dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/jih_MW.json
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"jihad":{
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"definitions":{
": a crusade for a principle or belief":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite its mention of jihad , and its suggestion of a broader conspiracy, its most detailed section focusses on an employment dispute at a primary school, among four teaching assistants and a principal. \u2014 Sarah Larson, The New Yorker , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Where the Kandahar faction began as an insular, rural force, primarily concerned with ruling its home turf, the Haqqanis were interested in global jihad . \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Not only did the attacks fail to damage the United States and its allies in any fundamental way, the targets of their jihad seemed as strong as ever. \u2014 Kevin O\u2019kelly, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 Feb. 2022",
"For those of us who, eight years before 9/11, started battling against the jihad in our earnest but inadequate way, there is no avoiding a profound sense of failure. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 11 Sep. 2021",
"But if the United States were seeking a safe haven from which to run weapons and men run by a group ideologically-disposed to support a jihad to liberate their co-religionists, Afghanistan has equally-obvious appeal. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 17 Aug. 2021",
"Some, however, said teachers often discussed jihad openly and encouraged students to join Afghanistan\u2019s insurgency. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Filling the void were Islamic schools known as madrassas that shaped the minds of future young Taliban fighters, their learning and their childhoods inevitably cut short by the lure of jihad , or holy war. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2021",
"But Osadzinski\u2019s attorneys painted him as desperately naive, peppering his online chats with emojis, using stencils and fabric to make his own ISIS flag, even printing out jihad posters at the campus library. \u2014 Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com , 19 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1837, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Arabic jih\u0101d":""
},
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"chiefly British -\u02c8had",
"ji-\u02c8h\u00e4d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113537",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"jihadi":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": jihadist":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1920, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"ji-\u02c8h\u00e4-d\u0113",
"chiefly British -\u02c8ha-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200207",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"jihadist":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Muslim who advocates or participates in a jihad":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Winning in Afghanistan meant ensuring that Afghanistan never again became a haven for jihadist terrorists. \u2014 H.r. Mcmaster, WSJ , 10 Nov. 2021",
"At the end of April, the emir of Djibo met with Burkina Faso\u2019s top jihadist , Jafar Dicko, to negotiate lifting the siege. \u2014 Sam Mednick, ajc , 27 May 2022",
"The group also ramped up its activity across the country, said Abdul Sayed, a security specialist and researcher who tracks ISIS-K and other jihadist groups. \u2014 New York Times , 1 May 2022",
"The Taliban have taken on their jihadist rival, the local branch of Islamic State, which is carrying out a brutal campaign of attacks inside Afghanistan. \u2014 Saeed Shah, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Three have happened in the last 18 months in west Africa alone mainly due to popular resentment against an inability to fight jihadist terrorism, with other coups in Sudan, and Chad. \u2014 Alexander Onukwue, Quartz , 2 Feb. 2022",
"More than twenty Birmingham schools were investigated; no jihadist plot was found. \u2014 Sarah Larson, The New Yorker , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Unconfirmed reports circulated that American forces were hunting a leader of the Islamic State or another local jihadist group. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Feb. 2022",
"As has often been noted, of the four planes hijacked on 9/11, all had five-man jihadist teams except Flight 93. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 12 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1967, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"chiefly British -\u02c8ha-",
"ji-\u02c8h\u00e4-dist"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203629",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
}
}