorata, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
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"In these days of over- indexation and overwrought algorithmic trading, the strongest players of a sector often soar and crash along with its weakest, depending on the latest investment fad. \u2014 Roger Conrad, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Else, it will be treated as long-term investments with a 20% tax with indexation benefit, meaning purchase price adjusted for inflation index. \u2014 Mimansa Verma, Quartz , 19 Jan. 2022",
"One vestige is indexation , under which the country links costs such as wages to inflation to protect the purchasing power of companies and average Brazilians in the midst of spiraling prices. \u2014 Samantha Pearson, WSJ , 11 Dec. 2021",
"Second, there\u2019s not only less Russian pipe capacity but long-term contracts with Russia are less flexible, after buyers exchanged upward flexibility for spot indexation . \u2014 Wood Mackenzie, Forbes , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Contracts got shorter, oil indexation fell from 16%, near oil parity, to below 11% in recent years, and buyers\u2019 portfolios took on a higher proportion of spot LNG. \u2014 Wood Mackenzie, Forbes , 14 Oct. 2021",
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"After a while, Trump will refocus on the one lever solely under his control: indexation of capital gains. \u2014 Grover Norquist, Twin Cities , 29 Aug. 2019"
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"Lunsford said this could indicate that the fireball survived down towards the lower atmosphere and could have produced meteorites. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 29 June 2022",
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"Cannabis may be competing with craft beer on the holiday weekend as nearly 40% of those polled indicate summer celebrations where craft beer is typically consumed alongside cannabis. \u2014 Iris Dorbian, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"As growth continues, Abbott hopes to avoid the shortcomings of the Seaport, where projections indicate billions of dollars in new development could face routine flooding. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"Advocacy organizations indicate the attack in Los Angeles points to a larger pattern of violence against Asian Americans -- regardless of whether police determine the assault is a hate crime. \u2014 Natasha Chen And Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Marine biologists speculated that the whup and grumble sounds of humpback whales at Vema Seamount may indicate the location\u2019s importance to the whales, who were also observed making previously unheard gunshot sounds. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022"
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"Lunsford said this could indicate that the fireball survived down towards the lower atmosphere and could have produced meteorites. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 29 June 2022",
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"Cannabis may be competing with craft beer on the holiday weekend as nearly 40% of those polled indicate summer celebrations where craft beer is typically consumed alongside cannabis. \u2014 Iris Dorbian, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"As growth continues, Abbott hopes to avoid the shortcomings of the Seaport, where projections indicate billions of dollars in new development could face routine flooding. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"Advocacy organizations indicate the attack in Los Angeles points to a larger pattern of violence against Asian Americans -- regardless of whether police determine the assault is a hate crime. \u2014 Natasha Chen And Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Marine biologists speculated that the whup and grumble sounds of humpback whales at Vema Seamount may indicate the location\u2019s importance to the whales, who were also observed making previously unheard gunshot sounds. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022"
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"If her debut studio album\u2019s title is any indication , Karol G is unstoppable. \u2014 Jessica Roiz, Billboard , 25 June 2022",
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"What\u2019s out there in terms of material that people have seen is pretty indicative that this is a very robust and fair film. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 30 June 2022",
"In an afternoon briefing, Chinese officials said the decision to change measures was not indicative of reopening but based on the omicron variant\u2019s shorter incubation period. \u2014 Karina Tsui, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Gaglioti has seen years when a quarter or more of the trees showed the dark ring indicative of a tough winter. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
"For a Saturday morning children\u2019s show, the number of rising stars who passed through Pee-wee\u2019s Playhouse is a marvel \u2014 and indicative of just how developed an eye Paul Reubens had for spotting emerging talent. \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 June 2022",
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"Fractal\u2019s success and growth is an interesting story in itself, and indicative of how important analytics and AI have become to large organizations. \u2014 Tom Davenport, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"Lamenting his inability to spend more time with his lover, as well as wishing for the means to stop time in its tracks, Cuco delivers the wistful, sentimental lyrics in a languid manner indicative of his humanly limitations. \u2014 Jason Lipshutz, Billboard , 31 May 2022",
"The Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress recalled the indicative moment during a Women in Motion conversation with Variety and Kering at the 75th Cannes Film Festival earlier this week. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 20 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That includes on social media, where his posts are part public relations campaign, his relative ease on camera indicative of his many years under bright lights in a boxing ring. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Jones said that taking out a word or phrase indicative of prostitution didn\u2019t change the fact that the overall ad was for prostitution. \u2014 Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic , 4 Sep. 2021",
"Sacrificing knowledge of a partner\u2019s appearance, the reasoning goes, is an act indicative of an openhearted and honorable spirit. \u2014 New York Times , 19 July 2021",
"Is Australia\u2019s stumble indicative of bigger troubles to come",
"Oregon also disclosed that 11.3% of the tests reported Tuesday were positive, an exceedingly high rate indicative of unchecked community spread. \u2014 oregonlive , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Google Trends is a helpful indicator of search volume for a specific phrase indicative of the demand for a product or service in the world. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 6 July 2021",
"Helix has analyzed nearly half a million positive samples for an anomaly indicative of the B.1.1.7 variant. \u2014 Scott Reinhard, New York Times , 6 Mar. 2021",
"The earlier excavation was done in an area identified by ground-penetrating radar scans as appearing to be a human-dug pit indicative of a mass grave. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Oct. 2020"
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"Economic indicators suggest that prices will go up.",
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"There are indicator lights on the front panel to show when the host computer is connected. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 3 July 2022",
"Water and beach samples at state parks are collected weekly by DEEP staff to analyze for the presence of certain indicator bacterias. \u2014 Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant , 29 June 2022",
"The power indicator will blink a few times, after which the console will power down. \u2014 Toby Grey, BGR , 28 June 2022",
"The pending home sales index, an indicator of home sales based on contract signings, also rose 0.7% on the month to 99.9, the National Association of Realtors said. \u2014 Bryan Mena, WSJ , 27 June 2022",
"Randle also committed to the Longhorns last Sunday following his official visit, an early indicator Manning was leaning toward Texas after his fourth visit to Austin since last summer. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 23 June 2022",
"While a cooler real estate market is by no means an indicator that Redfin is preparing to file for bankruptcy, layoffs at the company are a signal that Redfin\u2019s rapid growth over the past few years might be cooling too. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Some hoods have indicator lights to signal when filters need to be changed. \u2014 Jeanne Huber, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"But the experiences of these elites, who are able to navigate the halls of power\u2014some more successfully than others\u2014are perhaps not the best indicator of the state of gay rights or of the health of our democracy more generally. \u2014 Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic , 8 June 2022"
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"\u02c8in-d\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t-\u0259r",
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"Although the State contends that all four of these young women were traumatized by witnessing this incident, the evidence at trial did not present any objective indicia of trauma. \u2014 NBC News , 25 June 2021",
"No names, likenesses, photographs, or other indicia identifying any person without permission. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 28 Nov. 2020",
"Universal elements and all related indicia TM & \u00a9 2019 Universal Studios. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 23 Oct. 2019",
"An investigation revealed the suspect vehicle was previously stolen from Los Altos and the suspect driver was in possession of Methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and indicia of identity theft. \u2014 Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News , 20 June 2019"
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"The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack appears to be laying out evidence that could allow prosecutors to indict former President Donald J. Trump, though the path to a criminal trial is uncertain. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
"In March, a Houston grand jury chose not to indict the 26-year-old NFL quarterback on nine criminal complaints filed in 2021, the Times reported. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 21 June 2022",
"Even if the House committee reports no indictable offenses, other investigations and lawsuits involving him may well indict , convict, and/or bankrupt him. \u2014 Jim Sleeper, The New Republic , 16 June 2022",
"His testimony had provided enough evidence to indict the five burglars, Hunt and Liddy. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"Solis, who testified in front of the Harris County grand jury, was asked in an interview with HBO recently about why the grand jury didn\u2019t indict . \u2014 Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"Which was part of trying to indict myself near the back end of the special with regards to prison reform and trying to get my friend out of prison without first seeking the permission of the victim\u2019s family that he was convicted of killing. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 5 June 2022",
"Further information developed by investigators this year provided sufficient evidence to indict Lewis, prosecutors said. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"Some demand that the SBC change its doctrines and indict the SBC\u2019s culture as broken. \u2014 R. Albert Mohler, WSJ , 26 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even if the House committee reports no indictable offenses, other investigations and lawsuits involving him may well indict, convict, and/or bankrupt him. \u2014 Jim Sleeper, The New Republic , 16 June 2022",
"What would normally be regarded as a technical violation (there are no rules defining such things), may in his or her small world assume the proportions of an indictable offense. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Brian Houston, who was charged in Sydney in August with concealing a serious indictable offense, said he had already been told to step aside from all Hillsong boards. \u2014 NBC News , 1 Feb. 2022",
"This is the moment when my brother enters the assembling facts not only as an indictable accomplice but as the spontaneous mastermind\u2014the El Capo\u2014of a clay-stealing cartel consisting of himself and four ten-year-olds. \u2014 John Mcphee, The New Yorker , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Taking your shoes off an airplane should be an indictable offense. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 July 2021",
"Leaving Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group is an indictable offence with a maximum sentence of 10 years. \u2014 Paula Newton, CNN , 30 Sep. 2020",
"State Police Superintendent Patrick Callahan reported 70 compliance issues resulting in 34 indictable offenses. \u2014 Kim Jarrett, Washington Examiner , 31 Mar. 2020",
"But legal scholars and Democrats are decrying the claim that an impeachable offense must be an indictable crime. \u2014 Eric Tucker, Fortune , 23 Jan. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Is Apple still on target"
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"The grand jury has handed down indictments against several mobsters.",
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"Detectives are seeking to identify a suspect and motive, and a reward is being offered of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment . \u2014 Nick Anderson, Washington Post , 4 June 2022",
"The indictment charges him with two counts of contempt that each carry a maximum sentence of a year in prison, as well as a fine of up to $100,000. \u2014 Alan Feuer And Luke Broadwater, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
"His arrest and indictment by federal prosecutors in March 2019 set into motion a rapid and stunning fall from grace. \u2014 Felicia Sonmez And Shayna Jacobs, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"On Tuesday, police announced a combined reward of up to $10,000 for people who provide information that leads to an arrest, including up to $3,500 from CrimeStoppers upon arrest and indictment and $6,500 from the NYPD upon arrest and conviction. \u2014 Liam Reilly And Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 21 May 2022",
"The Concord Police Department also announced a $33,500 reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment . \u2014 Fox News , 18 May 2022",
"The indictment charges all defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, which can carry a maximum sentence of 30 years of prison. \u2014 Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News , 18 May 2022",
"Callers do not have to give their name or any identifying information to be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000 for the arrest and indictment of the suspect. \u2014 Henri Hollis, ajc , 11 May 2022",
"In addition to two deaths, the indictment charges that over a period of years, Carman engaged in a cover-up and insurance fraud. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 10 May 2022"
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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",
"This innovative mixed reality production tells the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his experience with the spirit world that transforms his greedy indifference into grace. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 19 May 2022",
"But the answer to McNamara\u2019s central question about the source of our indifference is obvious. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Celebrate their indifference with your own. Lock them out. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 8 Mar. 2022",
"How long before my faux indifference boomeranged to me as obsession",
"Those inward reflections and forward visions served as blinders and formed his indifference to outside perceptions. \u2014 Mike Jones, USA TODAY , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Her indifference to his then-impending incarceration. \u2014 Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report , 13 Dec. 2021",
"That is, their fundamental indifference to honor, beauty, or legitimacy. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 13 Dec. 2021"
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"in-\u02c8di-f\u0259rn(t)s",
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"It can hardly be argued, by himself or by his defenders, that he was indifferent to, or unaware of, the true situation. \u2014 Christopher Hitchens , Harper's , March 2001",
"\u2026 aspects of language that the earlier grammarians were indifferent to. \u2014 Geoffrey Nunberg , Atlantic , December 1983",
"For it is commonly said and commonly believed that science is completely neutral and indifferent as to the ends and values which move men to act \u2026 \u2014 John Dewey , Freedom and Culture , 1939",
"The movie was poorly received by an indifferent public.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Forgoing domestic production in favor of Saudi Arabia and other dictatorships also exacerbates the carbon-emission problem, as these producers are largely indifferent to production methods limiting methane and CO2 leaks. \u2014 Thomas J. Duesterberg, WSJ , 12 June 2022",
"Federal agents often didn\u2019t communicate adequately with victims\u2019 families and were frequently indifferent about investigations. \u2014 Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 June 2022",
"Many employers also use insurers simply as third-party administrators, paying them flat fees, which could make insurers indifferent to the prices that providers charge employers. \u2014 Bob Herman, STAT , 14 May 2022",
"Other Presidents are more indifferent to history, and the last Oval Office occupant in particular seems to have adopted a fiercely ahistorical posture. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The novel ends with a surprising twist, that, depending on one's perceptions, will leave the reader either delighted or disappointed, but definitely not indifferent . \u2014 Mary Cadden, USA TODAY , 11 Oct. 2020",
"Americans are indifferent to adding a potential income cap, such as $150,000 per student loan borrower, to wide-scale student loan forgiveness. \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The outcome has been a deadlock that has enriched and enabled domestic and foreign actors to be indifferent to the suffering of ordinary Libyans. \u2014 Mohammed El-senussi, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"The new urgency reflects a sharp change in attitudes in Taiwan, where many had long been indifferent to China\u2019s advances, resigned to defeat or blindly optimistic about support from the United States. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022"
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},
"examples":[
"the indigenes had not merely adapted to the harsh climate, but had in fact prospered in it",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many of the indigenes believe that their perpetual sadness is the root cause of disease and death among them. \u2014 Scientific American , 25 Mar. 2020",
"No doubt the Tainos, the indigenes at the time of European encounter, have plenty to smoke about, if there are any left alive. \u2014 Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor , 5 July 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin indigena":""
},
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"\u02c8in-d\u0259-\u02ccj\u0113n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"aboriginal",
"aborigine",
"autochthon",
"native"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102430",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indigence":{
"antonyms":[
"affluence",
"opulence",
"richness",
"wealth",
"wealthiness"
],
"definitions":{
": a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking":[]
},
"examples":[
"there are various state and federal programs to help relieve indigence",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Splendor and indigence are equally familiar to him; prudence and shame are equally alien. \u2014 Judith Thurman, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
"Black and Hispanic Americans escaped indigence in record numbers. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Mar. 2022",
"His children, three former child prodigies, are to blame for his financial indigence . \u2014 CNN , 13 Dec. 2021",
"William Booth\u2019s famous poverty maps, which the social reformer used to catalogue affluence and indigence in late Victorian London, don\u2019t extend this far south. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Feb. 2021",
"Under Harris County\u2019s rigid and misguided risk-assessment system, indicators of indigence received the same point values as a history of criminal violations or prior failures to appear in court. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com , 12 Feb. 2020",
"Amazing that a handful of \u2019em haven\u2019t been assessed five-minute majors for loitering or indigence . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Oct. 2019",
"If the prototypical American was white and middle class, and my parents\u2019 Chinese accents and indigence marked them as irredeemably fresh off the boat, what chance was there for someone like me to achieve Americanness",
"Northwell prefers not to call the Food as Health Center a pantry, concerned that the term might connote indigence . \u2014 Lucette Lagnado, WSJ , 22 Oct. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8in-d\u0259-j\u0259ns",
"\u02c8in-di-j\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for indigence poverty , indigence , penury , want , destitution mean the state of one with insufficient resources. poverty may cover a range from extreme want of necessities to an absence of material comforts. the extreme poverty of the slum dwellers indigence implies seriously straitened circumstances. the indigence of her years as a graduate student penury suggests a cramping or oppressive lack of money. a catastrophic illness that condemned them to years of penury want and destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation or exposure. lived in a perpetual state of want the widespread destitution in countries beset by famine",
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"beggary",
"destituteness",
"destitution",
"impecuniosity",
"impecuniousness",
"impoverishment",
"necessity",
"need",
"neediness",
"pauperism",
"penuriousness",
"penury",
"poorness",
"poverty",
"want"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-002243",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"indigency":{
"antonyms":[],
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": indigence":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin indigentia":""
},
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"-j\u0259ns\u0113",
"-si"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170545",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indigene":{
"antonyms":[
"nonnative"
],
"definitions":{
": native":[]
},
"examples":[
"the indigenes had not merely adapted to the harsh climate, but had in fact prospered in it",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many of the indigenes believe that their perpetual sadness is the root cause of disease and death among them. \u2014 Scientific American , 25 Mar. 2020",
"No doubt the Tainos, the indigenes at the time of European encounter, have plenty to smoke about, if there are any left alive. \u2014 Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor , 5 July 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin indigena":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8in-d\u0259-\u02ccj\u0113n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"aboriginal",
"aborigine",
"autochthon",
"native"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084424",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"indigenous":{
"antonyms":[
"nonindigenous",
"nonnative"
],
"definitions":{
": innate , inborn":[],
": of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group":[
"Indigenous peoples"
],
": produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment":[
"indigenous plants",
"the indigenous culture"
]
},
"examples":[
"Viking invaders quickly subdued the indigenous population, known as the Picts. \u2014 Jared M. Diamond , Collapse , 2005",
"Unlike France, Italy relies on dozens of indigenous regional grape varieties for its prodigious range of wines. \u2014 Gerald Asher , Gourmet , September 2002",
"Though Gilded Age architecture was not indigenous to America, at least it was borrowed from belle epoque Europe, from which much of America's late-nineteenth-century culture evolved. \u2014 Robert D. Kaplan , An Empire Wilderness , 1988",
"There are several indigenous groups that still live in the area.",
"the culture of the indigenous people of that country",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There has been this huge movement to recuperate and reevaluate indigenous varieties, which is kind of in sync with the movement toward preserving heritage varieties of apples and tomatoes and stuff like that. \u2014 Norman Vanamee, Town & Country , 23 June 2022",
"While the Canadian pubcaster has had no specific obligations to support indigenous and diverse programming, the CBC has put a focus in recent years on increasing its content diversity. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"Its indigenous technological capabilities have made steady progress, and in some areas now lead the world. \u2014 Loren Thompson, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"The band performs its own versions of ancient songs by blending them with the benga, Kenya\u2019s indigenous popular music form. \u2014 Megan Becka, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"Created by Karissa Valencia, the series boasts an all Native American writers\u2019 room and celebrates indigenous culture and heritage. \u2014 Ben Croll, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"And among that group, Black, Latino, Asian, indigenous people, are disproportionately represented. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
"In Chile, the indigenous Mapuche people had resisted Spain\u2019s conquistadores, sometimes defeating them in battle. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"As many as 24 indigenous languages are spoken in 436 small communities in Texistepec, J\u00e1ltipan and Cosoleacaque municipalities where the fishermen live. \u2014 Palabra, oregonlive , 21 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1632, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin indigenus , from Latin indigena , noun, native, from Old Latin indu, endo in, within + Latin gignere to beget \u2014 more at end- , kin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8dij-\u0259-n\u0259s",
"in-\u02c8di-j\u0259-n\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for indigenous native , indigenous , endemic , aboriginal mean belonging to a locality. native implies birth or origin in a place or region and may suggest compatibility with it. native tribal customs indigenous applies to that which is not only native but which, as far as can be determined, has never been introduced or brought from elsewhere. indigenous plants endemic implies being peculiar to a region. a disease endemic in Africa aboriginal implies having no known others preceding in occupancy of a particular region. the aboriginal peoples of Australia",
"synonyms":[
"aboriginal",
"autochthonous",
"born",
"domestic",
"endemic",
"native"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013026",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"indigent":{
"antonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"definitions":{
": deficient":[],
": suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished":[],
": totally lacking in something specified":[]
},
"examples":[
"\u2026 every day, I fled the house and drove aimlessly over mountain roads that passed by indigent farms and strange, unpainted churches. \u2014 Mark Singer , New Yorker , 25 Dec. 2000 & 1 Jan. 2001",
"A land post was offered him in November, 1765, as Governor of Greenwich Hospital, a shelter for disabled and indigent seamen and a place affording many openings for jobbery (the contemporary term for bureaucratic graft). \u2014 Barbara W. Tuchman , The First Salute , 1988",
"He went around climbing dark stairs and knocking on doors and taking flash photos of indigent families in their dwellings. \u2014 E. L. Doctorow , Ragtime , (1974) 1975",
"Because he was indigent , the court appointed a lawyer to defend him.",
"The clinic provides free care for indigent patients.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fulton and DeKalb counties jointly own Grady Health System, whose main hospital in downtown Atlanta and network of clinics serve medically needy and indigent residents. \u2014 Ariel Hart, ajc , 13 Apr. 2022",
"After the Supreme Court ruled in the late 1960s that indigent criminal defendants were entitled to legal representation, Mr. Harris was appointed the first chief defender of Baltimore, whose office operated out of Legal Aid. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Let China cope with the double-dealing, back-stabbing, perpetually indigent Pakistani government. \u2014 Walter Russell Mead, WSJ , 30 Aug. 2021",
"Moira Buckley, who represents indigent criminal defendants in the federal courts as an attorney with the Office of Federal Public Defender in Hartford. \u2014 Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com , 13 Sep. 2021",
"Much of the hearing focused on Judge Jackson and Ms. Jackson-Akiwumi, both Black women who have experience as federal public defenders representing indigent criminal defendants. \u2014 Brent Kendall, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2021",
"Bond king Bill Gross and \u00fcber free-markets economist Milton Friedman have both argued for some form of a minimum income aimed at indigent Americans. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 16 May 2020",
"Her father, a psychologist, spent his career designing government programs for people who couldn\u2019t afford doctor care, including Native Americans and indigent youth. \u2014 Nicholas Florko, STAT , 14 May 2020",
"Most criminal defendants are indigent when they are arrested. \u2014 Patricia Mazzei, New York Times , 27 Apr. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Middle French, from Old French, from Latin indigent-, indigens , present participle of indig\u0113re to need, from Old Latin indu + Latin eg\u0113re to need; perhaps akin to Old High German echerode poor":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8in-d\u0259-j\u0259nt",
"\u02c8in-di-j\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
"down-and-out",
"famished",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
"pauperized",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken",
"skint",
"threadbare"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020251",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"indign":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": unbecoming , disgraceful":[],
": unworthy , undeserving":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English indigne , from Anglo-French, from Latin indignus":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u012bn"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131122",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"indignance":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": indignation":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from indignant , after such pairs as English abundant : abundance":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8dign\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031851",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indignancy":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": indignation":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"indignant + -cy":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-si",
"-gn\u0259ns\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195044",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indignant":{
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
],
"definitions":{
": feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy : filled with or marked by indignation":[
"became indignant at the accusation"
]
},
"examples":[
"Melville was so struck by the drama of the Essex (deliberately battered by an indignant and maddened whale, which at last brained itself by sinking the ship) that he used it as the end of Moby-Dick . \u2014 Paul Theroux , New York Times Book Review , 11 June 2000",
"What you really need is a story that will not only excuse tardiness but encourage your boss to give you the entire day off. \u2026 Should anyone give you the third degree on your return to work, don't hesitate to become indignant and stomp out of the room. \u2014 Jeff Foxworthy , No Shirt. No Shoes. No Problem! , 1996",
"When the Roman soldiers were asked to take part in the Claudian invasion of 43, they waxed indignant . This was asking them to carry on a campaign \"outside the limits of the known world.\" \u2014 Antonia Fraser , The Warrior Queens , 1988",
"She wrote an indignant letter to the editor.",
"He was very indignant about the changes.",
"an indignant tone of voice",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The queen of indignant comedy\u2019s new Netflix special is hilarious, filthy, and accessible despite its potentially alienating subject matter. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Some of his admirers were indignant on Monday, expressing their displeasure over his ouster on social media. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Biden appointees, perceiving a mortal threat to their agenda, were indignant . \u2014 Andrew Cockburn, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 20 Jan. 2021",
"Others who saw how the last round of Build Back Better negotiations with Manchin ultimately turned out are feeling a bit indignant about this new ask. \u2014 Ella Nilsen And Lauren Fox, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
"But as every parent knows, indignant tantrums should not be indulged. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The incident has left thousands of residents indignant . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Marina Kosatka seemed indignant while describing her nephew\u2019s experience in Ukraine. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Ordinary Russians, still indignant over the damage Russian sports sustained after the Sochi scandal, resented the news about Valieva\u2019s possible ban, linking it to Russia\u2019s standoff with the West. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1590, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin indignant-, indignans , present participle of indignari to be indignant, from indignus unworthy, from in- + dignus worthy \u2014 more at decent":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8dig-n\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030445",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"indignation":{
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"pleasure"
],
"definitions":{
": anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean":[]
},
"examples":[
"I am eager to concede that in our cataclysmic world this is a little misfortune, arousing even in me only the kind of indignation that could be thoroughly vented in a long footnote somewhere. \u2014 Marilynne Robinson , The Death of Adam , (1998) 2005",
"It's good to bear the preceding in mind when trying to comprehend the indignation with which the East Coast establishment greets work that dares to be both funny and deadly serious in the same breath. \u2014 Tom Robbins , Harper's , September 2004",
"\u2026 in his reverie, while his wife swooped back and forth with sheets of last year's leaves and bundles of brisk directives, his brooding mind warmed his old indignation at not having been invited to that party given by his then recently forsaken inamorata. \u2014 John Updike , The Afterlife , 1994",
"The decision to close the factory has aroused the indignation of the townspeople.",
"He adopted a tone of moral indignation .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers, the sports world has reacted with indignation . \u2014 Sean Gregory, Time , 28 May 2022",
"And Watson is deeply affecting, increasingly so as Aileen\u2019s feelings shift from encroaching shame through indignation to bitter resolve in a climax that approaches mythic dimensions. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"This indignation needs an outlet, and for most people, that outlet will be public protest. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 13 May 2022",
"Ironically, that very TikTok went viral \u2014 attracting the attention the label wanted, but with indignation at its core. \u2014 Sonia Rao, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"If the news is true, our reaction mixes joy with indignation . \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 3 May 2022",
"No slight was too minor not to be met with indignation . \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Putin allies, meanwhile, reacted with indignation , grateful for the chance to gain even a sliver of high ground. \u2014 Byrick Klein,averi Harper, ABC News , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Regardless of genre, most K-dramas seek to elicit a visceral response in viewers \u2013 laughter, tears, anger, indignation . \u2014 Min Joo Lee, The Conversation , 10 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see indignant":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin-dig-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for indignation anger , ire , rage , fury , indignation , wrath mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure. anger , the most general term, names the reaction but by itself does not convey cause or intensity. tried to hide his anger ire , more frequent in literary contexts, suggests an intense anger, often with an evident display of feeling. cheeks flushed with ire rage and fury suggest loss of self-control from violence of emotion. shook with rage could not contain his fury indignation stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful. a comment that caused general indignation wrath is likely to suggest a desire or intent to punish or get revenge. I feared her wrath if I was discovered",
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"angriness",
"birse",
"choler",
"furor",
"fury",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividity",
"lividness",
"mad",
"madness",
"mood",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060341",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indignation meeting":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a meeting held for the purpose of expressing and discussing grievances":[
"the new law was objectionable to nearly everyone and there were numerous indignation meetings"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162358",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indignify":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": dishonor":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"in- entry 1 + dignify":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164748",
"type":[
"transitive verb"
]
},
"indignities to the person":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": misconduct (as habitual incivility or ridicule or neglect) by a spouse constituting grounds for divorce in some states that makes the life of an offended spouse intolerable and burdensome, subverts the family relationship, and evidences the settled hatred of the offending spouse":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020455",
"type":[]
},
"indignity":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult":[],
": humiliating treatment":[],
": lack or loss of dignity or honor":[]
},
"examples":[
"He remembers all the indignities he had to suffer in the early years of his career.",
"We must endure the indignities of growing old.",
"He suffered the indignity of being forced to leave the courtroom.",
"The indignity of it all was too much to bear.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Tigers were slapped with a technical foul, another indignity in an evening full of them, which culminated in a 59-54 loss and an exit from the N.C.A.A. tournament. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Having her death labeled a suicide was an indignity , but not a surprise. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Dec. 2021",
"A few minutes before, Tatum had to endure the indignity of watching another team, Golden State, celebrate winning a championship on his home court. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"To Wilcox, the eviction was yet another indignity from her time at Pavilion Place. \u2014 Alan Judd, ajc , 13 June 2022",
"An occasion intended as a moment of catharsis had instead descended into chaos \u2014 compounding the indignity and the pain that, to many Palestinians, Ms. Abu Akleh\u2019s death had embodied. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"Sleeping outside struck me as the ultimate indignity . \u2014 William Torrey, Longreads , 5 May 2022",
"The children in the Peterson family \u2014 some of them adopted after their own mother died in a manner similar to the way Kathleen would \u2014 absorb the events happening to them as just another indignity in a life that hasn\u2019t been short on loss. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"Mike really does have to bear the indignity of riding in the trunk. \u2014 Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin indignitat-, indignitas , from indignus":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8dig-n\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"affront",
"barb",
"brickbat",
"cut",
"dart",
"dig",
"dis",
"diss",
"epithet",
"gird",
"insult",
"name",
"offense",
"offence",
"outrage",
"personality",
"poke",
"put-down",
"sarcasm",
"slap",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001817",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indirect":{
"antonyms":[
"direct",
"straight",
"straightforward"
],
"definitions":{
": being or involving proof of a proposition or theorem by demonstration that its negation leads to an absurdity or contradiction":[],
": deviating from a direct line or course : roundabout":[],
": not direct: such as":[],
": not directly aimed at or achieved":[
"indirect consequences"
],
": not effected by the action of the people or the electorate":[
"indirect government representation"
],
": not going straight to the point":[
"an indirect accusation"
],
": not straightforward and open : deceitful":[],
": stating what a real or supposed original speaker said with changes in wording that conform the statement grammatically to the sentence in which it is included":[
"indirect discourse",
"an indirect question"
]
},
"examples":[
"We took an indirect route.",
"These plants grow best in bright indirect light.",
"He gave only vague, indirect answers to our questions.",
"They used indirect methods of investigation.",
"There were many indirect references to his earlier books.",
"Looking at her watch was her indirect way of telling him it was time to leave.",
"Poor nutrition may have been an indirect cause of the disease.",
"The cigarette stubs were indirect evidence that someone had been smoking in the room.",
"\u201cHe said that he would call later,\u201d is an example of indirect speech since his actual words were \u201cI'll call later.\u201d",
"an indirect question such as \u201cShe asked whether the doctor had arrived\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The talks will be indirect , with the EU acting as a mediator, and take place in a Persian Gulf country, Iranian media quoted Borrell as saying later the same day. \u2014 Arsalan Shahla, BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2022",
"Spider plants flourish with bright, indirect sunlight. \u2014 Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping , 23 June 2022",
"But the attack was not the result of indirect fire, the military later said. \u2014 Doha Madani, NBC News , 22 June 2022",
"Chianese says one indirect benefit of drawing major productions will be getting Iceland\u2019s local crew trained on larger projects. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"Not every journalist covering the story was so indirect . \u2014 James Kirchick, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Estimates of Milky Way black holes have ranged anywhere from five to 20 solar masses, but those were all indirect measurements. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 14 June 2022",
"The goalie that Colorado relied on in Kuemper\u2019s absence, Pavel Francouz, was also an indirect product of the 2016-17 season and the draft that followed it. \u2014 Laine Higgins, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"Of course, there are myriad ways to raise prices that are completely indirect and hidden, Dholakia says. \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 14 June 2022"
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"Dutiful sons often revere their fathers for their instruction in the ways of the world\u2014by direction and indirection , sterling example and train wreck. \u2014 Edward Kosner, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"This might suggest that a truer study of the psyche and its place in the world could be conducted via indirection or obliquity. \u2014 Matthew Bevis, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Antrim\u2019s writing here is brilliant in its indirection and compression. \u2014 David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times , 11 Oct. 2021",
"The letter is included in the report and is an exquisite piece of clerical indirection and equivocation. \u2014 Paul Elie, The New Yorker , 20 Nov. 2020",
"The nearly plotless story snares us through indirection to produce a pleasingly dark collage. \u2014 Claude Peck, Star Tribune , 23 Oct. 2020",
"Multiple layers of obfuscation and indirection are standard in this criminal realm. \u2014 Rahul Kashyap, Quartz , 15 Jan. 2020",
"In fairness, elaboration could detract from Magid\u2019s mode of storytelling, which relies a lot on indirection and leaving things unsaid. \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2019",
"This is, of course, an indirect evocation of Donald Trump in a movie that doesn\u2019t have much truck with indirection . \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 9 Aug. 2018"
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"The talks will be indirect , with the EU acting as a mediator, and take place in a Persian Gulf country, Iranian media quoted Borrell as saying later the same day. \u2014 Arsalan Shahla, BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2022",
"Spider plants flourish with bright, indirect sunlight. \u2014 Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping , 23 June 2022",
"But the attack was not the result of indirect fire, the military later said. \u2014 Doha Madani, NBC News , 22 June 2022",
"Chianese says one indirect benefit of drawing major productions will be getting Iceland\u2019s local crew trained on larger projects. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"Not every journalist covering the story was so indirect . \u2014 James Kirchick, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Estimates of Milky Way black holes have ranged anywhere from five to 20 solar masses, but those were all indirect measurements. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 14 June 2022",
"The goalie that Colorado relied on in Kuemper\u2019s absence, Pavel Francouz, was also an indirect product of the 2016-17 season and the draft that followed it. \u2014 Laine Higgins, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"Of course, there are myriad ways to raise prices that are completely indirect and hidden, Dholakia says. \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 14 June 2022"
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"telling a friend's secrets is indiscreet , and unkind as well",
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"There are few things worse than an indiscreet person. \u2014 Roxane Gay, New York Times , 3 June 2022",
"The administrative problem that the redundant joining of clubs and indiscreet bragging over accomplishments once solved has only become worse. \u2014 Matt Feeney, The New Yorker , 29 May 2021",
"Plastic tests that go in the trash are both environmentally less than ideal and indiscreet , Ms. Edwards said: Until the trash goes out, the results can be stumbled upon by others. \u2014 Katie Deighton, WSJ , 14 Apr. 2021",
"But less than two years later, Trump was back at it \u2014 with an indiscreet call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump encouraged Zelensky to look into Joe Biden\u2019s family entanglements with the Eastern European nation. \u2014 Jay Cost, Washington Examiner , 21 Jan. 2021",
"The show asks the indiscreet coronavirus questions, like can a mask be a fashion statement",
"Why would a lawyer working for the FBI on the biggest case in politics be so indiscreet as to create a record of altering a document in the course of making a false statement of huge importance",
"The relationship, apparently consensual, if unconventional, was indiscreet at best, and, because of the woman\u2019s youth and her subordinate position in Hill\u2019s campaign, potentially exploitative. \u2014 Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker , 19 Dec. 2019",
"And besides, Mr Trump\u2019s main instrument in this affair, Rudy Giuliani, makes an exceptionally indiscreet muckraker. \u2014 Lexington | Washington, The Economist , 4 Oct. 2019"
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"She committed a few minor indiscretions .",
"a single indiscretion can get someone kicked out of that exclusive club",
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"Compare those portraits of early waywardness with Anne, a model youth whose one indiscretion portends a fall from grace. \u2014 The New Yorker , 6 May 2022",
"Hammond\u2019s moment of indiscretion had other consequences for the Supreme Court, too. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 May 2022",
"Being hounded to the point of collapse by the media after a partner\u2019s indiscretion . \u2014 Hayley Maitland, Vogue , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Then again, indiscretion isn\u2019t the same as indecision. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 1 Apr. 2022",
"How can the hurtfulness of such a social indiscretion not be obvious to the maker",
"One of the most impactful flavors of this indiscretion is the inability to identify fake sites that mimic the original store. \u2014 David Balaban, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"There is less press and the tax payers can take on the responsibility for paying a pension for life in exchange for transparency of an indiscretion . \u2014 Walter Pavlo, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
"But there's also a chance Logan might take out Roman's indiscretion on Gerri and fire her. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 12 Dec. 2021"
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"They participated in the indiscriminate slaughter of countless innocent victims.",
"He objects to the indiscriminate use of pesticides.",
"She has been indiscriminate in choosing her friends.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But whether the attacks are indiscriminate or targeted, Stone said Ukraine was at risk of losing irreplaceable cultural sites and artifacts that make up the fabric of Ukrainian identity. \u2014 Lauren Egan, NBC News , 30 May 2022",
"No respect for humanitarian corridors From the war's beginning, the invasion was highly indiscriminate , involving the shelling of Ukrainian cities. \u2014 Ruti Teitel, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"If civilians are killed near a military position or equipment, Russia can still be held responsible for a possible war crime if its attack was indiscriminate and disproportionate against the civilian population. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Investigators are working to determine the gunman's motive, although the shooting was not believed to be indiscriminate , Meulenberg told CNN's Don Lemon. \u2014 Andy Rose, Amy Simonson And Travis Caldwell, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"Silent Spring charged the indiscriminate use of pesticides (especially DDT) with causing cancer and other illnesses in humans and nonhuman animals alike. \u2014 Scott W. Stern, The New Republic , 31 May 2022",
"In school shootings where the killing is indiscriminate , Trump said shooters have in many cases passed by classrooms that were closed and locked. \u2014 Moriah Balingit, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"And in such an indiscriminate sell-off, by default, the most speculative assets suffer the most. \u2014 Dan Runkevicius, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"But Ukrainian and Western officials claim Moscow\u2019s troops are using indiscriminate weapons that are taking a heavy toll on civilians and are making only slow progress. \u2014 Cara Anna And Inna Varenytsia, Chicago Tribune , 2 May 2022"
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"Among them: Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole, who developed their games during Golden State\u2019s playoff-free hiatus and were indispensable this postseason. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"Their help navigating organizational requirements and identifying your potential mentees and interns can be indispensable to your success. \u2014 Monte Lee-wen, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"For many iPhone users, Google\u2019s apps are indispensable , including Google Maps, Google Calendar, and Google Chrome. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 2 June 2022",
"Parents say the garden program is indispensable after so much isolation and disconnection from COVID. \u2014 Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle , 21 May 2022",
"Correspondent Susan Spencer talks with Epicurious senior editor Emily Johnson about the history of the kitchen gadget that is indispensable \u2013 the can opener. \u2014 CBS News , 19 May 2022",
"To truly understand the city and island, the Museu de Menorca that wraps around the courtyard of the former Convent of Sant Francesc is indispensable . \u2014 John Oseid, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"The storied space agency created a future in which Musk is indispensable , and there\u2019s no question that if and when astronauts go to Mars, SpaceX will play a big part in their journey. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 14 Apr. 2022",
"While no one individual or nation is indispensable , all are important, and everyone pulls their weight. \u2014 Don Lincoln, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022"
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"one person in our reading group is very indisposed to choosing a racy book",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Concertgebouw had asked him in 1956 to replace an indisposed Carlo Maria Giulini for a performance of Cherubini\u2019s Requiem in C minor. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"The Concertgebouw had asked him in 1956 to replace an indisposed Carlo Maria Giulini for a performance of Cherubini\u2019s Requiem in C minor. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"The Concertgebouw had asked him in 1956 to replace an indisposed Carlo Maria Giulini for a performance of Cherubini\u2019s Requiem in C minor. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Paul Soper admirably stepped in at the last moment to take on the role of the Abbot for an indisposed James Demler. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 Oct. 2021",
"The Concertgebouw had asked him in 1956 to replace an indisposed Carlo Maria Giulini for a performance of Cherubini\u2019s Requiem in C minor. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"The Concertgebouw had asked him in 1956 to replace an indisposed Carlo Maria Giulini for a performance of Cherubini\u2019s Requiem in C minor. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"The Concertgebouw had asked him in 1956 to replace an indisposed Carlo Maria Giulini for a performance of Cherubini\u2019s Requiem in C minor. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"The Concertgebouw had asked him in 1956 to replace an indisposed Carlo Maria Giulini for a performance of Cherubini\u2019s Requiem in C minor. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The insurer paid $5 million for losses incurred due to an unspecified castmember\u2019s February 2020 illness at the outset of the shoot \u2014 presumably Cruise\u2019s indisposition that was not COVID. \u2014 Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Thanks to the indisposition of the aging, alcoholic local rector, he is pressed into a leadership role quickly. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 25 Feb. 2020",
"For a more rewarding solution to Mr. Lang\u2019s indisposition , Mr. Corea might have simply replaced Mr. Lang as soloist and presented his personal take on Gershwin. \u2014 Anthony Tommasini, New York Times , 5 Oct. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That Trump and his allies were no fans of Borges is indisputable . \u2014 cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"That Paul McCartney is a musical genius is indisputable . \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"The soaring popularity of rock climbing in recent years is indisputable . \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"The principle of inclusivity in events like this is indisputable . \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"The success rate of video as a format in B2B is indisputable . \u2014 Lora Kratchounova, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"To make sure her record is indisputable , Drummond plans to climb both. \u2014 Lilit Marcus, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"While a snafu at the 2016 Oscars saw Moonlight achieve a very different kind of notoriety, the film remains widely regarded as the year\u2019s indisputable best picture. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 4 June 2022",
"His outsize personality, backed up by indisputable athleticism, enabled him to climb to the top of the record books during an era of both player salary expansion and persistent racial discrimination. \u2014 Becky Meloan, Washington Post , 31 May 2022"
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"That Trump and his allies were no fans of Borges is indisputable . \u2014 cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"That Paul McCartney is a musical genius is indisputable . \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"The soaring popularity of rock climbing in recent years is indisputable . \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"The principle of inclusivity in events like this is indisputable . \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"The success rate of video as a format in B2B is indisputable . \u2014 Lora Kratchounova, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"To make sure her record is indisputable , Drummond plans to climb both. \u2014 Lilit Marcus, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"While a snafu at the 2016 Oscars saw Moonlight achieve a very different kind of notoriety, the film remains widely regarded as the year\u2019s indisputable best picture. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 4 June 2022",
"His outsize personality, backed up by indisputable athleticism, enabled him to climb to the top of the record books during an era of both player salary expansion and persistent racial discrimination. \u2014 Becky Meloan, Washington Post , 31 May 2022"
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"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8spy\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
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"1855, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8s\u014d-sh(\u0113-)\u0259-b\u0259l",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But C\u00e9line\u2019s reputation is indissoluble from his strange political fate. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 15 June 2022",
"The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. \u2014 Abigail Rosenthal, Chron , 10 Dec. 2020",
"Despite the great minds wrestling with it, the vexed question of how to live continues to induce a state of indissoluble anxiety. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Nov. 2020",
"There\u2019s an indissoluble complexity to the blockchain that forbids pithy description. \u2014 Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 June 2018",
"Kids was the dying breath of a city on the verge of indissoluble change. \u2014 Elijah Wolfson, Newsweek , 26 July 2015"
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"indistinct figures in the fog",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Critics characterized the album as a creative nadir, indistinct and bloodless and never-ending. \u2014 Alex Swhear, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"Mountains, trees and rivers were still present, but their shapes were only hinted at, rendered in gentle lines and indistinct forms as if a mist had descended over the vista. \u2014 CNN , 12 June 2022",
"But the air around us gave a vaguely indistinct and water-vapory sense of approaching summer and its softening of strictures. \u2014 Martin Weil, Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
"Prosthetics \u2014 human inventions that make human boundaries indistinct \u2014 are a related leitmotif. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The sound mix in the Garden was muddy and indistinct , providing neither the volume needed for impact nor the clarity necessary for richness of detail, which worked substantially to the detriment of the small orchestra onstage. \u2014 Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"The contemporary Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak, who paints hazy shapes that might be leaves, or breasts, or tear ducts, offers a beautiful contemporary exploration of forms with indistinct interiors and exteriors. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The breeze is gentle, carrying the indistinct sounds of children playing somewhere down the beach. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2022",
"His recollections of much more recent triumphs, by contrast, are already faded, fuzzy, indistinct . \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"\u2014 P. D. Boles"
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},
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"a line of indistinctive sportswear that does not justify its premium price point",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ubiquity of such endeavors often means the results are pretty indistinctive , but numerous things set Williams\u2019s version apart from those of other artists. \u2014 Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader , 2 Mar. 2018"
],
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"1846, in the meaning defined above":""
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"indistinguishable differences that can be measured only electronically",
"indistinguishable shapes in the fog",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With that, the malicious party can decipher stored files or even upload incriminating or otherwise malicious files to an account; these files look indistinguishable from genuinely uploaded data. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 21 June 2022",
"Piet Mondrian\u2019s name is indistinguishable from his signature style: blocks of reds, blues and yellows against a black-and-white grid. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 June 2022",
"While the Wright Flyer might look indistinguishable from planes like the super-advanced F-35, a lot of the same principles the Wrights pioneered survived. \u2014 Walter J. Boyne And Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics , 23 May 2021",
"There is a strong social dimension to criticism which, from the outside, may look indistinguishable from herd thinking. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Nov. 2020",
"Often this messaging is fueled by large enrollment management firms, is indistinguishable from one college to the next, and is sent to a wide audience\u2013some of whom have little chance of being competitive applicants. \u2014 Brennan Barnard, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"But the logos were indistinguishable from the original. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022",
"An increase in new cases is being linked to common symptoms related to this highly contagious variant, which may be indistinguishable from other seasonal conditions this spring. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 14 May 2022",
"All penguins look more or less alike, indistinguishable except to each particular penguin\u2019s mate or mother. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 30 May 2022"
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"1606, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-\u02c8sti\u014b-wi-",
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"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"insensible"
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"Students will receive as much individual attention as possible.",
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"a pattern as individual as a fingerprint",
"Noun",
"They promote a philosophy that sacrifices the rights of the individual for the public welfare.",
"They are both rather odd individuals .",
"Are you the individual I spoke with on the telephone",
"She's a very talented individual .",
"The markings on tigers are unique to each individual .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Meanwhile, the court ruling puts a spotlight on the efforts of individual states and regional compacts, such as one that Massachusetts belongs to, called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. \u2014 David Abel, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"The firm had already acquired DNA from missing person cases in several states, via contracts with local authorities and tests sought by individual family members. \u2014 Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"The actual enforcement of the law will be in the hands of individual states and city municipal bodies. \u2014 Aniruddha Ghosal, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 July 2022",
"Neither district officials nor individual board members responded to The Enquirer Monday about the letter. \u2014 Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer , 29 June 2022",
"While the Twins and the rest of the big leagues discover just what makes the individual members of the youngest team in the big leagues tick, and how to neutralize them, some things have already been revealed. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 25 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t put yourself in a spot where short-term declines in the market or in the fortunes of individual stocks can really hurt you. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"Clearly, the rising tide does not always lift all boats so investors must find individual stocks that will outperform in any environment. \u2014 David Trainer, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Over several years, the fund held billions of dollars of individual stocks in such companies as Google, Wells Fargo and Coca-Cola. \u2014 Justin Elliott, ProPublica , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The law gave attorneys an incentive to bring claims seeking penalties for multiple violations of the labor code, even if a plaintiff had agreed to arbitrate disputes as an individual . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"However, every patient is evaluated as an individual and the treatment plan is customized to their specific anatomy. \u2014 Micaela English, Town & Country , 14 June 2022",
"The next group of four at 1-over includes Zionsville junior Adam Melliere, who is playing as an individual after the Eagles were ousted in a tough sectional with Westfield, Guerin Catholic and Carmel. \u2014 Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star , 14 June 2022",
"The group just received a $10,000 grant from the Mayor\u2019s Office of Arts and Culture Opportunity Fund, plus $5,000 from the same program that Agrippa received as an individual . \u2014 Sam Trottenberg, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"At that time, Thursday afternoon, police identified the man shot and killed three days earlier; police also named another individual who was questioned but did not face charges in connection to the killing. \u2014 Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online , 5 June 2022",
"The former Chugiak Mustang competes for Seattle Pacific University and added to her impressive sprinting career, which already featured seven All-America honors as a member of relay teams, by earning her first as an individual . \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"The Heat\u2019s lone individual 2022 award winner was Tyler Herro, for Sixth Man of the Year. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 20 May 2022",
"Among the others in the field is Emily Mahar of Virginia Tech who is competing as an individual . \u2014 Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic , 20 May 2022"
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"-\u02c8vi-j\u0259l",
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vij-w\u0259l",
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vi-j\u0259-w\u0259l",
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"a society that believes strongly in individualism",
"He was respected for his self-reliance and individualism .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Somehow Irving turned this obvious decision to take $37 million instead of potentially reuniting with LeBron James on the Los Angeles Lakers for the meager $6.4 million mid-level exception as an act of exceptionalism and rugged individualism . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"Examining individualistic practices and values across 78 countries, their findings \u2018suggested that individualism is indeed rising in most of the societies tested\u2019. \u2014 Charles Towers-clark, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"But for one reimaging of a 1960s property, bland has been avoided at all costs, in favor of eccentric individualism . \u2014 CNN , 21 June 2022",
"America\u2019s consummate communitarian, probably, was Franklin Roosevelt, who in one 1932 speech tried to convince his audience that the time for burly Jacksonian individualism had passed. \u2014 Bill Donahue, Washington Post , 20 June 2022",
"Unsurprisingly, Army life chafed against Brand\u2019s individualism . \u2014 Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic , 14 June 2022",
"Our society seems set up for individualism (even more so in the midst of a pandemic). \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Real\u2019s approach teaches us how to step outside of the culture of individualism and embrace our interconnectedness. \u2014 Lidija Globokar, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"That is coupled with another societal-level phenomenon in the U.S., which is much higher compared to many other countries, and that\u2019s the sense of individualism and a focus on individual solutions. \u2014 Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 June 2022"
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"1815, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
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"-\u02c8vi-j\u0259-w\u0259-",
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vij-w\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m",
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": one that pursues a markedly independent course in thought or action":[]
},
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"The school encourages children to be individualists .",
"an individualist who steadfastly refuses to do what everyone else is doing",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Part of being a true individualist is fighting for the right of others to not conform to conventional ideas. \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 8 July 2021",
"This is a picture of the parent Johnson wants to be\u2014the opponent of pushiness and authority, the individualist . \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 26 Jan. 2021",
"But the authors also reported that denizens of the slopes scored lower for other traits, such as agreeableness and extraversion\u2014in keeping with the stereotype of the laconic individualist that has often been portrayed in Westerns. \u2014 Emily Willingham, Scientific American , 8 Sep. 2020",
"Today, Wright is best known as a pop icon, a flamboyant individualist with a chaotic love life who routinely bullied clients and collaborators\u2014all in the service of his powerful personality and homegrown American aesthetic. \u2014 Anthony Alofsin, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2020",
"In spite of our pride in being rugged individualists , we can't be that right now. \u2014 Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al , 26 May 2020",
"Eventually, foppish men hawking ideas rather than wares would lay the same claim to the American individualist spirit: the adman as noble as the oilman, the programmer no different from the prospector. \u2014 Ian Bogost, The Atlantic , 19 Mar. 2020",
"In keeping with the times, popular literature of the 1920s showcased bold individualists . \u2014 Susanna Lee, The Conversation , 1 Apr. 2020",
"For the individualist , there are countless other portable pee funnels to be found online, possibly because people keep coming up with puns for names \u2014 the Tinkle Belle, the SheWee, GoGirl \u2014 and then creating products to fit them. \u2014 Blair Braverman, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Mar. 2020"
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"1826, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vij-w\u0259-list",
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"bohemian",
"boho",
"counterculturist",
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"She uses her clothing to express her individuality .",
"materials that highlight the individuality of each piece in the collection",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It\u2019s also of-the-moment in its questioning of taste and championing of individuality . \u2014 Vogue , 24 May 2022",
"Big Boss\u2019s behavior is the ultimate culture shock for a sport\u2014and a country\u2014that favors stoicism over ostentatious displays of individuality . \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Artisan is a perfume designed to intrigue and entice, tailored to enhance your personal brand of individuality . \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Ironically, the only way to reassert one\u2019s individuality in a sea of color over time will be to wear \u2026 black. \u2014 Isabel Slone, Harper's BAZAAR , 1 Nov. 2021",
"The Project Sunscreen Roll-On Mineral Sunscreen is designed with individuality in mind. \u2014 Bea Mcmonagle, Forbes , 26 May 2021",
"Investing in your workforce doesn\u2019t just mean allowing and fostering individuality expressed through social media. \u2014 Landon Eckles, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"At the turn of the millennium, as technology took off at warp speed, the minimalism and grunge that dominated the \u201990s gave way to flashy hues, metallic shine, and unabashed individuality . \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 31 May 2022",
"All of the models wore the bodysuit, their faces obscured, some with tufts of hair springing out the top: individuality smothered by the pursuit of lucre, all of them slaves to work and fashion, the pumping blood of the city. \u2014 New York Times , 23 May 2022"
],
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"1600, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
},
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"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02ccvi-j\u0259-\u02c8wa-l\u0259-t\u0113"
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": to treat or notice individually : particularize":[]
},
"examples":[
"The author uses different styles to individualize the characters.",
"Teachers should individualize their lessons to address differences in their students.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Leveraging data to truly individualize the message is the present and the future. \u2014 Lori Paikin, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Lezak helped flesh out essentially a new discipline, innovating the protocols for assessing brain disorders and the best ways to individualize treatment. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Now students and learning guardians can truly individualize learning through the system information, the observations of teachers, and what students articulate about their understanding. \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Armold had been part of the Rangers\u2019 decision to more individualize pitching plans for pitchers. \u2014 Evan Grant, Dallas News , 24 Sep. 2021",
"New skill moves have been incorporated to further individualize top players. \u2014 Brian Mazique, Forbes , 29 Aug. 2021",
"Predictive Oncology's pipeline consists of proprietary AI to analyze the data from 150,000 tumors to help clinicians individualize cancer patient therapies and help pharma companies find new cancer therapies. \u2014 Nick Williams, Star Tribune , 24 Apr. 2021",
"The number of students in kindergarten may be greater than usual, but for educators, the practice is the same: individualize instruction. \u2014 NBC News , 20 June 2021",
"The valorization of people like Floyd, Gianna, and now Darnella with her Pulitzer prize as martyrs instead of victims of state violence acts only to individualize these tragedies. \u2014 Hanna Phifer, refinery29.com , 15 June 2021"
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"1637, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vij-w\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
"-\u02c8vi-j\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This age coincides with the important developmental stage in which children begin a process of separation and individuation and assert themselves as distinct individuals. \u2014 Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic , 30 May 2022",
"The second episode of The Kardashians further establishes the show\u2019s style\u2014crisp camerawork, tight narratives, and a confident and unhurried pace\u2014while also highlighting the family\u2019s apparent individuation from one another. \u2014 Vogue , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Of course, their adventures were as much about teamwork as individuation . \u2014 Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The book detailed the group\u2019s work, which came to be known as separation- individuation theory. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Oct. 2021",
"Brodie works with big themes \u2014 individuation , mental illness, legacy, self-destruction and redemption \u2014 but her touch is lighter than an onshore breeze. \u2014 Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2021",
"If the old anxiety was about process, the new anxieties are about individuation \u2014which offers a clue to some of the thinking behind hesitancy to take vaccines. \u2014 Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker , 5 Mar. 2021",
"In SilentWalk, a free, meditative musical experience, apparent paradoxes abound: individuation leads to community, technology to mindfulness, stimulus to peace. \u2014 Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com , 5 Aug. 2019",
"Zimbardo continued to study the effects of individuation and social influence as well as therapeutic techniques for survivors of trauma. \u2014 Katie Worth, Scientific American , 14 Feb. 2014"
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"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02ccvi-j\u0259-\u02c8w\u0101-sh\u0259n",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Such developments were unimaginable during the heyday of techno utopianism\u2014when Thomas Friedman and others were proclaiming that the world was flat, rendered indivisible by the internet. \u2014 Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune , 11 June 2022",
"Water cures are treatments with a sense of terroir, as indivisible from the places of their origin as wine and cheese are. \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Israel annexed the area after capturing it in the 1967 Middle East war and says the entire city is its eternal and indivisible capital. \u2014 CNN , 16 May 2022",
"The sequence derives much of its masochistic poetry from Willis\u2019s beguiling, paradoxical portrayal of strength as indivisible from fragility. \u2014 Adam Nayman, The New Yorker , 6 Apr. 2022",
"But none of that has reduced the full cost of one indivisible driver. \u2014 Paul Swartz, Fortune , 25 Jan. 2022",
"All this infrastructure and more is the indivisible asset precluding Republican divorce. \u2014 Bonnie Kristian, The Week , 2 June 2021",
"But the more immediate prize is realizing how incomplete our understanding of nature is, and how constrained our language and concepts have been by our own inflexible, indivisible bodies. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Israel captured all three territories in the 1967 war and says Jerusalem is indivisible . \u2014 Joseph Krauss, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2021"
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"The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs.",
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"One glaring aspect of this overreach is the government education establishment's efforts to indoctrinate children and circumvent parental authority. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"Some politicians and activists of late have made accusations that teaching about race and inclusion in school is divisive, or a way to indoctrinate students. \u2014 Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News , 19 May 2022",
"Supporters argued that the bill is needed to prevent classrooms from being used to indoctrinate children. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Some conservative groups claim critical race theory and social emotional learning are used to indoctrinate students. \u2014 Jay Croft, CNN , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This type of story, that Disney is a woke company used by the liberal Hollywood elite to indoctrinate children with radical gender theories, feeds right into that broad theory and reinforces it. \u2014 Oliver Darcy, CNN , 30 Mar. 2022",
"If Woodson were alive today, he\u2019d be portrayed by conservatives as a radical academic trying to indoctrinate the youth. \u2014 Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Feb. 2022",
"The party\u2019s solution was to indoctrinate and incorporate non-Han peoples into the dictatorship of the proletariat. \u2014 Ian Buruma, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Using the force of government to indoctrinate people into viewing their fellow citizens not as individuals, but as members of monolithic groups defined by skin color, is both deeply wrong and deeply harmful for all involved. \u2014 David Mcdonald, National Review , 6 Feb. 2022"
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"1626, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"Perhaps Henry James's idea of the taste for art in England as a \"tribute to propriety\" holds perversely true, with the indolent taste for scandal and celebrity having taken hold as a bizarre new form of etiquette. \u2014 Sebastian Smee , Prospect , July 2003",
"At home, however, there's something indolent about listening to a record that offers no hope for the unexpected. \u2014 John Milward , Rolling Stone , 11\u201325 July 1991",
"Air-conditioning is for the weak and indolent . This isn't the Ritz, you know. Be thankful for a little breeze. It was luxuries like A/C that brought down the Roman Empire. \u2014 Garrison Keillor , Lake Wobegon Days , (1985) 1986",
"She is indolent and irresponsible.",
"an indolent boy who had to be forced to help out with the chores",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bankers and financiers always had a somewhat dark reputation as swindlers, but technologists reframed them as indolent parasites who made nothing and preyed upon the inventions of others. \u2014 Ian Bogost, The Atlantic , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Ruth, the eldest, is moody, beautiful, indolent , and mysterious; Carolyn, nicknamed Corky, is a square striver and a good golfer; Douglas, Connell\u2019s alter ego, is indelible as one of the most authentic specimens of boyhood in American fiction. \u2014 Gemma Sieff, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Granted, not all who have been reluctant to return to work--at least while the checks keep coming--are necessarily indolent , but many seem to be and that is a bad condition to encourage in an individual and a nation. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 2 July 2021",
"Indeed, this was one of Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s many criticisms of the indolent slavers of the Old South. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 29 May 2021",
"The countess also casts her indolent spell on the resolute state prosecutor Norbert von Wenk (Bernhard Goetzke), who doggedly pursues Mabuse until he is hypnotized by the master to drive a speeding death car. \u2014 J. Hoberman, New York Times , 6 May 2020",
"Among men with an elevated PSA who are found on biopsy to have cancer, about 80 percent have an indolent form of the disease that is highly unlikely to become life-threatening. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Feb. 2020",
"This approach results in the diagnosis of many fewer indolent cancers that would likely never threaten a man\u2019s life, said Dr. Klotz, a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto and a mentor in the field of prostate cancer diagnosis. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Mar. 2020",
"The disease can be indolent , which spreads slowly with few signs and symptoms, or aggressive, which spreads quickly with severe symptoms, the institute said. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 16 Jan. 2020"
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"\u02c8in-d\u0259-l\u0259nt"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for indolent lazy , indolent , slothful mean not easily aroused to activity. lazy suggests a disinclination to work or to take trouble. take-out foods for lazy cooks indolent suggests a love of ease and a dislike of movement or activity. the heat made us indolent slothful implies a temperamental inability to act promptly or speedily when action or speed is called for. fired for being slothful about filling orders",
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"an indomitable spirit was needed to endure the rigors of pioneer life",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The phrase, used by Mr. Kim in his video messages, has become a proud expression of the indomitable spirit of Mykolaiv. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"The indomitable spirit of Anthony Purcell continues to inspire countless people who have been affected by spinal cord injuries. \u2014 Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel , 16 June 2022",
"Watching Schutte play against all that was stacked against him \u2014 including St. X's hungry, opportunistic defense \u2014 was a reminder to me of just how indomitable the spirit of a young, determined athlete can be. \u2014 Gabriel Stovall, The Courier-Journal , 5 Dec. 2021",
"Evan Francis Buckner, who died April 28 at the age of 3 and a half, was remembered Tuesday morning at a memorial service in Malibu as an indomitable spirit. \u2014 Cynthia Littleton, Variety , 24 May 2022",
"But the federal and state governments failed to reckon with the indomitable spirit of the Yavapai people who had already fought \u2013 and won \u2013 several battles dating from the late 19th century. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 20 May 2022",
"But the federal and state governments failed to reckon with the indomitable spirit of the Yavapai people who had already fought \u2013 and won \u2013 several battles dating from the late 19th century. \u2014 USA Today , 20 May 2022",
"Forty one years on, the indomitable spirit of the biggest mother of all is still with us, with a message for everyone. \u2014 Callahan Tormey, Town & Country , 8 May 2022",
"What connects them all to us is their indomitable desire to create. \u2014 Ainissa Ramirez, Scientific American , 26 Apr. 2022"
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"1634, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Late Latin indomitabilis , from Latin in- + domitare to tame \u2014 more at daunt":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041238",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The doomsday prophets materialized just days after indoor dining was shut down in major cities in March 2020. \u2014 Tim Carman, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"After offering to-go meals for most of the pandemic, Blanchet House reopened its doors for indoor dining on May 2. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 June 2022",
"Restaurant delivery has been largely resilient even as indoor dining has resumed in a boon for Uber Eats and competitor DoorDash Inc. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"Originally offering only outdoor dining, the restaurant now has indoor dining and brunch. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 1 June 2022",
"Health experts have offered varying suggestions on indoor dining, given the high rate of viral transmission. \u2014 Luke Money, Los Angeles Times , 25 May 2022",
"The nation's capital has ordered rounds of mass testing, banned indoor dining and shuttered schools and tourist sites. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 19 May 2022",
"Blackstones opened for indoor dining during the summer of 2020, but that proved unprofitable too, according to court records. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 10 May 2022",
"The department had relaxed mask mandates for city buildings in March and stopped enforcing a vaccine mandate for indoor dining in February. \u2014 Scott Calvert, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"The rules for indoor lacrosse , also called box lacrosse, allow for a goalie and five field players who take short shifts, as in ice hockey. There is a 30-second shot clock and play is stopped infrequently.",
"\u2014 Marvin Pave , Boston Globe , 17 Feb. 2013"
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"The game will be played indoors .",
"He worked indoors all afternoon.",
"We went indoors when it began to rain.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cutting Gardens - Planning, Planting, Cutting: 10 a.m. Instructor Kathy Whitman will teach when, where and what to plant, and how to create beauty in your garden and bring it indoors . \u2014 oregonlive , 25 Mar. 2022",
"New York state has also enacted a statewide mask mandate for indoor public spaces, although there\u2019s an exception for cases where everyone indoors is vaccinated. \u2014 Karen Kaplan Science And Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Humans around the world have daily exposures to it indoors and outdoors from multiple sources. . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Sheeran ended up doing it indoors after the couple had dinner. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, PEOPLE.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
"First, don't leave your camera in a hot car, and keep it indoors as much as possible. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 July 2021",
"Chamber Dance Project had planned for this performance to take place in the Cathedral\u2019s outdoor amphitheater on Saturday, but moved it indoors at the Cathedral on Sunday due to the threat of rain. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 July 2020",
"The coronavirus pandemic drove everybody indoors , and the world\u2019s most popular streaming service reaped the benefits last year with powerhouse films like Spenser Confidential, The Old Guard, Project Power, and Hubie Halloween. \u2014 Travis Bean, Forbes , 4 July 2021",
"Birdseed is one of their favorite places to hang out, so never store it indoors . \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living , 25 May 2021"
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"1832, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a blue crystalline compound C 24 H 14 N 2 O 2 S 2 formed by reaction of thiophene with isatin and sulfuric acid and used as a color test for the presence of thiophene in technical benzene":[]
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"International Scientific Vocabulary ind- entry 2 + phene + -in ; from a belief that it was a derivative of benzene; originally formed in German":""
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"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8d\u00e4f\u0259n\u0259\u0307n",
"\u02ccind\u0259\u02c8f\u0113n\u0259\u0307n"
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": any of various blue or green dyes":[]
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"circa 1881, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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"-\u02ccn\u022fl",
"-\u02c8n\u022fl",
"\u02ccin-(\u02cc)d\u014d-fi-\u02c8",
"\u02ccin-d\u014d-\u02c8f\u0113-\u02ccn\u014dl",
"\u02ccin-(\u02cc)d\u014d-fi-\u02c8n\u014dl"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235529",
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": to acknowledge receipt of (a sum specified) by one's signature on a document":[],
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": to inscribe (something, such as an official document) with a title or memorandum":[],
": to make over to another (the value represented in a check, bill, or note) by inscribing one's name on the document":[],
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"shoes endorsed by a pro basketball player"
],
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"He endorsed nausea without emesis and denied any associated shortness of breath.",
"\u2014 Dana Johnson et al."
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},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u022frs"
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": money earned from a product recommendation":[
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],
": sanction , approval":[
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],
": something that is written in the process of endorsing":[],
": the act or process of endorsing":[]
},
"examples":[
"The newspaper has announced its political endorsements .",
"We're pleased that the project has received your endorsement .",
"Without official endorsement , the project cannot proceed.",
"Many retired athletes are able to make a lot of money by doing product endorsements .",
"The bank requires that someone witness the endorsement of the check.",
"We need your endorsement before we can cash this check.",
"the endorsement of a license",
"receive an endorsement for speeding",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Schulz, who served in outgoing Gov. Larry Hogan\u2019s cabinet and has his endorsement , said the Democratic Governors Association spent $1 million on TV ads to bolster Daniel L. Cox, a GOP lawmaker from Frederick County and staunch Trump supporter. \u2014 Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"Former President Donald Trump stands with Blake Masters in a new TV ad, where Trump reiterates his endorsement of Masters and attacks two of Masters\u2019 opponents, Mark Brnovich and Jim Lamon. \u2014 Ben Kamisar, NBC News , 28 June 2022",
"Its most prominent endorsement so far is a spotlight on the World Economic Forum\u2019s website. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 28 June 2022",
"The event Monday followed his endorsement Friday by the state\u2019s largest labor organization, the Connecticut AFL-CIO, for reelection in his rematch with Stefanowski. \u2014 Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
"Katie Britt won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama Tuesday, defeating six-term Rep. Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald Trump took the unusual step of rescinding his initial Brooks endorsement . \u2014 Jill Colvin And Kim Chandler, Chicago Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"In Canton, in a small gaggle with reporters, Kemp was asked about the former President\u2019s endorsement of his opponent. \u2014 The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Trump endorsed Budd nearly a year ago, but the congressman was unable to leverage the former president\u2019s endorsement to boost his poll numbers and fundraising figures. \u2014 Paul Steinhauser, Fox News , 18 May 2022",
"In the meantime, Barnette\u2019s rise as the Trumpiest candidate who wasn\u2019t endorsed by Trump has raised questions about the value of the former President\u2019s endorsement . \u2014 Charlotte Alter, Time , 17 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1547, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"en-",
"in-\u02c8d\u022fr-sm\u0259nt"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021156",
"type":[
"noun"
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"indow":{
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"definitions":[
"Definition of indow obsolete variant of endow"
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"The indubitable charm of the movie is all the richer because it is tracked by quiet fears. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 21 Apr. 2022",
"This makes indubitable sense since that truck could suddenly swerve into the lane of the self-driving car. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"By the way, using San Francisco as a testbed does make indubitable sense. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 17 Oct. 2021",
"Wiseman had a rocky year for Memphis, playing just three games for the Tigers, but his talent is indubitable . \u2014 Calum Trenaman, CNN , 22 Dec. 2020",
"Friendship has been through a plethora of trends since the beginning of lockdown: the Houseparty phase (an indubitable nightmare), the era of the Zoom pub quiz and, more recently, the rise of the WhatsApp voice note essay. \u2014 Zoe Beaty, refinery29.com , 22 June 2020",
"Her character, Belle, feisty and tender, arrives late to the story but makes an indubitable impact. \u2014 Hamish Bowles, Vogue , 17 Oct. 2018",
"Maybe the result was not a reflection of English weaknesses at all, but of indubitable West German superiority. \u2014 SI.com , 11 June 2018",
"According to Mario Zagallo, such a seamless transition to life without Pele was indubitable . \u2014 SI.com , 16 Mar. 2018"
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"The advertisement is meant to induce people to eat more fruit.",
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"They will induce labor to avoid complications.",
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"Another part that stood out about Greene was his ability to induce weak contact. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
"Another part that stood out about Greene was his ability to induce weak contact. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
"Nielsen was a large Arrayit shareholder, and allegedly deceived Arrayit investors by communicating false and misleading information in order to induce other investors to purchase Arrayit securities and drive up the stock\u2019s price. \u2014 Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"In order for someone to induce positive changes within their own behavior, the steps for change must be clear, accessible and simple. \u2014 Sammy Rubin, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Then Marks reminded the panel that many vaccines require another dose months after the original course in order to induce long-term immunity. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 20 Sep. 2021",
"But with inflation hovering at the highest level in 50 years, rising wages could induce a wage-price spiral, where suppliers can continue to raise the prices of goods and wages increase in response or vice versa. \u2014 Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY , 3 June 2022",
"This tactic will also induce more people to stay on until the end of the webinar. \u2014 Expert Panel, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Paradoxically, the same dose did induce an adequate response in children ages 6 to 23 months. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 24 May 2022"
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"This experience illustrates how high rates had to rise both in nominal and real terms to induce a mild recession. \u2014 Nick Sargen, Forbes , 5 July 2022",
"Misoprostol can be used to induce labor by softening and opening the cervix in patients ready to give birth vaginally, prevents drug induced gastric ulcers and treats postpartum hemorrhage in combination with oxytocin. \u2014 Dr. Erica Jalal, ABC News , 30 June 2022",
"The individual mandate was intended to induce younger and healthier individuals to buy coverage through Covered California to widen the pool and lower rates overall as Democratic leaders move California closer to universal coverage. \u2014 Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"There might be a principled symmetry in that tactic, but these pulses ultimately feel too faint to induce any kind of trance state, let alone a committed two-step. \u2014 Chris Richards, Washington Post , 20 June 2022",
"These stories are eye-catching and bound to induce hoarding, panic buying, and beggar-thy-neighbor behavior. \u2014 Thin Lei Win, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"Teagan White\u2019s picture of this chimeric animal, glowing violet and indigo against an inky deep-sea background, is likely to induce awe, respect and the hope never to come across such a venomous thing in the wild. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"The rules state that NIL isn\u2019t supposed to be used to induce recruits to come to a school. \u2014 Doug Lesmerises, cleveland , 9 June 2022",
"Price turbulence is enough to induce the Bitcoin bends, and the system is environmentally destructive, since the computational network uses exorbitant amounts of electricity. \u2014 New York Times , 4 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That ad alternated with another, for Estrella Damm beer\u2014maybe a fitting inducement for the British public, who had been granted an extra day off and who never seem to need encouragement to raise a glass, can, or bottle. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 4 June 2022",
"Athletics directors from Football Bowl Subdivision institutions are concerned with using name, image and likeness (NIL) as an inducement for recruiting, according to a new survey. \u2014 Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel , 4 May 2022",
"But if the abatement is weighted more, So that there\u2019s a bigger inducement to go and build an Hoff. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 18 May 2022",
"There is speculation the ad revenue allocated for developers would be a financial inducement . \u2014 Brad Adgate, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"International trade is a potent force for prosperity; America should wield it as an inducement to draw nations toward our values, while recognizing that our national security takes precedence over commercial interests. \u2014 Peter J. Travers, National Review , 29 Mar. 2022",
"In the last days before name, image and likeness was approved by NCAA rules, did a guy like Zion Williamson really choose to play at Duke without some kind of improper inducement behind the scenes",
"In the earliest convents, monastic orders painted fortresslike walls in somber grisaille, often filling the chapels where Indigenous initiates gathered for Mass with brutal images of the Last Judgment, a violent inducement to conversion. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Working with the world\u2019s best coaches was a major inducement . \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Jan. 2022"
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"The advertisement is meant to induce people to eat more fruit.",
"No one knows what induced him to leave .",
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"They will induce labor to avoid complications.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Another part that stood out about Greene was his ability to induce weak contact. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
"Another part that stood out about Greene was his ability to induce weak contact. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
"Nielsen was a large Arrayit shareholder, and allegedly deceived Arrayit investors by communicating false and misleading information in order to induce other investors to purchase Arrayit securities and drive up the stock\u2019s price. \u2014 Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"In order for someone to induce positive changes within their own behavior, the steps for change must be clear, accessible and simple. \u2014 Sammy Rubin, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Then Marks reminded the panel that many vaccines require another dose months after the original course in order to induce long-term immunity. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 20 Sep. 2021",
"But with inflation hovering at the highest level in 50 years, rising wages could induce a wage-price spiral, where suppliers can continue to raise the prices of goods and wages increase in response or vice versa. \u2014 Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY , 3 June 2022",
"This tactic will also induce more people to stay on until the end of the webinar. \u2014 Expert Panel, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Paradoxically, the same dose did induce an adequate response in children ages 6 to 23 months. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 24 May 2022"
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"The club will induct six new members this year.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The voting process to induct new honorees remains the same and factors in ticket membership tenure with the Bengals. \u2014 Dave Clark, The Enquirer , 17 May 2022",
"At the request of her family, the ceremony to induct The Judds into the Country Music Hall of Fame went on as planned, with Wynonna accepting the highest honor accorded in the country music world on behalf of the mother-daughter duo. \u2014 al , 3 May 2022",
"Angela Bassett celebrated the life and musical achievements of Tina Turner with an electrifying speech to induct the legendary artist into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday, Oct. 30. \u2014 Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone , 31 Oct. 2021",
"The Country Music Hall of Fame will induct Ray Charles and The Judds into its ranks on Sunday night, though the death of Naomi Judd a day earlier will undoubtedly alter the normally celebratory ceremony. \u2014 Kristin M. Hall, Chicago Tribune , 1 May 2022",
"For their rendition of the 1990 Top 5 hit, Naomi and daughter Wynonna sang face to face on an outdoor stage in front of Nashville\u2019s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum \u2014 the very institution that was to induct them as members this Sunday. \u2014 Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Paul McCartney has shared a heartfelt tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, just months after the legendary star helped induct him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The Orlando Magic will induct former general manager John Gabriel and coach Brian Hill into their Hall of Fame in March, the team announced Tuesday morning. \u2014 Khobi Price, orlandosentinel.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has made an effort in recent years to nominate and induct artists who aren't traditional rock artists but have made major contributions to popular music and influenced other musicians. \u2014 Joe Sutton, CNN , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Muzzle-velocity testing was done at Federal\u2019s factory through a coil of inductance sensors with a 30-inch test barrel under SAAMI specifications. \u2014 Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life , 8 Jan. 2020"
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"a new crop of inductees produced by the draft",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s what the upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee texted to his pal and both men\u2019s mutual mentor Dr. Dre on Sunday, two days after Lamar released his 5th studio album. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 16 May 2022",
"The 2017 Michigan Sports Hall of Fame inductee has been Mike Stone's partner on 97.1 The Ticket during the morning show since 2020. \u2014 Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Spotify on Friday took down Young's music after the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee asked that his music be removed if the service would continue to have podcast host Joe Rogan on the platform. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 30 Jan. 2022",
"For more than half a century, the 73-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has spent up to six months a year on the road, bringing his quintessential brand of rock psycho-drama to fiery fans. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Kuechly was a 2021 St. Xavier Athletic Hall of Fame inductee . \u2014 Dave Clark, The Enquirer , 10 May 2022",
"The country music legend was announced Tuesday as a 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee , yet another industry kudo in a career brimming with accolades. \u2014 Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee has expressed skepticism about vaccine mandates, lockdowns and other measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 17 May 2022",
"So how does the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee , with four decades of material to choose from, create the setlist for her first concert back on stage with a live audience since 2020"
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"Many people attended the bishop's induction .",
"The induction ceremony was held at a banquet hall.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Prescott was immersed in Mobile\u2019s annual all-star game again on Sunday night at the induction ceremony for the Senior Bowl Hall of Fame\u2019s Class of 2022. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 27 June 2022",
"McCartney posted a picture to Instagram of himself and Hawkins onstage at the October 2021 induction ceremony, and wrote that he was shocked by Hawkins' death. \u2014 Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com , 26 June 2022",
"The grand unveiling of the Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame will be held during the 2022 induction ceremony July 23 from noon to 3 p.m. \u2014 Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer , 24 June 2022",
"The Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame will hold its newest induction ceremony Sunday at the American Jewish University in the Sepulveda Pass. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"The honor, presented to young songwriters impacting the music industry through original songs, was presented to the 23-year-old artist two-and-a-half hours into the 51st annual induction ceremony. \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 17 June 2022",
"In November 1937, nearly 200 members of the Klan, wearing spectral robes, publicly burned a cross during an induction ceremony. \u2014 Brandon Tensley, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"The 2023 class will be announced in January, with the formal induction ceremony scheduled for Dec. 5 at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner in Las Vegas. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The year\u2019s induction ceremony was set for May at Public Auditorium. \u2014 Troy L. Smith, cleveland , 29 May 2022"
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"-\u02c8dy\u00fc",
"in-\u02c8d\u00fc"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050414",
"type":[
"verb"
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": to give free rein to":[],
": to indulge oneself":[],
": to take unrestrained pleasure in : gratify":[],
": to treat with excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration":[],
": to yield to the desire of : humor":[
"please indulge me for a moment"
]
},
"examples":[
"It's my birthday. I'm going to indulge myself and eat whatever I want to eat.",
"It's my birthday. I'm going to indulge .",
"Please indulge me while I review the topics we covered yesterday.",
"The museum is an excellent place to let children indulge their curiosity about dinosaurs.",
"She bought a house with a big yard so that she could indulge her passion for gardening.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After refueling yourself with a pizza-like flammkuchen, or a vesper plate of local ham, sausages and Bibbeles K\u00e4s, a regional cottage cheese, indulge in a piece of Schwarzw\u00e4lder Kirschschnitte. \u2014 Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"But Butcher won't let Hughie indulge \u2014 Butcher's soul is already corrupted, while Hughie still has a chance of emerging with his humanity intact. \u2014 Alex Raiman, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"The concept is that in times of a recession and other economic stresses, women will indulge in discretionary purchases that provide an emotional uplift without breaking the budget. \u2014 Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The center provides guests the chance to take part in a yoga or meditation class, enjoy a nature trail hike, or go for more low-key options like side-by-side watercolor painting or a cooking class, or to indulge in an Ayurvedic spa treatment. \u2014 Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Leave your busy schedule behind and indulge in a summer by the river. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 June 2022",
"And wags can\u2019t help but indulge in a new round of schadenfreude at Damon\u2019s expense. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"Now, with the city experiencing a revitalization of sorts after two-plus years of pandemic restrictions, the Gold Room is hoping that New Yorkers take inspiration from that time and indulge in what the bar has to offer. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 7 June 2022",
"Stanly Ranch has a host of activities guests can book and indulge in, from a tour of the Grange with the charming Farm Director Nick Runkle, to a falconry display and the opportunity to drive top sports cars at the Silverado Trail. \u2014 Sarah Spellings, Vogue , 19 May 2022"
],
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"circa 1623, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin indulg\u0113re to be complaisant":""
},
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"in-\u02c8d\u0259lj"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for indulge indulge , pamper , humor , spoil , baby , mollycoddle mean to show undue favor to a person's desires and feelings. indulge implies excessive compliance and weakness in gratifying another's or one's own desires. indulged myself with food at the slightest excuse pamper implies inordinate gratification of desire for luxury and comfort with consequent enervating effect. pampered by the amenities of modern living humor stresses a yielding to a person's moods or whims. humored him by letting him tell the story spoil stresses the injurious effects on character by indulging or pampering. foolish parents spoil their children baby suggests excessive care, attention, or solicitude. babying students by grading too easily mollycoddle suggests an excessive degree of care and attention to another's health or welfare. refused to mollycoddle her malingering son",
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"cater (to)",
"gratify",
"humor"
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"noun",
"verb"
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": an extension of time for payment or performance granted as a favor":[],
": an indulgent act":[],
": remission of part or all of the temporal and especially purgatorial punishment that according to Roman Catholicism is due for sins whose eternal punishment has been remitted and whose guilt has been pardoned (as through the sacrament of reconciliation)":[],
": something indulged in":[
"walk off gastronomic indulgences",
"\u2014 Barbara L. Michaels"
],
": the act of indulging : the state of being indulgent":[]
},
"examples":[
"She lived a life of selfish indulgence .",
"his indulgence in forbidden pleasures",
"She found that she couldn't afford the indulgences she had once enjoyed.",
"For our anniversary we allowed ourselves the indulgence of an elegant dinner at our favorite restaurant.",
"Good food is my only indulgence .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And the path to freedom starts, Berrie writes, with a little indulgence . \u2014 Gabby Shacknai, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Boozy ice cream cups, a perfect indulgence on the warm May evening. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 9 May 2022",
"And for some, there\u2019s also guilt, for the indulgence of talking about anxious feelings at a time when others are suffering far more. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Mar. 2022",
"One thing seemed more sinister than Satanic slogans\u2014the pampered indulgence of the rock lifestyle. \u2014 Bob Larsen, SPIN , 12 Feb. 2022",
"The book\u2019s second half\u2014four chapters prefaced by an interlude on cyberspace\u2014makes the case that today\u2019s radical actors, energized by the distraction-prone self- indulgence of online media, can\u2019t sustain radical change. \u2014 Barton Swaim, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The Happy Hour package includes a gel manicure, a luxurious blow dry and seasonal frapp\u00e9 to enjoy during the treatment, the perfect indulgence before a night out. \u2014 Bridget Arsenault, Forbes , 26 Dec. 2021",
"There is a difference between living with a right and relying on the indulgence of a state legislature. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Self-care is a broad term, and sometimes people confuse self-care with self- indulgence , or an act of selfishness. \u2014 Annie O\u2019sullivan, Good Housekeeping , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u0259l-j\u0259ns",
"in-\u02c8d\u0259l-j\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"benevolence",
"boon",
"courtesy",
"favor",
"grace",
"kindness",
"mercy",
"service",
"turn"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065045",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"indulgent":{
"antonyms":[
"hard",
"harsh",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict"
],
"definitions":{
": done or enjoyed as a special treat or pleasure":[
"indulgent desserts"
],
": willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence":[
"indulgent grandparents"
]
},
"examples":[
"He gave the child an indulgent smile.",
"she was perhaps a bit too indulgent with her children, who always seemed to get away with everything",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At 2 hours and 30 minutes, the play can sometimes seem indulgent ; parts of the story feel undigested and perhaps indigestible. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Treat steak-loving dads to an indulgent cut on the Upper West Side. \u2014 Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes , 15 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",
"This recipe is so creamy and indulgent that the addition of peas won't even phase picky eaters. \u2014 Katelyn Lunders, Woman's Day , 15 June 2022",
"Cover it up with an elegant robe \u2014 whether terry cloth or silk \u2014 to make your mornings feel more indulgent . \u2014 Frances Sol\u00e1-santiago, refinery29.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Despite the unending heaviness of world events, there is still room for inanity; delight doesn\u2019t always need to feel indulgent , and art doesn\u2019t need to be sombre or humorless. \u2014 Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The film\u2019s long running time doesn\u2019t feel indulgent at all, but electrifyingly necessary, the only way to draw out the restrained sorrows of its insular ensemble. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Named boeuf Bourguignon after the famed red wine from the Burgundy region of France, this dish combines a nice, fatty cut of beef with a dry pinot noir and plenty of fresh vegetables to create a hearty and indulgent stew. \u2014 Foren Clark, CNN , 30 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1509, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin indulgent-, indulgens , present participle of indulg\u0113re":""
},
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"in-\u02c8d\u0259l-j\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"charitable",
"clement",
"easy",
"soft"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174746",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
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"indurate":{
"antonyms":[
"concrete",
"congeal",
"firm (up)",
"freeze",
"harden",
"set",
"solidify"
],
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": physically or morally hardened":[],
": to become established":[],
": to establish firmly : confirm":[],
": to grow hard : harden":[],
": to make hard":[
"great heat indurates clay"
],
": to make hardy : inure":[],
": to make unfeeling, stubborn, or obdurate":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"an indurate heart that admits no love or mercy",
"Verb",
"clay that had been indurated by long exposure to the summer sun",
"such a brutal upbringing could only callous his soul and indurate his heart to the suffering of others"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1538, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin induratus , past participle of indurare , from in- + durare to harden, from durus hard \u2014 more at during":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8in-d\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t",
"-dy\u0259-",
"in-\u02c8du\u0307r-\u0259t",
"\u02c8in-d\u0259-r\u0259t",
"-\u02c8dyu\u0307r-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"affectless",
"callous",
"case-hardened",
"cold-blooded",
"compassionless",
"desensitized",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"insensitive",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"obdurate",
"pachydermatous",
"pitiless",
"remorseless",
"ruthless",
"slash-and-burn",
"soulless",
"stony",
"stoney",
"stonyhearted",
"take-no-prisoners",
"thick-skinned",
"uncharitable",
"unfeeling",
"unmerciful",
"unsparing",
"unsympathetic"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230631",
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"industrial psychology":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the application of the findings and methods of experimental, clinical, and social psychology to industrial concerns":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Another famous Purdue aviation alumnus, Sullenberger earned a master's degree in industrial psychology from the university in 1973. \u2014 Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star , 20 July 2021",
"Brian Crawford, a former fire chief who now is the city administrator in Shreveport, La., has a master\u2019s degree in industrial psychology and has studied how firefighters think and behave. \u2014 Mike Hendricks, kansascity , 13 July 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1924, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-201051",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"industrious":{
"antonyms":[
"idle",
"inactive",
"unbusy",
"unemployed",
"unoccupied"
],
"definitions":{
": constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent":[
"an industrious worker"
],
": skillful , ingenious":[]
},
"examples":[
"He is an industrious worker.",
"an industrious worker who never seems to sleep",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Will some industrious self-starters head out to the community college and attend night or weekend classes to be up on the latest software programs or marketing trends",
"Their defenders argued that commoners were in fact industrious and self-sufficient. \u2014 Eula Biss, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
"In the collaged screenprint, grimly industrious pale-skinned men in masks apparently run the show, even seeming to process unmasked people through a machine. \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"Variance and heterogeneity provides lessons for industrious winemakers. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Sorting through what has been preserved of Stalin\u2019s massive collection, Roberts encountered an industrious annotator. \u2014 Joseph Stalin, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"These bakers brought industrious spirits and a taste of Afghanistan with them to India. \u2014 Shefali Rafiq, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 May 2022",
"De Jong is too industrious , Busquets too defensive, Verratti too chaotic, Jorginho too busy. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, people who were industrious at work, ardent in pursuing relationships, and vigilant about defending their honor could all be called jealous. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 11 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u0259-str\u0113-\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for industrious busy , industrious , diligent , assiduous , sedulous mean actively engaged or occupied. busy chiefly stresses activity as opposed to idleness or leisure. too busy to spend time with the children industrious implies characteristic or habitual devotion to work. industrious employees diligent suggests earnest application to some specific object or pursuit. very diligent in her pursuit of a degree assiduous stresses careful and unremitting application. assiduous practice sedulous implies painstaking and persevering application. a sedulous investigation of the murder",
"synonyms":[
"active",
"assiduous",
"bustling",
"busy",
"diligent",
"employed",
"engaged",
"hopping",
"laborious",
"occupied",
"sedulous",
"tied-up",
"working"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204609",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"industriously":{
"antonyms":[
"idle",
"inactive",
"unbusy",
"unemployed",
"unoccupied"
],
"definitions":{
": constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent":[
"an industrious worker"
],
": skillful , ingenious":[]
},
"examples":[
"He is an industrious worker.",
"an industrious worker who never seems to sleep",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Will some industrious self-starters head out to the community college and attend night or weekend classes to be up on the latest software programs or marketing trends",
"Their defenders argued that commoners were in fact industrious and self-sufficient. \u2014 Eula Biss, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
"In the collaged screenprint, grimly industrious pale-skinned men in masks apparently run the show, even seeming to process unmasked people through a machine. \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"Variance and heterogeneity provides lessons for industrious winemakers. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Sorting through what has been preserved of Stalin\u2019s massive collection, Roberts encountered an industrious annotator. \u2014 Joseph Stalin, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"These bakers brought industrious spirits and a taste of Afghanistan with them to India. \u2014 Shefali Rafiq, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 May 2022",
"De Jong is too industrious , Busquets too defensive, Verratti too chaotic, Jorginho too busy. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, people who were industrious at work, ardent in pursuing relationships, and vigilant about defending their honor could all be called jealous. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 11 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u0259-str\u0113-\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for industrious busy , industrious , diligent , assiduous , sedulous mean actively engaged or occupied. busy chiefly stresses activity as opposed to idleness or leisure. too busy to spend time with the children industrious implies characteristic or habitual devotion to work. industrious employees diligent suggests earnest application to some specific object or pursuit. very diligent in her pursuit of a degree assiduous stresses careful and unremitting application. assiduous practice sedulous implies painstaking and persevering application. a sedulous investigation of the murder",
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"active",
"assiduous",
"bustling",
"busy",
"diligent",
"employed",
"engaged",
"hopping",
"laborious",
"occupied",
"sedulous",
"tied-up",
"working"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052214",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"index librorum prohibitorum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a list of proscribed books":[],
": a list of books condemned in whole or in part as dangerous to faith or morals by church authority and forbidden to Roman Catholics \u2014 compare index expurgatorius":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u022fr-",
"-l\u012b\u02c8br\u014dr\u0259mpr\u014d\u02cchib\u0259\u02c8t\u014dr\u0259m"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, index of prohibited books":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143959"
},
"indecomponible":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": indecomposable":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6in\u02ccd\u0113k\u0259m\u00a6p\u014dn\u0259b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"in- entry 1 + decompon- (from Latin de from, down, away + componere to compose, put together) + -ible":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144759"
},
"indecomposable":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": not capable of being separated into component parts or elements":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccin-\u02ccd\u0113-k\u0259m-\u02c8p\u014d-z\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1807, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144816"
},
"index number":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a number used to indicate change in magnitude (as of cost or price) as compared with the magnitude at some specified time usually taken as 100":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its index number is down, but not enough for anyone else from Washington to New England to beat it. \u2014 Eric Griffith, PCMAG , 17 June 2022",
"April\u2019s affordability index number represents an 18% increase from last year\u2019s, according to the company. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 7 June 2022",
"Mississippi places most poorly in this system, with an index number of 100 based on a high percentage of uninsured drivers and high fatality rate. \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Residents can look up their property through their property index number or address and pay their current tax bill online at www.dupageco.org. \u2014 Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com , 13 Aug. 2021",
"Since Woodward arrived for the 2019 season, Odor\u2019s offensive index number according to fangraphs.com is -22.6. \u2014 Evan Grant, Dallas News , 24 Aug. 2020",
"The aggregate index number dropped to 46.9 last week, down from 51.3 a week earlier and 54.3 two weeks ago. \u2014 Erik Hertzberg, Bloomberg.com , 27 Mar. 2020",
"According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Babcock wrote his own rules, gave English names to the tiles and added index numbers to the tiles. \u2014 Kelly Wilkinson, Indianapolis Star , 4 Feb. 2020",
"The overall index number was bad, but even more worrisome is the report's drop in factory orders of exports, said Torsten Slok, chief economist at Deutsche Bank. \u2014 Anneken Tappe, CNN , 1 Oct. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145907"
},
"index of refraction":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun phrase"
],
"definitions":{
": refractive index":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1829, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150311"
},
"indifferently":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm , or concern for something : apathetic":[
"indifferent to suffering and poverty"
],
": marked by no special liking for or dislike of something":[
"indifferent about which task he was given"
],
": being neither good nor bad : mediocre":[
"does indifferent work"
],
": being neither right nor wrong":[],
": being neither excessive nor inadequate : moderate":[
"hills of indifferent size"
],
": marked by impartiality : unbiased":[],
": that does not matter one way or the other":[],
": of no importance or value one way or the other":[],
": characterized by lack of active quality : neutral":[
"an indifferent chemical"
],
": not differentiated":[
"indifferent tissues of the human body"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8di-f\u0259rnt",
"in-\u02c8di-f\u0259-r\u0259nt",
"-f(\u0259-)r\u0259nt",
"-\u02c8di-fr\u0259nt",
"in-\u02c8dif-\u0259rnt, -\u02c8dif-(\u0259-)rent"
],
"synonyms":[
"apathetic",
"casual",
"complacent",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"insensible",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"perfunctory",
"pococurante",
"unconcerned",
"uncurious",
"uninterested"
],
"antonyms":[
"concerned",
"interested"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for indifferent indifferent , unconcerned , incurious , aloof , detached , disinterested mean not showing or feeling interest. indifferent implies neutrality of attitude from lack of inclination, preference, or prejudice. indifferent to the dictates of fashion unconcerned suggests a lack of sensitivity or regard for others' needs or troubles. unconcerned about the homeless incurious implies an inability to take a normal interest due to dullness of mind or to self-centeredness. incurious about the world aloof suggests a cool reserve arising from a sense of superiority or disdain for inferiors or from shyness. aloof from his coworkers detached implies an objective attitude achieved through absence of prejudice or selfishness. observed family gatherings with detached amusement disinterested implies a circumstantial freedom from concern for personal or especially financial advantage that enables one to judge or advise without bias. judged by a panel of disinterested observers",
"examples":[
"It can hardly be argued, by himself or by his defenders, that he was indifferent to, or unaware of, the true situation. \u2014 Christopher Hitchens , Harper's , March 2001",
"\u2026 aspects of language that the earlier grammarians were indifferent to. \u2014 Geoffrey Nunberg , Atlantic , December 1983",
"For it is commonly said and commonly believed that science is completely neutral and indifferent as to the ends and values which move men to act \u2026 \u2014 John Dewey , Freedom and Culture , 1939",
"The movie was poorly received by an indifferent public.",
"Was the food good, bad, or indifferent ",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Forgoing domestic production in favor of Saudi Arabia and other dictatorships also exacerbates the carbon-emission problem, as these producers are largely indifferent to production methods limiting methane and CO2 leaks. \u2014 Thomas J. Duesterberg, WSJ , 12 June 2022",
"Federal agents often didn\u2019t communicate adequately with victims\u2019 families and were frequently indifferent about investigations. \u2014 Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 June 2022",
"Many employers also use insurers simply as third-party administrators, paying them flat fees, which could make insurers indifferent to the prices that providers charge employers. \u2014 Bob Herman, STAT , 14 May 2022",
"Other Presidents are more indifferent to history, and the last Oval Office occupant in particular seems to have adopted a fiercely ahistorical posture. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The novel ends with a surprising twist, that, depending on one's perceptions, will leave the reader either delighted or disappointed, but definitely not indifferent . \u2014 Mary Cadden, USA TODAY , 11 Oct. 2020",
"Americans are indifferent to adding a potential income cap, such as $150,000 per student loan borrower, to wide-scale student loan forgiveness. \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The outcome has been a deadlock that has enriched and enabled domestic and foreign actors to be indifferent to the suffering of ordinary Libyans. \u2014 Mohammed El-senussi, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"The new urgency reflects a sharp change in attitudes in Taiwan, where many had long been indifferent to China\u2019s advances, resigned to defeat or blindly optimistic about support from the United States. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin indifferent-, indifferens , from in- + different-, differens , present participle of differre to be different \u2014 more at differ":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150738"
},
"indicated airspeed":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the airspeed of an airplane as indicated on an airspeed indicator : the airspeed in an atmosphere of standard sea-level density that would give rise to a dynamic pressure equal to that encountered":[]
},
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"Tesla was one of the most prolific and imaginative inventors of the 20th century; his resum\u00e9 includes the alternating current, induction motor , and many other concepts that remained theoretical for decades after his death. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 29 Oct. 2021",
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"Designed to accommodate future weapons such as railguns and lasers, the Zumwalts integrate feature an integrated power system consisting of two main turbine generators, two auxiliary turbine generators, and two 34.6MW advanced induction motors . \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 5 Sep. 2018",
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"This is in part the work of indole , an aromatic compound present in foul-smelling substances like coal tar and feces, which in trace amounts gives the most delicate of flowers an almost animal opulence. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Oct. 2021",
"In fact, the flower produces dimethyl trisulfide (also found in Limburger cheese and cabbage), trimethylamine (normally released by rotting fish and animals), isovaleric acid (a major component of foot odor) and indole (found in human feces). \u2014 Karl J. P. Smith, Scientific American , 29 July 2016",
"Like jasmine and gardenia, the flower\u2019s aroma has an under-funk of indole , a molecule that\u2019s also present in (sorry) feces. \u2014 April Long, Town & Country , 13 Sep. 2019"
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"noun"
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"an industrious worker"
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": skillful , ingenious":[]
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"assiduous",
"bustling",
"busy",
"diligent",
"employed",
"engaged",
"hopping",
"laborious",
"occupied",
"sedulous",
"tied-up",
"working"
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"unbusy",
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"examples":[
"He is an industrious worker.",
"an industrious worker who never seems to sleep",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Will some industrious self-starters head out to the community college and attend night or weekend classes to be up on the latest software programs or marketing trends",
"Their defenders argued that commoners were in fact industrious and self-sufficient. \u2014 Eula Biss, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
"In the collaged screenprint, grimly industrious pale-skinned men in masks apparently run the show, even seeming to process unmasked people through a machine. \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"Variance and heterogeneity provides lessons for industrious winemakers. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Sorting through what has been preserved of Stalin\u2019s massive collection, Roberts encountered an industrious annotator. \u2014 Joseph Stalin, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"These bakers brought industrious spirits and a taste of Afghanistan with them to India. \u2014 Shefali Rafiq, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 May 2022",
"De Jong is too industrious , Busquets too defensive, Verratti too chaotic, Jorginho too busy. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, people who were industrious at work, ardent in pursuing relationships, and vigilant about defending their honor could all be called jealous. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 11 Apr. 2022"
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"Late Latin indocibilis , from Latin in- in- entry 1 + Late Latin docibilis docible":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lundgren also claimed a repeat title in the 200 individual medley (2:02.74), her event in the last state meet in her freshman year. \u2014 Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 May 2022",
"Will Modglin, who has twice swept the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard individual medley at state meets, did not make the team in his signature events. \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The Axe were dominant on Saturday, with gold from Claire Sheerin (200-yard individual medley and 100-yard butterfly), Kirsti Keppo (500-yard freestyle), Sophia Slivanova (100-yard backstroke) and the 200-yard medley relay team. \u2014 Nik Streng | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 14 Feb. 2022",
"In the 400-meter individual medley , Cronk set a Deaflympics and deaf world record. \u2014 David Dekunder, San Antonio Express-News , 18 May 2022",
"Han, competing in the 400-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle and 400-meter individual medley , could become the youngest American swimmer to make a world championship team. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The runner-up, Virginia\u2019s Emma Weyant, was a silver medalist in the 400-meter individual medley at last summer\u2019s Tokyo Olympics. \u2014 Paul Newberry, ajc , 18 Mar. 2022",
"McDonald won the 200 individual medley in 2:00.06 and the 500 freestyle in 4:53.10. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Yauger, just a freshman, won the 200 individual medley and finished second in the 100 butterfly. \u2014 James Weber, The Enquirer , 16 Feb. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1949, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-034521"
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"The hoppy extreme of pale ale is best represented by the enormous bitterness of so-called India pale ale (IPA).",
"\u2014 Benjamin Radcliff"
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": the quality or state of being indiscernible":[]
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"|\u0259in-",
"-l\u0259t\u0113",
"\u00a6ind\u0259\u0307\u02ccs|\u0259rn\u0259\u00a6bil\u0259t\u0113",
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"india buff":{
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"noun"
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": a light yellowish brown that is redder, lighter, and stronger than khaki, yellower than walnut brown, and yellower and paler than cinnamon":[]
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"noun"
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"first_known_use":{
"1749, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052321"
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": to form into a distinct entity":[]
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"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vi-j\u0259-\u02ccw\u0101t"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This will be the first of many local calls to individuate the most talented artists in specific regions of the world and give them the opportunity to emerge and work within the Cond\u00e9 Nast Global Network. \u2014 Alessia Glaviano, Vogue , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The first pieces in this collection are quiet stories of girls individuating within the family or at school. \u2014 Heidi Pitlor, New York Times , 21 Apr. 2020",
"The impulse to individuate wild animals by name \u2014 to transform camera subjects into characters \u2014 is understandable enough in the context of a kid-friendly entertainment. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2020",
"The rivalry between God and Satan, each attended by a court of named and individuated angels, is first configured in these texts as a struggle between absolute good and evil. \u2014 James Romm, WSJ , 22 Dec. 2017",
"Olive's struggle to do what her age requires her to do \u2014 individuate from her dad while honoring her own needs and convictions \u2014 comes to a head in a heartbreaking denouement. \u2014 Meredith Maran, chicagotribune.com , 10 July 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"1614, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052854"
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"noun"
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": a labor union open to workers in an industry irrespective of their occupation or craft \u2014 compare craft union":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Still, there's a certain irony in the fact that about a quarter of the 400,000 current members of the Union of Autoworkers\u2013the archetypal industrial union \u2014 work at universities. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Republicans should redouble their efforts to court industrial unions and their millions of members, reminding them that the GOP is the party that wants to save their jobs. \u2014 Stephen Moore, WSJ , 22 Jan. 2020",
"This is why public unions differ from industrial unions that negotiate with a single private employer, and why Franklin Roosevelt opposed unions for public workers. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 20 June 2019",
"Think about it: A huge amount of what America consumes is made overseas, with the implicit consent of the nation\u2019s now nearly neutered industrial unions . \u2014 Louis Uchitelle, New York Times , 20 Apr. 2018",
"Instead, the core groups behind the New Deal \u2014 industrial unions , African Americans, and urban liberals \u2014 transformed the party from below. \u2014 Eric Schickler, Vox , 21 Apr. 2018",
"Trump, who won the district by 20 percentage points in 2016, is due to make his second stop on Republican candidate Rick Saccone\u2019s behalf Saturday, days after announcing a new steel tariff plan celebrated by industrial unions . \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Mar. 2018",
"The first indication that something is amiss with that position is that the NLRA was limited to industrial unions when it was enacted in 1935\u2014and for good reason. \u2014 Richard A. Epstein, Newsweek , 23 Feb. 2018",
"Low unemployment gives wage negotiators a chance to press for higher pay deals as many have done so far this year, including IG Metall, Germany\u2019s biggest industrial union . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Mar. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1902, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054158"
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"indeterminacy":{
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"noun"
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": the quality or state of being indeterminate":[]
},
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"-\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-",
"\u02ccin-di-\u02c8t\u0259rm-n\u0259-s\u0113"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The dual and dueling narrators lend the events of the book a high level of indeterminacy that proves both mysterious and entertaining. \u2014 Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post , 4 July 2022",
"The convention of courtroom journalism is to make a scruple of indeterminacy . \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"To build a world in the fullest sense of the word requires an almost Buddha-like commitment to self-negation and indeterminacy . \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Pendleton, 38, whose work often incorporates language layered like a palimpsest, finds his artistic connection to Simone in a shared commitment to the complexity, at times the indeterminacy , of voice. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
"How many people, generally unmotivated to learn, find their way to a concept as intimidating as, say, quantum indeterminacy by way of the (far more welcoming) simulation argument",
"The indeterminacy of the paintings extends to Kurant\u2019s practice as a whole. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Again the concept isn\u2019t clear, but its indeterminacy offers a convenient vessel for pouring in propaganda about race and ethnicity. \u2014 John O. Mcginnis, WSJ , 15 July 2021",
"That feeling of indeterminacy is, of course, the very allure of an alcoholic buzz. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 Dec. 2020"
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"1649, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064502"
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"adverb",
"noun"
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": a particular being or thing as distinguished from a class, species, or collection: such as":[],
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": a single organism as distinguished from a group":[],
": a particular person":[
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": an indivisible entity":[],
": the reference of a name or variable of the lowest logical type in a calculus":[]
},
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"-\u02c8vi-j\u0259-w\u0259l",
"-\u02c8vi-j\u0259l",
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vij-w\u0259l",
"-\u02c8vi-j\u00fc-\u0259l",
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vi-j\u0259-w\u0259l"
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"individualized",
"particular",
"patented",
"peculiar",
"personal",
"personalized",
"private",
"privy",
"separate",
"singular",
"subjective",
"unique"
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"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"What are the individual traits of the breed",
"The doctor carefully evaluates the individual needs of her patients.",
"Students will receive as much individual attention as possible.",
"She has a very individual style of writing.",
"a pattern as individual as a fingerprint",
"Noun",
"They promote a philosophy that sacrifices the rights of the individual for the public welfare.",
"They are both rather odd individuals .",
"Are you the individual I spoke with on the telephone",
"She's a very talented individual .",
"The markings on tigers are unique to each individual .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Meanwhile, the court ruling puts a spotlight on the efforts of individual states and regional compacts, such as one that Massachusetts belongs to, called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. \u2014 David Abel, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"The firm had already acquired DNA from missing person cases in several states, via contracts with local authorities and tests sought by individual family members. \u2014 Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"The actual enforcement of the law will be in the hands of individual states and city municipal bodies. \u2014 Aniruddha Ghosal, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 July 2022",
"Neither district officials nor individual board members responded to The Enquirer Monday about the letter. \u2014 Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer , 29 June 2022",
"While the Twins and the rest of the big leagues discover just what makes the individual members of the youngest team in the big leagues tick, and how to neutralize them, some things have already been revealed. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 25 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t put yourself in a spot where short-term declines in the market or in the fortunes of individual stocks can really hurt you. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"Clearly, the rising tide does not always lift all boats so investors must find individual stocks that will outperform in any environment. \u2014 David Trainer, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Over several years, the fund held billions of dollars of individual stocks in such companies as Google, Wells Fargo and Coca-Cola. \u2014 Justin Elliott, ProPublica , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The law gave attorneys an incentive to bring claims seeking penalties for multiple violations of the labor code, even if a plaintiff had agreed to arbitrate disputes as an individual . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"However, every patient is evaluated as an individual and the treatment plan is customized to their specific anatomy. \u2014 Micaela English, Town & Country , 14 June 2022",
"The next group of four at 1-over includes Zionsville junior Adam Melliere, who is playing as an individual after the Eagles were ousted in a tough sectional with Westfield, Guerin Catholic and Carmel. \u2014 Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star , 14 June 2022",
"The group just received a $10,000 grant from the Mayor\u2019s Office of Arts and Culture Opportunity Fund, plus $5,000 from the same program that Agrippa received as an individual . \u2014 Sam Trottenberg, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"At that time, Thursday afternoon, police identified the man shot and killed three days earlier; police also named another individual who was questioned but did not face charges in connection to the killing. \u2014 Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online , 5 June 2022",
"The former Chugiak Mustang competes for Seattle Pacific University and added to her impressive sprinting career, which already featured seven All-America honors as a member of relay teams, by earning her first as an individual . \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"The Heat\u2019s lone individual 2022 award winner was Tyler Herro, for Sixth Man of the Year. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 20 May 2022",
"Among the others in the field is Emily Mahar of Virginia Tech who is competing as an individual . \u2014 Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic , 20 May 2022"
],
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"Medieval Latin individualis , from Latin individuus indivisible, from in- + dividuus divided, from dividere to divide":"Adjective"
},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"Indian entry 2 2":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065120"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tatcha utilizes the healing properties of the anti-inflammatory indigo plant to soothe inflamed skin, while silk and squalane work to hydrate and repair. \u2014 Tanisha Pina, NBC News , 6 Dec. 2019",
"But indigo plants yield only a small amount of the dye. \u2014 Diana Gitig, Ars Technica , 11 Jan. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1712, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065553"
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"indifference curve":{
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"noun"
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"indexing":{
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"noun"
],
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"\u02c8in-\u02ccdek-si\u014b"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Premium amenities have been over- indexing significantly since moviegoing has been picking up again. \u2014 Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"The indexing is based on the national average wage (NAW) amount in the year that a person reaches 60. \u2014 Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Tesla, meanwhile, is among the major companies where the likes of indexing pioneer Vanguard Group or BlackRock are among the top shareholders. \u2014 Joanna Ossinger, Fortune , 5 May 2022",
"Last month the Kentucky General Assembly voted to override Gov. Andy Beshear\u2019s veto of an unemployment indexing bill that should spur more Kentuckians to join the workforce and begin to fill the more than 160,000 job openings in the state. \u2014 Bryan Sunderland, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
"In 2019, Google rolled out the mobile-first indexing update. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Such comprehensive indexing was a bold and ambitious effort, and also a complex and confusing one. \u2014 Peter J Reilly, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Due to Maryland not inflation indexing there is a higher income level that pushes a taxpayer into the next tax bracket, which is not keeping pace with inflation. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"One chapter of the book is devoted to failed 18th-century efforts to popularize the indexing of fiction more generally. \u2014 Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 Mar. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1974, in the meaning defined above":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1988, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073838"
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"noun"
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"the nation's industry"
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"the banking industry"
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"The health care industry \u2019s promise of innovative, end-to-end digital health platforms must start by closing digital back doors and create equitable digital front doors to truly transform the state of the nation\u2019s health. \u2014 Kim Gallon, STAT , 28 June 2022",
"Thursday\u2019s Planning Commission featured a number of builders and real estate attorneys who outlined the challenges the industry faces. \u2014 J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 June 2022",
"Roesch studied film at N.Y.U. and at the American Film Institute, and entered the industry in 1978. \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Beyond that, tourism is South Dakota\u2019s second-largest industry . \u2014 Fox News , 27 June 2022",
"Fink and Cranor have so far resisted a TV adaptation of their project, despite strong industry interest. \u2014 Lynn Elber, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"Families are working with industry insiders to press for new safety precautions and a review of production practices for the aircraft. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"The company, and the oil industry , remain crucial to the state\u2019s fortunes. \u2014 Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
"Mindy Kaling has 'newfound respect for stay-at-home moms' while quarantining with her toddler As far as where comedy is headed, Kaling says audiences have begun embracing shows and films the industry would not have expected to succeed. \u2014 Charles Trepany, USA TODAY , 27 June 2022"
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"The Galveston County Medical Examiner said at the time that Beason\u2019s cause of death was indeterminable , and Hedrick was convicted only of abusing a corpse, a minor offense, and sentenced to a year in jail. \u2014 Travis Fedschun, Fox News , 13 June 2018",
"Bosma said House Republicans determined the bill could have cost $14 million a year, but the Legislative Service Agency \u2014 the agency typically responsible for all fiscal analysis \u2014 only said the revenue would increase by an indeterminable amount. \u2014 Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star , 30 Jan. 2018",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While Riley holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and an MS in industrial engineering from Penn State University and Stanford University, her passion for history and literature has led to her publishing more than 20 different book titles. \u2014 Lynnette Nicholas, Essence , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Foth Companies, a mechanical and industrial engineering firm. \u2014 Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 Nov. 2021",
"High-tech businesses in the industrial engineering space are one focus. \u2014 David Prosser, Forbes , 14 Oct. 2021",
"The chemical engineering of gas reaction, the mechanical engineering of tool development and packaging, the material engineering of new manufacturing materials, and the industrial engineering of supply chain and logistics optimization. \u2014 Mung Chiang, Forbes , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Sarralle USA, a global industrial engineering and steel company, has leased 856 square feet of office space in Montlimar Place at 1110 Montlimar Drive in Mobile, according to Jason Scott of Stirling Properties, who represented Sarralle. \u2014 Kathy Jumper, al , 26 Sep. 2021",
"Her accomplishments in psychology, engineering and organizational management were so vast she is considered one of the founders of industrial engineering . \u2014 Nina Ansary, Time , 6 May 2021",
"The new jobs include roles in operations management, warehouse supervising, robotics maintenance, and industrial engineering . \u2014 Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star , 24 Mar. 2021",
"The factory workforce has a larger than typical design and industrial engineering team, and overall, 40 to 50% of the factory operations are automated. \u2014 Brooke Roberts-islam, Forbes , 10 Mar. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The indwelling splendor of Olivia Parker\u2019s images proclaims their mirror affinity. \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2019"
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"Direct and indirect lighting can make sure your product is as flatteringly represented as possible while minimizing shadows and preserving a sense of naturality. \u2014 Patrick Nycz, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
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"African mahogany covers the ceiling, which is sloped here and there; indirect lighting casts a glow over the interior, outfitted with a handsome communal table. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 24 July 2019"
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"In both documentary and video journalism, the indexical power of cameras can be harnessed as weapons for truth and shine a light in the darkest of places. \u2014 Sara Merican, Forbes , 24 Feb. 2021"
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"Scientists in recent years also have uncovered previously indiscernible sections of roads that connect sites throughout northwestern New Mexico to the heart of Chaco. \u2014 Susan Montoya Bryan, ajc , 29 Oct. 2021"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This sleek pitcher-style milk frother uses induction heating technology to make froth that ranges from silky smooth to airy and bubbly. \u2014 Lizzy Briskin, chicagotribune.com , 14 Apr. 2021",
"It is designed with an induction heating system that is meant to give you quick and consistent froth. \u2014 Rebecca Rodriguez, NBC News , 13 Apr. 2021",
"This is before any consideration is given to the inefficiencies of induction heating or losses in transmission. \u2014 WSJ , 23 Dec. 2020",
"Alternatively, d is one of the planets that is likely to be cooked by induction heating from the star's magnetic field, so the greenhouse gases may be unnecessary for boiling off its oceans. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 6 Feb. 2018"
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": a glucoside C 14 H 17 NO 6 occurring especially in the indigo plant and being a source of natural indigo":[]
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"Latin indicum indigo \u2014 more at indigo":""
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"1859, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"(Paul-Marie-Th\u00e9odore-) Vincent 1851\u20131931 French composer":[]
},
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"dan-\u02c8d\u0113",
"da\u207f-",
"\u02c8dan-d\u0113"
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": an area outside of a town or city that is designed especially for factories or offices":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1635, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004253"
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": the reference of a name or variable of the lowest logical type in a calculus":[]
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"-\u02c8vi-j\u0259-w\u0259l",
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"-\u02c8vi-j\u0259l",
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vij-w\u0259l",
"\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vi-j\u0259-w\u0259l"
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"patented",
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"private",
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"singular",
"subjective",
"unique"
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"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
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"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for individual Adjective special , especial , specific , particular , individual mean of or relating to one thing or class. special stresses having a quality, character, identity, or use of its own. special ingredients especial may add implications of preeminence or preference. a matter of especial importance specific implies a quality or character distinguishing a kind or a species. children with specific nutritional needs particular stresses the distinctness of something as an individual. a ballet step of particular difficulty individual implies unequivocal reference to one of a class or group. valued each individual opinion characteristic , individual , peculiar , distinctive mean indicating a special quality or identity. characteristic applies to something that distinguishes or identifies a person or thing or class. responded with her characteristic wit individual stresses qualities that distinguish one from all other members of the same kind or class. a highly individual writing style peculiar applies to qualities possessed only by a particular individual or class or kind and stresses rarity or uniqueness. an eccentricity that is peculiar to the British distinctive indicates qualities distinguishing and uncommon and often superior or praiseworthy. a distinctive aura of grace and elegance",
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"What are the individual traits of the breed",
"The doctor carefully evaluates the individual needs of her patients.",
"Students will receive as much individual attention as possible.",
"She has a very individual style of writing.",
"a pattern as individual as a fingerprint",
"Noun",
"They promote a philosophy that sacrifices the rights of the individual for the public welfare.",
"They are both rather odd individuals .",
"Are you the individual I spoke with on the telephone",
"She's a very talented individual .",
"The markings on tigers are unique to each individual .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Meanwhile, the court ruling puts a spotlight on the efforts of individual states and regional compacts, such as one that Massachusetts belongs to, called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. \u2014 David Abel, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"The firm had already acquired DNA from missing person cases in several states, via contracts with local authorities and tests sought by individual family members. \u2014 Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"The actual enforcement of the law will be in the hands of individual states and city municipal bodies. \u2014 Aniruddha Ghosal, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 July 2022",
"Neither district officials nor individual board members responded to The Enquirer Monday about the letter. \u2014 Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer , 29 June 2022",
"While the Twins and the rest of the big leagues discover just what makes the individual members of the youngest team in the big leagues tick, and how to neutralize them, some things have already been revealed. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 25 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t put yourself in a spot where short-term declines in the market or in the fortunes of individual stocks can really hurt you. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"Clearly, the rising tide does not always lift all boats so investors must find individual stocks that will outperform in any environment. \u2014 David Trainer, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Over several years, the fund held billions of dollars of individual stocks in such companies as Google, Wells Fargo and Coca-Cola. \u2014 Justin Elliott, ProPublica , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The law gave attorneys an incentive to bring claims seeking penalties for multiple violations of the labor code, even if a plaintiff had agreed to arbitrate disputes as an individual . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"However, every patient is evaluated as an individual and the treatment plan is customized to their specific anatomy. \u2014 Micaela English, Town & Country , 14 June 2022",
"The next group of four at 1-over includes Zionsville junior Adam Melliere, who is playing as an individual after the Eagles were ousted in a tough sectional with Westfield, Guerin Catholic and Carmel. \u2014 Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star , 14 June 2022",
"The group just received a $10,000 grant from the Mayor\u2019s Office of Arts and Culture Opportunity Fund, plus $5,000 from the same program that Agrippa received as an individual . \u2014 Sam Trottenberg, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"At that time, Thursday afternoon, police identified the man shot and killed three days earlier; police also named another individual who was questioned but did not face charges in connection to the killing. \u2014 Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online , 5 June 2022",
"The former Chugiak Mustang competes for Seattle Pacific University and added to her impressive sprinting career, which already featured seven All-America honors as a member of relay teams, by earning her first as an individual . \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"The Heat\u2019s lone individual 2022 award winner was Tyler Herro, for Sixth Man of the Year. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 20 May 2022",
"Among the others in the field is Emily Mahar of Virginia Tech who is competing as an individual . \u2014 Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic , 20 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin individualis , from Latin individuus indivisible, from in- + dividuus divided, from dividere to divide":"Adjective"
},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010916"
},
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": slippery elm sense 1":[]
},
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"Indian entry 2 2":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011622"
},
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": grass pea":[]
},
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"Indian entry 2 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-012333"
},
"Indian puccoon":{
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"noun"
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": hoary puccoon":[]
},
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"Indian entry 2 2":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013317"
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"noun"
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"Indian hemp (sense 2) + resin":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013558"
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"noun"
],
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": a fidelity bond specifying a single person as principal \u2014 compare blanket bond":[]
},
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"Indo-Germanic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": indo-european":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1822, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021547"
},
"indigo snake":{
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a very large blue-black or brownish colubrid snake (genus Drymarchon and especially D. corais ) of the southeastern U.S. and Texas to Argentina":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Though the landscape might seem hospitable, this environment is also home to gopher tortoises, the rare eastern indigo snake , scrub lizards and insects. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 26 June 2022",
"According to Auburn University, the eastern indigo snake is the longest native snake in North America, stretching to a size of 8.5 feet. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The eastern indigo snake was found in Alabama for the second time in more than 60 years. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 22 Mar. 2022",
"So in 2006, a team of Alabama conservationists launched a project to reintroduce the Eastern indigo snake to the state. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 20 Mar. 2022",
"The eastern indigo snake is the longest snake native to North America, growing to over 8 feet long. \u2014 Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com , 26 May 2021",
"Biologists say the discovery of a juvenile indigo snake in Alabama is proof that those reintroduction efforts are working and that the species could find a permanent home in Alabama once again. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 31 Dec. 2020",
"The eastern indigo snake used to rule Alabama\u2019s longleaf pine forests as the apex predator, reaching lengths of up to nine feet, and feeding on copperheads and rattlesnakes. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 31 Dec. 2020",
"The forests are home to a number of Alabama\u2019s endangered or threatened species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker and the eastern indigo snake . \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 25 Sep. 2020"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1885, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024559"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025248"
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"geographical name"
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"definitions":{
"unit of the U.S. national park system at the southern end of Lake Michigan in northwestern Indiana area 15,000 acres (6075 hectares)":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-043905"
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}
}
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