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{
"Paralympics":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a series of international contests for athletes with disabilities that are associated with and held following the summer and winter Olympic Games":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1953, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"para(plegic) + (O)lympics , later interpreted as para- entry 1 in sense \"alongside of\" + (O)lympics":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8lim-piks",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012206",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"plural noun"
]
},
"Parasita":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a group comprising parasitic insects and arachnids":[],
": an order or other group coextensive with Anoplura or comprising Anoplura and Mallophaga":[],
": any of several groups of externally parasitic invertebrate animals: such as":[],
": ectozoa":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin parasitus parasite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpar\u0259\u02c8s\u012bt\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131133",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"Pareto":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Vilfredo 1848\u20131923 Italian economist and sociologist":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-(\u02cc)t\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182558",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Pareto's law":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a statement in economics: the distribution of incomes in various countries and in various ages tends to be similar despite differences of governmental policy (as in taxation)":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"after Vilfredo Pareto (Marchese di Parigi) \u20201923 Italian economist and sociologist":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259\u02c8r\u0101t(\u02cc)\u014dz-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-081739",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Pariti":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a small genus of tropical trees (family Malvaceae) with entire cordate leaves and yellow flowers now usually included in the genus Hibiscus":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Malayalam paritti, parutti cotton plant, cotton tree":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259\u02c8r\u012bt\u0113",
"-rit\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113443",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Parula":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the type genus of Parulidae including the parula warblers":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin parus titmouse + -ula":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8par(y)\u0259l\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133616",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"par":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an amount taken as an average or norm":[],
": common level : equality":[
"\u2014 usually used with on judged the recording to be on a par with previous ones"
],
": not unusual : normal":[
"It's par for the course that she's late to the meeting."
],
": the established value of the monetary unit of one country expressed in terms of the monetary unit of another country using the same metal as the standard of value":[],
": the face amount of an instrument of value (such as a check or note): such as":[],
": the monetary value assigned to each share of stock in the charter of a corporation":[],
": the principal of a bond":[],
": to score par on (a hole)":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He made par on the ninth hole.",
"She finished the 18th hole three strokes under par .",
"He made a par on the ninth hole.",
"She made nine pars in a row.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The company lost more than $539 million last year and is struggling to hold on to a market cap of about $350 million (on par with comparatively tiny, struggling consumer products maker The Honest Co). \u2014 Phil Wahba, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
"Jebaraj said last month that the federal budget deficit level in April was on par with fiscal 2019 prior to the pandemic, and predicted wages will keep rising this year. \u2014 Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online , 11 June 2022",
"Fox News Channel averaged 3 million viewers over the two hours with its counter programming, on par with what the hosts attract on a typical night. \u2014 Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"Only a couple of dozen people out of nearly 3.3 million voters have been charged with fraud, numbers on par with past elections. \u2014 Kathleen Foody And Scott Bauer, Chicago Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"One of the most famous paintings of all time, its renown is on par with Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Mona Lisa and Vincent van Gogh\u2019s Sunflowers. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 June 2022",
"Republicans say the issue represents a deep vulnerability for Democrats \u2014 on par with inflation and the economy. \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
"Micato is also seeing an uptick in solo women travelers that is now on par with pre-COVID levels. \u2014 Allison Olmsted, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Amazon also surpasses the 30% quota in Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and is on par with Netflix in the U.K. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 7 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1950, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, one that is equal, from par equal":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"barometer",
"benchmark",
"criterion",
"gold standard",
"grade",
"mark",
"measure",
"metric",
"standard",
"touchstone",
"yardstick"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125751",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"par excellence":{
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
],
"definitions":{
": being the best of a kind : preeminent":[
"a chef par excellence"
]
},
"examples":[
"sophisticated cuisine that is obviously the work of a chef par excellence",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To the friendly audience at the Bush Center, the Iraq-Ukraine mix-up landed as a Bushism par excellence , a harmless and endearing slip-up. \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
"Principal horn David Cooper, brass shapeshifter par excellence , shone throughout. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Of course, eventually Jack makes the sunglasses indoors look a permanent fixture of his steez, which is absolutely a freak move par excellence . \u2014 Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Klaus Fuchs defended Party dogma even as the Party was turning his East Germany into the surveillance state par excellence . \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Consider his case study of tiny Barbados (21 miles long, 19 miles wide), the sugar-island par excellence . \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Possibly the most vocal in his admiration is former Reagan administration official and paleoconservative par excellence , Pat Buchanan. \u2014 Joseph S. Laughon, National Review , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Burnett is also a poet, and her sensory descriptions are par excellence . \u2014 The Week Staff, The Week , 24 Jan. 2022",
"This retrospective sent a collective shivering depth charge through viewers\u2019 psyches and showed that Neel was the painter par excellence of modern life. \u2014 Jerry Saltz, Vulture , 17 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1695, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, literally, by excellence":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-\u02ccek-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4\u207fs",
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-\u02ccek-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4ns"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093819",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"par exemple":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": for example":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00e4r-\u0101g-z\u00e4\u207fpl\u1d4a"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083843",
"type":[
"French phrase"
]
},
"para magenta":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": para fuchsine":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"para rosaniline":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6par\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211519",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"parable":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"He told the children a parable about the importance of forgiveness.",
"the parable of the Good Samaritan",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s essentially the political parable of Corinthian Colleges, as told by Kamala Harris. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 2 June 2022",
"An involved apocalyptic anti-war parable narrating the fight to the death between religious zealot teddy bears and environmentalist unicorns. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 2 May 2022",
"This old-fashioned parable of sobriety, in which the untreated drunk is a scoundrel and not a wellness entrepreneur, showed up in an unexpected place this year: a sitcom on Hulu called Single Drunk Female. \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The 2021 Robinhood-GameStop stock controversy may be the perfect modern parable for the redistribution of power between businesses and consumers. \u2014 Euan Davis, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The two volumes of Maus, published in 1986 and 1992, envision Jews as mice and Nazis as cats in an unflinching parable championed for its effectiveness in conveying the horrors of the Holocaust to readers of all ages. \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 Feb. 2022",
"There's a little bit of a parable in this fishing thing. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Today, the expedition stands as a parable of astounding courage and the poignancy of dreams not quite realized. \u2014 Jody Rosen, New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The British exit from Dunkirk, partly on a flotilla of small civilian boats that transformed a humiliating defeat into a national parable of resilience, was followed four years later by the Allied invasion that freed Europe from repression. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 18 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English parable, parabol \"allegorical narrative, proverb, speech,\" borrowed from Anglo-French parable, going back to Late Latin parabola \"comparison, allegory, proverb, discourse, speech,\" going back to Latin, \"explanatory illustration, comparison,\" borrowed from Greek parabol\u1e17 \"juxtaposition, comparison,\" \"proverb\" (Septuagint), \"parable\" (New Testament), from parabol-, stem in noun derivation of parab\u00e1llein \"to cast before (as fodder for a horse), expose, set beside, compare,\" from para- para- entry 1 + b\u00e1llein \"to reach by throwing, let fly, strike, put, place\" \u2014 more at devil entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"allegory",
"apologue",
"fable"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110113",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"parade":{
"antonyms":[
"file",
"march",
"pace",
"stride"
],
"definitions":{
": a place for strolling (such as a public walk or square)":[],
": a place where troops assemble regularly for parade":[],
": a pompous show : exhibition":[
"The male booby may walk around using exaggerated, deliberate-looking leg movements, displaying his bright-blue legs and feet. Actually his parade is closer to the pick 'em up and put 'em down gait of \u2026 scuba divers.",
"\u2014 Michael H. Robinson"
],
": a usually long series of people or things":[
"\u2026 the American people watched a parade of witnesses expose the details of a political crime \u2026",
"\u2014 Karen De Witt",
"The movie does have one campy casting conceit: a parade of cameos by stars of old TV Western series \u2026",
"\u2014 David Hiltbrand",
"Our antipasto was a parade of little dishes containing black olives, fresh sheep cheeses, \u2026 and prosciutto.",
"\u2014 Robert Riche",
"( (British) ) \u2026 went to see the new street art, which is on the \u2026 end of a parade of shops \u2026",
"\u2014 Tim Lewis"
],
": masquerade":[
"myths which parade as modern science",
"\u2014 M. R. Cohen"
],
": promenade":[],
": show off":[],
": the ceremonial formation of a body of troops before a superior officer":[
"Handcrafted reproductions of miniature 18th-century tin soldiers, \u2026 these Austrian horsemen assume dramatic poses of battle and parade .",
"\u2014 The Smithsonian Catalog"
],
": those who promenade":[],
": to cause to maneuver or march : marshal":[],
": to exhibit ostentatiously":[],
": to march in or as if in a procession":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the annual Thanksgiving Day parade",
"After the team won the championship, the city threw a parade for them.",
"The town will put on a parade .",
"The marching band lined up for the homecoming parade .",
"Verb",
"The team and its fans paraded down the street.",
"Protesters paraded in front of City Hall.",
"The models paraded up and down the runway.",
"She paraded around on the beach in her bikini.",
"The victors paraded the prisoners through the streets.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On Saturday, there\u2019s a 5k run and a parade planned from 7 a.m. \u2014 Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"That\u2019s how much trash Warriors fans left behind on Monday along San Francisco\u2019s Market Street following the team\u2019s championship parade . \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 June 2022",
"The city will hold its annual Pride celebration and parade this weekend. \u2014 David K. Li, NBC News , 23 June 2022",
"For more information on the street closures and parade , see the city's website. \u2014 Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"Unlike my memory of past LXs, the LX 600 F Sport\u2019s steering effort was agreeably light at low speeds, making this parade -day pachyderm easier to park. \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 23 June 2022",
"However, members of the department will respect the parade organizers' request and will not participate in uniform. \u2014 Fox News , 23 June 2022",
"There was also a kazoo parade that allowed folks to participate in the music-making themselves. \u2014 Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant , 22 June 2022",
"Carpentersville\u2019s Independence Day parade steps off at 10 a.m. at Village Hall, 1200 L.W. Besinger Drive, and ends at Carpenter Park, 275 Maple Ave., Carpentersville. \u2014 Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Pool's attorneys say Campo then encouraged others to view his actions and proceeded to parade around the office with a KKK hat and said Pool would have to wear the hat on his next call. \u2014 Justin Gamble, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"The four-day jubilee festivities will culminate Sunday with street parties planned across Britain and a pageant featuring celebrities, dancers and circus acts set to parade around the palace. \u2014 Rhoda Kwan, NBC News , 3 June 2022",
"And why does the director have to parade Alana Haim around in a bikini when everyone else is fully clothed in a furniture store",
"But what the plot really does is give the film co-directors Loren Bouchard (who created the show) and Bernard Derriman an excuse to parade favorite characters before us. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 24 May 2022",
"In mid-November, Jefferson officials were still hoping to parade as usual in February while trying to abide by social distancing guidelines. \u2014 Doug Maccash And Chad Calder | Staff Writers, NOLA.com , 25 Nov. 2020",
"The group doesn\u2019t actually parade Mobile\u2019s streets, but the ball does features elaborate miniature floats that roll onto the Convention Center\u2019s floor. \u2014 al , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Instead, the vaccines instruct our cells to manufacture SARS-CoV-2\u2019s spike, a protein that normally decorates the virus\u2019s surface, and parade those spikes in front of immune cells, partially simulating an infection. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Fifth, watch the school children parade through the art museums on their field trips. \u2014 Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1649, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Noun",
"1686, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, \"show, display (of an object to demonstrate its value), show of military force, cavalry procession,\" going back to Middle French, from parer \"to prepare, adorn, dress (a person) with care\" (going back to Old French) + -ade -ade \u2014 more at pare":"Noun",
"derivative of parade entry 1":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for parade Verb show , exhibit , display , expose , parade , flaunt mean to present so as to invite notice or attention. show implies no more than enabling another to see or examine. showed her snapshots to the whole group exhibit stresses putting forward prominently or openly. exhibit paintings at a gallery display emphasizes putting in a position where others may see to advantage. display sale items expose suggests bringing forth from concealment and displaying. sought to expose the hypocrisy of the town fathers parade implies an ostentatious or arrogant displaying. parading their piety for all to see flaunt suggests a shameless, boastful, often offensive parading. nouveaux riches flaunting their wealth",
"synonyms":[
"cortege",
"cort\u00e8ge",
"procession"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033236",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"paradigmatic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an example of a conjugation or declension showing a word in all its inflectional forms":[]
},
"examples":[
"And the paradigm of a thing to be philosophical about is death. \u2014 Jim Holt , New York Times Book Review , 15 Feb. 2009",
"Such problems drive home a critical flaw in the paradigm of energy independence\u2014namely, that energy isn't a zero-sum game anymore. \u2014 Paul Roberts , Mother Jones , May/June 2008",
"That the biomedical paradigm of single cause and single disease was a chimera was well understood by even its most vigorous advocates. \u2014 Allan M. Brandt , The Cigarette Century , 2007",
"Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.",
"the Freudian paradigm of psychoanalysis",
"a new study that challenges the current evolutionary paradigm",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For some, his rise seemed to reflect a troubling paradigm shift in the entertainment business \u2014 the marginalization of content-creation executives and empowerment of operations apparatchiks pushing data and algorithms. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"During the pandemic, when everything slowed down and our health and mortality came into question, my relationship with my children took a huge paradigm shift. \u2014 Jennifer Chen, SELF , 18 June 2022",
"People want to earn a comfortable living at the core of their work/life balance paradigm . \u2014 Landon Eckles, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Many families will need to shift their entire paradigm concerning their children\u2019s education. \u2014 Rachel Lu, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"There have been significantly fewer requests on those major thoroughfares, Parker said previously, which is where the department has shifted its paradigm in recent years from strip patching to deeper road reconstruction. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The creation of our current paradigm is a very long story\u2014one that seems to begin, as a great many things did last century, with World War I. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Barry goes light on the mechanics of his multiversal paradigm , coating the dynamic, suspenseful action with a light frosting of metaphysics. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 July 2021",
"Now with a paradigm shift in consumer habits, what does the road to recovery look like"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin paradigma , from Greek paradeigma , from paradeiknynai to show side by side, from para- + deiknynai to show \u2014 more at diction":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"also -\u02ccdim",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccd\u012bm",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195352",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"paradise":{
"antonyms":[
"anti-utopia",
"dystopia",
"hell"
],
"definitions":{
": a place or state of bliss, felicity, or delight":[],
": an intermediate place or state where the souls of the righteous await resurrection and the final judgment":[],
": eden sense 2":[],
": heaven":[],
"town in northern California north of Sacramento population 26,218":[],
"unincorporated population center just south of Las Vegas in southern Nevada population 223,167":[]
},
"examples":[
"Their marriage was very happy at first, but now there's trouble in paradise .",
"a marsh that is a birdwatcher's paradise",
"This shop is an antique collecting paradise !",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Within seconds, the world is transformed forever, not into a paradise but into a collision of desires as varied as the humans who made them \u2014 from getting superpowers and seeing dinosaurs to having a parent come back to life and looking pretty. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 June 2022",
"Citrus established our reputation as a subtropical paradise and also sowed the seeds of political activism for Mexican Americans who tired of toiling in orchards. \u2014 Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"Sailors' paradise Since Morpheus has been gone, several dreams and nightmares have ended up scattered across the mortal realm. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 7 June 2022",
"The upgrade to 5G was supposed to bring a paradise of speedy wireless. \u2014 Peter Elkind, ProPublica , 26 May 2022",
"These are the best hummingbird feeders that will turn your outdoor space into a paradise . \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 14 Apr. 2022",
"As a popular weekend getaway for East Coasters - not only for flyers but for boaters - this will prove to make last minute getaways to the 16-island paradise easier to navigate. \u2014 Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"This invigorating fruity fragrance from Tommy Bahama transports you to a Caribbean island paradise . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
"This tropical paradise is a tropical dry forest with more than 180 native plant species. \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 10 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English paradis, paradise \"the Garden of Eden, heaven,\" borrowed from Anglo-French paradis, borrowed from Late Latin parad\u012bsus, borrowed from Greek par\u00e1deisos \"enclosed park or pleasure ground\" (Xenophon), \"the Garden of Eden\" (Septuagint), \"the abode of the blessed, heaven\" (New Testament), borrowed from an Iranian word (perhaps Median *paridaiza- ) cognate with Avestan pairida\u0113za- \"enclosure,\" nominal derivative of pairida\u0113z- \"build a barrier around,\" from pairi- \"before, around\" (going back to Indo-European *per-i, whence also Sanskrit p\u00e1ri \"around, about,\" Greek p\u00e9ri \"around, in excess\") + -da\u0113za- \"heap up, build\" (occurring only with prefixes), going back to Indo-European *dhoi\u032f\u01f5h-\u00e9i\u032fe-, iterative derivative of *dhei\u032f\u01f5h- \"knead, shape\" \u2014 more at peri- , feign":""
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"-\u02ccd\u012bz",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccd\u012bs"
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"Camelot",
"Cockaigne",
"Eden",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"fantasyland",
"heaven",
"lotusland",
"never-never land",
"New Jerusalem",
"nirvana",
"promised land",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"Zion",
"Sion"
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"geographical name",
"noun"
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": a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true":[],
": a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true":[],
": a tenet contrary to received opinion":[],
": an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises":[],
": one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases":[]
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"examples":[
"For the actors, the goal was a paradox : real emotion, produced on cue. \u2014 Claudia Roth Pierpont , New Yorker , 27 Oct. 2008",
"Again and again, he returns in his writing to the paradox of a woman who is superior to the men around her by virtue of social class though considered inferior to them on account of her gender. \u2014 Terry Eagleton , Harper's , November 2007",
"She was certainly far from understanding him completely; his meaning was not at all times obvious. It was hard to see what he meant for instance by speaking of his provincial side\u2014which was exactly the side she would have taken him most to lack. Was it a harmless paradox , intended to puzzle her",
"Mr. Guppy propounds for Mr. Smallweed's consideration the paradox that the more you drink the thirstier you are and reclines his head upon the window-sill in a state of hopeless languor. \u2014 Charles Dickens , Bleak House , 1852-53",
"It is a paradox that computers need maintenance so often, since they are meant to save people time.",
"As an actor, he's a paradox \u2014he loves being in the public eye but also deeply values and protects his privacy.",
"a novel full of paradox",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The project felt like a Zeno's paradox , inching tantalizingly closer, yet never quite complete. \u2014 Brendan Mcaleer, Car and Driver , 3 July 2022",
"Europe\u2019s energy strategy and the deluge of interest and investments for Africa present a paradox . \u2014 Ariel Cohen, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The new season, premiering June 22 on the streaming service, finds the Umbrella Academy facing off against the mysterious Sparrow Academy via a paradox that loops together multiple timelines. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 19 May 2022",
"Although Pritchard\u2019s queen appears simultaneously present and absent, this is neither a quantum paradox nor image manipulation. \u2014 Susana Martinez-conde, Scientific American , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But Stephen Hawking calculated that information is destroyed as a black hole evaporates \u2014 creating a paradox . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Middle-class refugees can seem like a paradox ; money and education are supposed to be bulwarks against such a fate. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
"That kind of captures the paradox and complexity of this industry. \u2014 Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
"The defining moment went viral: the cheekiness and unpredictability of the post showcased the paradox of pole dancing and the Ivy League. \u2014 Karin Eldor, Forbes , 15 June 2022"
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"1540, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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"Latin paradoxum , from Greek paradoxon , from neuter of paradoxos contrary to expectation, from para- + dokein to think, seem \u2014 more at decent":""
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"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8par-\u0259-\u02ccd\u00e4ks",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccd\u00e4ks"
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"contradiction",
"dichotomy",
"incongruity"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"paragon":{
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": a model of excellence or perfection":[
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"a paragon of a wife"
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": to compare with : parallel":[],
": to put in rivalry : match":[]
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"in Arthurian legend, Sir Galahad is depicted as the one knight who is a paragon of virtue",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Eventually, blacksmith upgrades become directly tied to your paragon level. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"To those unfamiliar, pickleball doesn\u2019t sound like the paragon of elegance\u2014its name fails to connote the cach\u00e9 of lavish golf fairways, or the social hierarchy of tennis. \u2014 Todd Plummer, Town & Country , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Ella wonders often about the exam, always held at the end of the first year, that determines a student\u2019s marvel or special magical talent, which is tied to a particular sense (known as a paragon ) such as vision, sound or taste. \u2014 Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Then there are flu viruses\u2014so often held up as the paragon of endemicity, but actually a better example of just how absurdly confusing endemicity can get. \u2014 Jacob Stern, The Atlantic , 1 Feb. 2022",
"To me, Shackleton remains a paragon of the virtues and abilities that comprise leadership in its most effective form. \u2014 Alex Lazarow, Forbes , 29 Dec. 2021",
"The 1946 film remains a paragon of depicting the challenges that soldiers face readjusting to life back home, in part because Russell's life was incorporated into Homer's story. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 9 Nov. 2021",
"The nation is hardly a paragon on environmental virtue. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Verdugo has not exactly been a paragon of patience towards the season\u2019s end. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Oct. 2021"
],
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"circa 1548, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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"Middle French, from Old Italian paragone , literally, touchstone, from paragonare to test on a touchstone, from Greek parakonan to sharpen, from para- + akon\u0113 whetstone, from ak\u0113 point; akin to Greek akm\u0113 point \u2014 more at edge":"Noun and Verb"
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"-g\u0259n",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccg\u00e4n"
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"beau ideal",
"classic",
"eidolon",
"exemplar",
"idea",
"ideal",
"model",
"nonesuch",
"nonpareil",
"patron saint"
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"common denominator",
"commonality",
"congruity",
"correspondence",
"resemblance",
"similarity",
"similitude"
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": a character \u2225 used in printing especially as a reference mark":[],
": a comparison to show resemblance":[],
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": an arrangement of electrical devices in a circuit in which the same potential difference is applied to two or more resistances with each resistance being on a different branch of the circuit \u2014 compare series":[],
": an arrangement or state that permits several operations or tasks to be performed simultaneously rather than consecutively":[],
": arranged in parallel":[
"a computer with four parallel processors"
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": being or relating to an electrical circuit having a number of conductors (see conductor sense d(1) ) in parallel (see parallel entry 2 sense 4b )":[],
": everywhere equally distant":[
"concentric spheres are parallel"
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": extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant sense 1 ), and not meeting":[
"parallel rows of trees"
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": having parallel sides":[
"a parallel reamer"
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": having the same tonic":[
"\u2014 used of major and minor keys and scales"
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": in a parallel arrangement":[],
": in a parallel manner":[],
": keeping the same distance apart in musical pitch (see pitch entry 4 sense 4b(1) )":[],
": performed while keeping one's skis parallel":[
"parallel turns"
],
": readily compared : companion":[
"the marriage rate turned upward \u2026 the birth rate entered upon a parallel climb",
"\u2014 Oscar Handlin"
],
": relating to or being a connection in a computer system in which the bits of a byte are transmitted over separate channels at the same time":[
"a parallel port"
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": similar, analogous , or interdependent in tendency or development : exhibiting parallelism in form, function, or development":[
"\u2026 the standing committee systems in the two Houses are reasonably parallel \u2026",
"\u2014 Harold Zink",
"\u2026 parallel strikes on the railroads, in the gas and electricity services and in the metal and mining industries.",
"\u2014 Percy Winner"
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": similarity , analogue":[],
": something equal or similar in all essential particulars : counterpart":[],
": the state of being physically parallel":[],
": to correspond to":[],
": to extend, run, or move in a direction parallel to":[],
": to indicate analogy of : compare":[],
": to place so as to be parallel in direction with something":[],
": to show something equal to : match":[],
"\u2014 compare serial":[
"a parallel port"
],
"\u2014 see also parallel evolution":[
"\u2026 the standing committee systems in the two Houses are reasonably parallel \u2026",
"\u2014 Harold Zink",
"\u2026 parallel strikes on the railroads, in the gas and electricity services and in the metal and mining industries.",
"\u2014 Percy Winner"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the parallel careers of the two movie stars",
"These two sentences are parallel in structure.",
"Notice the parallel development of the two technologies.",
"Noun",
"These myths have some striking parallels with myths found in cultures around the world.",
"There are many parallels between the stories.",
"Most of the United States is south of the 49th parallel .",
"Verb",
"Their test results parallel our own.",
"Rising prices parallel increasing fuel costs.",
"Spending is paralleled by an increase in the number of loans given.",
"The highway parallels the river.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The road runs parallel to I-35, a major north-south route in the central United States for traffic and commerce from the southern border. \u2014 Nicole Chavez, CNN , 29 June 2022",
"Viktor's transition journey runs parallel to the one for Page, who came out as transgender in December 2020. \u2014 Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
"Montgomery County transportation officials adjusted the traffic signal timing at Frederick Road, which is Maryland State Road 355 and runs parallel to I-270, to accommodate more cars. \u2014 Justin George, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Santa Teresa has one main road that runs parallel to the beach. \u2014 Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022",
"About $5 million will be used to widen Mount Comfort Road from two lanes to four lanes at Broadway, also known as Pendleton Pike, which runs parallel to the tracks. \u2014 John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Ribbons of expressway and high-voltage power lines crisscross the countryside too, and the high-speed line sometimes runs parallel to tracks for another six trains. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"That was especially true in the first part of the sixth season, which found Kim on parallel spiritual tracks co-orchestrating the elaborate long con against Patrick Fabian\u2019s Howard Hamlin and looking to expand her pro bono platform. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"Experts warned against trying to compare Moderna\u2019s vaccine with Pfizer\u2019s for elementary, middle and high schoolers, even though the two vaccines have largely followed parallel tracks. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In a very big way: Their new Polar initiatives include the wide-open spaces above or below the 66th parallel . \u2014 Ann Abel, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Understated, but a sophisticated take on the cuisines of the 36th parallel . \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022",
"Astride the 45\u00baN parallel , Wisconsin is halfway between the equator and the North Pole. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 May 2022",
"The parallel to Mandel herself, who is also the married mother of a young daughter, has to be intentional. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Apr. 2022",
"To drive home the parallel , Schumer showed up on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday dressed exactly like her predecessor. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Former Syrian fighters warn of another parallel between their battle and Ukraine\u2019s \u2013 the West\u2019s unwillingness to become fully involved, and to support a resistance struggle that could wane. \u2014 Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The skirmish was playing out in a kind of parallel with the war in Ukraine \u2014 more genteel surroundings, equally high stakes. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"In perhaps the clearest parallel to Jan. 6, an anti-Abraham Lincoln mob attempted to break into the Capitol in 1861 to disrupt the electoral vote count. \u2014 Ella Lee, USA TODAY , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Tectonic plates in fracture zones, however, move side to side and parallel with each other, leading to much smaller earthquakes on average, Gomberg said. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 June 2022",
"The show\u2019s storylines have taken viewers on unpredictable journeys, from time jumps and parallel universes to fake deaths and sacrificial offerings. \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 19 May 2022",
"Not surprisingly, both sides are playing on the fear that the war could spread, in propaganda campaigns that parallel the ongoing war on the ground. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Because her personal and family experiences in so many ways parallel the song, this book can be characterized as a love letter \u2014 but one with tears in the eyes \u2014 to the commonwealth of Kentucky. \u2014 Richard H.c. Clay, The Courier-Journal , 27 Apr. 2022",
"On a planet ravaged by climate change, a global pandemic, powder-keg wars and the rise of fascism, what is an inability to parallel park but an insult added to injury",
"Among its more desirable options are a head-up display as well as a feature that allows drivers to remotely parallel park the vehicle. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 20 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s because 2022 is shaping up to parallel Ashanti\u2019s 2002 as the singer sets out on a slate of projects. \u2014 Alex Gonzalez, Variety , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Catty-corner across the intersection was the Hall Hotel, where West learned to parallel park. \u2014 Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"And while his career wouldn't quite live up to its early promise, if Saka's goes on to run parallel then few at the Emirates will be complaining. \u2014 SI.com , 23 Sep. 2019",
"Let your upper arm go parallel to the ground before returning to the starting position. \u2014 Ajc Homepage, ajc , 16 Aug. 2017",
"Power generated at the San Vicente facility could be delivered via electrical lines parallel and interconnected to San Diego Gas & Electric\u2019s Sunrise Power Link. \u2014 Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com , 31 July 2017"
],
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"1551, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1646, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"circa 1550, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"circa 1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin parallelus , from Greek parall\u0113los , from para beside + all\u0113l\u014dn of one another, from allos \u2026 allos one \u2026 another, from allos other \u2014 more at else":"Adjective, Noun, Verb, and Adverb"
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"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02cclel",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"-l\u0259l"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for parallel Adjective similar , analogous , parallel mean closely resembling each other. similar implies the possibility of being mistaken for each other. all the houses in the development are similar analogous applies to things belonging in essentially different categories but nevertheless having many similarities. analogous political systems parallel suggests a marked likeness in the development of two things. the parallel careers of two movie stars",
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"akin",
"alike",
"analogous",
"cognate",
"comparable",
"connate",
"correspondent",
"corresponding",
"ditto",
"like",
"matching",
"resemblant",
"resembling",
"similar",
"such",
"suchlike"
],
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"type":[
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"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
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"parallel evolution":{
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": the independent development of similar traits or features (as of body structure or behavior) in different species or lineages that have common ancestry and that typically occupy similar environments or ecological niches : parallelism sense 5 \u2014 compare convergent evolution , divergent evolution":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1888, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115320",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"parallel winding":{
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": lap winding":[]
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]
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"parallelism":{
"antonyms":[
"difference",
"disagreement",
"discrepancy",
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"dissimilitude",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"unlikeness"
],
"definitions":{
": a theory that mind and matter accompany one another but are not causally related":[],
": repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect":[
"biblical poetry relies largely on parallelism of lines",
"\u2014 E. P. Sanders"
],
": resemblance , correspondence":[
"parallelism between obesity and hypertension",
"\u2014 H. M. Marvin"
],
": the independent development of similar traits or features (as of body structure or behavior) in different species or lineages that have common ancestry and that typically occupy similar environments or ecological niches : parallel evolution":[],
": the quality or state of being parallel":[
"the parallelism of architectural figures"
]
},
"examples":[
"There is some degree of parallelism between the lives of the two women.",
"There is a certain parallelism in the development of the two technologies.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As shown with Heron, systems can be linked together with classical parallelism using chip-to-chip links for multiple modules or extend the size of individual units with long range coupling. \u2014 Paul Smith-goodson, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"Two of the most useful literary devices for creating persuasive appeal as a leader are parallelism in combination with triads. \u2014 Dan Bullock, Quartz , 6 July 2021",
"To make supply chains resilient, multiple paths or parallelism should be deployed. \u2014 Cyrus Hadavi, Forbes , 4 June 2021",
"Using parallelism helps others to mentally group information, while heightening their senses to predict your next statement. \u2014 Dan Bullock, Quartz , 6 July 2021",
"There is a clear parallelism between Balak and events in the Book of Exodus. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com , 21 June 2021",
"Moving away from an electronic model of data storage and computation and toward one based on chemistry promises tremendous improvements in physical density, portability and data parallelism . \u2014 Hyunjun Park, Forbes , 4 June 2021",
"This parallelism boosts overall computing brain power to process huge volumes of data to perform complex computational calculations, explained Devgan. \u2014 Russ Banham, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2021",
"However, edge compute performance does bring decreases in costs and increases in parallelism , while deep learning brings increases in efficiency and more capabilities into the reach of commercial scenarios. \u2014 Cyra Richardson, Forbes , 7 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1610, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02c8par-\u0259-\u02cclel-\u02cciz-\u0259m, -l\u0259l-",
"-l\u0259-\u02ccli-",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccle-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
],
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"alikeness",
"community",
"comparability",
"correspondence",
"likeness",
"resemblance",
"similarity",
"similitude"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025748",
"type":[
"noun"
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"parallely":{
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": parallel":[]
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"like parallelly"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-180527",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
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"definitions":{
": containing paralogism : illogical":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek paralog os unexpected, unreasonable + English -ical":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213856",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a fallacious argument":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1565, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French paralogisme , from Late Latin paralogismus , from Greek paralogismos , from paralogos unreasonable, from para- + logos speech, reason \u2014 more at legend":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8ra-l\u0259-\u02ccji-z\u0259m"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043201",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"paralogist":{
"antonyms":[],
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": one who uses reasoning that begs the question : one who uses a paralogism":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"paralog ism + -ist":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-j\u0259\u0307st"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093932",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"paralogistic":{
"antonyms":[],
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": utilizing or having the nature of a paralogism : fallacious":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203822",
"type":[
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]
},
"paralogize":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to reason falsely : to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin paralogizare , from Greek paralogizesthai , from paralogos + -izesthai , middle & passive form of -izein -ize":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163500",
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"intransitive verb"
]
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"Definition of paralyse British spelling of paralyze"
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"type":[]
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": a state of powerlessness or incapacity to act":[],
": complete or partial loss of function especially when involving the motion or sensation in a part of the body":[],
": loss of the ability to move":[]
},
"examples":[
"The disease causes a paralysis of the legs.",
"The whole country is in a state of paralysis .",
"They are trying to end the political paralysis that has been gripping the country.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Bennett administration prided itself on making government functional again after a period of paralysis during Netanyahu\u2019s last two years in office. \u2014 Patrick Kingsley, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
"Yet as the events of that day unfolded, his colleagues said at the time, Mr. Meadows seemed completely overwhelmed, at times to the point of paralysis . \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"Before the polio vaccine, outbreaks were common in the country, with some 8,000 instances of paralysis caused by the virus reported annually during the 1950s. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 June 2022",
"In the early 1950s, the CDC reports, before polio vaccines were available, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis each year. \u2014 Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
"Results not only dealt a blow to Hezbollah, but have also left Lebanon with high prospects of political paralysis as the country remains strained by economic collapse. \u2014 Tamara Qiblawi, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"The most immediate impact of the vote will likely be months of political paralysis . \u2014 Max Colchester, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"Sixty people died at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in 2017, and the tragedy seemed to plunge all of country music into a brief state of paralysis . \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The rocket warning app, called Alarm and developed for Ukrainian citizens, plunged her into a minute-by-minute anguish of war that only amplified her sense of paralysis . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1525, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek, from paralyein to loosen, disable, from para- + lyein to loosen \u2014 more at lose":""
},
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"p\u0259-\u02c8ral-\u0259-s\u0259s",
"p\u0259-\u02c8ra-l\u0259-s\u0259s"
],
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205221",
"type":[
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]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"And about 2 percent to 10 percent of people with paralytic polio will die because the paralysis will affect their ability to breathe. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 22 June 2022",
"But health officials say Alaskans who self-harvest shellfish should still be aware of the risks of paralytic shellfish poisoning. \u2014 Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Between one and three in every million recipients of the flu vaccine will be stricken by a terrifying paralytic condition called Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"McGuire and others consider the usual culprits that cause injuries among birds, such as paralytic shellfish poisoning and domoic acid toxins from algae blooms. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"However, around a hundred of the Alaska Native hunters died, killed by paralytic shellfish poison, or PSP, produced by the algae consumed by shellfish. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Because vecuronium should only be used on patients who have a breathing tube inserted, some hospitals have moved it and other paralytic drugs out of automatic dispensing cabinets. \u2014 CBS News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"During that time frame, at least one child was identified with paralytic polio and 19 other children have been infected, but not paralyzed, according to the United Nations Children's Fund. \u2014 Mary Kekatos, ABC News , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Two children with paralytic polio have been identified, and 19 more were identified as infected with the virus but did not develop paralysis. \u2014 NBC News , 26 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The state's lethal injection protocol uses a combination of the drugs midazolam as a sedative, vecuronium bromide as a paralytic , and potassium chloride to stop the heart. \u2014 Andy Rose And Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"The state's lethal injection protocol uses a combination of the drugs midazolam as a sedative, vecuronium bromide as a paralytic , and potassium chloride to stop the heart. \u2014 Elizabeth Wolfe, Amanda Musa And Raja Razek, CNN , 7 June 2022",
"In another error, reported mere weeks after Vaught\u2019s arrest, a hospital employee mixed up the same drugs as Vaught did \u2014 Versed, a sedative, and vecuronium, a dangerous paralytic . \u2014 Brett Kelman, CNN , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The three drugs are: midazolam, a sedative; vecuronium bromide, a paralytic ; and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. \u2014 Sean Murphy, USA TODAY , 29 Oct. 2021",
"That drug was followed by two more: vecuronium bromide, a paralytic , and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 Nov. 2021",
"That drug was followed by two more: vecuronium bromide, a paralytic , and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 Oct. 2021",
"That drug was followed by two more: vecuronium bromide, a paralytic , and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 Nov. 2021",
"That drug was followed by two more: vecuronium bromide, a paralytic , and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 Oct. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"\u02ccpar-\u0259-\u02c8lit-ik",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8li-tik",
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"adverb",
"noun"
]
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"\u2014 Rudyard Kipling"
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"The snake's venom paralyzed the mouse."
],
": to bring to an end : prevent , destroy":[
"deadlock paralyzed action",
"\u2014 F. A. Ogg & Harold Zink"
],
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"A strike would paralyze the industry."
],
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"the paralyzing thing is the uncertainty",
"\u2014 Evelyn Whitehead"
]
},
"examples":[
"The snake's venom paralyzed the mouse.",
"The air strikes have paralyzed the city's transportation system.",
"The company was paralyzed by debt.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"High fuel prices threaten to paralyze ground transport of goods. \u2014 Colleen Barry, The Christian Science Monitor , 20 May 2022",
"Leaders who are unable to make decisions can paralyze a company and prevent it from moving forward. \u2014 Stuart Andrews, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Tennessee uses a three-drug series to put inmates to death: midazolam, a sedative to render the inmate unconscious; vecuronium bromide, to paralyze the inmate; and potassium chloride, to stop the heart. \u2014 NBC News , 2 May 2022",
"Experts have warned that any disruption to Taiwan's chip supply could paralyze production of key equipment, impacting almost everyone in the world. \u2014 Eric Cheung, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Today, 76% of Ukraine\u2019s children are considered fully vaccinated against polio, but that still leaves nearly 1 in 4 vulnerable to a disease that can paralyze children and cause death or lifelong disability. \u2014 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times , 26 Mar. 2022",
"But that fix could paralyze the software in urban environments, where pedestrians are everywhere. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Tennessee uses a three-drug series to put inmates to death: midazolam, a sedative to render the inmate unconscious; vecuronium bromide, to paralyze the inmate; and potassium chloride, to stop the heart. \u2014 CBS News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Tennessee uses a three-drug series to put inmates to death: midazolam, a sedative to render the inmate unconscious; vecuronium bromide, to paralyze the inmate; and potassium chloride, to stop the heart. \u2014 NBC News , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"1763, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"French paralyser , back-formation from paralysie paralysis, from Latin paralysis":""
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"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-"
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"disable",
"hamstring",
"immobilize",
"incapacitate",
"prostrate"
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"verb"
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"If the right hemisphere of the brain is badly damaged in its sensory (parietal) areas, patients may show \u2026 an unawareness that anything is the matter, even though the left side of their body is senseless or paralyzed .",
"\u2014 Oliver Sacks",
"Thousands of paralyzed people worldwide are in the socially closed-off state.",
"\u2014 Christen Brownlee"
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"I was not found by the teacher until what seemed to me hours later but was probably five minutes, paralyzed with fright.",
"\u2014 Kay Boyle",
"Those who uncover plagiarism become paralyzed with embarrassment, letting the culprit escape rather than confronting him.",
"\u2014 Walter Kendrick"
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"1763, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bzd"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"-z(\u0259\u0307)dl\u0113"
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"paramagnet":{
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": a paramagnetic substance":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Spin liquids lie between ordinary magnets (spin solids), in which the directions of spins are rigidly aligned, and paramagnets and diamagnets (spin gases), in which the spin orientations are almost completely independent of one another. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 28 Feb. 2017"
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"1856, in the meaning defined above":""
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"back-formation from paramagnetic":""
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"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
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"type":[
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": being or relating to a magnetizable substance (such as aluminum) that has small but positive susceptibility which varies little with magnetizing force":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lipids are also not ferromagnetic, but can be paramagnetic if certain specific conditions are met. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
"This sort of behavior is very similar to the behavior of, for instance, the orientation of magnetic spins during a paramagnetic phase transition. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 16 Jan. 2018",
"This sort of behavior is very similar to the behavior of, for instance, the orientation of magnetic spins during a paramagnetic phase transition. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 16 Jan. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1845, in the meaning defined above":""
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"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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"\u02ccpar-\u0259-mag-\u02c8net-ik",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-mag-\u02c8ne-tik",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-"
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"city in southwestern California north of Long Beach population 54,098":[]
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the paramount goal is to restore the colonial-era house with complete historical accuracy",
"maintaining the secrecy of the agreement is of paramount importance",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"To many white American feminists, the issue of gender equality is paramount . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Consequently, the ability to quickly add, remove and update digital features and content on a single solution is paramount . \u2014 Joshua Titus, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Lujan Grisham told Mayorkas that border issues and flaws in the immigration system need to be addressed and that public safety and health are paramount . \u2014 Susan Montoya Bryan, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"Freshness is paramount at every step, Svetlik says. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Documenting travel history and contact with other people or environments where a parasite may be picked up is paramount , as is a careful skin exam. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 15 June 2022",
"They are overthrown when an individual or a group decides that personal power is paramount . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are thus correct that the need to talk with voters about inflation and the larger economy is paramount . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 8 June 2022",
"Secondly, your attention to provider experience is paramount to ensure a healthy and sustainable workforce to attract talent. \u2014 Corey Scurlock, Forbes , 8 June 2022"
],
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"1530, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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"foremost",
"grand",
"great",
"greatest",
"highest",
"key",
"leading",
"main",
"master",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
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"overmastering",
"overriding",
"predominant",
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"primary",
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"prior",
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"sovran",
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"noun"
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"least"
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],
"city in southwestern California north of Long Beach population 54,098":[]
},
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"Adjective",
"the paramount goal is to restore the colonial-era house with complete historical accuracy",
"maintaining the secrecy of the agreement is of paramount importance",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"To many white American feminists, the issue of gender equality is paramount . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Consequently, the ability to quickly add, remove and update digital features and content on a single solution is paramount . \u2014 Joshua Titus, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Lujan Grisham told Mayorkas that border issues and flaws in the immigration system need to be addressed and that public safety and health are paramount . \u2014 Susan Montoya Bryan, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"Freshness is paramount at every step, Svetlik says. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Documenting travel history and contact with other people or environments where a parasite may be picked up is paramount , as is a careful skin exam. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 15 June 2022",
"They are overthrown when an individual or a group decides that personal power is paramount . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are thus correct that the need to talk with voters about inflation and the larger economy is paramount . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 8 June 2022",
"Secondly, your attention to provider experience is paramount to ensure a healthy and sustainable workforce to attract talent. \u2014 Corey Scurlock, Forbes , 8 June 2022"
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"1530, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1616, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"Anglo-French paramont , from par by (from Latin per ) + amunt above, from a to (from Latin ad ) + munt mountain \u2014 more at for , at , mount":"Adjective and Noun"
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"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccmau\u0307nt",
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for paramount Adjective dominant , predominant , paramount , preponderant mean superior to all others in influence or importance. dominant applies to something that is uppermost because ruling or controlling. a dominant social class predominant applies to something that exerts, often temporarily, the most marked influence. a predominant emotion paramount implies supremacy in importance, rank, or jurisdiction. unemployment was the paramount issue in the campaign preponderant applies to an element or factor that outweighs all others in influence or effect. preponderant evidence in her favor",
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"grand",
"great",
"greatest",
"highest",
"key",
"leading",
"main",
"master",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"overbearing",
"overmastering",
"overriding",
"predominant",
"preeminent",
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"primary",
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"sovran",
"supreme"
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"noun"
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"natural"
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": not scientifically explainable : supernatural":[]
},
"examples":[
"there are rumors that the old deserted mansion is the site of paranormal activity",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Having just one paranormal experience is extremely unlikely. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Earlier in the interview, the musician explained the inspiration behind Conjuring Kesha, which follows her Kesha and the Creepies podcast as the latest paranormal content in her career. \u2014 Jack Irvin, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"The Mystery Shack \u2014 begin to investigate the town\u2019s various local mysteries involving paranormal incidents and supernatural creatures. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"Rather than featuring superhuman powers or paranormal phenomena, Nightmare Alley depicts humans pretending to be supernatural. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 16 Sep. 2021",
"The Heinzens had operated a business renting the house to overnight visitors who styled themselves as paranormal investigators. \u2014 Paul Edward Parker, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
"After learning of the events at the home, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren volunteered to assist the investigation. \u2014 Erika Mailman, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"Kristen Stewart has opened the gates for her paranormal reality series, calling on ghost hunters and mediums to audition for the upcoming production. \u2014 J. Kim Murphy, Variety , 7 June 2022",
"Kesha is bringing her out-of-this-world passion for the supernatural and paranormal to Discovery+. \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l",
"\u02ccpar-\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccn\u022fr-",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-"
],
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"metaphysical",
"otherworldly",
"preternatural",
"supernatural",
"transcendent",
"transcendental",
"unearthly"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181116",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
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},
"examples":[
"Mind if we pick through your personal effects",
"There were odd knickknacks (strange that the Hebrew naknik should mean sausage)\u2014 \u2026 shell ashtrays from Brighton, all my stepmother's paraphernalia . \u2014 Anthony Burgess , Wilson Quarterly , Spring 1991",
"To an Englishman, accustomed to the paraphernalia of Westminster Hall, an American Court of Law is as odd a sight as, I suppose, an English Court of Law would be to an American. Except in the Supreme Court at Washington (where the judges wear a plain black robe), there is no such thing as a wig or gown connected with the administration of justice. \u2014 Charles Dickens , American Notes , 1842",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The inmate had been charged with first-degree robbery, obstruction of governmental operations, possession of drug paraphernalia , attempting to elude and third-degree escape, the sheriff\u2019s office said. \u2014 Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al , 23 June 2022",
"Supporters say the change in law will help drug users avoid overdoses by testing for fentanyl without the risk of being charged with possession of drug paraphernalia . \u2014 Fox News , 21 June 2022",
"Frank Nicholas, 58, of the 3700 block of South Indiana Avenue in Chicago was charged with forgery and possession of drug paraphernalia June 7. \u2014 Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"Officers responded to Taco Bell June 3 for a report of a man asleep behind the wheel of his vehicle and discovered the driver was in possession of drug paraphernalia and was driving under suspension. \u2014 cleveland , 9 June 2022",
"The suit claims Warner would force his employees to appear in videos wearing Nazi paraphernalia and say damaging or offensive things as potential blackmail. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 19 May 2021",
"The approach will not only target outright hate speech and Nazi paraphernalia , but less obvious references to white supremacist groups as well. \u2014 Mike Isaac, New York Times , 23 Oct. 2020",
"His office space is modestly furnished, without any movie paraphernalia . \u2014 Niha Masih, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"The driver was located and arrested on charges of possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia , operating a vehicle under the influence and driving under suspension. \u2014 Cheryl Higley, cleveland , 6 June 2022"
],
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"1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Medieval Latin, ultimately from Greek parapherna bride's property beyond her dowry, from para- + phern\u0113 dowry, from pherein to bear \u2014 more at bear":""
},
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"\u02ccper-\u0259-f\u0259r-\u02c8n\u0101l-y\u0259",
"-f\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101l-y\u0259",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-"
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"equipment",
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": a pattern of recurring sexually arousing mental imagery or behavior that involves unusual and especially socially unacceptable sexual practices (such as sadism or pedophilia)":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For those with paraphilia , the burglary is a cover story. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com , 22 June 2019",
"It's estimated that roughly one third of the population experiments with some form of paraphilia at least once in their lives, with 17 percent regularly engaging in their kinks. \u2014 Andrew Paul, GQ , 24 Apr. 2018",
"More commonly discussed types of paraphilia are things like pedophilia, zoophilia, and objectophilia. \u2014 Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan , 14 Feb. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1925, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"New Latin":""
},
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"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"-\u02c8fil-\u0113-\u0259",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8fi-l\u0113-\u0259"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135750",
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"noun"
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": a consonance or joint melodic progression of fourths and fifths":[],
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek paraph\u014dnia , from paraph\u014dnos sounding beside (from para- para- entry 1 + ph\u014dn\u0113 sound) + -ia -y":""
},
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"\u02ccpar\u0259\u02c8f\u014dn\u0113\u0259"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-183728",
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213017",
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"translate"
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],
": the use or process of paraphrasing in studying or teaching composition":[
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"\u2014 Times Literary Supplement"
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},
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"Noun",
"This is just a paraphrase of what he said, not an exact quote.",
"your essays on human rights should have some original thought and not be simply a paraphrase of what's in the textbook",
"Verb",
"I'm paraphrasing , but he did say something like that.",
"could you paraphrase your diagnosis of my medical condition, using simpler language",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That\u2019s a paraphrase of a Jeff Goldblum line from the original Jurassic Park, as his Malcolm lectures Sir Richard Attenborough\u2019s John Hammond on the ethics of spawning dinosaurs in a modern world. \u2014 Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"Goldman\u2019s three-word distillation turned out to be perhaps the greatest paraphrase in Hollywood history. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"The third section is a paraphrase of archaeologist Howard Carter describing his experience in 1922 of peering through an opening to discover King Tut\u2019s tomb. \u2014 A.j. Jacobs, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2022",
"That's a paraphrase of a line usually attributed to military strategist Sun-Tzu. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 1 Mar. 2022",
"In paraphrase , analysts at the firm reasoned that neither Covid-19, nor the ruinous 9.9% contraction experienced by the United Kingdom, were necessarily the actual problem. \u2014 Will Nicoll, Forbes , 22 Jan. 2022",
"To share another paraphrase of Marous, data and how it is used creates the foundation of a strong financial relationship in today\u2019s world. \u2014 Monica Hovsepian, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"If, as Flannery O\u2019Connor once said, a good story resists paraphrase , then The Chair is well on its way to earning such a distinction. \u2014 Roxanne Fequiere, Vulture , 1 Sep. 2021",
"That heading is a paraphrase of something Gertrude Stein said about the difference between poetry and prose. \u2014 New York Times , 15 July 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There are those who take photos and those who make photos, to paraphrase the legendary photographer Ansel Adams. \u2014 CNN , 7 June 2022",
"To paraphrase Katy Waldman\u2019s critique of self-awareness in contemporary fiction, awareness doesn\u2019t equal atonement. \u2014 Ben Sandman, The New Republic , 26 Apr. 2022",
"To paraphrase JP Morgan banker Jamie Dimon\u2019s advice to investors and analysts this week, everything looks pretty good except the possibility that something really bad could happen. \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 15 Apr. 2022",
"To paraphrase Han Solo cruising in the Millennium Falcon, never tell Wisconsin Lutheran jumper and two-time state triple jump champion Jaiah Hopf the odds. \u2014 Michael Whitlow, Journal Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
"To paraphrase the late Senator Everett Dirksen, that could add up to a lot of money. \u2014 Martin F. Shapiro And Sidney M. Wolfe, STAT , 24 May 2022",
"To paraphrase Shakespeare, this is the summer of new-car shoppers\u2019 discontent. \u2014 Jim Gorzelany, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"And to paraphrase a quote, mycelium is a way of life that challenges the animal imagination, and that's because mycelium has no central organization. \u2014 Extra Spicy Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 May 2022",
"Why is this meal different from other meals, to paraphrase the start to the four questions asked during the Passover seder, the eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the exodus of Jewish people from Egypt"
],
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"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1598, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French, from Latin paraphrasis , from Greek, from paraphrazein to paraphrase, from para- + phrazein to point out":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccfr\u0101z"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"rephrasing",
"restatement",
"restating",
"rewording",
"translating",
"translation"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
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},
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin":""
},
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"p\u0259\u02c8rafr\u0259s\u0259\u0307s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172444",
"type":[
"noun"
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"paraphrast":{
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": paraphraser":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin paraphrastes , from Greek paraphrast\u0113s , from paraphrazein to paraphrase":""
},
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"\u02c8par\u0259\u02ccfrast"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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": having the nature of or being a paraphrase":[]
},
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"circa 1623, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"French paraphrastique , from Greek paraphrastikos , from paraphrazein":""
},
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"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8fra-stik",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114815",
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": parasite":[
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"parasito phobia",
"parasiti cide"
]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084234",
"type":[
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"parasit- + -al":""
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"type":[
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": parasitic":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"parasit- + -ary":""
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"\u00a6par\u0259\u00a6s\u012bt\u0259r\u0113"
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"type":[
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"Now the death of its host is certainly a setback to any parasite . To some (like the tapeworm) it is fatal; but smarter ones (like the louse) simply go off in search of a new host.",
"\u2014 David Jones",
"The fungus is an obligate parasite , that is, it must have a living host (tobacco) on which to grow and complete its life cycle.",
"\u2014 G. B. Lucas",
"The blood schizogonic cycle of human malaria parasites has thus far been the most exhaustively studied phase of parasite development.",
"\u2014 Dominique Mazier et al.",
"Sadly, the vireo is vulnerable to a nest parasite , the brown-headed cowbird \u2026 . The cowbird lays its much-larger eggs in the vireo's nest, which hatch first and place such a high food demand on its tiny \"parents\" that the vireo young go unfed.",
"\u2014 Karen D. Fishler",
"Unlike bacteria or viruses, parasites undergo a metamorphosis during their life cycles that presents the human immune system with a moving target.",
"\u2014 Lawrence M. Fisher",
"Like all viruses, the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) is an intracellular parasite : the virus particle itself is inert and cannot propagate or do any damage until it enters a host cell.",
"\u2014 Jonathan N. Weber and Robin A. Weiss",
"Salmonella species are intracellular parasites , and it is thought that these bacteria gain access to their host by penetrating through intestinal epithelial cells.",
"\u2014 B. Brett Finlay et al."
],
": someone or something that resembles a biological parasite in living off of, being dependent on, or exploiting another while giving little or nothing in return":[
"But the frequent and familiar companions of the great, are those parasites , who practise the most useful of all arts, the art of flattery \u2026",
"\u2014 Edward Gibbon",
"Their lyrics \u2026 convey a bilious contempt for the city's wealthy parasites \u2026",
"\u2014 Philip Montoro",
"In their view, the country is afflicted with a class of parasites \u2014\"Career politicians,\" who devote their lives to perpetuating themselves in office by spending the people's money.",
"\u2014 Hendrick Hertzberg",
"Regulatory agencies have stripped Holyfield of his boxing license now, protecting him from his pride and from the parasites who can still squeeze money out of the faded neon in his name.",
"\u2014 Dan Le Batard"
],
"\u2014 see also ectoparasite , endoparasite":[
"Now the death of its host is certainly a setback to any parasite . To some (like the tapeworm) it is fatal; but smarter ones (like the louse) simply go off in search of a new host.",
"\u2014 David Jones",
"The fungus is an obligate parasite , that is, it must have a living host (tobacco) on which to grow and complete its life cycle.",
"\u2014 G. B. Lucas",
"The blood schizogonic cycle of human malaria parasites has thus far been the most exhaustively studied phase of parasite development.",
"\u2014 Dominique Mazier et al.",
"Sadly, the vireo is vulnerable to a nest parasite , the brown-headed cowbird \u2026 . The cowbird lays its much-larger eggs in the vireo's nest, which hatch first and place such a high food demand on its tiny \"parents\" that the vireo young go unfed.",
"\u2014 Karen D. Fishler",
"Unlike bacteria or viruses, parasites undergo a metamorphosis during their life cycles that presents the human immune system with a moving target.",
"\u2014 Lawrence M. Fisher",
"Like all viruses, the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) is an intracellular parasite : the virus particle itself is inert and cannot propagate or do any damage until it enters a host cell.",
"\u2014 Jonathan N. Weber and Robin A. Weiss",
"Salmonella species are intracellular parasites , and it is thought that these bacteria gain access to their host by penetrating through intestinal epithelial cells.",
"\u2014 B. Brett Finlay et al."
]
},
"examples":[
"Many diseases are caused by parasites .",
"She's a parasite who only stays with him for the money.",
"These new companies are parasites feeding off the success of those who spent the last decade establishing the industry.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Another focus was on some relatively new food borne illnesses caused by a virus and an unusual parasite called Cyclospora cayetanesis. \u2014 Steven Savage, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"The silver lining, again, is that this talented parasite has not made its way into Georgia\u2019s state lines. \u2014 Hunter Boyce, ajc , 9 June 2022",
"That could be a sign of an atypical infection (such as from a parasite ), depending on your activities while traveling. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"As science journalist Rachel Nuwer writes, as many as 40 to 50 percent of all animal species are parasites, and almost every other species has at least one parasite that has evolved to parasitize it. \u2014 Laura Helmuth, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"So in 2017, when Reclamation was looking to launch a project to find a naturally occurring lethal parasite , the agency reached out to him with a proposal. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Four of these dogs tested positive for Giardia, a parasite that is spread through contact with contaminated feces or soil, according to the Centers for Disease Control. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Apr. 2022",
"But the raging population of crazy ants may have finally met their match: a deadly fungal parasite . \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 Apr. 2022",
"As a young curator, Kurant dreamed up experimental projects: an exhibition inside a film, an exhibition as parasite that would take over its host museum. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1539, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French, from Latin parasitus , from Greek parasitos , from para- + sitos grain, food":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8par-\u0259-\u02ccs\u012bt",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccs\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for parasite parasite , sycophant , toady , leech , sponge mean a usually obsequious flatterer or self-seeker. parasite applies to one who clings to a person of wealth, power, or influence or is useless to society. a jet-setter with an entourage of parasites sycophant adds to this a strong suggestion of fawning, flattery, or adulation. a powerful prince surrounded by sycophants toady emphasizes the servility and snobbery of the self-seeker. cultivated leaders of society and became their toady leech stresses persistence in clinging to or bleeding another for one's own advantage. a leech living off his family and friends sponge stresses the parasitic laziness, dependence, and opportunism of the cadger. a shiftless sponge , always looking for a handout",
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"bloodsucker",
"free rider",
"freeloader",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"moocher",
"sponge",
"sponger"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232712",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"definitions":{
": the portion of the drag of an airplane that does not include the induced drag of the wings":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104257",
"type":[
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083639",
"type":[]
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": caused by or resulting from the effects of parasites":[
"a parasitic disease/infection"
],
": exploiting the hospitality of others : depending on another or others for existence or support without making a useful or adequate return":[
"\u2026 manipulated and glorified by self-serving, parasitic northern bureaucrats.",
"\u2014 Edward Friedman"
],
": laying eggs in the nest of another bird":[
"The cowbird and the cuckoo are parasitic birds."
],
": living on another organism in parasitism":[
"Some caterpillars even sport white spots that resemble the eggs of the parasitic wasps that prey upon caterpillars \u2026",
"\u2014 Mary Parker Sonis",
"a parasitic yeast/plant",
"Filariasis, caused by parasitic worms in the human lymphatic system and carried in mosquitoes, infects some eighty million people in tropical and subtropical regions of the world.",
"\u2014 Wayne Biddle"
],
": of, relating to, or being a parasite : such as":[],
": of, relating to, or constituting a speech sound that is interposed between two other sounds usually as a by-product of transition from one place of articulation to another":[
"The \\\u0259\\ in \\\u02c8el\u0259m\\ for elm or in \\\u02c8ath\u0259\u02ccl\u0113t\\ for athlete , the \\t\\ in \\fents\\ for fence , and the \\b\\ and b in \\\u02c8nimb\u0259l\\ nimble from Middle English nimel are parasitic ."
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An allegory about the perils of a parasitic music industry",
"Blood tests such as an eosinophil level -- a type of blood cell that is increased in many parasitic diseases -- can be helpful, and occasionally stool tests are of benefit. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 15 June 2022",
"The parasitic plant is only found in two states \u2014 North and South Carolina. \u2014 Hunter Boyce, ajc , 9 June 2022",
"Capillariid are a type of parasitic worm that typically infects rodents, followed by both wild and domestic carnivores, though human infection is relatively rare. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 May 2022",
"Five of those coprolites contained parasitic eggs\u2014four coprolites from dogs, one from a human. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 20 May 2022",
"Yes, the former parasitic figures who helped gut Ukraine over the past few decades, often acting as foot-soldiers for the Kremlin, are supposedly now extremely interested in upholding Ukrainian democracy and Ukrainian sovereignty. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 12 May 2022",
"The reverse osmosis filter removes impurities down to 1/10,000 of a micron, reducing arsenic, lead, parasitic cysts, copper and more. \u2014 Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping , 3 May 2022",
"This period of growth was soon interrupted by a devastating threat to the whole of Napa\u2019s wine industry: phylloxera, a parasitic insect that destroyed roughly half of Napa Valley\u2019s vineyard acreage by the early 1990s. \u2014 Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1630, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"\u02ccpar-\u0259-\u02c8sit-ik",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8si-tik"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200545",
"type":[
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"noun"
]
},
"parasitic castration":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": inhibition of function or development of gonads by infestation of a host with parasites":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200707",
"type":[
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"parathyroid hormone":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a hormone of the parathyroid gland that regulates the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus in the body":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Restoring bone mass currently requires an injection of medication containing a peptide fragment of human parathyroid hormone (PTH) used to stimulate bone formation, reports Ellen Phiddian for Cosmos. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Gut microbes also appear to moderate another signal that affects bone: parathyroid hormone (PTH), from the parathyroid glands at the base of the neck. \u2014 Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Not getting enough calcium can trigger the parathyroid glands to produce more parathyroid hormone , Dr. Alesci explains. \u2014 Jessica Migala, Health.com , 2 June 2021",
"In some situations, there are more appropriate options, including denosumab (Prolia), parathyroid hormone analogs and estrogenlike drugs, which reduce breast cancer risk. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 18 May 2021",
"Secondary hyperparathyroidism, on the other hand, is when another underlying health condition causes low levels of calcium in your body, so your parathyroid hormone levels increase to compensate over time. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 24 Apr. 2018",
"There are four of these very small glands located on the thyroid gland in the neck that produce parathyroid hormone (PTH), which helps control the amount of calcium in the blood. \u2014 Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com , 19 Apr. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1925, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"type":[
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]
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"parboil":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to boil briefly as a preliminary or incomplete cooking procedure":[]
},
"examples":[
"Parboil the potatoes before you roast them.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ralph Stayer, retired CEO of Johnsonville, said his brat grilling method skips parboiling in favor of enjoying a cocktail while grilling the brats. \u2014 Daniel Higgins, USA TODAY , 25 May 2020",
"Fresh potatoes can be frozen if soaked in cold water (with a little lemon juice or vinegar) and then blanched/ parboiled . \u2014 Mary Bergin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 May 2020",
"Industrially produced frozen versions, tricks like doctoring parboiled rice with coloring additives in place of saffron, and nontraditional ingredients like lobster and chorizo are a common, dispiriting sight. \u2014 Jeff Koehler, Saveur , 20 July 2017",
"Weiss Lake, like all waters of Alabama at present, is hot enough to parboil any fish brave enough to prowl the shallows, with average water temperatures in the high 80's and even the 90's in shallow, dark-bottomed backwaters. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, AL.com , 28 July 2017",
"Or grill zucchini and parboiled potatoes for the salad with burrata. \u2014 Sacbee, sacbee.com , 20 June 2017",
"The artichokes can be parboiled in advance; bring them to room temperature when ready to grill. \u2014 OregonLive.com , 3 July 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle English, from parboilen to boil thoroughly, from Anglo-French parboiler, perboillir , from Late Latin perbullire , from Latin per- thoroughly (from per through) + bullire to boil, from bulla bubble \u2014 more at for":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-\u02ccb\u022fi(-\u0259)l"
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"coddle",
"poach",
"simmer",
"stew"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233935",
"type":[
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]
},
"parcel":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a company, collection, or group of persons, animals, or things : lot":[
"The whole story was a parcel of lies.",
"a parcel of giddy young kids",
"\u2014 Mark Twain"
],
": a tract or plot of land":[
"a parcel of real estate"
],
": a unit of salable merchandise":[
"a parcel in an auction"
],
": a volume of a fluid (such as air) considered as a single entity within a greater volume of the same fluid":[],
": a wrapped bundle : package":[
"The parcel was shipped today."
],
": fragment , portion":[
"sold his stocks by parcels"
],
": part-time , partial":[],
": partly":[],
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": to divide into parts : distribute":[
"\u2014 often used with out"
],
": to make up into a parcel : wrap":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a parcel of real estate",
"her absurd explanation for the collision was a parcel of lies",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Though the proposal didn\u2019t actually include McCoy Stadium itself, which is on a different parcel of land, Johnson\u2019s proposal got picked in late 2019. \u2014 Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"More broadly, Harris-Dawson said, Hussle\u2019s story inspired South L.A. residents to pursue their own businesses, hoping to mirror the rapper\u2019s journey from selling CDs on a parcel of land to owning that same plot. \u2014 James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"The property includes a double oceanfront lot with two homes, as well as a vacant parcel of land across the street. \u2014 Katherine Clarke, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"The tract houses were there because, according to the author Michelle Chihara, Joan and her family had once again sold a parcel of land. \u2014 Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
"Smith Rock State Park Twenty-six miles east of Bend is a 650-acre parcel of towering rock formations. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 16 May 2022",
"These two lots were blended over a period of three months before a small parcel of 7-year-old barrels were added to complete the blend. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 29 Apr. 2022",
"In 1967, a group of doctors bought a parcel of land in Monroe, New York, about fifty miles northwest of the city, and spent the next five years seeking the necessary approvals\u2014for such municipal necessities as water and sewers\u2014with the town board. \u2014 Gideon Lewis-kraus, The New Yorker , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The main character, Syd, has been tasked with restoring a small parcel of land in Upstate New York, transforming a barren waste into a functional ecosystem. \u2014 Geoffrey Bunting, Wired , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Lenders typically parcel out leveraged loans to institutional investors such as collateralized loan obligation managers and mutual funds, as well as to other banks. \u2014 Laura Cooper, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"Part and parcel with that was his understanding that a documentary \u2013 a cinematic rendering of his story \u2013 is very different from a YouTube video. \u2014 Addie Morfoot, Variety , 7 Apr. 2022",
"In Odisha, the state\u2019s commission has earmarked common household items such as stools, kettles and lamps to parcel out. \u2014 Rajesh Roy, WSJ , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Networks often parcel out bits and pieces of big interviews and stories over their various platforms. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 13 Feb. 2022",
"The benefit children provide to a society is similarly difficult to parcel out. \u2014 Stephanie H. Murray, The Week , 26 Nov. 2021",
"The NGDVs have more cargo room than the LLVs and are built to carry more packages, as the Postal Service pivots its focus from mail to parcel delivery. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Now, if Victor Oladipo is able to return, then the Heat could effectively parcel out those remaining available Caleb games. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Nov. 2021",
"Much of the resources in public health trickle down from the CDC, which distributes money to states, which then parcel it out to counties. \u2014 Talia Herman, ProPublica , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The current record, of $147 million, was for a multi- parcel purchase by investor Barry Rosenstein. \u2014 Amy Dobson, Forbes , 6 Apr. 2021",
"While parcel demand for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail peaks was higher than expected, the threat of industrial action caused customers to divert holiday packages to other companies, Royal Mail said in a statement. \u2014 Anthony Palazzo, Bloomberg.com , 29 Apr. 2020"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4a":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French parcele , from Vulgar Latin *particella , from Latin particula small part \u2014 more at particle":"Noun, Verb, Adjective, and Adverb"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-s\u0259l"
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"array",
"assemblage",
"band",
"bank",
"batch",
"battery",
"block",
"bunch",
"clot",
"clump",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"collection",
"constellation",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"muster",
"package",
"passel",
"set",
"suite"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035701",
"type":[
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"parcel (out)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to divide or share (something) among different people, groups, etc.":[
"The money was parceled out to local charities.",
"They plan to parcel the tickets out in a lottery.",
"We need to stop parceling out the blame for this problem and start working on a solution."
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": to shrivel with heat":[],
": to toast under dry heat":[]
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"The hot desert sun had parched the land.",
"the heat has really parched my throat",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Global warming creates drier air and helps parch vegetation that fuels horrific wildfires. \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The liquid goes on like a velvet gloss, dries to a transfer-proof matte that endures through multiple meals and, thrillingly, doesn\u2019t parch the lips in the process. \u2014 Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ , 4 June 2021",
"If that deficit is cranked up for a long time, soils and vegetation will parch . \u2014 Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic , 17 Sep. 2020",
"Courtesy of Walmart Even frequent hand-washing won\u2019t parch your skin thanks to hemp seed, rich in vitamin E and omega fatty acid. \u2014 Erica Metzger, Better Homes & Gardens , 11 Sep. 2020",
"In recent years, California\u2019s fall wildfire season has extended to much of the year with wet winters and springs followed quickly by hot, dry summers, which parch the natural fuel that flourished with the rains. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Oct. 2019",
"Parts of the Andes Mountains and foothills down to the coast have been parched by an unprecedented 10-year dry spell that has cut some river flows by up to 80 percent. \u2014 Bob Berwyn, ExpressNews.com , 16 Apr. 2020",
"According to dermatologist Hadley King, MD, cocoa butter is rich in fatty acids, which help thoroughly nourish parched , cracked, and ashy skin. \u2014 Aimee Simeon, refinery29.com , 16 Mar. 2020",
"Humidifiers can make dry climes and winters less... parched . \u2014 Popular Science , 31 Jan. 2020"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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"Middle English":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rch"
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"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"scorch",
"sear"
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"forgive"
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"a royal pardon later released him from a death sentence",
"\u2014 American Guide Series: Maryland"
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": tolerate":[]
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"Noun",
"The governor granted him a pardon .",
"He asked my pardon for taking so much of my time.",
"Verb",
"he eventually pardoned his sister for interfering in his marriage",
"I'm willing to pardon a little sloppiness of dress in such a kind and loving person.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Then in 2020, President Trump gave him a full pardon . \u2014 Will Yakowicz, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"But that is only because former Virginia governor Ralph Northam (D) granted him a conditional pardon , resulting in his release in March 2021. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Eastman made the request to be put on the list of potential pardon recipients a few days after a Jan. 7 conversation with White House lawyer Eric Herschmann. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
"Eastman, the focus of much of the House Jan. 6 committee\u2019s hearing on Thursday, never received that pardon . \u2014 Zach Everson, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Rich had already fled the U.S. for Switzerland and never returned, but famously received a pardon in 2001 from then President Bill Clinton on his last day in office. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"A social hour will follow the 45-minute show and include a chance to help those sentenced to death find a pardon , according to the press release. \u2014 Alison Cross, Hartford Courant , 10 June 2022",
"If a pardon is granted, the death penalty can be commuted to life or 25 years in prison, according to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. \u2014 Paulina Villegas, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency voted unanimously on Tuesday to deny Frank Atwood's request for commutation of sentence, reprieve or pardon . \u2014 Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic , 24 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Emails have emerged detailing how Eastman unsuccessfully asked Giuliani if Trump might be able to pardon him ahead of possible criminal investigations. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"Matt Bevin to pardon Dayton Jones for sodomizing an unconscious boy. \u2014 Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal , 7 May 2022",
"In the days leading up to the final pardons, there was rampant speculation that Trump might pardon family members or even himself. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner , 20 Jan. 2021",
"Biggs, the panel said, was also part of discussions for Trump to pardon people charged with trying to overturn the election. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 2 May 2022",
"President Biden used his power to pardon federal offenders for the first time on Tuesday, The Associated Press reports. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Greg Lopez, a former mayor of a Denver suburb, was the top vote-getter for the party's gubernatorial nomination after promising to pardon Peters if he were elected governor. \u2014 Nicholas Riccardi, ajc , 10 Apr. 2022",
"On International Women\u2019s Day in 2020, the two launched a campaign called Witches of Scotland, which pushed for the Scottish Parliament to pardon and memorialize the accused. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 Apr. 2022",
"To pardon the pun, at the start there won't be any excess of XeSS. \u2014 Chris Stobing, PCMAG , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French pardun, pardoun , from parduner":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Anglo-French parduner , from Late Latin perdonare to grant freely, from Latin per- thoroughly + donare to give \u2014 more at parboil , donation":"Verb"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-d\u1d4an"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pardon Verb excuse , condone , pardon , forgive mean to exact neither punishment nor redress. excuse may refer to specific acts especially in social or conventional situations or the person responsible for these. excuse an interruption excused them for interrupting Often the term implies extenuating circumstances. injustice excuses strong responses condone implies that one overlooks without censure behavior (such as dishonesty or violence) that involves a serious breach of a moral, ethical, or legal code, and the term may refer to the behavior or to the agent responsible for it. a society that condones alcohol but not narcotics pardon implies that one remits a penalty due for an admitted or established offense. pardon a criminal forgive implies that one gives up all claim to requital and to resentment or vengeful feelings. could not forgive their rudeness",
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"remission",
"remittal"
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"indefensible",
"inexcusable",
"mortal",
"unforgivable",
"unjustifiable",
"unpardonable"
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": admitting of being pardoned : excusable":[
"pardonable offenses"
]
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"examples":[
"It was a pardonable mistake.",
"the new parents' gushing pride was pardonable",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What happened, then, was surely a result of a pardonable misunderstanding. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Feb. 2020",
"In this case, to be fair, the length is a pardonable fault, for there is plenty here on which to feast. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 11 Oct. 2019",
"However, no one went hungry, and after a wholly pardonable delay all were accommodated. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Sep. 2019",
"But now, without any provocation, and without the justification of reprisal or retaliation, a refusal to outlaw the use of the bomb save in reprisal is making a political purpose of its possession; this is hardly pardonable . \u2014 Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic , 2 Aug. 2017"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-d\u1d4an-\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8p\u00e4rd-n\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"forgivable",
"remissible",
"remittable",
"venial"
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": to diminish or reduce by or as if by paring":[
"pare expenses",
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"pare apples",
"paring his nails"
]
},
"examples":[
"The company has to find a way to pare expenses.",
"pared the stray branches on the tree",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Duguid said Osaka might actually pare down her endorsement portfolio. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
"More:Brewers add right-hander Luis Perdomo to the bullpen, option Keston Hiura to Class AAA Nashville Brosseau, meanwhile, had been optioned out Sunday with teams needing to pare their roster sizes from 28 players down to 26. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 May 2022",
"The biggest, of course, was Zillow\u2019s home-flipping implosion last November\u2014one that caused even eternal growth optimist Cathie Wood to pare her positions in Zillow Z -2.59% Group and Opendoor Technologies. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"Industry observers expect the company to combine the support staff for the two streaming services, Discovery+ and HBO Max, and pare the ranks of executives who oversee the domestic cable TV channels. \u2014 Meg James, Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The Federal Reserve released the minutes from its March meeting this week, which showed officials discussed ways to pare the central bank\u2019s balance sheet. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
"With vacation season in full swing, there\u2019s no better time to pare down your beauty assortment to curate your must-have travel makeup essentials. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
"That disruption is undermining the country\u2019s fight against climate change and Biden\u2019s efforts to pare greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector. \u2014 Ari Natter, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"At a War Memorial Park campaign event on Sunday, Little Rock mayoral hopeful Steve Landers Sr. called for improving outdoor recreation options in Little Rock and suggested the city might need to pare down its parks. \u2014 Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online , 30 May 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English paren, borrowed from Anglo-French parer \"to make, prepare, adorn, trim, cut off,\" going back to Latin par\u0101re \"to supply, provide, make ready,\" probably verbal derivative of a nominal base *paro- , formed from parere \"to give birth to, bring into being, produce\" \u2014 more at parturient":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8per"
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"bob",
"clip",
"crop",
"cut",
"cut back",
"dock",
"lop (off)",
"nip",
"poll",
"prune",
"shave",
"shear",
"snip",
"trim"
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"antonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232044",
"type":[
"idiom"
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"antonyms":[
"issue",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed"
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": derivation , origin":[
"a tradition of uncertain parentage"
],
": descent from parents or ancestors : lineage":[
"a person of noble parentage"
],
": parenthood":[]
},
"examples":[
"they were pleased that their son's girlfriend was of good parentage",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This situation is not that uncommon, but the aspect that continually surprises me is why parentage is kept a secret. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 1 June 2022",
"But by then, the rumors of Maria\u2019s parentage had begun to circulate and the artist, who reviled Mr. Putin for his undercutting of democracy and violent crackdowns, demurred. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"That trip sparks all kind of questions about Violet\u2019s past, Robert\u2019s parentage , and the legitimacy of his title, Lord Grantham. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Ukrainians have moved increasingly toward a civic understanding of Ukrainian identity, centered on citizenship as opposed to parentage . \u2014 Amelia Glaser, CNN , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Chemnick had been double-checking the parentage of each chick that had hatched since the program began, using DNA obtained from blood samples. \u2014 Sara Harrison, Wired , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Although 23andMe was not designed specifically to help people confirm parentage or find biological parents, our DNA Relatives tool does help people find and connect with participating genetic relatives. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Even on the streets of the capital, Pyongyang, where criticizing the Kim dynasty is verboten, whispers arose about his youth, inexperience and murky parentage . \u2014 Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times , 16 Dec. 2021",
"As the khawaja sira community replaces the biological family, bringing proof of parentage to register for CNIC proves difficult. \u2014 Rida Qadri, Wired , 11 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"borrowed from Anglo-French, from parent parent entry 1 + -age -age":""
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"\u02c8per-\u0259n-tij"
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"ancestry",
"birth",
"blood",
"bloodline",
"breeding",
"descent",
"extraction",
"family tree",
"genealogy",
"line",
"lineage",
"origin",
"pedigree",
"stock",
"strain"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174731",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"parenthesis":{
"antonyms":[
"continuation",
"continuity"
],
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": a remark or passage that departs from the theme of a discourse : digression":[
"The speaker inserted some often amusing parentheses during his speech."
],
": an amplifying (see amplify sense 1 ) or explanatory word, phrase, or sentence inserted in a passage from which it is usually set off by punctuation":[
"explained further in a parenthesis"
],
": interlude , interval":[
"The parenthesis of war interrupted the course of his life."
],
": one or both of the curved marks ( ) used in writing and printing to enclose a parenthetical expression or to group a symbolic unit in a logical or mathematical expression":[
"The plant's common name is followed by its Latin name in parentheses ."
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter\u2019s name is in parenthesis for identification. \u2014 Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 Apr. 2022",
"If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter\u2019s name is in parenthesis for identification. \u2014 Katie Atkinson, Billboard , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Ranking in the postseason early Top 25 in parenthesis . \u2014 Erick Smith, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, seven cities on Biz2Credit\u2019s new Top 25 ranking for 2020 dropped off the list (2020 rank in parenthesis ): Raleigh (15), St. Louis (18), Charlotte (19), Chicago (20), Minneapolis-St. \u2014 Rohit Arora, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"Times are estimated based on an average of the past five years, with those times listed in parenthesis from most recent to oldest. \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Apr. 2022",
"One business executive left the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace thinking the war in Ukraine represented a parenthesis in Western trade ties with Russia, not an uncoupling. \u2014 Nick Kostov, wsj.com , 23 Mar. 2022",
"If a player was on the list last month, his past ranking is in parenthesis . \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 6 Jan. 2022",
"The man was bent like a parenthesis , with a bald head that shined like the rock that was split open on Rudy Kauffmann's desk, onto which the ancient fellow now tossed a sheaf of papers. \u2014 CBS News , 6 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin, from Greek, literally, act of inserting, from parentithenai to insert, from para- + en- en- + tithenai to place \u2014 more at do":""
},
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"p\u0259-\u02c8ren(t)-th\u0259-s\u0259s",
"p\u0259-\u02c8ren-th\u0259-s\u0259s"
],
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"discontinuity",
"gap",
"hiatus",
"hiccup",
"hiccough",
"interim",
"interlude",
"intermission",
"interregnum",
"interruption",
"interstice",
"interval"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230945",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"paresthesia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a sensation of pricking, tingling, or creeping on the skin that has no objective cause":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Weakness and tingling in the hands and feet, medically known as paresthesia , are usually its first symptoms. \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 18 May 2020",
"The most common were dizziness, nausea, headache and paresthesia \u2014 electric-shock sensations in the brain that many people call brain zaps. \u2014 Benedict Carey And Robert Gebeloff, BostonGlobe.com , 9 Apr. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1860, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from para- + -esthesia (as in anesthesia )":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccper-\u0259s-\u02c8th\u0113-zh\u0259",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259s-"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133535",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pareu":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a wraparound skirt usually made from a rectangular piece of printed cloth and worn by men and women throughout Polynesia":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Before Matthias left France, a tattoo artist made an exception to tattoo the young boy's arm with the depiction of a kneeling Tahitian woman wearing a flower pareu (pareo) and crown. \u2014 Terry Ward, CNN , 24 Dec. 2021",
"At the one-of-a-kind Deep Ocean Spa, the first thalassotherapy center in French Polynesia, you\u2019re given a pareu and flip-flops as an alternative to the staid robe and slippers. \u2014 Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 20 Oct. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1850, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Tahitian":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-\u0101-(\u02cc)\u00fc"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085207",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
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},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek pareunos lying beside, bedfellow (from par- para- entry 1 + eun\u0113 bed) + New Latin -ia":""
},
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"p\u0259\u02c8r\u00fcn\u0113\u0259"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104536",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
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": made without milk, meat, or their derivatives":[
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],
"\u2014 compare fleishig , milchig":[
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]
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"first_known_use":{
"1933, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Yiddish parev":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-(\u0259-)v\u0259"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021722",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a cold dessert made of layers of fruit, syrup, ice cream, and whipped cream":[],
": a flavored custard containing whipped cream and syrup frozen without stirring":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Feral bakes raspberry, Earl Grey parfait featuring vanilla custard, raspberry Earl Grey sauce, vanilla cake, coconut whipped cream and topped with shortbread crumble For more info and tickets, go to freep.com/top10. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 15 June 2022",
"Lucky are chocolate lovers in particular, who can choose between a lovely tiramisu, served as a parfait in a clear glass cup, or a glossy round of ganache, from which brushstrokes of chocolate sauce end with a golden garnish of popcorn brittle. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"Pair with veal or a mint chocolate parfait dessert. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Try this buffet-style yogurt parfait bar for a light, fruity start to the day. \u2014 Janae Mckenzie, Glamour , 4 May 2022",
"The Rancho Bernardo Inn\u2019s fine-dining restaurant will offer a four-course prix-fixe brunch with items that include langoustine tartare and brioche toast, as well as pea parfait and caviar, and poached cod. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The new restaurant \u2014 with chef Jesus Mendez, formerly of Cole\u2019s Chop House, at the helm \u2014 has a raw bar serving oysters, lobster and a caviar and salmon parfait . \u2014 Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Set in the modern winery barn, the Rooted tasting ($95, offered daily) features six courses with pairings, like Pinot Noir with a chicken liver parfait and an unoaked Chardonnay with Dungeness Crab salad. \u2014 Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Mar. 2022",
"That means as a garnish for a salad, juiced for a marinade, dipped in chocolate, layered into a yogurt parfait (the list goes on). \u2014 Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 15 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1894, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, literally, something perfect, from parfait perfect, from Latin perfectus":""
},
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"p\u00e4r-\u02c8f\u0101"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231850",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a violet-colored liqueur flavored principally with lemon, vanilla, cloves, and coriander":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, literally, perfect love":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225335",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a tall narrow glass with a short stem":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To prepare parfaits: Divide the pomegranate compote among six 6-ounce (3/4 cup) parfait glasses , ramekins or other small dessert cups. \u2014 Romney Steele, chicagotribune.com , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Assemble parfaits: Divide half of pumpkin mixture among 12 small parfait glasses . \u2014 Ina Garten, Good Housekeeping , 2 Oct. 2015",
"Tip: Use iced tea spoons to fill the parfait glasses . \u2014 Susan Nicholson, ajc , 23 Feb. 2018",
"Layer Spicy Hot Fudge Sauce, brittle, and scoops of ice cream in parfait glasses . \u2014 Marian Cooper Cairns, Country Living , 4 Jan. 2018",
"To serve, spoon about 1/2 cup of fruit into each small bowl or parfait glass . \u2014 Debbie Arrington, sacbee , 18 Dec. 2017",
"In 6 parfait glasses , layer brownies, ice cream mixture, and fudge sauce, repeating as desired. Garnish with additional chopped Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. \u2014 Redbook , 24 Sep. 2014"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113359",
"type":[
"noun"
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"pariah":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of a low caste of southern India":[],
": one that is despised or rejected : outcast":[]
},
"examples":[
"For decades, African states longed for the day when South Africa would be liberated from its status as the apartheid pariah and become the economic engine that would pull Africa out of its mire of poverty and underdevelopment, much as Japan did for the Pacific Rim. \u2014 Allister Sparks , Wilson Quarterly , Spring 2001",
"Once they began to migrate to the United States, especially after this country conferred citizenship on them in 1917, they discovered what it meant to be a pariah in the country that had adopted them. \u2014 John Hope Franklin , \"The Land of Room Enough,\" 1981 , in Race and History , 1989",
"Even as her star was rising in the outside world, she was becoming more and more a pariah in her own village, where her isolation and sense of rejection made her, for a time, a prisoner in her house, a victim of agoraphobia. \u2014 Judy Oppenheimer , New York Times Book Review , 3 July 1988",
"He's a talented player but his angry outbursts have made him a pariah in the sport of baseball.",
"I felt like a pariah when I wore the wrong outfit to the dinner party.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Will somehow turned being the house's biggest pariah into an asset, and, at the end, a $500,000 payday, even after telling the jury everything that was wrong with them. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 28 June 2022",
"This unrepentant stance undoubtedly informed how Peaky Blinders portrayed the controversial figure who became a social pariah in Britain in the 1930s. \u2014 Emma Fraser, Town & Country , 11 June 2022",
"Why should the American movie industry keep placating a cultural pariah ",
"Tony Blair remains a virtual pariah to this day, David Cameron a figure of open disdain, and Thatcher a source of such continuing hostility that a statue honoring her is egged by protesters. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 6 June 2022",
"The clash turned him into a GOP pariah , and even other Republicans on the outs with Trump, including Gov. Brian Kemp, kept their distance. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"One early Season 3 reveal is that Gene is a total pariah in Hollywood. \u2014 Peter Fisher, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"Just a few years before her show launched, DeGeneres was a Hollywood pariah . \u2014 Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 May 2022",
"The airport talks have demonstrated how countries are seeking to assert their influence in Afghanistan even as the hardline Islamist group largely remains an international pariah and its government not formally recognized by any nation. \u2014 Sophie Tremblay, CNN , 25 May 2022"
],
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"1613, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Tamil pa\u1e5faiyan , literally, drummer":""
},
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"castoff",
"leper",
"offscouring",
"outcast",
"reject"
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"\u02c8par\u0259t\u0259(r)"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073920",
"type":[
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]
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": an equivalence between farmers' current purchasing power and their purchasing power at a selected base period maintained by government support of agricultural commodity prices":[
"\u2026 parity is the price calculated to give the farmer a fair return in relation to the things he must buy.",
"\u2014 New York Times"
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],
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"Latin paritas , from par equal":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8par-\u0259t-\u0113",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-t\u0113"
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": a bit (see bit entry 4 ) added to an array of bits (as on magnetic tape) to provide parity as a means of error checking":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each receipt is represented by one single bit, in other words, which researchers call a parity check or parity bit . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 24 Nov. 2021"
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"1955, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
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"\u2014 often used figuratively",
"You're about to start a race or step onstage, and you want to knock it out of the park . [=to excel; to perform extremely well]",
"\u2014 Jeanine Detz",
"Pepi is doing a great job lately making inexpensive white wines, and with this Sauvignon Blanc, the winery really knocks it out of the park .",
"\u2014 Steve Heimoff"
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],
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"Mungo 1771\u20131806 Scottish explorer":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We went for a walk in the park .",
"New York City's Central Park .",
"The nation's parks are a popular destination for tourists.",
"He hit the ball out of the park .",
"a rugby game in Eden Park",
"Verb",
"I couldn't find anywhere to park .",
"I parked on the street.",
"I parked the car on the street.",
"Cars are only allowed to park on the right side of this street.",
"The bus parked behind the museum.",
"Park your bags in the hallway.",
"She parked the money in a savings account and forgot about it for several years.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Bison are huge animals that can weigh up to 2,000 pounds and run up to 30 miles per hour, according to the park . \u2014 al , 29 June 2022",
"The woman had puncture wound and other injuries, according to the park . \u2014 Claire Cardona, NBC News , 29 June 2022",
"The draconian response is likely to be repeated should a positive result be traced to the park again. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
"Larry Langford, chief spokesman for the Fire Department, said the agency initiated an EMS Plan 1 \u2014 which automatically sends at least five ambulances to a scene, in this case to the park near Irving Park Road at Cumberland Avenue \u2014 at 6:55 p.m. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Select a spot along US 60 or bring a blanket/chair to the park . \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 27 June 2022",
"Vendors hawking chicken on a stick and other San Antonio delicacies were on hand to sate appetites of those who couldn\u2019t wait until they were admitted to the park . \u2014 Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News , 25 June 2022",
"Access to the park is $30 for vehicles and $15 per person, according to NPS.gov. \u2014 Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Local dancers, youth groups, cheerleaders, high school athletes, classic cars and the Footwork roller skating dancers entertained residents down South Hawkins Avenue to the park . \u2014 John Kuntz, cleveland , 19 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In case of inclement weather, food trucks will park near the front doors of the Dwyer Senior Center, 300 Bryson Lane in Bay Village. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"Oakridge Dairy will park its largest farm tractor right in the middle of the market. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 27 May 2022",
"Unlike the McDonald\u2019s drive-through proposal, no motorized vehicles will be allowed on the property of Westside Square except the food trucks, which will not park there overnight. \u2014 Susan Dunne, courant.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"There will be 310 parking spaces in an inside parking garage that will be planned so people will park on the same level as their apartment unit. \u2014 Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Employees and visitors to that building will now park at the North Side Employee Lot located at the corner of Washington Street and Pacific Highway. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Furthermore, Shoup intended to level the open field so everyone could park safely. \u2014 Donna Reiner, The Arizona Republic , 17 June 2022",
"A week ago Thursday night, witnesses saw Sparks park the Audi in the lot of the Denny\u2019s at Southeast 105th Avenue and Stark Street. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 June 2022",
"The Public Works Department handles everything from street paving, to park maintenance, waste collection, recreation centers, special event permitting, traffic engineering and other tasks. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 1 June 2022"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1526, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin parricus , from pre-Latin *parra pole, trellis":"Noun"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rk"
],
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"demesne",
"ground",
"premises",
"premisses",
"yard"
],
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"noun",
"verb"
]
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"colloquy",
"conference",
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"forum",
"panel",
"panel discussion",
"round-robin",
"roundtable",
"seminar",
"symposium"
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"Peter \u2014 see Samuel Griswold goodrich":[]
},
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"Verb",
"in an effort to win the goodwill of the locals, the developers parleyed with them before finalizing plans for the massive mall",
"Noun",
"held a parley to debate the proposed change in the town's zoning laws",
"can we meet for an informal parley to see if we can effect a compromise",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In May, delegates from the Dobson Noise Coalition parleyed with delegates from CyrusOne, including an acoustic consultant the company had hired. \u2014 Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic , 8 Oct. 2019",
"Generations of Indian bureaucrats had parleyed with them to try winning over Kashmiris, greasing the wheels with subsidies. \u2014 The Economist , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The tectonic buzz and growl of a didgeridoo, played with athletic skill by Harry Wilson, parleyed with the music, then settled beneath it like bedrock. \u2014 Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post , 17 Oct. 2019",
"Iran\u2019s reluctance to parley comes from the very top. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Aug. 2019",
"But they are flattered that outsiders are interested, and insist on their right to parley with all comers. \u2014 The Economist , 24 Aug. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Still, that failed Kendall and Logan parley is on another level from everything else in the hour. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Still, the mood surrounding Biden\u2019s European parley is certain to represent an improvement over the recent past. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2021",
"It has been built on the side of a canal inside the Arsenale, the spiked tops of its piles visible from a distance, with the hopes that both Mapuche and Chileans could travel to Venice and hold a parley , or traditional negotiation. \u2014 Colleen Barry, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 May 2021",
"The 2020 Republican convention focused on issues in a way that the Democratic parley did not. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 30 Aug. 2020",
"Zarif has said the U.S. must lift sanctions before such a parley . \u2014 Eli Lake, Twin Cities , 12 Sep. 2019",
"Those categories are for individuals who do not seek to join the U.S., but rather represent nations seeking to parley with\u2014or conquer\u2014it. \u2014 Jess Bravin, WSJ , 30 Oct. 2018",
"North Korea is also threatening to scrap the Singapore parley unless denuclearization is taken off the agenda. \u2014 Nicholas Eberstadt, WSJ , 23 May 2018",
"Three days before Christmas 1945, Marshall arrived at a small stone bungalow in Chongqing to begin a series of parleys aimed at ending 18 years of civil war. \u2014 James D. Hornfischer, WSJ , 3 May 2018"
],
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"1576, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"circa 1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English parlay \"speech,\" borrowed from Anglo-French parlee, parly \"speech, conversation, debate,\" probably noun derivative from feminine of parl\u00e9, past participle of parler \"to speak, talk,\" going back to early Medieval Latin parabol\u0101re, noun derivative of Late Latin parabola \"comparison, allegory, proverb, discourse, speech\" \u2014 more at parable":"Noun",
"derivative of parley entry 2":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-l\u0113"
],
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"advise",
"confab",
"confabulate",
"confer",
"consult",
"counsel",
"treat"
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"verb"
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": a similar assemblage in another nation or state":[],
": an assemblage of the nobility, clergy, and commons called together by the British sovereign as the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom":[],
": one of several principal courts of justice existing in France before the Revolution of 1789":[],
": the British House of Commons":[],
": the supreme legislative body of a usually major political unit that is a continuing institution comprising a series of individual assemblages":[]
},
"examples":[
"The parliament has authority over the armed forces.",
"The issue was debated in Parliament .",
"The law was passed in the present parliament .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In its place is a new clause granting parliament the authority to legislate pregnancy terminations. \u2014 Erin Cunningham, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"While keeping him busy at home, the situation at parliament is not expected to destabilize Macron's international agenda. \u2014 Sylvie Corbet, ajc , 21 June 2022",
"Now with one stroke, the real power in France is no longer the imperial presidency but a fragmented and cacophonous parliament . \u2014 David A. Andelman, CNN , 20 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, an independent international commission sent by the United Nations to Ukraine to investigate war crimes committed by Russian forces arrived in the nation Saturday, according to the deputy head of Ukraine\u2019s parliament . \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 12 June 2022",
"Statue of imperialist king taken down in Belgium June 30, 202001:25 Belgium\u2019s parliament established a commission soon after to examine the historical record. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 9 June 2022",
"Supporters celebrate after Iraq's parliament passed a law criminalizing normalization of relations with Israel in Baghdad, May 26. \u2014 Joseph Braude, WSJ , 5 June 2022",
"However, the parliament report said there was a lack of data to judge how serious the issue is. \u2014 Fox News , 2 June 2022",
"In 1997, Sweden\u2019s parliament encoded this connection between speed and mortality in a groundbreaking package of legislation called Vision Zero, whose reforms promised to save lives by slowing down traffic. \u2014 Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English parlement, parliament \"discourse, conversation, conference, assembly, assembly of the lay and ecclesiastical aristocracy, the Parliament of England or Ireland,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, from parler \"to speak\" + -ment -ment \u2014 more at parley entry 2":""
},
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"also \u02c8p\u00e4rl-y\u0259-",
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-l\u0259-m\u0259nt",
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-l\u0259-m\u0259nt, \u02c8p\u00e4rl-y\u0259-"
],
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"congress"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055333",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": a conference chamber or private reception room":[],
": a room in a private dwelling for the entertainment of guests":[],
": a room in an inn, hotel, or club for conversation or semiprivate uses":[],
": a room used primarily for conversation or the reception of guests: such as":[],
": any of various business places":[
"a funeral parlor",
"a beauty parlor"
],
": fostered or advocated in comfortable seclusion without consequent action or application to affairs":[
"parlor bolshevism"
],
": given to or characterized by fostering or advocating something (such as a doctrine) in such a manner":[
"parlor socialist"
],
": used in or suitable for a parlor":[
"parlor furniture"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"an ice cream parlor with an old-timey theme",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Browndog got its start in 2015 as an artisan ice cream parlor . \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022",
"Inside is also an ice cream parlor which includes an ice cream truck. \u2014 Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The chocolate shop dates back to 1942, when Cornelius and Helen Vanderlinden bought an ice cream parlor . \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 June 2022",
"There, on the parlor floor of a 1906 building, German artist Katharina Grosse fashioned Apollo, Apollo, a shimmering floor-to-ceiling textile that references Fortuny fabrics and terrazzo mosaics. \u2014 Erik Maza, Town & Country , 11 June 2022",
"Chances are you'll be directed to an actual pizza parlor . \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 18 May 2022",
"Returning home to her family's funeral parlor , she's perplexed to find a ghost at their front door \u2014 the ghost of her editor to be precise. \u2014 EW.com , 12 May 2022",
"The parlor floor looks out onto the East and Hudson rivers, and the panoramic view is majestic. \u2014 Marc Myers, WSJ , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Those who\u2019ve gotten themselves inked may be transported back to the tattoo parlor after their first spray. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Kyle Green kgreen@idahostatesman.com Parlor bird cage at the Jones/Eld house in East Boise. \u2014 Anna Webb, idahostatesman , 14 Apr. 2017"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
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"Middle English parlour, parlur \"room off a hall set aside for private conversation, room (as in a monastery) where speech is permitted,\" borrowed from Anglo-French parlur, parlour, from parler \" to speak, talk\" + -ur, -or (continental Old French -oir ), going back to Latin -\u014drius -ory entry 1 \u2014 more at parley entry 2":"Noun",
"from attributive use of parlor entry 1":"Adjective"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-l\u0259r"
],
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"establishment",
"joint",
"place",
"salon"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024414",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"harmless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"nonhazardous",
"nonthreatening",
"safe",
"unthreatening"
],
"definitions":{
": dangerously shrewd or cunning":[],
": full of danger or risk":[]
},
"examples":[
"The company is in a parlous financial situation.",
"He talked about the parlous state of the country.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What\u2019s already been laid bare is that Chelsea is unviable in its current form without the largesse of its billionaire patron, a reflection of a sport whose parlous finances would sink just about any other industry. \u2014 David Hellier, Bloomberg.com , 11 Mar. 2022",
"On a visit to the Hasakah prison in 2019, The Washington Post found parlous conditions. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Jan. 2022",
"The state of American diplomacy was parlous , as the Nazis established a firm and apparently permanent foothold in most of Western Europe. \u2014 Ronald C. Rosbottom, WSJ , 15 Oct. 2021",
"So, given its parlous financial state, how will the company pay for it",
"As with so many mid-tier clubs in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, Sampdoria\u2019s finances are parlous . \u2014 New York Times , 16 July 2021",
"To the rest of the world, however, the state of Indian democracy looks increasingly parlous . \u2014 Sadanand Dhume, WSJ , 15 Apr. 2021",
"In trouble is, for a kid, a parlous state, fraught with terror. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 9 Mar. 2021",
"One day, while walking the dog, Joel weighed in on the parlous state of the federal minimum wage. \u2014 Belinda Luscombe, Time , 19 Feb. 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English, variant of perilous perilous (through loss of medial syllable and regular lowering and backing of e )":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-l\u0259s"
],
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"dangerous",
"grave",
"grievous",
"hazardous",
"jeopardizing",
"menacing",
"perilous",
"risky",
"serious",
"threatening",
"unhealthy",
"unsafe",
"venturesome"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162715",
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"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"catholic",
"cosmopolitan",
"liberal",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive",
"tolerant"
],
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],
": of or relating to a parish as a unit of local government":[
"parochial authorities serve the inhabitants of Louisiana's parishes"
]
},
"examples":[
"It has never been clearer that the country's best self is a global inheritance, its worst a parochial self-certainty. \u2014 Jedediah Purdy , New York Times Book Review , 22 Feb. 2009",
"There is no patience for the parochial , the small-time, the stay-in-place, not in Los Angeles. \u2014 Richard Hoffer , Sports Illustrated , 8 Sept. 2008",
"\u2026 during the mid-1780s, Madison had two great goals. The first was to inculcate an enlightened sense of national interest in legislators whose political instincts were innately parochial . \u2014 Jack N. Rakove , Original Meanings \u2026 , 1996",
"our pastor and other parochial leaders",
"voters worried about their own parochial concerns",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Viewed in isolation, this is a parochial notion, since the history of English verse shows a wonderfully witty tradition of near-rhyme. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"But that parochial assumption has been called into question in recent years. \u2014 Nate Hochman, National Review , 19 May 2022",
"The test of that promise is whether Congress will act swiftly, or let the weapons get bogged down in a parochial fight over Covid-19 funding. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 2 May 2022",
"The limits were not enough for some lawmakers who were wary of the optics of claiming federal money for parochial goodies. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"And National Review, its pages filled with stylish reactionary chatter well to the right of the Republican mainstream, remained a relatively parochial concern. \u2014 Sam Adler-bell, The New Republic , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Many of the group\u2019s opponents are also outspoken supporters of school choice programs that direct tax dollars to parochial , private and charter schools. \u2014 Laura Meckler, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Jan. 2022",
"For reasons that are political, parochial and irrelevant to the decision, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken a hard line in his efforts to derail the prospective members. \u2014 Joe Lieberman, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"The Home Scholars and parochial schools are light years ahead. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English parochiall , from Anglo-French parochial , from Late Latin parochialis , from parochia parish \u2014 more at parish":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8r\u014d-k\u0113-\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"illiberal",
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"petty",
"picayune",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small",
"small-minded"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080227",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"parody":{
"antonyms":[
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"do",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"mock",
"send up",
"spoof",
"travesty"
],
"definitions":{
": a feeble or ridiculous imitation":[
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"wrote a hilarious parody of a popular song"
],
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"parody a poem"
],
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"Noun",
"He has a talent for writing parodies .",
"a writer with a talent for parody",
"Verb",
"It was easy to parody the book's fancy language.",
"She parodied her brother's poetry.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Someone has parodied the NFT market by purporting to sell NFTs of images of individual Olive Garden restaurants, but it\u2019s the kind of parody that gets at the essential truth of the target. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"The most elaborate piece may be the one by Marisol Escobar, the Venezuelan-American sculptor who created a kind of Mount Rushmore parody in pink marble of Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. \u2014 Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Apr. 2022",
"In time, though, that trade became more about export and the town became something of a parody of itself. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"That element of parody comes across clearly in the Columbus show. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Obviously, the lack of creativity in sequel-minded Hollywood is ripe for parody , but all the coy asides would probably play better at a film-industry premiere than at home via Netflix. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Alas, there\u2019s no market for parodying the aspects most in need of parody . \u2014 WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Juxtaposed with Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men on Earth, launching into space on his own rocket last year \u2014 a trip back-dropped by pandemic devastation (and a passing blip on the cultural radar) \u2014 is beyond parody \u2026 almost. \u2014 Maya Salam, New York Times , 23 Jan. 2022",
"That\u2019s right \u2014 the Harry Potter alum has been tapped to portray the accordian-playing and multi-Grammy-winning maestro of musical parody in an upcoming Roku Channel biopic co-produced by Funny or Die and Tango. \u2014 Josh Weiss, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The film is made to parody 1950\u2019s celebrity and political culture as well as give a quirky perspective on the era\u2019s famous personas. \u2014 Swarna Gowtham, Town & Country , 28 June 2022",
"More recently, he's begun posting TikTok videos that lovingly parody common movie and TV tropes. \u2014 USA Today , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Rifkin\u2019s Festival is a comic retrospective about a film professor (played by Wallace Shawn) who, in his pathetic senior years, sees his life in terms of old films \u2014 flashbacks and fantasies that parody the classic canon. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Both the costumes and the photos actually parody the sort of images Westerners once made of Middle Eastern women. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2021",
"However, the memo was meant to parody legislation in the U.S. restricting women's reproductive rights, and Rabb told USA TODAY his bill was never intended to pass. \u2014 Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY , 2 Oct. 2021",
"To poke a hole in Instagram\u2019s artificial veneer, Kite suggests encouraging your teen to follow people who parody social media\u2019s toxic culture, such as comedic critics like @hicaitlinreilly. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Sep. 2021",
"However no one attempted to parody Smart's role as the Fruit Ninja-loving, manhattan-chugging great-grandmother Helen, because why mess with perfection",
"The blonde 31-year-old is known in downtown circles for the ability to lightly parody a ditzy life of iced matchas and Brandy Melville shopping sprees while also being the smartest voice on luxury timepieces for women. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 19 May 2021"
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"1733, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
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"travesty"
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"convulsed \u2026 in the paroxysms of an epileptic seizure",
"\u2014 Thomas Hardy"
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"a paroxysm of laughter"
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"He went into paroxysms of laughter.",
"a paroxysm of laughter greeted the pratfall",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When word got out last month that Angel\u2019s Share might close after nearly 30 years, the city \u2014 or at least a very vocal slice that was devoted to artisanal cocktails \u2014 spun into a paroxysm of despair. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Much better, the patient exclaimed, but then exploded into a paroxysm of coughing. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The events themselves took a matter of minutes to unfold in a paroxysm of one-sided gunfire that snuffed out more than a dozen lives, each one of them a new martyr in Northern Ireland\u2019s somber annals of loss. \u2014 Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com , 29 Jan. 2022",
"The events themselves took a matter of minutes to unfold in a paroxysm of one-sided gunfire that snuffed out more than a dozen lives, each one of them a new martyr in Northern Ireland\u2019s somber annals of loss. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Jan. 2022",
"If scientists can collect ash that was produced both prior to and during the paroxysm , the different chemical and textural features of both sets of particles will reveal the explosion\u2019s trigger. \u2014 Robin Andrews, Wired , 20 Jan. 2022",
"As these images played to a global audience riveted by the drama at the airport, the West, in a paroxysm of regret, opened its arms to Afghan refugees. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Foreign leaders are wondering just how long the break from Trumpism will last and whether the nation that once stabilized the world will pitch it into a new paroxysm of populist nationalism if Trump is reelected in 2024. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 1 Nov. 2021",
"This, in turn, touched off a paroxysm of media takes about whether such confrontations broke the bounds of civility. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 9 Oct. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When word got out last month that Angel\u2019s Share might close after nearly 30 years, the city \u2014 or at least a very vocal slice that was devoted to artisanal cocktails \u2014 spun into a paroxysm of despair. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Much better, the patient exclaimed, but then exploded into a paroxysm of coughing. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The events themselves took a matter of minutes to unfold in a paroxysm of one-sided gunfire that snuffed out more than a dozen lives, each one of them a new martyr in Northern Ireland\u2019s somber annals of loss. \u2014 Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com , 29 Jan. 2022",
"The events themselves took a matter of minutes to unfold in a paroxysm of one-sided gunfire that snuffed out more than a dozen lives, each one of them a new martyr in Northern Ireland\u2019s somber annals of loss. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Jan. 2022",
"If scientists can collect ash that was produced both prior to and during the paroxysm , the different chemical and textural features of both sets of particles will reveal the explosion\u2019s trigger. \u2014 Robin Andrews, Wired , 20 Jan. 2022",
"As these images played to a global audience riveted by the drama at the airport, the West, in a paroxysm of regret, opened its arms to Afghan refugees. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Foreign leaders are wondering just how long the break from Trumpism will last and whether the nation that once stabilized the world will pitch it into a new paroxysm of populist nationalism if Trump is reelected in 2024. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 1 Nov. 2021",
"This, in turn, touched off a paroxysm of media takes about whether such confrontations broke the bounds of civility. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 9 Oct. 2021"
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"Verb",
"Some of the students were just parroting what the teacher said.",
"the toddler parroted everything her father said, often to the latter's embarrassment",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The parrot species is native to South America, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago, and is a popular exotic pet due to the bird's high intelligence and ability to mimic what people say. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"Resorts, liquor, casinos, RV parks and myriad minutiae bear the stamp of a parrot and palm tree synonymous with the singer\u2019s multibillion dollar empire. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"The unlikely collaboration came about after Wayne Coyne kept noticing a 12-year-old Nell, dressed in a parrot costume, in the front row of Flaming Lips shows, singing every song with her parents. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 3 May 2022",
"In a statement shared with PEOPLE, the 72-year-old actor \u2014 known for voicing the evil Grand vizier Jafar alongside Gottfried's fast-talking parrot Iago in Aladdin \u2014 recalls his friendship with the late comedian, who died on Tuesday at age 67. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Watching these films, Ms Young and her collaborators scored and calculated the frequency of each parrot \u2019s beak-, tail- and wing-use across each of the substrate conditions (Figure 1). \u2014 Grrlscientist, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"These brilliant hyacinth macaws, photographed in Ja\u00fa National Park in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, have the largest wingspan of any parrot on the planet. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The ghost bat is a nocturnal hunter that uses a combination of keen eyesight and echolocation to hunt and catch prey, wrapping its winglike arms around it, and in the case of budgies (a type of small parrot ), eating it head-first. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Actor Don Darryl Rivera, who portrays Iago \u2014 the parrot character Gottfried voices in Disney's 1992 animated film version of Aladdin \u2014 stood in front of the rest of the show's cast and delivered a heartfelt speech about the former SNL star. \u2014 Jack Irvin, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Republican voters in this week\u2019s primary races demonstrated a willingness to nominate candidates who parrot Donald J. Trump\u2019s election lies and who appear intent on exerting extraordinary political control over voting systems. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"Axios parrot Biden's 'ultra-MAGA' label to target certain GOPers. \u2014 Jack Durschlag, Fox News , 20 May 2022",
"The comment left many people \u2014 including me \u2014 ice cold, since to deploy Malinche\u2019s name as an insult is to parrot a gross misogynist trope. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
"Finally, Putin and his cronies have seized the opportunity to silence the few outlets in the country brave enough to not parrot the official line. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 9 Mar. 2022",
"And, of course, so does Vladimir Putin, which is why Carlson (and others) parrot it. \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Misinformation researchers say the accounts frequently parrot misleading or false talking points that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top deputies have used to justify the conflict. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"During the 2016 election, Trump seized on the pardon power as a campaign rallying cry, getting the press to parrot his conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton would be pardoned by President Barack Obama for alleged crimes. \u2014 Jake Bernstein, The New York Review of Books , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Arguments at local school-board meetings parrot the outrages manufactured every day on national talk radio and national cable news. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 24 Nov. 2021"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The birds also could transmit diseases to humans, such as psittacosis ( parrot fever ), avian flu and salmonella, The Guardian reported. \u2014 Fox News , 9 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1930, in the meaning defined above":""
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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": sparing , restrained":[]
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for parsimonious stingy , close , niggardly , parsimonious , penurious , miserly mean being unwilling or showing unwillingness to share with others. stingy implies a marked lack of generosity. a stingy child, not given to sharing close suggests keeping a tight grip on one's money and possessions. folks who are very close when charity calls niggardly implies giving or spending the very smallest amount possible. the niggardly amount budgeted for the town library parsimonious suggests a frugality so extreme as to lead to stinginess. a parsimonious lifestyle notably lacking in luxuries penurious implies niggardliness that gives an appearance of actual poverty. the penurious eccentric bequeathed a fortune miserly suggests a sordid avariciousness and a morbid pleasure in hoarding. a miserly couple devoid of social conscience",
"examples":[
"A society that is parsimonious in its personal charity (in terms of both time and money) will require more government welfare. \u2014 William J. Bennett , The Death of Outrage , 1998",
"Their merchant princes were supposed to be parsimonious and austere: fustian in apparel and coarse in diet. \u2014 Simon Schama , The Embarrassment of Riches , 1988",
"With saints, Dante is apathetic. They are written with a dry pen, and parsimonious vision. \u2014 Robert Lowell , Collected Prose , 1987",
"a parsimonious woman who insists that charity begins\u2014and ends\u2014at home",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The string of modest contracts left them vulnerable to critics who felt Bloom had the Sox behaving more like parsimonious Tampa Bay than a team with one of the largest revenue streams \u2014 and one of the largest payrolls \u2014 in the game. \u2014 Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
"There is a parsimonious version of the defense of free speech that holds that the only thing that Americans should worry about is infringement by the state. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The centre, which should be transferring part of its tax revenues or borrowing and passing it on to states, given the dire emergency, has been parsimonious in sharing resources. \u2014 Rajrishi Singhal, Quartz , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Scottish and, even at those comparatively generous latitudes, coping with parsimonious winter daylight is a challenge for most, and impossible for some. \u2014 Travel , 29 Dec. 2021",
"By comparison, the Philippines\u2019 near neighbors are more parsimonious : Thailand\u2019s consumption rate is 53%, and Indonesia\u2019s 59%, according to the most recent data by the World Bank. \u2014 Aurora Almendral, Quartz , 25 Nov. 2021",
"This blueprint, called a schema, keeps data entry reliable, search efficient, and the system parsimonious . \u2014 Rida Qadri, Wired , 11 Nov. 2021",
"Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United have spent a lot, and therefore their prospects are brighter than the (comparatively parsimonious ) Liverpool. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Aug. 2021",
"But these days, the Daily News, owned by the parsimonious Tribune Publishing Company, which itself was just devoured by a hedge fund, is a shadow of its former self. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 28 May 2021"
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]
},
"examples":[
"The charity was surprised by the parsimony of some larger corporations.",
"her parsimony was so extreme that she'd walk five miles to the store to save a few cents on gas",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His record in the Premier League, in particular, in recent years has been built as much on defensive parsimony as attacking threat. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"At the conference this year, delegates from developing countries said this parsimony had undermined their trust in the U.N. process. \u2014 Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 Nov. 2021",
"The likely answer is that what\u2019s true today has always been true: parsimony is the surest path to wealth. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021",
"Perhaps there is some megolamania in Diller\u2019s act of philanthropy, but philanthropy still serves us better than selfish parsimony or profligate self-indulgence. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Aug. 2021",
"The speculation about Chinese owner Suning considering selling Inter could be fueling the parsimony . \u2014 Rob Harris, Star Tribune , 1 Feb. 2021",
"Canada\u2019s stance overall was one of government generosity to persons and parsimony to businesses. \u2014 Philip Cross, National Review , 12 Aug. 2020",
"In the battle of the post-war memoirs, Montgomery still blamed him for his parsimony (while admitting to mistakes of his own). \u2014 The Economist , 24 May 2018",
"Consider, for example, the 1947 debut of Christian Dior\u2019s New Look, using yards and yards of fabric to create full calf-length skirts \u2014 utterly shocking after the necessary parsimony of wartime. \u2014 Lauren Elkin, New York Times , 4 May 2018"
],
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"Middle English parcimony, borrowed from Latin parsim\u014dnia, from pars-, perfect stem of parcere \"to act sparingly, be thrifty (with), refrain from\" (of uncertain origin) + -i- -i- + -m\u014dnia, suffix of abstract nouns (going back to the Indo-European noun-forming suffix *-m\u0115\u0304n-/*m\u014f\u0304n- + the abstract noun formative *-i- )":""
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"\u2014 Mary McCarthy"
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"\u2026 the road was passable only part of the year \u2026",
"\u2014 Samuel Johnson"
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"\u2014 Mark 9:40 (King James Version)"
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"His part was on the left side of his head."
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": the role of a character in a play, movie, etc.":[
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": to become separated, detached, or broken":[],
": to break or suffer the breaking of (something, such as a rope or anchor chain)":[],
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"\u2014 often used with with"
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": to divide into shares and distribute : apportion":[],
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": to go away : depart":[],
": to hold (people, such as brawlers) apart":[],
": to keep separate":[
"the narrow channel that parts England from France"
],
": to relinquish possession or control":[
"hated to part with that money"
],
": to remove from contact or association":[
"if aught but death part thee and me",
"\u2014 Ruth 1:17 (King James Version)"
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": to separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion":[],
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": to separate from or take leave of someone":[],
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"participial ; participle":[],
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"\u2014 see also take part":[
"objected to the government's part in the strike"
]
},
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"The entire book is good, but the best part is the ending.",
"I don't remember him saying that. I must have missed that part .",
"The mechanic had to order the part from the manufacturer.",
"The parts of a radio include the speaker, dials, and antenna.",
"Do you have any spare parts for this model of car",
"the moving parts of the machine",
"parts of the human body",
"My favorite part of the chicken is the drumstick.",
"a diagram labeling the different parts of the flower",
"Come join us and be part of a winning team.",
"Verb",
"The crowd parted to let the president through.",
"The rain stopped and the clouds parted .",
"The big red curtains parted to reveal a new car!",
"The Bible tells the story of how God parted the Red Sea.",
"She closed her eyes and parted her lips.",
"She parts her hair on the side.",
"His dark hair was parted down the middle.",
"The two lovers parted at dawn.",
"Tomorrow we shall part and, I fear, never see each other again.",
"She couldn't bear the thought of parting from her family.",
"Adverb",
"The story is part science and part fiction.",
"The Chimera is a monster in Greek mythology that is part lion, part goat, and part serpent.",
"Adjective",
"The claim is a part truth\u2014there is more to the story than they are telling you.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Attending a charity polo match that Prince William and Prince Harry took part in at Cirencester Park Polo Club. \u2014 ELLE , 24 June 2022",
"The app has also sparked conversations on larger social media platforms, with some users joking that their notification to take a snapshot comes during the most boring part of their day or at an inconvenient time. \u2014 Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"And part of that is investing in programs and investing in youth sports. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
"Hays\u2019 night was part of a collective defensive showcase from the Orioles\u2019 outfield, with center fielder Cedric Mullins and left fielder Anthony Santander also ranging for several difficult catches to support Baltimore\u2019s pitching staff. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022",
"This is part two of a STAT investigation on the dismissal of Black doctors from residency programs. \u2014 Usha Lee Mcfarling, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"The urgency on Bartlett\u2019s part comes with ASU losing eight players to the transfer portal this offseason. \u2014 Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
"The oil and energy business is also an important part of Berkshire's overall operating business. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Having spent most of her life in Texas, Danya considers the Lone Star State her home, with Mexico remaining an important part of her life. \u2014 Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In the same year Disney was looking to part ways with the Angels, the team put up its most memorable season, defeating the Giants in the 2002 World Series. \u2014 Elvia Lim\u00f3n, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
"That lack of March success was a driving force in the program\u2019s decision to part ways with Smart after six seasons and hire Beard away from Texas Tech. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Metro is pondering the redevelopment of all or part the Portland Expo Center. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 June 2022",
"Bloys took the week to do so but ultimately the decision was made to part ways with the series for which Abrams had sought a budget north of $200 million. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"But with Brown\u2019s contract entering its final season, Tennessee chose to part with the wide receiver, and Philadelphia signed him to a four-year, $100 million extension. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 5 June 2022",
"There was criticism for the manner in which the departure was handled, but at the time of the transaction, the front office staff felt it in the best interest of all involved to part ways with Pujols. \u2014 Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"But not being polygamous, the band had to part ways with Klinghoffer. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 31 Mar. 2022",
"New Orleans is set to lose several players on the open market and may have to part with other key pieces of the roster just to get under the cap. \u2014 Nicholas Mcgee, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Fran\u00e7ois Girard\u2019s take \u2014 part mysterious, part mystifying \u2014 on Wagner\u2019s last opera is one of the Met\u2019s most interesting productions of the last decade or so, and returns for the first time since its premiere in 2013. \u2014 David Allen, New York Times , 1 Feb. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Brian Galvin, who serves as Chief Academic Officer for Varsity Tutors, says that students who want to avoid or minimize debt should treat their scholarship search like a part -time job. \u2014 Robert Farrington, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Mangan, who is a licensed EMT paramedic in Massachusetts, worked part -time as an EMT for an ambulance service company. \u2014 Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"The city hopes to create one part -time job, according to its records. \u2014 Anita Lee, ProPublica , 24 June 2022",
"However, there is a small possibility that a new job would work out for my husband, which would give me the opportunity to not return from leave and instead pursue a part -time opportunity. \u2014 Roxane Gay, New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"With no other family, her part -time job as a cashier was her main source of human interactions, and these weren\u2019t satisfying. \u2014 T. Salewa Oseni, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"The festivals surveyed, on average, boasted 8.2 full-time employees, 3.1 part -time employees, 10.4 seasonal employees and 7.9 independent contractors, with about 1.4 positions currently open. \u2014 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"White began his career of more than two decades in 1985, working with Andre the Giant on a part -time basis. \u2014 Steve Gardner, USA TODAY , 20 June 2022",
"Flandro, who was working part -time at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., had been tasked with finding the most efficient way to send a space probe to Jupiter or perhaps even out to Saturn, Uranus or Neptune. \u2014 Tim Folger, Scientific American , 18 June 2022"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French & Old English, both from Latin part-, pars ; perhaps akin to Latin parare to prepare \u2014 more at pare":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Anglo-French partir , from Latin partire to divide, from part-, pars":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for part Noun part , portion , piece , member , division , section , segment , fragment mean something less than the whole. part is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required. they ran only part of the way portion implies an assigned or allotted part. cut the pie into six portions piece applies to a separate or detached part of a whole. a puzzle with 500 pieces member suggests one of the functional units composing a body. a structural member division applies to a large or diversified part. the manufacturing division of the company section applies to a relatively small or uniform part. the entertainment section of the newspaper segment applies to a part separated or marked out by or as if by natural lines of cleavage. the retired segment of the population fragment applies to a part produced by or as if by breaking off. only a fragment of the play still exists Verb separate , part , divide , sever , sunder , divorce mean to become or cause to become disunited or disjointed. separate may imply any of several causes such as dispersion, removal of one from others, or presence of an intervening thing. separated her personal life from her career part implies the separating of things or persons in close union or association. vowed never to part divide implies separating into pieces or sections by cutting or breaking. civil war divided the nation sever implies violence especially in the removal of a part or member. a severed limb sunder suggests violent rending or wrenching apart. a city sundered by racial conflict divorce implies separating two things that commonly interact and belong together. cannot divorce scientific research from moral responsibility",
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"partition",
"portion",
"section",
"segment"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203633",
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"We part ways on that issue."
],
": to end a relationship":[
"The band members parted ways after releasing their third album.",
"\u2014 often + with She has since parted ways with the organization."
],
": to leave each other":[
"We said our goodbyes and parted ways ."
]
},
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"He hated to part with that old car."
]
},
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"diverge",
"divide",
"fork",
"separate",
"spread"
],
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"a man of many parts"
],
": a division of a literary work":[
"a novel in four parts"
],
": a function or course of action performed":[
"objected to the government's part in the strike"
],
": a general area of indefinite boundaries":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural you're not from around these parts took off for parts unknown"
],
": a vocal or instrumental line or melody in concerted music or in harmony":[],
": an actor's lines in a play, movie, etc.":[
"The actress learned her part well."
],
": an essential portion or integral element":[
"Change is an inevitable part of life."
],
": an exact divisor of a quantity : aliquot":[],
": as far as one's share or interest is concerned":[
"for my part , I do not see that the difference is important",
"\u2014 Mary McCarthy"
],
": die":[],
": in general : on the whole":[
"for the most part the crowd was orderly"
],
": in some degree : partially":[],
": leave , quit":[],
": one of several or many equal units of which something is composed or into which it is divisible : an amount equal to another amount":[
"mix one part of the powder with three parts of water"
],
": one of the constituent elements of a plant or animal body: such as":[],
": one of the often indefinite or unequal subdivisions into which something is or is regarded as divided and which together constitute the whole":[
"\u2026 the road was passable only part of the year \u2026",
"\u2014 Samuel Johnson"
],
": one of the opposing sides in a conflict or dispute":[
"he that is not against us is on our part",
"\u2014 Mark 9:40 (King James Version)"
],
": one's share or allotted task (as in an action) : duty":[
"one must do one's part"
],
": organ , member":[
"The stomach is part of the digestive system."
],
": partial fraction":[],
": partial sense 1":[],
": partly":[],
": private parts":[],
": relinquish , give up":[],
": something falling to one in a division or apportionment : share":[
"wanted no part of the proposal"
],
": the line where the hair is parted":[
"His part was on the left side of his head."
],
": the role of a character in a play, movie, etc.":[
"played the part of the villain"
],
": to become separated into parts":[],
": to become separated, detached, or broken":[],
": to break or suffer the breaking of (something, such as a rope or anchor chain)":[],
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"\u2014 often used with with"
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": to divide into parts":[],
": to divide into shares and distribute : apportion":[],
": to end a relationship or association":[],
": to go away : depart":[],
": to hold (people, such as brawlers) apart":[],
": to keep separate":[
"the narrow channel that parts England from France"
],
": to relinquish possession or control":[
"hated to part with that money"
],
": to remove from contact or association":[
"if aught but death part thee and me",
"\u2014 Ruth 1:17 (King James Version)"
],
": to separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion":[],
": to separate by combing on each side of a line":[],
": to separate from or take leave of someone":[],
": to take leave of one another":[],
": with regard to the one specified":[],
"participial ; participle":[],
"particular":[],
"\u2014 see also take part":[
"objected to the government's part in the strike"
]
},
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"Noun",
"The entire book is good, but the best part is the ending.",
"I don't remember him saying that. I must have missed that part .",
"The mechanic had to order the part from the manufacturer.",
"The parts of a radio include the speaker, dials, and antenna.",
"Do you have any spare parts for this model of car",
"the moving parts of the machine",
"parts of the human body",
"My favorite part of the chicken is the drumstick.",
"a diagram labeling the different parts of the flower",
"Come join us and be part of a winning team.",
"Verb",
"The crowd parted to let the president through.",
"The rain stopped and the clouds parted .",
"The big red curtains parted to reveal a new car!",
"The Bible tells the story of how God parted the Red Sea.",
"She closed her eyes and parted her lips.",
"She parts her hair on the side.",
"His dark hair was parted down the middle.",
"The two lovers parted at dawn.",
"Tomorrow we shall part and, I fear, never see each other again.",
"She couldn't bear the thought of parting from her family.",
"Adverb",
"The story is part science and part fiction.",
"The Chimera is a monster in Greek mythology that is part lion, part goat, and part serpent.",
"Adjective",
"The claim is a part truth\u2014there is more to the story than they are telling you.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Attending a charity polo match that Prince William and Prince Harry took part in at Cirencester Park Polo Club. \u2014 ELLE , 24 June 2022",
"The app has also sparked conversations on larger social media platforms, with some users joking that their notification to take a snapshot comes during the most boring part of their day or at an inconvenient time. \u2014 Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"And part of that is investing in programs and investing in youth sports. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
"Hays\u2019 night was part of a collective defensive showcase from the Orioles\u2019 outfield, with center fielder Cedric Mullins and left fielder Anthony Santander also ranging for several difficult catches to support Baltimore\u2019s pitching staff. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022",
"This is part two of a STAT investigation on the dismissal of Black doctors from residency programs. \u2014 Usha Lee Mcfarling, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"The urgency on Bartlett\u2019s part comes with ASU losing eight players to the transfer portal this offseason. \u2014 Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
"The oil and energy business is also an important part of Berkshire's overall operating business. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Having spent most of her life in Texas, Danya considers the Lone Star State her home, with Mexico remaining an important part of her life. \u2014 Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In the same year Disney was looking to part ways with the Angels, the team put up its most memorable season, defeating the Giants in the 2002 World Series. \u2014 Elvia Lim\u00f3n, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
"That lack of March success was a driving force in the program\u2019s decision to part ways with Smart after six seasons and hire Beard away from Texas Tech. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Metro is pondering the redevelopment of all or part the Portland Expo Center. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 June 2022",
"Bloys took the week to do so but ultimately the decision was made to part ways with the series for which Abrams had sought a budget north of $200 million. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"But with Brown\u2019s contract entering its final season, Tennessee chose to part with the wide receiver, and Philadelphia signed him to a four-year, $100 million extension. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 5 June 2022",
"There was criticism for the manner in which the departure was handled, but at the time of the transaction, the front office staff felt it in the best interest of all involved to part ways with Pujols. \u2014 Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"But not being polygamous, the band had to part ways with Klinghoffer. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 31 Mar. 2022",
"New Orleans is set to lose several players on the open market and may have to part with other key pieces of the roster just to get under the cap. \u2014 Nicholas Mcgee, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Fran\u00e7ois Girard\u2019s take \u2014 part mysterious, part mystifying \u2014 on Wagner\u2019s last opera is one of the Met\u2019s most interesting productions of the last decade or so, and returns for the first time since its premiere in 2013. \u2014 David Allen, New York Times , 1 Feb. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Brian Galvin, who serves as Chief Academic Officer for Varsity Tutors, says that students who want to avoid or minimize debt should treat their scholarship search like a part -time job. \u2014 Robert Farrington, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Mangan, who is a licensed EMT paramedic in Massachusetts, worked part -time as an EMT for an ambulance service company. \u2014 Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"The city hopes to create one part -time job, according to its records. \u2014 Anita Lee, ProPublica , 24 June 2022",
"However, there is a small possibility that a new job would work out for my husband, which would give me the opportunity to not return from leave and instead pursue a part -time opportunity. \u2014 Roxane Gay, New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"With no other family, her part -time job as a cashier was her main source of human interactions, and these weren\u2019t satisfying. \u2014 T. Salewa Oseni, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"The festivals surveyed, on average, boasted 8.2 full-time employees, 3.1 part -time employees, 10.4 seasonal employees and 7.9 independent contractors, with about 1.4 positions currently open. \u2014 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"White began his career of more than two decades in 1985, working with Andre the Giant on a part -time basis. \u2014 Steve Gardner, USA TODAY , 20 June 2022",
"Flandro, who was working part -time at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., had been tasked with finding the most efficient way to send a space probe to Jupiter or perhaps even out to Saturn, Uranus or Neptune. \u2014 Tim Folger, Scientific American , 18 June 2022"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French & Old English, both from Latin part-, pars ; perhaps akin to Latin parare to prepare \u2014 more at pare":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Anglo-French partir , from Latin partire to divide, from part-, pars":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for part Noun part , portion , piece , member , division , section , segment , fragment mean something less than the whole. part is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required. they ran only part of the way portion implies an assigned or allotted part. cut the pie into six portions piece applies to a separate or detached part of a whole. a puzzle with 500 pieces member suggests one of the functional units composing a body. a structural member division applies to a large or diversified part. the manufacturing division of the company section applies to a relatively small or uniform part. the entertainment section of the newspaper segment applies to a part separated or marked out by or as if by natural lines of cleavage. the retired segment of the population fragment applies to a part produced by or as if by breaking off. only a fragment of the play still exists Verb separate , part , divide , sever , sunder , divorce mean to become or cause to become disunited or disjointed. separate may imply any of several causes such as dispersion, removal of one from others, or presence of an intervening thing. separated her personal life from her career part implies the separating of things or persons in close union or association. vowed never to part divide implies separating into pieces or sections by cutting or breaking. civil war divided the nation sever implies violence especially in the removal of a part or member. a severed limb sunder suggests violent rending or wrenching apart. a city sundered by racial conflict divorce implies separating two things that commonly interact and belong together. cannot divorce scientific research from moral responsibility",
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"partition",
"portion",
"section",
"segment"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181318",
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"abbreviation",
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"part-song":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a usually unaccompanied song consisting of two or more voice parts with one part carrying the melody":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1731, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4rt-\u02ccs\u022f\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124937",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"partake":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to have a portion (as of food or drink)":[
"were invited to partake of a dinner"
],
": to possess or share a certain nature or attribute":[
"the experience partakes of a mystical quality",
"partake in each other's sorrows and joys"
],
": to take part in":[
"adventurers who were willing to partake his fortunes",
"\u2014 A. W. Kinglake"
],
": to take part in or experience something along with others":[
"partake in the revelry",
"partake of the good life"
]
},
"examples":[
"a story that partakes of the nature of poetry",
"we should all partake of the city's rich cultural offerings while we have the opportunity",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Junior Jace Schow, who didn\u2019t have to partake in the commencement ceremony, pitched six innings, allowing six hits, one run, walking one and striking out 11. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 June 2022",
"Per the Independent, ten million people across the nation are expected to partake in parties and other festivities to celebrate. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 5 June 2022",
"Though the show deals with some very serious themes, the cast had a blast filming on location in Pittsburgh and even got to partake in a baseball boot camp together. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"The 81-year-old musician, who was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music in Boston last week, is still scheduled to partake in his annual Peace and Love Birthday Celebration on July 7. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Almost all Mexicans partake in the annual tradition, but perhaps no one does with more style than Clase Azul Spirits, the luxury brand behind an eponymous line of tequilas and mezcals. \u2014 Shivani Vora, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Creating a marketplace where brands and sponsors can select intelligent, attractive female talent to partake in product advertisements is not. \u2014 Frederick Daso, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Not even Julia Roberts, who is currently filming a new movie with Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali in upstate New York, could resist a brief two-day interlude to the sunny Riviera to partake in the action. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 1 June 2022",
"The sun stays up the latest this month, so best to take advantage of it and continue to partake long into the night. \u2014 Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine , 31 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1561, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"back-formation from partaker , alteration of part taker":""
},
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"p\u0259r-",
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8t\u0101k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for partake share , participate , partake mean to have, get, or use in common with another or others. share usually implies that one as the original holder grants to another the partial use, enjoyment, or possession of a thing. shared my toys with the others participate implies a having or taking part in an undertaking, activity, or discussion. participated in sports partake implies accepting or acquiring a share especially of food or drink. partook freely of the refreshments",
"synonyms":[
"participate",
"share"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062742",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"partake (of)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"to take in as food anyone planning to partake of the vegetarian meal needs to sign up for it beforehand"
],
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-174539",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"parti pris":{
"antonyms":[
"impartiality",
"neutrality",
"objectivity",
"open-mindedness",
"unbiasedness"
],
"definitions":{
": a preconceived opinion : prejudice":[]
},
"examples":[
"the longer a president is dead, the better we are able to evaluate without parti pris his political achievements",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Whereas Galgut\u2019s clarity of vision can seem sometimes almost unworldly, Diski is nothing if not parti pris . \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine , 16 Mar. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, literally, side taken":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-\u02cct\u0113-\u02c8pr\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bias",
"favor",
"nonobjectivity",
"one-sidedness",
"partiality",
"partisanship",
"ply",
"prejudice",
"tendentiousness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212229",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"partial":{
"antonyms":[
"disinterested",
"equal",
"equitable",
"evenhanded",
"fair",
"impartial",
"neutral",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
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"\u2014 J. S. Mill"
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"Adjective",
"These plants prefer full sun or partial shade.",
"The partial ban on immigration has been lifted.",
"His latest play was deemed only a partial success by the critics.",
"a partial eclipse of the sun",
"He wears a partial denture.",
"She suggested a partial solution to the problem.",
"A referee must not be partial toward either team.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"For months, cities across China -- including Beijing and Shanghai -- have been placed under full or partial lockdown because of the strict zero-Covid policy, wreaking havoc on economic activity and hurting the job market. \u2014 Wayne Chang, Hannah Ritchie And Yong Xiong, CNN , 27 June 2022",
"The full or partial suspension of operations had more than a nominal effect on the taxpayer\u2019s business operations. \u2014 Daniel Mayo, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Whether the billionaire will now get full or partial access to Twitter's firehose \u2014 a millions-deep trove of daily tweet data \u2014 remains unclear, but the disclosure is bound to complicate any attempt from Musk to be released from the acquisition. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 9 June 2022",
"According to Japanese investment bank Nomura, at least 130 million residents are still in full or partial lockdowns across 16 cities in China, hammering supply chains and consumer confidence. \u2014 Karson Yiu, ABC News , 1 June 2022",
"There will be one more total lunar eclipse and a partial solar eclipse in 2022, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac. \u2014 Megan Marples And Ashley Strickland, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"The moon set in the morning during the partial lunar eclipse behind the Frauenkirche and the dome of the Kunstakedmie in Dresden, Germany. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"The moon sets in the morning during a partial lunar eclipse behind the dome of the Kunstakedmie in Dresden, Germany on Monday. \u2014 Rachel Elbaum, NBC News , 16 May 2022",
"Jamal Murray missed the entire 2021-22 season after tearing his ACL in mid-April last year, while Kawhi Leonard missed the entire 2021-22 season after undergoing surgery to repair a partial ACL tear last July. \u2014 Bryan Toporek, Forbes , 14 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In Malaysia, however, officials went ahead with the partial reopening of a bridge connecting it to the island city-state of Singapore. \u2014 Fox News , 30 Nov. 2021",
"In Malaysia, officials went ahead with the partial reopening of a bridge connecting it to the city-state of Singapore. \u2014 Raf Casert And Mari Yamaguchi, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Nov. 2021",
"In Malaysia, officials went ahead with the partial reopening of a bridge connecting it to the city-state of Singapore. \u2014 Raf Casert And Mari Yamaguchi, USA TODAY , 29 Nov. 2021",
"About 40% of students continued virtual learning during the partial reopening this spring. \u2014 Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 Aug. 2021",
"What followed the 2017 broadcast was a partial , and mostly secretive, reckoning, in Como and at the Vatican. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 12 July 2021",
"What followed the 2017 broadcast was a partial , and mostly secretive, reckoning, in Como and at the Vatican. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 July 2021",
"If their spousal rate is higher than their retirement benefit rate, they could then be paid an additional partial , or excess, spousal benefit. \u2014 Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes , 6 June 2021",
"Authorities later found Zghoul\u2019s partial remains in Johnston\u2019s car. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 May 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1873, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"partiality blinded the administrator to the benefits of the proposed system for distributing work",
"a person with an unfortunate partiality for jumping to conclusions",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But sports have rarely been about honesty and have always been about partiality . \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 26 June 2022",
"Some legal scholars who have studied the impact of empathy on court decision making have found it as a necessary factor for avoiding partiality . \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Among the many costs of the department\u2019s laxity toward Hillary Clinton in 2016 is that any enforcement of the law against Trump now will be seen, with some justification, as partiality . \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"O\u2019Toole\u2019s is a wildly ambitious project, one that accounts for inevitable partiality precisely through this invocation of the personal. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The theorists feel great crimes have been committed but\u2014by reason of the instability of language, and the partiality of those who speak it\u2014there can be no possibility of an indictment. \u2014 Will Self, Harper's Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the First Department unanimously affirmed Cohen\u2019s decision last October, ruling the Orioles failed to establish evident partiality in the second arbitration panel. \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 8 Sep. 2021",
"So deep is her partiality that during a virtual Q&A with press earlier in the day, Paulson became noticeably agitated by a reporter\u2019s assessment of Tripp\u2019s unlikability in the series \u2014 and in life. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Aug. 2021",
"Roy DeCarava was a mentor, one whose influence on Bey is plain in his partiality to shadow and contrast. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 Aug. 2021"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccp\u00e4r-sh\u0113-\u02c8a-l\u0259-t\u0113",
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"\u2014 Owen Feltham"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rsh\u0259\u02ccl\u012bz",
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},
"examples":[
"I guess I'm partially responsible for what happened.",
"He only partially explained his reason for leaving.",
"The building was partially destroyed in the fire.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It was driven by a 15% rise in the non-trading revenues, partially offset by a 6% drop in the market services (trading revenues). \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Wes piloted the boat across the Maryland state line and into Virginia and rounded a bend partially obscuring the rookery on Chesapeake Bay Foundation land. \u2014 Andrea Sachs, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"Fans were bracing for some major deaths in the finale, partially because of numerous ominous comments from the cast and crew. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 1 July 2022",
"But there are signs that CEOs might end up getting their way, at least partially . \u2014 Chloe Berger, Fortune , 1 July 2022",
"As of December 2021, employment had only partially recovered to 42,000. \u2014 Mike Gousha And John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"Gun ownership spiked in 2020 during the pandemic amid the summer's riots and protests, partially driven by first-time gun owners from different racial and political backgrounds. \u2014 Fox News , 30 June 2022",
"Now, a growing body of evidence suggests that a prolonged period of dryness known as the Great Drought is to blame, at least partially , for their exodus. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"If the insurance ban sends prices even higher, that could partially offset whatever pain the new rule could inflict. \u2014 David Goldman, CNN , 21 June 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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": a research technique in anthropology and sociology characterized by the effort of an investigator to gain entrance into and social acceptance by a foreign culture or alien group so as better to attain a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure of the society":[]
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"\u2014 Edith Wharton"
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"\u2014 Frank Thilly"
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]
},
"examples":[
"Most people joined the game, but a few chose not to participate .",
"eager to participate in the city's cultural life",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The collective invites audience members to participate in connecting to the work and movement to discover their own in-between in the process. \u2014 Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Later in the day, Kate and Prince William will participate in the first-ever Cambridgeshire County Day at the July Racecourse. \u2014 Stephanie Petit And Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"Point Mallard Water Park will also participate in 13th Annual World\u2019s Largest Swimming Lesson event on Thursday, June 23. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 23 June 2022",
"The youth member can participate in discussions, ask questions and cast preferential votes, though the youth representative\u2019s vote does not count. \u2014 Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
"The San Francisco Police Officers' Pride Alliance also said its members would not participate in the parade, one of the city's marquee events. \u2014 Fox News , 23 June 2022",
"Hopkins did not participate in any on-field drills with the Cardinals during offseason workouts, including the team\u2019s recently completed mandatory mini-camp. \u2014 Bob Mcmanaman, The Arizona Republic , 22 June 2022",
"Traditionally, about 15,000 people participate in the summertime festivities that celebrate the city\u2019s vibrancy. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"Three-quarters of boys participate in high school sports, compared to 60 percent of girls. \u2014 Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 June 2022"
],
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"1531, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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"p\u00e4r-",
"p\u0259r-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-\u02ccp\u0101t",
"p\u0259r-",
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": a bond that besides being entitled to interest at a fixed rate is further entitled to share in additional distributions on a specified basis with the common stock of the issuing company":[]
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": a mortgage or sometimes a group of mortgages in which two or more persons have fractional equitable interests evidenced by certificates issued by the bank or other fiduciary having legal title to the mortgage and selling the fractional shares to investors or making the investment for the certificate holders":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Their issue becomes one not only of women\u2019s bodies, but also of gender roles and labour force participation . \u2014 Avivah Wittenberg-cox, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"The push for equal access to sports for boys and girls in high schools comes as overall participation for girls has exploded since the law took hold. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"Over the next decade, his advocacy on equal education rights and civil participation drew Chinese media attention \u2014 and increasing official scrutiny. \u2014 Christian Shepherd, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"To be successful, any federal office leading the program will need to be dedicated to scientific independence, transparency, and stakeholder participation . \u2014 Lindsay Morton, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"Kline Morgan said that highlights of the summer program include hiring summer social workers who are embedded at each camp location to help the Parks and Recreation staff work with kids to support their mental health and successful participation . \u2014 Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
"According to the 2021 Outdoor Industries of America participation trends report, the sport grew at a rate double that of any other wilderness sport. \u2014 Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"In a world where remote work is something that's much more mainstream and allows frankly, participation and a very different type of work and reality for work in the future which is really [inaudible]. \u2014 Fortune Editors, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"The second requires high schools to join colleges in reporting athletic participation numbers to the Department of Education and changes the way schools report those numbers. \u2014 Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022"
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"In the phrases \u201cthe finishing touches\u201d and \u201cthe finished product,\u201d \u201cfinishing\u201d and \u201cfinished\u201d are participles formed from the verb \u201cfinish.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To compound matters, Ball\u2019s prose is relentlessly truncated: short declarative sentences that leave the reader longing for a subordinate clause, a compound sentence, or even a dangling participle . \u2014 David Holahan, USA TODAY , 2 Aug. 2020",
"One explanation is that, like the dangling participle , the split infinitive has a catchy name, making the rule easy to pass on. \u2014 The Economist , 26 Apr. 2018",
"Got that",
"The word traces back to the Middle English and Old French for \u2018\u2018exit,\u2019\u2019 and before that to the feminine past participle (issir) of the Latin exire, meaning to \u2018\u2018go out\u2019\u2019 or \u2018 \u2014 Carina Chocano, New York Times , 18 July 2017",
"The rolling parade of exclamation points and dangling participles might have offended some onlookers. \u2014 Doug Maccash, NOLA.com , 10 June 2017"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, modification of Latin participium , from particip-, particeps":""
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"p\u0259r-",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111833",
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": a clause or article of a composition or document":[],
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"There is not a particle of evidence to support their claim.",
"There is not a particle of truth in what he said.",
"The phrasal verb \u201clook up\u201d consists of the verb \u201clook\u201d and the adverbial particle \u201cup.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Essentially, light has both a particle and a wave nature, and these two natures are inseparable. \u2014 Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics , 29 June 2022",
"Another other notable anomaly is in the mass of the W-boson, a subatomic particle involved in the action of the weak nuclear force that governs some types of radioactivity. \u2014 Tom Metcalfe, NBC News , 14 June 2022",
"Harnessing a particle 's velocity for computing is not an entirely new idea. \u2014 Philip Ball, Scientific American , 29 Mar. 2022",
"And in this case, the process involved everything from out-of-date particle accelerators to one of the most exciting developments in general relativity, the detection of gravitational waves. Nature, 2022. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 8 June 2022",
"With no way of predicting its mass, and hence the amount of energy required to stir it into activity, the hope at the time lay in building ever larger particle accelerators. \u2014 Andrew Crumey, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"Hai-Bo Yu, a theoretical particle physicist at the University of California, Riverside, fell into that camp. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The 23-meter-wide mural, inspired by the work of Duke University particle physicist Ayana Arce, who is Black, imagines women building bridges to each other, just as quarks that are unpaired after intense proton-proton collisions find other quarks. \u2014 Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS , 24 June 2021",
"However, he was trained not as a cosmologist but as a particle physicist, as was Alan Guth. \u2014 Alan Lightman, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"Middle English, from Latin particula , from diminutive of part-, pars":""
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rt-i-k\u0259l",
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-ti-k\u0259l"
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"lick",
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"antonyms":[
"detail",
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": a particular proposition in logic":[],
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"\u2014 usually used in plural wanted to know all the particulars of the incident bill of particulars"
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"\u2014 used of a proposition in logic \"some men are wise\" is a particular affirmative"
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": an individual fact, point, circumstance, or detail":[
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"This computer program will be of particular interest to teachers."
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],
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": nice in taste : fastidious":[
"She's very particular about her clothes."
],
": of, relating to, or being a single person or thing":[
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],
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},
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"The computer program will be of particular interest to teachers.",
"Pay particular attention to the poet's choice of words.",
"Our teacher is very particular when it comes to punctuation.",
"Noun",
"They wanted to know the facts down to every particular .",
"requested a bill of particulars for the care he received in the hospital",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Higgs had spent two to three years really trying to understand a particular problem. \u2014 Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American , 24 June 2022",
"One nugget in the consumer sentiment report could carry particular weight for markets. \u2014 Alex Veiga, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"The disease doesn't only impact people who identify as LGBT or Q and the illness does not seem to be connected to one particular event. \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"That particular non-playing staff employee had a major issue keeping her hands to herself. \u2014 Scooby Axson, USA TODAY , 24 June 2022",
"The perennial variety 'Black & Blue' is a particular favorite of landscape designer Daniel McCurry of Father Nature Landscapes in Birmingham, Alabama. \u2014 Terri Robertson, Country Living , 24 June 2022",
"For the average shopper, this opacity can magnify the sense that a particular style has become inescapable overnight, largely unbidden. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"In their decision, the justices struck down a New York law requiring people to demonstrate a particular need for carrying a gun in order to get a license to carry one in public. \u2014 Jessica Gresko, Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
"This particular matching-numbers example was delivered new to Caracas, Venezuela. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The observation has held up over the ages, and there\u2019s no better time to be wary of it than at this particular ... \u2014 Joanna Stern, WSJ , 25 June 2020",
"Milken\u2019s pardon in particular was backed by many longtime Trump allies. \u2014 Author: Ellen Milligan, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Feb. 2020",
"Trade in soybeans and pork in particular has been hit hard as tensions have escalated between the world's two largest economies. \u2014 Michelle Toh, CNN , 16 Jan. 2020",
"But many of the other particulars \u2013 whether to provide hand sanitizer, how to arrange the aisles, how to handle waiting in line -- falls to local businesses, to corporate executive, to individual shoppers across Alabama. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 30 Apr. 2020",
"In typical Putin style, the particulars were left vague, to be decided later. \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 12 Mar. 2020",
"The particulars vary, but drivers often recount having received a ticket for an expired meter, despite paying for time with the Parkmobile app, which became a payment option for many of the city's parking meters in 2015. \u2014 Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press , 24 Oct. 2019",
"With so much unknown about the particulars and the practicality of a season, there is no blueprint to even start talks between the league and the players. \u2014 Tyler Kepner, New York Times , 18 Apr. 2020",
"Here\u2019s a look at the particulars for other cities: * Anniston had 30.62 inches of rain over the past three months, which is the wettest on record. \u2014 Leigh Morgan, al , 1 Apr. 2020"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English particuler , from Anglo-French, from Late Latin particularis , from Latin particula small part":"Adjective and Noun"
},
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"-k(\u0259-)l\u0259r",
"p\u0259-",
"p\u0259r-\u02c8ti-ky\u0259-l\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for particular Adjective circumstantial , minute , particular , detailed mean dealing with a matter fully and usually point by point. circumstantial implies fullness of detail that fixes something described in time and space. a circumstantial account of our visit minute implies close and searching attention to the smallest details. a minute examination of a fossil particular implies a precise attention to every detail. a particular description of the scene of the crime detailed stresses abundance or completeness of detail. a detailed analysis of the event 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 Noun item , detail , particular mean one of the distinct parts of a whole. item applies to each thing specified separately in a list or in a group of things that might be listed or enumerated. every item on the list detail applies to one of the small component parts of a larger whole such as a task, building, painting, narration, or process. leave the details to others particular stresses the smallness, singleness, and especially the concreteness of a detail or item. a description that included few particulars",
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"choosy",
"choosey",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"fastidious",
"finical",
"finicking",
"finicky",
"fussbudgety",
"fussy",
"nice",
"old-maidish",
"pernickety",
"persnickety",
"picky"
],
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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},
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"generality"
],
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": a minute detail : particular":[],
": attentiveness to detail : exactness":[],
": the quality or state of being fastidious in behavior or expression":[],
": the quality or state of being particular as distinguished from universal":[]
},
"examples":[
"The actors studied all of the particularities of the script.",
"the special particularities of the South",
"The particularities of the job take some time to get used to.",
"She described the scene with great particularity .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Roots of Imagination, open until July 15, is an ode to Togo\u2019s youth and selfhood that celebrates the power of collective imagination and the progress that comes with valuing the particularity of each individual. \u2014 Rica Cerbarano, Vogue , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Though its tone and scope have changed over time, that genre consistently focuses on the particularity of the area: its cultural beauty, its idiosyncrasies, the poverty of many of its people, and the cruelty of its racial regime. \u2014 Imani Perry, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Over time, however, the particularity of the dispute seems irrelevant. \u2014 Rivka Galchen, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Instead, a generation of Jews is confronting head-on the tension between Jewish universalist principles and the idea of Jewish particularity \u2014 that Jews possess special obligations toward one another. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Nov. 2021",
"The work required professionalism and stamina, the ability to hold a pose, to erase one\u2019s particularity , to suppress or exaggerate emotions, and to defend one\u2019s ego and body against male painters who would exploit both. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Still, what is on one level an encounter with the reality of the workshops of Litzmannstadt is on another level the erasure of its particularity through the return of the Moirai. \u2014 Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books , 25 Feb. 2021",
"And the particularity of the tone is psychoanalysis at its best\u2014nothing to say. \u2014 Jamieson Webster, The New York Review of Books , 1 Apr. 2020",
"This vote, supposedly an obligatory primary to force all political parties to partake and thus minimize the fragmentation of parties to serve individuals, has the particularity of actually having a very real impact on the election. \u2014 Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes , 10 Sep. 2021"
],
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"1528, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"also (\u02cc)p\u00e4r-",
"p\u0259-",
"-\u02c8la-r\u0259-",
"p\u0259r-\u02ccti-ky\u0259-\u02c8ler-\u0259-t\u0113"
],
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"synonyms":[
"explicitness",
"specificity"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214559",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"particularized":{
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": to go into details":[],
": to state in detail : specify":[]
},
"examples":[
"My lawyer advised me to particularize all my complaints against my landlord.",
"He said he had been treated rudely, then went on to particularize .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Wagner works hard to particularize these women, but the play, which has over the years lost an intermission and been streamlined into one 95-minute act, has trouble getting started. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Within this prison, Ms. Nwandu has been careful to particularize and humanize her main characters so that the tragedy is not just theoretical or surreal. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 22 Aug. 2021",
"His Democratic opponent was quick to particularize the term for low-information voters: Barbour had lobbied not only for Big Oil, nuclear power plants, and some more-or-less savory foreign governments. \u2014 Neal B. Freeman, National Review , 19 Dec. 2019",
"The Justice Department, which intervened on Trump\u2019s behalf in New York, has taken a narrower approach, saying Vance must prove \u2018\u2018 particularized need\u2019\u2019 for the records before they are released to a grand jury. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 Nov. 2019",
"That\u2019s a problem built into the bloated mash-up of genres: Comedy is based on particularizing human behavior, but allegory is based on generalizing it. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Oct. 2019",
"Photojournalists have deployed a familiar toolbox of artful devices to distill these panoramas of destruction down to human scale, particularize the war and speak to a wider public. \u2014 Michael Kimmelman, New York Times , 3 Mar. 2018"
],
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"1593, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-",
"p\u0259r-\u02c8ti-k(y\u0259-)l\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz",
"also p\u00e4r-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174041",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"particularly":{
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"generally"
],
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": in a particular manner : in detail":[],
": in particular : specifically":[
"The tools were useful, particularly the knife."
],
": to an unusual degree":[
"a particularly dry summer",
"particularly stormy weather"
]
},
"examples":[
"Pay particularly close attention to the second paragraph.",
"all of you, but particularly anyone with a problem, should feel free to contact me at any time",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This is particularly relevant for brands targeting a global audience. \u2014 Stefan Smulders, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"In 2013, Caltrans opened the Tom Lantos Tunnels, which bypassed a particularly treacherous stretch of the highway and promised to make the road safer. \u2014 Vanessa Arredondo, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
"Because bonds are particularly sensitive to economic conditions, reflecting shifts in inflation and interest rates more directly than stocks, this is perhaps an even more worrying sign about the state of the economy. \u2014 Isabella Simonetti, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
"Optimism is tempered by concerns about inflation, and particularly the cost of gas. \u2014 Anthony Salvanto, CBS News , 30 June 2022",
"Similar fears loomed large over the party\u2019s attempts to address drug costs last year, particularly their proposals to cap the price of insulin, the fate of which remains unclear as bipartisan talks remain under way. \u2014 Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News , 30 June 2022",
"There are many reasons lawmakers should prioritize child-care funding, particularly as congressional Democrats take a final stab at passing a portion of President Biden\u2019s legislative agenda before the midterm elections. \u2014 Elliot Haspel, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Since mid-May, that count has been particularly close, per an NBC News analysis. \u2014 Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News , 30 June 2022",
"This is particularly true of companies in countries such as Japan and Germany, which are already experiencing shrinking workforces as a result of aging populations. \u2014 Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic , 29 June 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"p\u0259r-\u02c8ti-ky\u0259-(l\u0259r-)l\u0113",
"-\u02c8ti-k(\u0259-)l\u0113",
"-\u02c8ti-ky\u0259-l\u0259-l\u0113",
"also p\u00e4r-",
"p\u0259-\u02c8ti-ky\u0259-(l\u0259r-)l\u0113"
],
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"synonyms":[
"especially",
"specifically"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195607",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"parting":{
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"farewell",
"valedictory"
],
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": a place or point where a division or separation occurs":[],
": a place or time at which a choice must be made":[],
": a point of separation or divergence":[],
": given, taken, or done at parting":[
"a parting kiss"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"I feared the morning, for I knew that our parting would be difficult.",
"On parting , he took my hand and promised to return.",
"\u201cGood-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow\u2026\u201d",
"\u2014 Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet",
"the parting of the Red Sea",
"Adjective",
"His parting words to me were \u201cBe patient.\u201d",
"As her parting shot , she said that the other candidate simply did not understand the needs of the city's citizens.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The procession formed a circle around a leader who would offer parting words. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 13 June 2022",
"In a recent conversation with THR, Smith also discusses the process of filming Ignacio\u2019s parting words, as well as the slippery slope that Kim and Jimmy are sliding down. \u2014 Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Start by dotting the color on in a line along your section parting and then pushing the dots into your roots first for maximum coverage, being careful not to accidentally rub the color off. \u2014 Elle Turner, Glamour , 19 June 2022",
"But the heart behind the familiar rom-com choices \u2014 the parting of two flames, the last-second pursuit to save a relationship and the happy ending that follows \u2014 cannot be doubted. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"But the heart behind the familiar rom-com choices: the parting of two flames, the last-second pursuit to save a relationship and the happy ending that follows \u2014 cannot be doubted. \u2014 Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"Showing off her penchant for a deep side parting , Fanning\u2019s barrettes even rivaled her Chopard diamonds. \u2014 Hannah Coates, Vogue , 20 May 2022",
"So, this album talks about that transitional period of a boy turning into an adult, and this boy is experiencing the emotions of going through a breakup or a parting . \u2014 Tanu I. Raj, Billboard , 19 May 2022",
"There also was a parting moment with Stevens, who then was Celtics coach and now oversees Boston\u2019s front office. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 19 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1562, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-ti\u014b"
],
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"farewell",
"leave-taking",
"separation"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202938",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"parting shot":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a final critical comment":[
"As her parting shot , she said that the other candidate simply did not understand the ordinary citizen.",
"She took a parting shot before leaving."
]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115135",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"parting stop":{
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"definitions":{
": a piece of wood separating the top and bottom sashes in a double-hung window":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120237",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"disinterested",
"equal",
"equitable",
"evenhanded",
"fair",
"impartial",
"neutral",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of a body of detached light troops making forays and harassing an enemy":[
"Peasant partisans assaulted the French army."
],
": a member of a guerrilla band operating within enemy lines":[
"Polish partisans had blown up two trains",
"\u2014 Springfield (Massachusetts) Union"
],
": a weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries with long shaft and broad blade":[],
": feeling, showing, or deriving from strong and sometimes blind adherence to a particular party, faction, cause, or person : exhibiting, characterized by, or resulting from partisanship":[
"partisan politics",
"partisan loyalty",
"Secularism is indeed correlated with greater tolerance of gay marriage and pot legalization. But it's also making America's partisan clashes more brutal.",
"\u2014 Peter Beinart",
"The editorial page of the newspaper captured the mood of an America frustrated by partisan division \u2026",
"\u2014 Joseph Cress",
"The modern Democratic party may honor the cerebral Jefferson as one of its founders, but the true paternity lies with the fiercely partisan Jackson. He made it a fighting electoral force.",
"\u2014 Bernard A. Weisberger"
],
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"partisan fighters",
"partisan warfare"
]
},
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"1542, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1708, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective"
},
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"Middle French partisan , from north Italian dialect parti\u017aan , from part part, party, from Latin part-, pars part":"Noun",
"Middle French partisane , from north Italian dialect parti\u017aana , feminine of parti\u017aan":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02cczan",
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-t\u0259-z\u0259n",
"-s\u0259n",
"chiefly British \u02ccp\u00e4r-t\u0259-\u02c8zan"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for partisan Noun (1) follower , adherent , disciple , partisan mean one who gives full loyalty and support to another. follower may apply to people who attach themselves either to the person or beliefs of another. an evangelist and his followers adherent suggests a close and persistent attachment. adherents to Marxism disciple implies a devoted allegiance to the teachings of one chosen as a master. disciples of Gandhi partisan suggests a zealous often prejudiced attachment. partisans of the President",
"synonyms":[
"biased",
"one-sided",
"parti pris",
"partial",
"prejudiced"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224918",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"partisanship":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being partisan : strong and sometimes blind adherence to a particular party, faction, cause, or person":[
"political partisanship",
"The Court is so riven by partisanship that justices even pick their law clerks in ways influenced by ideology \u2026",
"\u2014 Anthony Lewis",
"The succession of Civil War, Reconstruction and the Gilded Age was marked by bitter partisanship , endemic corruption, appalling violence and a general sense that democracy was failing.",
"\u2014 Jon Grinspan"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1798, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-t\u0259-z\u0259n-\u02ccship",
"-\u02cczan-",
"-s\u0259n-",
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],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083624",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"partition":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one of the parts or sections of a whole":[
"The estate was divided into three partitions ."
],
": the action of parting : the state of being parted : division":[
"the partition of Korea into North and South Korea"
],
": to divide (a place, such as a country) into two or more territorial units having separate political status":[],
": to divide into parts or shares":[],
": to separate or divide by a partition (such as a wall)":[
"\u2014 often used with off"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"A thin partition separates the two rooms in the cabin.",
"Folding partitions separate the different banquet halls in the building.",
"The bank teller sat behind a glass partition .",
"the partition of former Yugoslavia",
"the partition of Korea into North and South Korea",
"Verb",
"It was necessary to partition the work to be done to make the job easier to accomplish.",
"The room is partitioned into four sections.",
"After the war, the country was partitioned .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Tomb of Sand narrates the story of an 80-year-old woman who, after losing her husband, decides to visit Pakistan to confront the unresolved trauma of the India-Pakistan partition . \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 27 May 2022",
"After more than one hundred years of partition , Gabriel Narutowicz, the first Polish President, was assassinated by a nationalist fanatic. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The Kremlin\u2019s Plan B, as suggested by its own generals, still appears to be some form of partition \u2014 or keeping parts of Ukraine, if not the entire nation, under long-term Russian control. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Out of that partition of the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan was born. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"By 1947, the time of U.N. partition , the Zionist community in Palestine already had a de facto government ready to serve the people of their reborn land. \u2014 WSJ , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Behind a glass partition , flames surge from the grill as chef Yoshiya Tomori lines its grate with skewered chicken thighs, gizzards and hearts. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Seated behind a clear plastic partition , the two older women share confidences that expose some hard knocks of experience. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 2 June 2022",
"Employees stand behind a glass partition where dozens of noodle baskets hang from a large vat of boiling water. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In November 1947, the United Nations approved a plan to partition Palestine. \u2014 James R. Hagerty And Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"The Palestinians fear Israel plans to take over the site or partition it. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, ajc , 30 May 2022",
"The Palestinians have long feared that Israel plans to eventually take over the site or partition it. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, Anchorage Daily News , 6 May 2022",
"The Palestinians have long feared that Israel plans to eventually take over the site or partition it. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, ajc , 6 May 2022",
"Such practices have fueled concerns among Palestinians that Israel is plotting to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound or partition it. \u2014 Time , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Such practices have fueled concerns among Palestinians that Israel is plotting to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound or partition it. \u2014 Josef Federman, ajc , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Such practices have fueled concerns among Palestinians that Israel is plotting to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound or partition it. \u2014 Josef Federman, chicagotribune.com , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Palestinians have long feared that Israel plans to take over the site or partition it. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1653, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"p\u0259r-\u02c8ti-sh\u0259n",
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8tish-\u0259n",
"p\u00e4r-",
"p\u0259r-",
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8ti-sh\u0259n"
],
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"member",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"segment"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201050",
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"verb"
]
},
"partizan":{
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"disinterested",
"equal",
"equitable",
"evenhanded",
"fair",
"impartial",
"neutral",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced"
],
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"Peasant partisans assaulted the French army."
],
": a member of a guerrilla band operating within enemy lines":[
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"\u2014 Springfield (Massachusetts) Union"
],
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": feeling, showing, or deriving from strong and sometimes blind adherence to a particular party, faction, cause, or person : exhibiting, characterized by, or resulting from partisanship":[
"partisan politics",
"partisan loyalty",
"Secularism is indeed correlated with greater tolerance of gay marriage and pot legalization. But it's also making America's partisan clashes more brutal.",
"\u2014 Peter Beinart",
"The editorial page of the newspaper captured the mood of an America frustrated by partisan division \u2026",
"\u2014 Joseph Cress",
"The modern Democratic party may honor the cerebral Jefferson as one of its founders, but the true paternity lies with the fiercely partisan Jackson. He made it a fighting electoral force.",
"\u2014 Bernard A. Weisberger"
],
": of, carried on by, or being military partisans":[
"partisan fighters",
"partisan warfare"
]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1542, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1708, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle French partisan , from north Italian dialect parti\u017aan , from part part, party, from Latin part-, pars part":"Noun",
"Middle French partisane , from north Italian dialect parti\u017aana , feminine of parti\u017aan":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02cczan",
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-t\u0259-z\u0259n",
"-s\u0259n",
"chiefly British \u02ccp\u00e4r-t\u0259-\u02c8zan"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for partisan Noun (1) follower , adherent , disciple , partisan mean one who gives full loyalty and support to another. follower may apply to people who attach themselves either to the person or beliefs of another. an evangelist and his followers adherent suggests a close and persistent attachment. adherents to Marxism disciple implies a devoted allegiance to the teachings of one chosen as a master. disciples of Gandhi partisan suggests a zealous often prejudiced attachment. partisans of the President",
"synonyms":[
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"one-sided",
"parti pris",
"partial",
"prejudiced"
],
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"noun"
]
},
"partly":{
"antonyms":[
"all",
"altogether",
"completely",
"entirely",
"fully",
"perfectly",
"quite",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly"
],
"definitions":{
": in some measure or degree : partially":[]
},
"examples":[
"The project failed partly because of a lack of funds.",
"What you say is only partly true.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And that\u2019s partly because DeVoto himself was so very good at re-creating the lives and thoughts of others. \u2014 Christoph Irmscher, WSJ , 1 July 2022",
"This provision is partly a reaction to a Texas law that creates a private right of action for anyone to sue patients or providers involved in abortions performed after a fetal heartbeat is detected, generally about six weeks. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 28 June 2022",
"Sunday should be partly to mostly cloudy and a bit cooler with highs in the mid-80s to near 90. \u2014 Matt Rogers, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"That's partly because judicial confirmations became more contentious, and more partisan, over the past couple decades, Marcosson said. \u2014 Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal , 24 June 2022",
"That could partly be because some risk-averse corporate buyers want to stick with a familiar design to avoid rocking the boat. \u2014 Samuel Axon, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
"The loss of two days was partly to blame for last year's attendance woes, some theorized. \u2014 Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"The story loses some traction and starts drifting once friction intrudes on Casey and Tib\u2019s nascent relationship, partly because the cowboy is unable to show support when Tib needs it. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 June 2022",
"This is partly a matter of the Mount Whitney area being within driving distance from Hollywood, so that even in the days before flying, film crews could easily get there. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 20 June 2022"
],
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"1523, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rt-l\u0113"
],
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"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partway"
],
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"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"partner":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a person with whom one shares an intimate relationship : one member of a couple":[
"Evan and his partner are going on a Caribbean cruise."
],
": either of two persons who dance together":[],
": one associated with another especially in an action : associate , colleague":[
"our military partners throughout the world"
],
": one of the heavy timbers that strengthen a ship's deck to support a mast":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
],
": one of two or more persons who play together in a game against an opposing side":[
"partners in card games"
],
": one that shares : partaker":[],
": to join as a partner":[],
": to join or associate with another as partner":[],
": to provide with a partner":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"His partner , his wife of 20 years, was shocked to hear about his accident.",
"They are partners in the real estate business.",
"Singapore's most important trading partner is Indonesia.",
"She was a senior partner at the Wall Street firm.",
"We were each assigned a partner for the project.",
"Verb",
"The sporting goods store partnered with the newspaper to sponsor the road race.",
"She partnered with her sister, and they opened a candy shop together.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Benefits Of The Venture Studio Model Instead of starting with an initial business idea, my partner and I built a digital agency. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Dear Amy: My partner and I are in the habit of watching TV together in the evenings. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 21 June 2022",
"Dear Amy: My partner and I are in the habit of watching TV together in the evenings. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 21 June 2022",
"Dear Amy: My partner and I are in the habit of watching TV together in the evenings. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"The Relais & Ch\u00e2teaux property's new wellness program is ready to take you and your partner on a journey together. \u2014 Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Joey McCutchen of Fort Smith had initially requested $13,912.50 in attorneys' fees for himself and his law partner , Stephen Napurano. \u2014 Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online , 18 June 2022",
"The church put him and his partner up in a spare room, providing food and shelter in exchange for volunteer work. \u2014 Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
"After coming to terms with this, my partner and I decided to move to Mexico. \u2014 Nydia Simone, refinery29.com , 16 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"New opportunities to partner (romantically and in business) will be presenting themselves to you. \u2014 Meghan Rose, Glamour , 1 July 2022",
"Dolphin males will partner for life, and the pair will occasionally bring in a female to mate before going their own ways. \u2014 Eliot Schrefer, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Several companies partner with HomeAid San Diego to offer interview opportunities to the graduates, though hiring for these positions is not necessarily guaranteed. \u2014 Angelina Hicks, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 June 2022",
"Throughout the series, contestants will partner with Fallon and other celebrities to face off in a game of words. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 30 June 2022",
"Alcohol delivery services typically partner with producers or retail stores to access bottles. \u2014 Rich Manning, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"By opening their application programming interfaces (APIs), banks can partner with other financial institutions and emerging fintech companies to offer compelling new services and applications and drive new revenue streams. \u2014 Roey Eliyahu, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Dennett will partner with Hogan on growth in all international markets. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 29 June 2022",
"The district will partner with parents to ensure students are taught America is founded on the premise of equality. \u2014 Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer , 22 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Noun",
"circa 1616, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English partener , alteration of parcener , from Anglo-French, coparcener \u2014 more at parcener":"Noun and Verb"
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rt-n\u0259r",
"also \u02c8p\u00e4rd-"
],
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"better half",
"consort",
"mate",
"significant other",
"spouse"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054914",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"partnership":{
"antonyms":[
"disaffiliation",
"dissociation"
],
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": a legal relation existing between two or more persons contractually associated as joint principals in a business":[
"began a legal partnership with his uncle"
],
": a relationship resembling a legal partnership and usually involving close cooperation between parties having specified and joint rights and responsibilities":[
"The band has maintained a successful partnership for 10 years."
],
": the persons joined together in a partnership":[
"the partnership computes its net income \u2026 in a manner similar to that of an individual",
"\u2014 J. K. Lasser"
],
": the state of being a partner : participation":[
"scientists working in partnership with each other"
]
},
"examples":[
"two people joined in partnership",
"scientists working in partnership with each other",
"The company is developing a new car in partnership with leading auto manufacturers in Japan.",
"Their marriage is a partnership that has remained strong despite family illness.",
"The singing duo has maintained a successful partnership for 20 years.",
"a notable partnership between two experienced scientists in the field",
"He joined the partnership last year.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Coqbull in Spitalfields Market is offering a very fun and floral Summer Sessions terrace in partnership with Tanqueray Flor de Sevilla Distilled Gin, a bright and bittersweet infusion perfect for G&Ts with a Mediterranean flair. \u2014 Nicole Trilivas, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
"Launched in 2009, the Cannes Festival/Film Market initiative, organized in partnership with Argentina\u2019s INCAA agency, looks vital to regional rebuild in Latin America. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 4 July 2022",
"The program is presented in partnership with the Rocky River Historical Society. \u2014 Linda Gandee, cleveland , 4 July 2022",
"One of Africa\u2019s largest telcos, Safaricom, launched a virtual card in partnership with Visa in June. \u2014 Tawanda Karombo, Quartz , 4 July 2022",
"The Oxon Hill rally, organized in partnership with D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. \u2014 Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
"Last November, Jason Smolarek expanded his Florida rental management business to southeastern Wisconsin, in partnership with his mother, a longtime area resident. \u2014 Joanne Cleaver, Chicago Tribune , 3 July 2022",
"In addition to employing 50 people from the area at their 2019 festival, the organizers entrusted young residents in Cherry Hill with designing the fireworks show in partnership with Image Engineering, an event production company in Curtis Bay. \u2014 Sanya Kamidi, Baltimore Sun , 3 July 2022",
"Gogh Code, in partnership with the Dragon Kim Foundation and Code With Her. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 July 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"pronounciation":[
"also \u02c8p\u00e4rd-",
"\u02c8p\u00e4rt-n\u0259r-\u02ccship"
],
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"affiliation",
"alliance",
"association",
"collaboration",
"confederation",
"connection",
"cooperation",
"hookup",
"liaison",
"linkup",
"relation",
"relationship",
"tie-up",
"union"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101922",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"parturiency":{
"antonyms":[],
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": the quality or state of being parturient":[
"parturiency with respect to politics and public counsels",
"\u2014 George Berkeley"
]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"parturient + -cy":""
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135835",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"parturient":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a parturient individual":[],
": bringing forth or about to bring forth young":[],
": of or relating to parturition":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There\u2019s something though, in this ceremony, that usually stays buried: the struggle of the parturient that accompanies the tremble of creation; the mother\u2019s womb where poetry blooms, from shape to shape. \u2014 Eliza Huber, refinery29.com , 19 May 2020"
],
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"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1947, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
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"borrowed from Latin parturient-, parturiens, present participle of partur\u012bre \"to be in labor, be ready to give birth,\" from partus (past participle of parere \"to give birth to, bring into being, produce\") + -ur\u012bre, desiderative suffix; parere, going back to Indo-European *perh 3 -/*pr\u0325h 3 - \"bring forth, give rise to, produce,\" whence also Old Irish ernaid \"(s/he) bestows, grants,\" Greek \u00e9poron \"(s/he) provided, gave, granted,\" Sanskrit p\u1e5b\u1e47\u0101\u0301ti \"(s/he) gives, bestows\"":"Adjective",
"derivative of parturient entry 1":"Noun"
},
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"-\u02c8tyu\u0307r-",
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8tu\u0307r-\u0113-\u0259nt",
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8t(y)u\u0307r-\u0113-\u0259nt"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200623",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": inducing parturition":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin parturi re to be in labor + English -facient":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001500",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"parturition":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the action or process of giving birth to offspring : childbirth":[]
},
"examples":[
"parturition can sometimes proceed more quickly than anticipated",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Few women can relate to platformed parturition , but most understand Ms. Haart\u2019s quest for comfort. \u2014 Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ , 27 Oct. 2021",
"His mother paced the spacious birthing stall, working off the pains of parturition , with half the placenta, neatly tied up by an attending stable hand, still hanging out of her. \u2014 William Finnegan, The New Yorker , 15 May 2021",
"The main event\u2014 parturition \u2014has yet to happen, but we are alerted to the Virgin\u2019s readiness for it. \u2014 Willard Spiegelman, WSJ , 12 Oct. 2018",
"Their physical needs were considered to be concerned only with conception and parturition . \u2014 Longreads , 8 May 2018",
"The modesty costumes worn by the women of Gilead are derived from Western religious iconography \u2014 the Wives wear the blue of purity, from the Virgin Mary; the Handmaids wear red, from the blood of parturition , but also from Mary Magdalene. \u2014 Margaret Atwood, New York Times , 10 Mar. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1646, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Medieval Latin partur\u012bti\u014dn-, partur\u012bti\u014d \"act of giving birth\" (Late Latin, \"bringing forth, travail\"), from Latin partur\u012bre \"to be in labor, be ready to give birth\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d, suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at parturient":""
},
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"\u02ccp\u00e4r-tyu\u0307-",
"\u02ccp\u00e4r-ch\u0259-\u02c8ri-sh\u0259n",
"\u02ccp\u00e4rt-\u0259-\u02c8rish-\u0259n",
"\u02ccp\u00e4r-t\u0259-",
"\u02ccp\u00e4r-ch\u0259-"
],
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"accouchement",
"childbearing",
"childbirth",
"delivery",
"labor",
"travail"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194248",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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": the mountains are in labor, (and) an absurd mouse will be born":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8tu\u0307r-\u0113-\u02ccu\u0307nt-\u02c8m\u022fn-\u02cct\u0101s n\u00e4s-\u02c8k\u0101-\u02cctu\u0307r-ri-\u02ccdi-ku\u0307-lu\u0307s-\u02c8m\u00fcs"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014723",
"type":[
"Latin quotation from Horace"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"all",
"altogether",
"completely",
"entirely",
"fully",
"perfectly",
"quite",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly"
],
"definitions":{
": at a point in the way or distance":[
"partway through the trip they met some friends"
],
": to some extent : partially , partly":[]
},
"examples":[
"I was partway to school when I realized I had forgotten my book.",
"Partway down the mountain, he sprained his ankle.",
"The team got a new coach partway through the season.",
"They met up with some friends partway through the trip.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Palin resigned as governor in 2009, partway through her term. \u2014 Becky Bohrer, USA TODAY , 21 June 2022",
"Bauer\u2019s suspension, if upheld in arbitration, ends partway through the 2024 campaign. \u2014 Louise Radnofsky, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"Dolly Parton, despite asking partway through voting to be taken off the ballot, still made the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 4 May 2022",
"Hilary walked me partway down the road to the next section of trail, another 3,000-foot climb up the Buncombe Horse Trail. \u2014 Brendan Leonard, Outside Online , 8 May 2020",
"Often the best campsites will be partway up a slope rather than at its bottom. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 22 July 2019",
"His dismissal came partway through production, and Greenwood will now reshoot scenes involving Roderick Usher. \u2014 Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Heading back means using sharp hand pruners to cut branches partway back, not down to the ground. \u2014 Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Maxwell was walked partway into the courtroom around 9:25 a.m., wearing a burgundy turtleneck and clutching a green folio. \u2014 James Hill, ABC News , 29 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rt-\u02c8w\u0101"
],
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"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185326",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"party":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a detail of soldiers":[
"The infantry repulsed a landing party from the ship."
],
": a group of persons organized for the purpose of directing the policies of a government":[
"political parties with opposing agendas"
],
": a particular individual : person":[
"an old party approaching 80"
],
": a person or group participating in an action or affair":[
"a mountain-climbing party",
"a party to the transaction"
],
": a person or group taking one side of a question, dispute, or contest":[
"The parties in the lawsuit reached an agreement."
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We are having a party .",
"a high school dance party",
"Were you invited to her party ",
"Our New Year's Eve party was a huge success.",
"political parties with opposing agendas",
"The senator is loyal to his party .",
"the two parties in the marriage contract",
"The parties in the lawsuit reached a settlement.",
"Verb",
"He spent the weekend partying with his friends.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Fifteen Republicans \u2014 a remarkably high number for a party that has derailed gun curbs for years \u2014 joined all 50 Democrats, including their two independent allies, in approving the bill. \u2014 Alan Fram, Anchorage Daily News , 24 June 2022",
"Fifteen Republicans \u2014 a remarkably high number for a party that has derailed gun curbs for years \u2014 joined all 50 Democrats, including their two independent allies, in approving the bill. \u2014 Alan Fram, Chron , 24 June 2022",
"But the losses will be worrisome for the party , with signs of anti-Tory tactical voting and defeats in constituencies with symbolic importance. \u2014 Karla Adam, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"Guests also get free cookies and hot cocoa across the park, as well as shorter lines for attractions like Space Mountain, which is getting a special holiday twist just for the party . \u2014 Eve Chen, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"County Sheriff Ed Gonzelz told ABC13 KTRK that prior to his death, the 5-year-old went to the store with his mother to prepare for his 8-year-old sister's birthday party . \u2014 Tommy Mcardle, PEOPLE.com , 21 June 2022",
"The 2022 midterms will almost certainly be very bad for the party and will likely be a bloodbath. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 21 June 2022",
"Georgia, which President Biden won by less than half a percentage point, still leans Republican and could be an easy pickup for the party in a difficult year for Democrats. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"At other times, the report says, men were forced to make decorations for a graduation party for Hermeyer\u2019s and Melvin\u2019s kids and to make eyeglasses for Melvin\u2019s relatives. \u2014 Shannon Heffernan, ProPublica , 14 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"And since the pandemic, the desire to party hard again has notched the tempo way faster. \u2014 Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone , 23 June 2022",
"Hope Sharon Kennedy, who\u2019s a complete shill for the probable can party . \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"Gomez, playing a teenager trying to party with her friends \u2014 while babysitting her sleeping baby siblings \u2014 finds out what happens when self soothing completely fails. \u2014 Ashley Iasimone, Billboard , 15 May 2022",
"Tolmachov had a plan though -- his staff agreed to stay through the night so patrons could party until the small hours. \u2014 Ivana Kottasov\u00e1 And Rob Picheta, CNN , 14 May 2022",
"Did British military officials really party as elegantly as depicted in the film",
"Fortunately, Casa Loto is more than ready to meet the pent-up need to party for a cause. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Rocco\u2019s Tacos invites revelers to party with the restaurant\u2019s owner, Rocco Mangel, at the Orlando location. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 4 May 2022",
"In just two years, Elsa Majimbo has gained 2.5 million Instagram followers by eating potato chips in bed, encouraging her followers to party to the point of reporting fraudulent activity to their banks and laughing maniacally. \u2014 Alexandra Sternlicht, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1919, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English partie part, party, from Anglo-French, from partir to divide \u2014 more at part":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"affair",
"bash",
"binge",
"blast",
"blowout",
"do",
"event",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"function",
"get-together",
"reception",
"shindig"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-121020",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"party politics":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": political activities, decisions, etc., that relate to or support a particular political party":[
"Party politics played a large role in determining who would be chosen for the position."
]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125703",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"party pooper":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Don't be such a party pooper !",
"a party pooper who insisted they turn the music down",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So costume parties aren't really your thing, go as a party pooper ! \u2014 Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"Jennifer Connelly's Melanie Cavill returned, virtually from the dead, on Monday night's episode of TNT's science fiction show Snowpiercer, but swiftly proved a literal party pooper . \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Extensive nutritional information is included in the recipes, which have cute names like talkin\u2019 turkey wraps, one minute man enchiladas and party pooper prawns. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Then, professional party pooper Lana appears to block all the fun. \u2014 Ariana Romero, refinery29.com , 28 June 2021",
"Some party pooper analysts, like David Trainer, CEO of investment research firm NewConstructs, say the business is worthless. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 3 June 2021",
"To be conservative often consists in being a party pooper . \u2014 Itxu D\u00edaz, National Review , 19 Sep. 2020",
"Your new best friend is complicated, and often accused of being a party pooper . \u2014 J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al , 3 Apr. 2020",
"Or \u2014 party pooper alert \u2014 should common sense win out with a flyer hung at the entrance, an eviction notice that one of 2018\u2019s hottest joints has closed its doors"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1947, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"poop entry 1 + -er":""
},
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"-\u02c8p\u00fc-p\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"drag",
"grinch",
"killjoy",
"spoilsport",
"wet blanket"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015509",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"party question":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a subject characterized by differences of opinion resulting from party allegiances rather than other factors":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182534",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"party vote":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a vote (as in a legislature) cast along party lines":[
"strict party votes occur \u2026 on the organization of the House and Senate",
"\u2014 Dean Acheson"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012654",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"party wall":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a wall which divides two adjoining properties and in which each of the owners shares the rights":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1674, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084014",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Para rubber tree":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a South American rubber tree ( Hevea brasiliensis )":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1930, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141757"
},
"Para rubber":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": native rubber from South American rubber trees (genus Hevea and especially H. brasiliensis )":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The bureau is seeking those fees in part to replace parking meter revenue lost during the pandemic, including some spaces now home to tables and chairs. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The former allows parking enforcement at the stations similar to that of a parking meter violation for those violators parking but not charging vehicles. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Indianapolis officials voted in 2010 to lease its parking meter operations to ParkIndy an enact a 50-year profit-sharing agreement. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 2 Mar. 2022",
"In addition, parking management staff estimate that the program\u2019s parklets have resulted in the city losing up to $420,000 in gross parking meter revenue from July 1 2020 to Jan. 1, 2022. \u2014 Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The Portland City Council on Wednesday will consider more than doubling parking meter fees near Providence Park on Timbers and Thorns game days, from $1.60 to $4 per hour. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 Jan. 2022",
"The only difference will be an annual fee equivalent to the parking meter revenue the parking space would get. \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Two men were injured Saturday afternoon when they were struck by debris from the crash of a car that jumped a downtown sidewalk and slammed into a light pole and parking meter , according to San Diego police. \u2014 Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Dec. 2021",
"The first parking meter in America was installed in Oklahoma City in 1935, and the concept quickly spread throughout the country. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Sep. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1935, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142836"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This is defined as the partial derivative of the option price with respect to the stock price. \u2014 William Baldwin, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1889, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143128"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"1801, in the meaning defined above":""
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"combining form",
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"noun combining form",
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"\u2014 see dinar at Money Table":[],
"river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in northern Brazil constituting the eastern mouth of the Amazon":[],
"state of northern Brazil on the Atlantic and south of the Amazon; capital Bel\u00e9m area 481,836 square miles (1,247,955 square kilometers), population 7,581,051":[],
"\u2014 see bel\u00e9m":[],
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": beside : alongside of : beyond : aside from":[
"para thyroid",
"par enteral"
],
": closely related to":[
"par aldehyde"
],
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"para dichlorobenzene"
],
": faulty : abnormal":[
"par esthesia"
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": associated in a subsidiary or accessory capacity":[
"para medical"
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": closely resembling : almost":[
"para typhoid"
],
": parachute":[
"para trooper"
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"primi para"
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},
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"p\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4",
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-\u0259",
"\u02ccpar-\u0259, \u02c8par-\u0259",
"\u02c8par-\u0259"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Pronto les compartir\u00e9 las importantes noticias para el Ecuador. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"An Air Force rescue plane dropped two para -medics into the water with a 20-man life raft, supplies and equipment to keep the Aurora 7 space capsule afloat. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"Office staff, custodians, para -educators, and classroom aides are essential to the success of our students. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"Among them are Fundaci\u00f3n para el Progreso (FPP, Chile), and Fundaci\u00f3n Libertad y Progreso (Argentina), which have continued to consolidate their leadership on YouTube. \u2014 Alejandro Chafuen, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Danelle Umstead and Tyler Carter, para rugby player Chuck Aoki, and wheelchair basketball athlete Matt Scott. \u2014 Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com , 4 May 2022",
"The para athletics divisions start at 9:50, followed by the four waves of the rest of the field at 10. \u2014 John Conceison, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Prince Harry also took time to chat and take pictures with a number of teams taking part in the competition, including para -athlete cyclist Joeri Rousseau, who quickly called over a number of his Team Belgium mates for a photo. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 Apr. 2022",
"British para -athlete David Smith won a boccia gold medal in Tokyo, retaining his title as the world\u2019s best in the BC1 classification (for athletes with severe activity limitations affecting their legs, arms, and trunk). \u2014 Tim Heming, Outside Online , 10 Sep. 2021"
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"Turkish, from Persian p\u0101ra , literally, piece, scrap":"Noun",
"Greek, from para ; akin to Greek pro before \u2014 more at for":"Prefix",
"extracted from parachute entry 1":"Combining form",
"Latin, from parere to give birth to \u2014 more at pare":"Noun combining form"
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": a colorless para-substituted aminobenzoic acid that is a growth factor of the vitamin B complex and is used as a sunscreen":[]
},
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"\u02c8par-\u0259-\u0259-\u02ccm\u0113-n\u014d-\u02ccben-\u02ccz\u014d-ik-, \u02c8par-\u0259-\u02ccam-\u0259-(\u02cc)n\u014d-",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u0259-\u02ccm\u0113-\u02ccn\u014d-\u02ccben-\u02c8z\u014d-ik-",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02cca-m\u0259-(\u02cc)n\u014d-"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Look for a brand that has no fragrance and doesn\u2019t contain zinc oxide or para-aminobenzoic acid ; dogs often lick sunscreen off their skin, and both ingredients are toxic. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 June 2021"
],
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"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150157"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": camphorated tincture of opium used especially to relieve pain":[]
},
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"-\u02c8g\u00e4r-",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"\u02ccpar-\u0259-\u02c8g\u022fr-ik, -\u02c8g\u014dr-, -\u02c8g\u00e4r-",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8g\u022fr-ik"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Parents have always been overwhelmed by babies crying from teething and have used some truly awful, dangerous methods to stop the pain such as drinking alcohol, paregoric (a strong opioid), and now benzocaine. \u2014 Philly.com , 7 June 2018"
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"French par\u00e9gorique mitigating pain, from Late Latin paregoricus , from Greek par\u0113gorikos , from par\u0113gorein to talk over, soothe, from para- + agora assembly, from ageirein to gather":""
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"noun"
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": the pressure exerted by a (specified) component in a mixture of gases":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The increase in the partial pressure of the carbon dioxide was temporarily difficult to tolerate, leading to gagging and choking, but the submarine flooded quickly and the pressure was equalized. \u2014 Rachel Lance, Wired , 7 Apr. 2020",
"Unlike an internal combustion engine, an electric motor cares not about partial pressures of oxygen. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 19 Mar. 2018"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150715"
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"noun"
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": the white crystalline para-substituted isomer of aminosalicylic acid that is made synthetically and is used in the treatment of tuberculosis":[]
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"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u0259-\u02ccm\u0113-\u02ccn\u014d-\u02ccsa-l\u0259-\u02c8si-lik-",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"-\u02ccsal-\u0259-\u02ccsil-ik-",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02cca-m\u0259-(\u02cc)n\u014d-"
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"first_known_use":{
"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150959"
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"noun"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Doctors were able to schedule Bersten for a two-hour surgery to remove his left parathyroid gland the next day. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 24 Apr. 2018"
],
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"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154455"
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"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": any of several bright spots often tinged with color that often appear on the parhelic circle on either side of the sun":[]
},
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"p\u00e4r-\u02c8h\u0113l-y\u0259n"
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},
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"1571, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155037"
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"noun"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155458"
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"adjective",
"combining form",
"geographical name",
"noun",
"noun combining form",
"prefix"
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": a coin representing one para":[],
"\u2014 see dinar at Money Table":[],
"river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in northern Brazil constituting the eastern mouth of the Amazon":[],
"state of northern Brazil on the Atlantic and south of the Amazon; capital Bel\u00e9m area 481,836 square miles (1,247,955 square kilometers), population 7,581,051":[],
"\u2014 see bel\u00e9m":[],
"paragraph":[],
": beside : alongside of : beyond : aside from":[
"para thyroid",
"par enteral"
],
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"para dichlorobenzene"
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"primi para"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-\u0259",
"\u02c8par-\u0259",
"\u02ccpar-\u0259, \u02c8par-\u0259",
"p\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Pronto les compartir\u00e9 las importantes noticias para el Ecuador. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"An Air Force rescue plane dropped two para -medics into the water with a 20-man life raft, supplies and equipment to keep the Aurora 7 space capsule afloat. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"Office staff, custodians, para -educators, and classroom aides are essential to the success of our students. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"Among them are Fundaci\u00f3n para el Progreso (FPP, Chile), and Fundaci\u00f3n Libertad y Progreso (Argentina), which have continued to consolidate their leadership on YouTube. \u2014 Alejandro Chafuen, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Danelle Umstead and Tyler Carter, para rugby player Chuck Aoki, and wheelchair basketball athlete Matt Scott. \u2014 Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com , 4 May 2022",
"The para athletics divisions start at 9:50, followed by the four waves of the rest of the field at 10. \u2014 John Conceison, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Prince Harry also took time to chat and take pictures with a number of teams taking part in the competition, including para -athlete cyclist Joeri Rousseau, who quickly called over a number of his Team Belgium mates for a photo. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 Apr. 2022",
"British para -athlete David Smith won a boccia gold medal in Tokyo, retaining his title as the world\u2019s best in the BC1 classification (for athletes with severe activity limitations affecting their legs, arms, and trunk). \u2014 Tim Heming, Outside Online , 10 Sep. 2021"
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"Turkish, from Persian p\u0101ra , literally, piece, scrap":"Noun",
"Greek, from para ; akin to Greek pro before \u2014 more at for":"Prefix",
"extracted from parachute entry 1":"Combining form",
"Latin, from parere to give birth to \u2014 more at pare":"Noun combining form"
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": a luminous circle or halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of the sun":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The glowing slash, known as a parhelic circle , often only shows up in segments, but sometimes can present as a full circle in the sky. \u2014 Mika Mckinnon, Smithsonian , 5 Feb. 2018"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162405"
},
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"idiom"
],
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": liking something or someone very much and usually more than other things or people":[
"I like all the food here, but I'm particularly partial to the fried chicken.",
"She's partial to tall men with dark hair.",
"I'm not partial to red wine."
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163250"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a believer in or advocate of theological particularism":[]
},
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"-l\u0259\u0307st"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163646"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a differential equation containing at least one partial derivative":[]
},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
"1816, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163716"
},
"parent material":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the disintegrated rock material usually unconsolidated and unchanged or only slightly changed that underlies and generally gives rise to the true soil by the natural process of soil development":[
"\u2014 compare horizon sense 2 , solum"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171751"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a grammatical adjunct that qualifies only a part of the following substantive (as free in free churchman )":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172515"
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"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": of or relating to the walls of a part or cavity":[],
": of, relating to, or located near or within the parietal bone or parietal lobe of the head":[],
": attached to the main wall rather than the axis or a cross wall of a plant ovary":[
"\u2014 used of an ovule or a placenta"
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": a parietal part (such as a bone, scale, or plate)":[],
": the regulations governing the visiting privileges of members of the opposite sex in campus dormitories":[]
},
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"p\u0259-\u02c8r\u012b-\u0259-t\u1d4al",
"p\u0259-\u02c8r\u012b-\u0259t-\u1d4al"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The current operating theory, though, is that these stitches are caused by irritation of the parietal peritoneum. \u2014 Kelly O'mara, Outside Online , 8 May 2020",
"However, not all archaeologists would agree that the newfound prints meet the definition of parietal art, an expert told Live Science. \u2014 Nicoletta Lanese, Scientific American , 21 Sep. 2021",
"The girl, Ariel Young, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions, and subdural hematomas in the crash, according to medical records. \u2014 Amir Vera And Keith Allen, CNN , 7 June 2021",
"Thus there were chaperones, parietal rules and other awkward devices for denying them the privacy to do it. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 May 2021",
"Those three cortical regions are the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes, which are associated with thinking, auditory processing, and sensory information, respectively. \u2014 Max G. Levy, Wired , 11 May 2021",
"The second was the anterior insula, which is folded into the deep fissure between the parietal and frontal lobes. \u2014 Sara Harrison, Wired , 22 Oct. 2020",
"The right superior parietal lobule, an area used to construct one's total body image, also had reduced connectivity and a reduced density of gray matter, indicating less neuron activity. \u2014 Ryan Prior, CNN , 7 May 2020",
"As the images flipped rapidly past, the researchers looked for activity in a region of the canine brain called the parietotemporal cortex, analogous to humans\u2019 parietal cortex, which is known to help people rapidly process numbers. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian , 20 Dec. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Not all of the study's archeologists would agree that the findings fully qualify as parietal , which is often used to describe paintings on cave walls and meaning something cannot move from place to place. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 21 Sep. 2021",
"That privilege belongs to more posterior regions\u2014the parietal , temporal and occipital lobes. \u2014 Christof Koch, Scientific American , 10 May 2021",
"Synchronous brain activity was localized in the left hemisphere of the brain, to an area known as the temporal- parietal junction. \u2014 Robert Martone, Scientific American , 2 June 2020",
"At 80 milliseconds, that activity suppression spread throughout the posterior parietal cortex. \u2014 Richard Sima, Scientific American , 23 Dec. 2019",
"Glimcher and collaborators have shown that neurons in part of the brain called the parietal cortex do indeed behave this way, adding physiological support for the model. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 Aug. 2016",
"This video shows a monitor lizard skull fossil fragment with both the parietal and pineal foramina visible (highlighted in yellow). \u2014 Amina Khan, latimes.com , 3 Apr. 2018",
"These have two conventional eyes and two parietals , one derived from the parapineal and the other from the pineal. \u2014 The Economist , 5 Apr. 2018",
"Another view of the monitor lizard skull fossil fragment, on which both the parietal and pineal foramina are visible (in yellow). \u2014 Amina Khan, latimes.com , 3 Apr. 2018"
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"Middle English, from Medieval Latin parietalis , from pariet-, paries wall of a cavity or hollow organ, from Latin, wall":"Adjective"
},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174046"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": involving or working less than customary or standard hours":[
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"part-time students"
]
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rt-\u02c8t\u012bm"
],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
"1856, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174358"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mail service handling parcels":[],
": packages handled by parcel post":[]
},
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"synonyms":[
"correspondence",
"mail",
"matter",
"post",
"snail mail"
],
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"examples":[
"only parcel post bearing a return address and not exceeding size and weight limits will be accepted",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Extending parcel post to the countryside was vehemently opposed by merchants, who feared competition from Sears Roebuck and other mail order houses. \u2014 Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online , 14 Mar. 2021",
"The flag arrived at the New York office of the Associated Press in May and was then sent by parcel post to the White House. \u2014 Richard Kurin, Smithsonian , 30 Apr. 2018"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1790, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174406"
},
"pareiasaur":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a reptile of the family Pareiasauridae":[]
},
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"p\u0259\u02c8r\u012b\u0259\u02ccs\u022f(\u0259)r"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Pareiasaurus":""
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"adjective"
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"p\u0259\u00a6r\u012b\u0259\u00a6s\u022fr\u0113\u0259n"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183130"
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"biographical name",
"noun"
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"Catherine \u2014 see catherine":[]
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each year, Maine\u2019s Department of Marine Resources and United States Fish and Wildlife Service stocks the rivers and streams with millions of salmon eggs and fry and thousands of parr and smolts. \u2014 Caroline Lester, The New Yorker , 7 Aug. 2019",
"Those salmon babies are tiny: wriggling fry still attached to egg sacks in gravel, and 1-year-old fish, known as parr . \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 10 Feb. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
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"1771, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183401"
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or formed with or from a participle":[]
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"\u02ccp\u00e4r-t\u0259-\u02c8si-p\u0113-\u0259l"
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"Latin participialis , from participium":""
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": to convey by means of a parachute":[],
": to descend by means of a parachute":[]
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"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-"
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"The pilot was wearing a parachute .",
"The supplies were dropped by parachute .",
"Verb",
"The soldiers parachuted in and quickly hid their gear.",
"New troops parachuted into enemy territory.",
"We will parachute supplies in after you arrive.",
"New troops were parachuted into enemy territory.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Her great-grandfather, in this predawn moment, came out and stood over my grandpa, who was frantically curling up his parachute . \u2014 Julie Beck, The Atlantic , 10 June 2022",
"Conables waited 3 seconds \u2014 about half the distance to the ground \u2014 before opening his parachute . \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Once his demands were met hours later, the man strapped on a parachute , opened the rear aircraft door, and disappeared into the night, never to be found. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 16 June 2022",
"Methods included being rotated underwater in an ejection seat and being dragged across the pool attached to a parachute , from which students had to disentangle themselves. \u2014 Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health , 17 May 2022",
"When a larger parachute deployed, Beck said the rocket slowed to just 22 miles per hour, or 10 meters per second, allowing the helicopter pilots to match its speed. \u2014 Jackie Wattles, CNN , 3 May 2022",
"About two minutes after takeoff, having expended its fuel, the Electron\u2019s stage-one booster detached and fell back toward Earth, slowing its 5,150-mile-per-hour descent with a parachute . \u2014 Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"One of the pilots was able to get into the other plane and land successfully, but the other was not and had to deploy a parachute . \u2014 Lorraine Taylor, Fox News , 25 Apr. 2022",
"According to the letter sent by the FAA in early April, Jacob attached multiple cameras to the inside and outside of the plane and was wearing a sports parachute in a backpack during the flight. \u2014 Michelle Stoddart, ABC News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Former diplomats say the effort was part of a troubling pattern where American officials parachute into complex situations equipped with little more than talking points. \u2014 Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica , 30 May 2022",
"Transition coaches parachute into the post-layoff void\u2014a place where no one else ventures\u2014and help individuals move forward. \u2014 Darren Kimball, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"In the game, up to 100 players parachute onto a remote island to battle in a winner-take-all showdown. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"But one of the planes spiraled out of control and crashed in Eloy, Arizona, leading to only Aikins\u2019 getting in the other craft while Farrington was forced to parachute . \u2014 Jay Blackman, NBC News , 12 May 2022",
"The 48-year-old man was attempting to parachute from the 23-story Palisade UTC luxury apartment complex, near the UTC mall, police said. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The retail giant is teaming up with the drone delivery company Zipline to parachute packages of goods to shoppers. \u2014 Errol Barnett, CBS News , 25 Nov. 2021",
"The study showed that the creatures who live in canopies are able to parachute consistently, slowing their speed and controlling their movements. \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"He was struck by the speed with which Andr\u00e9s and his collaborators could parachute into a place after a flood or an earthquake and start serving hot meals. \u2014 Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022"
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"borrowed from French, from para- (as in parasol parasol ) + chute \"fall\" \u2014 more at chute":"Noun",
"derivative of parachute entry 1":"Verb"
},
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"1784, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1809, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183958"
},
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": schizophrenia characterized especially by delusions of persecution, grandiosity, or jealousy and by hallucinations (such as hearing voices) chiefly of an auditory nature":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Dixon's lawyers argued that Bowdoin has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia , an argument that spared him from conviction in a 1977 assault case. \u2014 Fox News , 4 May 2022",
"His lawyers said Dixon had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia , suffered from hallucinations and was blind and in frail health. \u2014 Erik Ortiz, NBC News , 11 May 2022",
"Monteria Robinson said her son had previously been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia . \u2014 Shaddi Abusaid, ajc , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Kaczynski is an intellectual, however thwarted; a charmer on occasion, and a cold-souled killer who may or may not suffer from paranoid schizophrenia . \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The brother who initially called 9-1-1 also told dispatchers that the 43-year-old man lives with paranoid schizophrenia , but that didn't change how deputies responded because of the call's violent nature, Toquica said. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Charlie\u2019s family previously said he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia . \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Jan. 2022",
"When Bruce was around 5, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia , subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy and confined to mental institutions. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Based on the life of John Nash, a genius mathematician overcome by paranoid schizophrenia , Ron Howard\u2019s movie is precious to a fault, despite Russell Crowe\u2019s attempts to bring grit and authenticity to the role. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 26 Apr. 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1940, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184020"
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"noun"
],
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": a condition constituting less than total disability : incapacity preventing full performance of duties of an occupation as a result of accident or illness":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184224"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": characterized by suspiciousness, persecutory trends, or megalomania":[
"behaving in a paranoid manner with accusations of persecutions"
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"was so paranoid that he was afraid to walk the streets"
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"\u02c8par-\u0259-\u02ccn\u022fid",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccn\u022fid"
],
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"examples":[
"I guess I was just being paranoid .",
"She's a little paranoid about her job.",
"It's nothing more than a paranoid fantasy.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tap or click for signs you\u2019re being stalked and not just paranoid . \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 15 May 2022",
"Or just paranoid and unreasonably fearful about his health",
"Your best defense is to be super paranoid about everything to make sure the season of giving doesn\u2019t turn into a season of taking from you. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Nov. 2021",
"People are super paranoid about it at one point and walking around with their masks off the next. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Early on, however, Lukas bucked the norms of the often secretive and paranoid culture of the backstretch. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"Then in March 2021, a 21-year-old man of Middle Eastern descent with a history of paranoid and anti-social behavior entered a King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado, and shot dead 10 people. \u2014 Jillian Peterson, Chron , 15 May 2022",
"Attached to the letter was an 11-page journal entry that laid out accusations from unnamed employees who accused Andrews of running the office in a chaotic and paranoid manner. \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 4 May 2022",
"The laptop was a gift to the paranoid and the disingenuous. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1901, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184241"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185103"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a white crystalline compound C 6 H 4 Cl 2 made by chlorinating benzene and used especially as a moth repellent and deodorizer":[]
},
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"-\u02ccben-\u02c8z\u0113n",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02ccd\u012b-\u02cckl\u022fr-\u0259-\u02c8ben-\u02ccz\u0113n",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Your grandma's favorite method is on the outs now that many experts consider the chemicals \u2014 naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene \u2014 a health risk. \u2014 Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping , 13 Mar. 2019"
],
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"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1876, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190751"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a manufacturer producing components for incorporation in assemblies made by another":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193622"
},
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"noun"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193820"
},
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"noun"
],
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": a speech sound whose articulation resembles that of an ordinary diphthong in being a transition between two vowel positions but which differs in having a held beginning or ending":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193919"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194729"
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"type":[
"combining form",
"noun"
],
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"the Englishman whom she naively assumes to be an excellent parti",
"\u2014 Times Literary Supplement"
],
": a good or desirable match":[
"you don't realize what a parti he is",
"\u2014 Mary Manning"
],
": the basic general scheme of an architectural design":[],
": various : variegated":[
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],
": part":[
"parti -mortgage"
]
},
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"(\u02c8)p\u00e4r\u00a6t\u0113",
"\""
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"French, from Middle French, match, party, decision":"Noun",
"obsolete English party , adjective, parti-colored, from Middle English party, parti , from Middle French parti striped, party per pale, from Old French, from parti , past participle of partir to divide, go away":"Combining form",
"Latin, from part-, pars":"Combining form"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194755"
},
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"adjective",
"combining form",
"geographical name",
"noun",
"noun combining form",
"prefix"
],
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": a coin representing one para":[],
"\u2014 see dinar at Money Table":[],
"river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in northern Brazil constituting the eastern mouth of the Amazon":[],
"state of northern Brazil on the Atlantic and south of the Amazon; capital Bel\u00e9m area 481,836 square miles (1,247,955 square kilometers), population 7,581,051":[],
"\u2014 see bel\u00e9m":[],
"paragraph":[],
": beside : alongside of : beyond : aside from":[
"para thyroid",
"par enteral"
],
": closely related to":[
"par aldehyde"
],
": involving substitution at or characterized by two opposite positions in the benzene ring that are separated by two carbon atoms":[
"para dichlorobenzene"
],
": faulty : abnormal":[
"par esthesia"
],
": associated in a subsidiary or accessory capacity":[
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],
": closely resembling : almost":[
"para typhoid"
],
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"para trooper"
],
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"primi para"
]
},
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"\u02c8par-\u0259",
"\u02ccpar-\u0259, \u02c8par-\u0259",
"p\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Pronto les compartir\u00e9 las importantes noticias para el Ecuador. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"An Air Force rescue plane dropped two para -medics into the water with a 20-man life raft, supplies and equipment to keep the Aurora 7 space capsule afloat. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"Office staff, custodians, para -educators, and classroom aides are essential to the success of our students. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"Among them are Fundaci\u00f3n para el Progreso (FPP, Chile), and Fundaci\u00f3n Libertad y Progreso (Argentina), which have continued to consolidate their leadership on YouTube. \u2014 Alejandro Chafuen, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Danelle Umstead and Tyler Carter, para rugby player Chuck Aoki, and wheelchair basketball athlete Matt Scott. \u2014 Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com , 4 May 2022",
"The para athletics divisions start at 9:50, followed by the four waves of the rest of the field at 10. \u2014 John Conceison, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Prince Harry also took time to chat and take pictures with a number of teams taking part in the competition, including para -athlete cyclist Joeri Rousseau, who quickly called over a number of his Team Belgium mates for a photo. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 Apr. 2022",
"British para -athlete David Smith won a boccia gold medal in Tokyo, retaining his title as the world\u2019s best in the BC1 classification (for athletes with severe activity limitations affecting their legs, arms, and trunk). \u2014 Tim Heming, Outside Online , 10 Sep. 2021"
],
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"Turkish, from Persian p\u0101ra , literally, piece, scrap":"Noun",
"Greek, from para ; akin to Greek pro before \u2014 more at for":"Prefix",
"extracted from parachute entry 1":"Combining form",
"Latin, from parere to give birth to \u2014 more at pare":"Noun combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1687, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195623"
},
"parting tool":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a narrow-bladed tool used in turning or planing or for cutting a piece in two":[],
": a tool used (as in lathe work) for cutting off pieces from the main body of stock being worked on":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195842"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-200825"
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"noun"
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"p\u0259\u02c8r-",
"pa\u02c8rakr\u0259\u02ccniz\u0259m"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201555"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a genus of thin-shelled land and tree snails (suborder Stylommatophora) of the islands of the Pacific that are of great interest to collectors because of their very numerous and highly localized races and species":[],
": any snail of the genus Partula":[]
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rch\u0259l\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201904"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a lightweight umbrella used as a sunshade":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccs\u022fl",
"-\u02ccs\u00e4l",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Picnics include outdoor furniture, all table settings, a parasol , bug spray, facial tissue, sunscreen, trash bags, and more. \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"The parasol structure uses multiple computers and motors to operate, and when closed has been aerodynamically tested by Rolls-Royce at speeds up to 155 mph. \u2014 Basem Wasef, Robb Report , 23 May 2022",
"Strapped to her back is a small black pack that holds the pole of her parasol , blue and purple streamers fluttering from its rim. \u2014 Suzanne Van Atten, ajc , 12 Oct. 2013",
"The post focuses on a disclaimer that the parasol doesn\u2019t block rain, but instead should be used as shade from the sun and for fashion purposes. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"His female companion, seated at a table nearby, stops gluing streamers to a parasol and looks up at him with admiration. \u2014 Suzanne Van Atten, ajc , 12 Oct. 2013",
"Up your Cottagecore game with a set linen cocktail napkins featuring regency-era accessories like a parasol , a fan, and some pointy-toe shoes, all in Bridgerton's signature pastel palette. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 4 Mar. 2022",
"One table featured a trellis and a water fountain; another was shaded with a parasol dotted with orchids; LaMaar\u2019s was downright mystical with glittery buddhas, rock crystals, tarot cards, and symbols of astrology. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 26 Feb. 2022",
"Just as impressive is the list of one-of-a-kind accessories, which include dashboard clocks made by Bovet (more on those below), a champagne cooler, a unique crockery set by Christofle of Paris and a matching parasol . \u2014 Sean Evans, Robb Report , 8 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, \"screen or canopy shielding from the sun,\" going back to Middle French, borrowed from Italian parasole, from para \"(it) shields, keeps out\" (3rd singular present of parare \"to prepare, adorn, avert, shield\") + sole \"sun,\" going back to Latin s\u014dl \u2014 more at parry , solar":""
},
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"1660, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202314"
},
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"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to divide or share (something) among different people, groups, etc.":[
"The money was parceled out to local charities.",
"They plan to parcel the tickets out in a lottery.",
"We need to stop parceling out the blame for this problem and start working on a solution."
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202516"
},
"part-score":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a trick score or contract in bridge that is less than enough for game":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203650"
},
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
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},
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"\u02ccpar\u0259\u02c8sk\u0113n\u0113|\u0259n",
"|\u02cc\u00e4n"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203927"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": either of a pair of bones of the roof of the skull between the frontal bones and the occipital bones":[]
},
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"Investors are bracing for the worst, having pushed the price of the notes down to 61% of par value . \u2014 Sydney Maki, Bloomberg.com , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Evergrande\u2019s Hong Kong listing (3333 HK) hit an all-time low intra-day of HKD 2.28 while their debt, using a bond maturing in June 2026 as a proxy, fell to $26 versus a par value of $100. \u2014 Brendan Ahern, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"The move was so aggressive and sparked a rally that was so powerful and broad-based that today those bonds are all the way back up near par value , and Surgery Partners was able to raise another $120 million from loan investors earlier this month. \u2014 Lisa Lee, Bloomberg.com , 28 Apr. 2020",
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"The first, known in scientific circles as the Stress Reduction Theory, is that exposure to many forms of nature engages the parasympathetic nervous system , which is responsible for rest and digestion and encourages stress recovery. \u2014 Jillian Mock, Time , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The autonomic nervous system, which regulates things like heart rate, pupil dilation, body temperature, and digestion, can be split into two categories: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system . \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 28 Mar. 2022",
"At night, the parasympathetic nervous system helps the body rest, digest, and recuperate. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 28 Mar. 2022",
"These include anti-inflammation, faster muscle and cellular recovery, a more resilient parasympathetic nervous system and faster detoxification from metabolic waste. \u2014 Bianca Salonga, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Even a few minutes of slow deep breathing is enough to get the parasympathetic nervous system going, though doing it for longer may elicit greater effects. \u2014 Patrick Wilson, Outside Online , 21 Aug. 2020",
"Deep diaphragmatic breathing engages our parasympathetic nervous system and inhibits our body's production of stress hormones and stimulates feel-good hormones. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 21 Nov. 2021",
"Our autonomic nervous system has two branches: the sympathetic nervous system (or gas) and the parasympathetic nervous system (or brakes). \u2014 Bryan Robinson, Forbes , 12 Mar. 2021",
"The effect, if true, would result from the parasympathetic nervous system , Pristas explains, tying into a feeling of being cocooned. \u2014 Jamie Gold, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021"
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"According to the paragraph above, one of them could transfer their profile to a sub-account. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 17 Mar. 2022",
"In his next paragraph , Alito tried to suggest that the court wasn\u2019t calling the longer list of rights into doubt. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 3 May 2022",
"Editor's note: An earlier version of this story had incorrect wording in the quote in the final paragraph . \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Apr. 2022",
"On page 4 of A&E, a review of the new smash burger cart Rough Draft was missing its first paragraph of text. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Feb. 2021",
"To capture the magic, Scott burned an entire day on filming, something the studio did not expect for the scene, which was only a paragraph long in the script . \u2014 Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 June 2022",
"Creating a memorable phrase, a sentence, a paragraph is our work. \u2014 Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker , 1 June 2022",
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"The fallout from that incident leaves them with the dangling question of a leak within the organization, and the paranoia of finding a North Korean mole, known as Donglin, in the KCIA. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"These questions circle endlessly in my mind as the paranoia and the hurt between us on the war lead to our own clashes and long, discomfiting pauses. \u2014 Alyona Minkovski, The New Republic , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The party-wide paranoia over rampant child molestation has largely trickled down from QAnon, a baseless conspiracy theory alleging the Democratic Party and Hollywood are run by Satan-worshipping child traffickers. \u2014 Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone , 11 Apr. 2022",
"But when a group goes to that ultimate level, this has to do with the acute, near-schizophrenic kind of paranoia of the leader. \u2014 Mary Ellen Cagnassola, PEOPLE.com , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Steven Soderbergh taps into a distinctly pandemic-era paranoia in this high-tech Rear Window, with Zo\u00eb Kravitz playing an agoraphobic tech worker who hears an assault while going through recordings from a virtual assistant. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The whines, the paranoia , the bromides against the status quo, the pining for simpler days \u2014 Los Angeles in 2022 sounds like Orange County circa 1994. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Maybe some people in Utah really do have earnest concerns about this issue, minus the zealous religious overtones or the abject paranoia that exists in certain corners. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 17 Feb. 2022"
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"The light solidifies the resin, and the partial product is pulled upwards one notch to repeat the process for the next layer below. \u2014 Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American , 17 Mar. 2015"
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"In 1952, backed by little more than his reputation as a war hero and a fortune staked by his parvenu father, 35-year-old John F. Kennedy swiped a Senate seat from Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, himself a wealthy combat veteran. \u2014 Kevin Mahnken, The New Republic , 1 Sep. 2020",
"Raveendran, at least on paper, assumes his place among those parvenus thanks to his effort in internet education. \u2014 Saritha Rai, Fortune , 29 July 2019",
"Raveendran, at least on paper, assumes his place among those parvenus thanks to his effort in internet education. \u2014 Saritha Rai, Fortune , 29 July 2019",
"Well, rejecting the pretensions of the peacocking parvenu is one of the sweetest pleasures left to the fallen aristocrat. \u2014 Lili Anolik, Vanities , 19 June 2017",
"Well, rejecting the pretensions of the peacocking parvenu is one of the sweetest pleasures left to the fallen aristocrat. \u2014 Lili Anolik, Vanities , 19 June 2017",
"Well, rejecting the pretensions of the peacocking parvenu is one of the sweetest pleasures left to the fallen aristocrat. \u2014 Lili Anolik, Vanities , 19 June 2017",
"Well, rejecting the pretensions of the peacocking parvenu is one of the sweetest pleasures left to the fallen aristocrat. \u2014 Lili Anolik, Vanities , 19 June 2017",
"Well, rejecting the pretensions of the peacocking parvenu is one of the sweetest pleasures left to the fallen aristocrat. \u2014 Lili Anolik, Vanities , 19 June 2017"
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"The layoffs come at a paradoxical economic moment when fears of recession are rampant, yet the economy shows few signs of an impending decline. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"Scholars would argue it\u2019s because the seemingly paradoxical values of the Catholic sisterhood\u2014power and piety, strength and femininity\u2014are as urgent and confusing now as ever. \u2014 ELLE , 3 June 2022",
"The paradoxical hue, which evokes tranquility, sincerity, and dependability, is also associated with sadness. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 1 June 2022",
"Dewey\u2019s philosophy was one of communitarian liberalism (in Sandel\u2019s seemingly paradoxical phraseology), and at its core was the institution of the public school and the process of education for citizenship and democracy. \u2014 Win Mccormack, The New Republic , 20 May 2022",
"This modest and pragmatic approach produces works of paradoxical complexity, notable for their breezy irreverence and their emotional and philosophical depth. \u2014 Dennis Lim, The New Yorker , 15 May 2022",
"This paradoxical result has to do with the fact that rising rates do more than depress bond prices. \u2014 William Baldwin, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Nelson\u2019s now nonexistent pillar, that paradoxical monument to oblivion, was, for me, an image of both the evanescence of the past and the way that odd parts of it linger and persist\u2014an image, too, that had a beautiful color and a sharp taste: plum. \u2014 Fintan O\u2019toole, The Atlantic , 16 June 2022",
"The energy industry is at the forefront of the presidential race at a paradoxical moment since Colombian exporters\u2014and government coffers\u2014are benefiting from the rise in global oil prices driven by war in Ukraine. \u2014 Kejal Vyas, WSJ , 16 June 2022"
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"According to the paragraph above, one of them could transfer their profile to a sub-account. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 17 Mar. 2022",
"In his next paragraph , Alito tried to suggest that the court wasn\u2019t calling the longer list of rights into doubt. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 3 May 2022",
"Editor's note: An earlier version of this story had incorrect wording in the quote in the final paragraph . \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Apr. 2022",
"On page 4 of A&E, a review of the new smash burger cart Rough Draft was missing its first paragraph of text. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Feb. 2021",
"To capture the magic, Scott burned an entire day on filming, something the studio did not expect for the scene, which was only a paragraph long in the script . \u2014 Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 June 2022",
"Creating a memorable phrase, a sentence, a paragraph is our work. \u2014 Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker , 1 June 2022",
"In this experiment, about 1,000 participants were asked to count the number of two-letter words in a paragraph , and were paid 20 cents for the task. \u2014 Lisa Ward, WSJ , 27 May 2022"
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"And the paradigm of a thing to be philosophical about is death. \u2014 Jim Holt , New York Times Book Review , 15 Feb. 2009",
"Such problems drive home a critical flaw in the paradigm of energy independence\u2014namely, that energy isn't a zero-sum game anymore. \u2014 Paul Roberts , Mother Jones , May/June 2008",
"That the biomedical paradigm of single cause and single disease was a chimera was well understood by even its most vigorous advocates. \u2014 Allan M. Brandt , The Cigarette Century , 2007",
"Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.",
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"a new study that challenges the current evolutionary paradigm",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For some, his rise seemed to reflect a troubling paradigm shift in the entertainment business \u2014 the marginalization of content-creation executives and empowerment of operations apparatchiks pushing data and algorithms. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"During the pandemic, when everything slowed down and our health and mortality came into question, my relationship with my children took a huge paradigm shift. \u2014 Jennifer Chen, SELF , 18 June 2022",
"People want to earn a comfortable living at the core of their work/life balance paradigm . \u2014 Landon Eckles, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Many families will need to shift their entire paradigm concerning their children\u2019s education. \u2014 Rachel Lu, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"There have been significantly fewer requests on those major thoroughfares, Parker said previously, which is where the department has shifted its paradigm in recent years from strip patching to deeper road reconstruction. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The creation of our current paradigm is a very long story\u2014one that seems to begin, as a great many things did last century, with World War I. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Barry goes light on the mechanics of his multiversal paradigm , coating the dynamic, suspenseful action with a light frosting of metaphysics. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 July 2021",
"Now with a paradigm shift in consumer habits, what does the road to recovery look like"
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"The project was inspired by the participatory nature of the AIDS quilt, with each brick a see-through repository for mementos \u2014 hundreds contributed by families nationwide. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Continuing in that participatory DIY spirit, a section of the exhibition includes personal items on loan from Getty staffers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"Hartford residents ages 13 and older still have time to cast their ballots on how $56,000 of public funds will be spent on small capital projects through the Hartford Decides participatory budgeting initiative. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 20 June 2022",
"The question is unavoidable: Whose history, whose traditions are Americans talking about",
"Involving one's relatives is another form of crowdfunding or participatory financing. \u2014 Florian Monkam, Forbes , 12 Oct. 2021",
"This festival is part of a cultural ecosystem with the aim of being more participatory , hybrid, committed and sustainable. \u2014 Vogue , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Political experts said the complicated races are an outcome of California\u2019s political system, which heavily favors participatory democracy. \u2014 Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 May 2022",
"That participatory content might also encourage Netflix users to maintain their subscriptions rather than canceling them and resubscribing when something interesting debuts. \u2014 Nathaniel Mott, PCMAG , 14 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On her birthday in March, the Pisces legend paired a cobalt, vintage Vivienne Westwood corset top and custom leather gloves with oversized, blue parachute pants , demonstrating her model-off-duty street style once again. \u2014 Nitya Rao, Seventeen , 30 June 2022",
"Suit jackets found a place layering over loose parachute pants . \u2014 Colleen Barry, ajc , 17 June 2022",
"Mike Trout cracked jokes about Velazquez\u2019s parachute pants and Tyler Wade\u2019s puffy jacket. \u2014 Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times , 29 May 2022",
"Why not embrace styles like baggy jeans and parachute pants that will not only not make your legs feel like they are trapped in sausage casings but that are all over the biggest runways. \u2014 Frances Sol\u00e1-santiago, refinery29.com , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Disney Heroes night was made for The Miz; no one else could pull off the body makeup and parachute pants . \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 12 Oct. 2021",
"There were all-black looks for men and women, including a couple of corset tops, parachute pants and trench coats. \u2014 Leanne Italie, ajc , 13 Sep. 2021",
"And those parachute pants aren\u2019t even worth mentioning. \u2014 Tim Kohut, BGR , 30 June 2021",
"The Fed\u2019s vice chair for supervision, Randal K. Quarles, has warned that the rush to create central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is a fad, like parachute pants in the 1980s. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 29 June 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her group is testing whether small electric currents delivered through the skull to one of the areas contacted by the superior colliculus, the inferior parietal lobe , can improve the symptoms of anorexia by encouraging more active firing of neurons. \u2014 Kendall Powell, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Dec. 2021",
"But the right parietal lobe does have functional and anatomical connections to the putamen, Hayashi said, so perhaps the interactions of the two produce a more cohesive perception of time. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Later, neuroanatomists argued instead the parietal lobe is more important for intelligence and men\u2019s are actually larger. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 8 Aug. 2020",
"Scans of brain activity suggested that an area in the right parietal lobe is responsible for this subjective experience of time. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Later, neuroanatomists argued instead the parietal lobe is more important for intelligence and men\u2019s are actually larger. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 8 Aug. 2020",
"Later, neuroanatomists argued instead the parietal lobe is more important for intelligence and men\u2019s are actually larger. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 8 Aug. 2020",
"Later, neuroanatomists argued instead the parietal lobe is more important for intelligence and men\u2019s are actually larger. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 8 Aug. 2020",
"Later, neuroanatomists argued instead the parietal lobe is more important for intelligence and men\u2019s are actually larger. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 8 Aug. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At a dinner at a corporate retreat in Hungary, Logan, determined to stop leaks to the press, invents Boar on the Floor, a game in which executives suspected of betrayal are forced to crawl and chase sausages on the parquetry . \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 23 Aug. 2021",
"And while the table in today's question has some parquetry work, its swag and floral design is marquetry. \u2014 Helaine Fendelman And Joe Rosson, Star Tribune , 8 June 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the future, D-Matrix believes its hardware could store models as large as the 175-billion- parameter GPT-3 in a single card. \u2014 Karl Freund, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"The first and most well-known parameter , charge-parity (CP) violation, dictates whether neutrinos and their antiparticle counterparts oscillate in the same way, and could help explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe. \u2014 Thomas Lewton, Scientific American , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The equations themselves also have an unknown parameter : the variable that governs the rate of magnification. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The original strain of SARS-CoV-2 was estimated to have a dispersion parameter , k, of around 0.1, meaning that fewer than 20% of people infected passed on the virus to someone else. \u2014 Megan Molteni, STAT , 4 May 2022",
"On January 6, Coffman's car was parked inside a security parameter established after pipe bombs had been discovered at both the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee buildings. \u2014 Holmes Lybrand, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The ability to improve the performance of the device so significantly by boosting a single parameter is part of what has driven Microsoft's interest in topological qubits. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 15 Mar. 2022",
"An attacker can inject arbitrary commands into the mtu or the data parameter . \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 12 May 2022",
"If having been occupied by another foreign nation for long periods is his parameter for losing sovereignty, then the rest of the Eastern European nations, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, India and Israel don\u2019t qualify either. \u2014 WSJ , 8 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Much like hardwood floors, parquet can buckle, so it shouldn\u2019t be laid in bathrooms or other moisture-dense areas. \u2014 Sarah Baird, House Beautiful , 14 Sep. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Celtics demonstrated defense as destiny Wednesday night in the first NBA Finals game on the parquet in a dozen years. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
"Smart writhed on the parquet in pain, the ESPN microphones picking up his wails. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 22 May 2022",
"Brown shook Grayson Allen so thoroughly on an 18-foot jumper in the first quarter that Allen staggered and his posterior ended up on the parquet . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 4 May 2022",
"The floors are Italian marble and Austrian parquet . \u2014 CNN , 4 May 2022",
"Hours before every game at the Garden, Bird and Joe Q could be found on the parquet for 20 minutes of perimeter shooting. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 Nov. 2021",
"In their home opener, the Celtics were booed off the parquet at the end of a 115-83 rout at the hands of the Raptors. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 Oct. 2021",
"That will be the task of first-year head coach Jamahl Mosley and his staff as the Magic hit the parquet at TD Garden. \u2014 Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com , 3 Oct. 2021",
"Sapele mahogany for the exquisite parquet flooring in the hallways, great room and dining room were sourced by Cavalli\u2019s Florentine craftsmen, then boxed-up and delivered to the Century for time-consuming installation. \u2014 Howard Walker, Robb Report , 3 Aug. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the other hand, a participative and delegative leadership style allows for an atmosphere where the employees feel creative, innovative and contribute to the team's growth. \u2014 Thomas \"ai Nerd\" Helfrich, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Transformational leaders, like participative leaders, work to inspire their team by engaging in the critical thinking skills of their staff and take it one step further by seeking to satisfy the needs of their workers. \u2014 Kara Dennison, Forbes , 27 May 2021",
"The different actors are engaged in an inclusive and participative process and important matters require community input. \u2014 Jeff Thomson, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
"Art Mavens is a participative platform created by art professionals for art professionals, as well as a global marketplace for arts professionals to find and offer work. \u2014 Jon Younger, Forbes , 13 May 2021",
"Lygia Pape, known for bold, participative performances and sculptures of iridescent gold filaments, appeared at the Met Breuer. \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 15 Feb. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This irony was not lost on scientists, which is why this phase is referred to as paradoxical sleep . \u2014 Aliza Kelly, Allure , 23 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But French universalism has become its own very specific particularism . \u2014 Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Just as King has been shorn of his political radicalism\u2014his democratic socialism, his anti-imperialism\u2014his religious particularism is too often ignored. \u2014 Matthew Sitman, The New Republic , 15 Apr. 2021",
"The task for our time is to preserve international stability while making a sustainable place for the domestic particularisms without which even the most rational of structures will collapse upon itself for want of popular legitimacy. \u2014 A. Wess Mitchell, National Review , 2 Apr. 2020",
"In the twenty-first century, examples of this modern particularism are rife. \u2014 Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books , 28 Jan. 2020",
"Her sense of humor has a rooted particularism , and her comic timing is sharp. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Nov. 2019",
"The AfD has exploited the power of eastern particularism . \u2014 The Economist , 31 Oct. 2019",
"But are particularism and universalism our only options",
"Over time, elision became neglect: Partial articulations of a world of peoples were conflated with the very toxic particularism they had been created to realistically combat. \u2014 Martin Peretz, WSJ , 8 May 2018"
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"parachute rigger":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003614"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an aphasia characterized by the incorrect naming of objects":[]
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"\u02ccpar\u0259\u02c8n\u014dm\u0113\u0259"
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"New Latin, irregular from para- entry 1 + Latin nomen name + New Latin -ia":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005105"
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"pargo":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": any of various snappers of the family Lutjanidae":[]
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r(\u02cc)g\u014d"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Spanish & Portuguese, from Latin pagarus sea bream, from Greek phagros , literally, whetstone; akin to Greek phoxos pointed, peaked, and perhaps to Armenian bark bitter, sharp-tasting":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005239"
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Jack Black\u2019s Double-Duty Face Moisturizer contains SPF 20 as well as sea parsley and blue algae extract to fight wrinkles while protecting skin from the sun. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"In a food processor, pulse together the celery leaves, parsley , chives, dill, anchovies, and garlic until finely chopped. \u2014 Colu Henry, Vogue , 26 May 2022",
"This starter kit comes with thyme, parsley , chives, cilantro and basil that claim to be organic and non-GMO. \u2014 Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
"Herbs such as mint, parsley , and basil grow easily on a balcony or windowsill. \u2014 Miriam Porter, House Beautiful , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Dill, tarragon, basil, parsley , sage, and thyme are all wonderful in this dish. \u2014 Lynne Sherwin, cleveland , 8 Apr. 2022",
"In a food processor, pur\u00e9e a generous handful of arugula with other fresh herbs (such as parsley , basil, chives, tarragon) with \u00bd cup each sour cream and mayonnaise. \u2014 Ian Knauer, WSJ , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Garnish with parsley and a few slices of Pickled Peppers. \u2014 Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 May 2022",
"Garnish each bowl with parsley , and serve with crusty bread for dipping. \u2014 Christine Byrne, Outside Online , 16 Jan. 2021"
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"Middle English persely , from Old English petersilie , from Vulgar Latin *petrosilium , alteration of Latin petroselinum , from Greek petroselinon , from petros stone + selinon celery":""
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": the correlation between two statistical variables under the condition that all other relevant variables are fixed":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-011211"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": the varicolored shell of the partridge shell \u2014 compare tun shell":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-011423"
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"noun"
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": an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises":[],
": a tenet contrary to received opinion":[]
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"\u02c8par-\u0259-\u02ccd\u00e4ks",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccd\u00e4ks"
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"contradiction",
"dichotomy",
"incongruity"
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"For the actors, the goal was a paradox : real emotion, produced on cue. \u2014 Claudia Roth Pierpont , New Yorker , 27 Oct. 2008",
"Again and again, he returns in his writing to the paradox of a woman who is superior to the men around her by virtue of social class though considered inferior to them on account of her gender. \u2014 Terry Eagleton , Harper's , November 2007",
"She was certainly far from understanding him completely; his meaning was not at all times obvious. It was hard to see what he meant for instance by speaking of his provincial side\u2014which was exactly the side she would have taken him most to lack. Was it a harmless paradox , intended to puzzle her",
"Mr. Guppy propounds for Mr. Smallweed's consideration the paradox that the more you drink the thirstier you are and reclines his head upon the window-sill in a state of hopeless languor. \u2014 Charles Dickens , Bleak House , 1852-53",
"It is a paradox that computers need maintenance so often, since they are meant to save people time.",
"As an actor, he's a paradox \u2014he loves being in the public eye but also deeply values and protects his privacy.",
"a novel full of paradox",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The project felt like a Zeno's paradox , inching tantalizingly closer, yet never quite complete. \u2014 Brendan Mcaleer, Car and Driver , 3 July 2022",
"Europe\u2019s energy strategy and the deluge of interest and investments for Africa present a paradox . \u2014 Ariel Cohen, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The new season, premiering June 22 on the streaming service, finds the Umbrella Academy facing off against the mysterious Sparrow Academy via a paradox that loops together multiple timelines. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 19 May 2022",
"Although Pritchard\u2019s queen appears simultaneously present and absent, this is neither a quantum paradox nor image manipulation. \u2014 Susana Martinez-conde, Scientific American , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But Stephen Hawking calculated that information is destroyed as a black hole evaporates \u2014 creating a paradox . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Middle-class refugees can seem like a paradox ; money and education are supposed to be bulwarks against such a fate. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
"That kind of captures the paradox and complexity of this industry. \u2014 Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
"The defining moment went viral: the cheekiness and unpredictability of the post showcased the paradox of pole dancing and the Ivy League. \u2014 Karin Eldor, Forbes , 15 June 2022"
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"Latin paradoxum , from Greek paradoxon , from neuter of paradoxos contrary to expectation, from para- + dokein to think, seem \u2014 more at decent":""
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"1540, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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"geographical name"
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"ancient country of southwestern Asia that was located in what is now northeastern Iran":[]
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-th\u0113-\u0259"
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"parquet circle":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the part of the main floor of a theater that is beneath the galleries":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012746"
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"partimento":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a musical exercise in contrapuntal improvisation of the 17th and 18th centuries, generally played or written on a figured bass":[]
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"\u02ccp\u00e4rt\u0259\u02c8men\u2027\u02cct\u014d"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, literally, division, from partire to divide, go away (from Latin partire, partiri to divide) + -mento -ment (from Latin -mentum )":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013300"
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"particate":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an old Scotch unit of land area equal to about \u00b9/\u2084 acre":[]
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rt\u0259\u02cck\u0101t"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin particata, perticata , from Latin pertica pole":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013435"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
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"\u2014 usually used in combination a 3- parted corolla"
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": dead":[]
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-t\u0259d"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Craig Conover and Naomie Olindo break up Conover and Olindo parted ways in September 2017. \u2014 Tamara Palmer, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"The school, under interim athletic director Josh Heird, parted ways with coach Chris Mack midseason. \u2014 Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal , 11 June 2022",
"Depp and his longtime partner Vanessa Paradis, who share two children, Lily-Rose and John Christopher, parted ways in 2012. \u2014 Marianne Garvey, CNN , 30 Apr. 2022",
"A couple of years later, Yes parted ways with founding drummer Bill Bruford. \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 26 May 2022",
"Depp and his longtime partner Vanessa Paradis, who share two children, Lily-Rose and John Christopher, parted ways in 2012. \u2014 Marianne Garvey, CNN , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Depp and his longtime partner Vanessa Paradis, who share two children, Lily-Rose and John Christopher, parted ways in 2012. \u2014 Marianne Garvey, CNN , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Depp and his longtime partner Vanessa Paradis, who share two children, Lily-Rose and John Christopher, parted ways in 2012. \u2014 Marianne Garvey, CNN , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Lee wanted an organization that was more akin to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the two parted ways. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013750"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": having veins arranged nearly parallel to one another \u2014 see venation illustration \u2014 compare net-veined":[]
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"-l\u0259l-",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02cclel-\u02c8v\u0101nd"
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"first_known_use":{
"1861, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014747"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
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"definitions":{
": one that begets or brings forth offspring":[
"just became parents of twins"
],
": a person who brings up and cares for another":[
"foster parents"
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": an animal or plant that is regarded in relation to its offspring":[
"The parent brings food to the chicks."
],
": the material or source from which something is derived":[
"Latin is the parent of several languages."
],
": a group from which another arises and to which it usually remains subsidiary":[
"a parent company"
],
": to be or act as the parent of : originate , produce":[],
": to be or act as a parent":[]
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"\u02c8per-\u0259nt",
"\u02c8par-\u0259nt, \u02c8per-"
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"Noun",
"My parents live in New York.",
"The form must be signed by a parent or guardian of the child.",
"The parent brings food to the chicks.",
"The new plant will have characteristics of both parent plants.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Our goal is to continue to have open, two-way dialogue with our parent community. \u2014 Hannah Grossman, Fox News , 30 June 2022",
"Describing a parent who takes the two preschoolers to the grocery store. \u2014 Pat Myers, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Shares in Fortum Oyj, Uniper\u2019s Finnish parent , also dropped around 10% on Thursday morning. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"Parents also are more comfortable voicing their concerns in parent -teacher conferences. \u2014 Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"Within seconds, the world is transformed forever, not into a paradise but into a collision of desires as varied as the humans who made them \u2014 from getting superpowers and seeing dinosaurs to having a parent come back to life and looking pretty. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 June 2022",
"Having Emma and becoming a parent was always a dream. \u2014 Joseph Altuzarra, Vogue , 29 June 2022",
"There are plenty of reasons to become a houseplant parent . \u2014 Kaitlin Madden, Good Housekeeping , 29 June 2022",
"Not all stakeholders are on board with expanding support in schools, which some say could burden educators and encroach on parent rights. \u2014 al , 29 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Calhoun was largely left alone to parent herself, her O\u2019Hara-like executive function juxtaposed against the adults\u2019 chaos and self-absorption. \u2014 Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"The first Black fathers on American soil in 1619 did not have the legal right to parent their children. \u2014 Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star , 17 June 2022",
"But authorities still focused more on Sorey and Montgomery\u2019s right to parent than on Harmony\u2019s needs, including her blindness in one eye, Mossaides told reporters. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"Reproductive justice is about the human right to parent your child. \u2014 Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Noah recently gained attention for commenting on Kanye West's treatment of Kim Kardashian, as the pair continue to co- parent their four children amid a very public divorce. \u2014 Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Jenny\u2019s out of town for work, so Nurse Joe must parent Christopher alone. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Oct. 2021",
"They were brought together to make each other better and to co- parent their two children. \u2014 Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Hader and Carey finalized their divorce in June 2018 and now co- parent their kids. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin parent-, parens \"father or mother, progenitor, ancestor,\" probably from an aorist participle of parere \"to give birth to, bring into being, produce\" \u2014 more at parturient entry 1":"Noun",
"derivative of parent entry 1":"Verb"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014921"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a sarsaparilla obtained from a Brazilian plant of the genus Smilax":[]
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"from Par\u00e1 , state and city in Brazil":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-015657"
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-021153"
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"parcenary":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": coparcenary sense 1":[]
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rs-\u1d4an-\u02ccer-\u0113",
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-s\u0259-\u02ccner-\u0113"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Anglo-French parcenerie , from parcener":""
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022138"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an individual produced by parthenogenesis":[]
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rth\u0259\u02ccn\u014dt"
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"parthen- + -ote (as in zygote )":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022431"
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"parking orbit":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an orbit of a spacecraft from which the spacecraft or another vehicle may be launched on a new trajectory":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1953, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025242"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a writer of paragraphs especially for the editorial page of a newspaper":[]
},
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"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccgra-f\u0259r"
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"first_known_use":{
"1784, in the meaning defined above":""
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"parti-mortgage certificate":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a certificate of ownership of a fractional equitable interest in a participating mortgage":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"parti-mortgage from parti- entry 2 + mortgage":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-030433"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": exhibiting parhomology":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6p\u00e4r",
"\u00a6p\u0227+"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"para- entry 1 + homologous":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031141"
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"Pareiasauridae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a widely distributed family of Permian terrestrial reptiles (order Cotylosauria) \u2014 see pareiasaurus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259\u02ccr\u012b\u0259\u02c8s\u022fr\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
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"New Latin, from Pareiasaurus , type genus + -idae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031414"
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"particle physics":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a branch of physics dealing with the constitution, properties, and interactions of elementary particles especially as revealed in experiments using particle accelerators":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Standard Model of particle physics is science\u2019s current best framework for the basic laws of the universe and describes three basic forces: the electromagnetic force, the weak force and the strong force. \u2014 John Conway, The Conversation , 14 Apr. 2022",
"In particle physics , data long outlives the detectors that generate it. \u2014 Daniel Garisto, Scientific American , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Those foundations are grounded by the Standard Model of particle physics , which is the best theory scientists have to describe the most basic building blocks of the universe, and what forces govern them. \u2014 CBS News , 8 Apr. 2022",
"This discovery goes against the Standard Model of particle physics , the framework scientists use to make sense of all observable matter. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The results could marry the standard model of particle physics and the theory of general relativity, bringing us full-circle: this is holographic duality. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 7 Mar. 2022",
"In June, the Energy Department awarded more than $2.85 million aimed at nuclear and particle physics research trainee programs for students at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions. \u2014 Meg Kinnard, ajc , 17 Feb. 2022",
"In the late 1920s physicists began to develop a powerful mathematical framework known as quantum field theory that remains the language of particle physics to this day. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Legos are a beloved staple of educational science activities and have even proved useful in particle physics experiments at CERN to explore the properties of hadrons. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 16 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031601"
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"paradoxial":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": paradoxical":[]
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"-ksh\u0259l"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031636"
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"parotid gland":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a serous salivary gland situated on each side of the face below and in front of the ear":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Mumps symptoms include discomfort and swelling of the salivary glands in the front of the neck or the parotid glands in front of the ears. \u2014 Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 July 2019",
"Grunewald had surgery for the first time in her life, in which doctors removed the tumor in her parotid gland . \u2014 Samantha Bresnahan, CNN , 14 Mar. 2018",
"Mumps can cause serious complications Mumps is a viral illness that affects the saliva-producing glands (called the parotid glands ) in the face and neck. \u2014 Amanda Macmillan, Health.com , 7 Mar. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1759, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-032117"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{},
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"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccsa\u014b"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin parasanga , from Greek parasang\u0113s , of Iranian origin; akin to Persian farsung parasang":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1594, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-032913"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": apparent or imitative homology especially between metameres":[]
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"\"+"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary para- entry 1 + homology":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-033536"
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"parade ground(s)":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"The scientific name for asexual reproduction is parthenogenesis . \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"It\u2019s the first report of asexual reproduction in California condors, although parthenogenesis can occur in other species ranging from sharks to honey bees to Komodo dragons. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Oct. 2021",
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"Bufo hunters catch the toads at night using flashlights\u2014the toads freeze when confronted by a bright light\u2014then milk the venom from the toad\u2019s parotid glands, typically holding a mirror up to catch the spray. \u2014 Alex Kuczynski, Town & Country , 20 Jan. 2022",
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"The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet . \u2014 Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet . \u2014 Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Feb. 2022",
"At first there wasn\u2019t much to see \u2014 just a hunched, gray form perched on the parapet , Batman-style, or a crossbow silhouette spiraling high above. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet . \u2014 Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet . \u2014 Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Video footage showed the lawyer falling over a low concrete parapet at the back of the platform at the Judiciary Square station at about 1:15 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2013, landing in a trench-like pit eight feet below. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Feb. 2022",
"The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet . \u2014 Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Feb. 2022"
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"That works, about as long as your particleboard stays in good shape. \u2014 Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine , 18 Nov. 2020",
"Made of water-resistant laminated particleboard , each base features a black marble-look finish and can hold about 4 pounds. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 18 Aug. 2020",
"The Eugene facility opened in 1962 as a particleboard mill, according to the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, and became a fiberboard mill in 1995. \u2014 Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 11 Feb. 2020",
"Formaldehyde, a carcinogen, until recently was a common component of wood products from laminate flooring to particleboard tables, especially those imported from China. \u2014 Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic , 14 Jan. 2020",
"That\u2019s living green. Cheaply made plastic or particleboard furniture (fast furniture) is likely to end up in a dump before long. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Jan. 2020",
"To reduce shipping costs, companies like IKEA have pioneered the use of lightweight materials like particleboard \u2014a filler material that is to the woodworking industry what pink slime is to the meat industry. \u2014 Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic , 14 Jan. 2020",
"The glue is in the drawer front\u2019s inner core, which is probably a type of particleboard , with veneers of solid wood on the front and back. \u2014 Jeanne Huber, Washington Post , 22 July 2019"
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"For vertebrates, asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis , is rare but hardly novel. \u2014 Jason Hanna And Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 30 Oct. 2021",
"For parthenogenesis to happen, a chain of cellular events must successfully unfold. \u2014 Mercedes Burns, CNN , 27 Dec. 2021",
"For most animals, broods resulting from parthenogenesis are entirely female. \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"The scientific name for asexual reproduction is parthenogenesis . \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"It\u2019s the first report of asexual reproduction in California condors, although parthenogenesis can occur in other species ranging from sharks to honey bees to Komodo dragons. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Theoretically speaking, parthenogenesis is not out of the question for humans. \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
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"The entire book is good, but the best part is the ending.",
"I don't remember him saying that. I must have missed that part .",
"The mechanic had to order the part from the manufacturer.",
"The parts of a radio include the speaker, dials, and antenna.",
"Do you have any spare parts for this model of car",
"the moving parts of the machine",
"parts of the human body",
"My favorite part of the chicken is the drumstick.",
"a diagram labeling the different parts of the flower",
"Come join us and be part of a winning team.",
"Verb",
"The crowd parted to let the president through.",
"The rain stopped and the clouds parted .",
"The big red curtains parted to reveal a new car!",
"The Bible tells the story of how God parted the Red Sea.",
"She closed her eyes and parted her lips.",
"She parts her hair on the side.",
"His dark hair was parted down the middle.",
"The two lovers parted at dawn.",
"Tomorrow we shall part and, I fear, never see each other again.",
"She couldn't bear the thought of parting from her family.",
"Adverb",
"The story is part science and part fiction.",
"The Chimera is a monster in Greek mythology that is part lion, part goat, and part serpent.",
"Adjective",
"The claim is a part truth\u2014there is more to the story than they are telling you.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"About 2,400 managers are expected to take part in the strike July 20-22, according to the group. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 July 2022",
"My husband grew up in a family that took part in all of this, so not participating is not an option. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 5 July 2022",
"My husband grew up in a family that took part in all of this, so not participating is not an option. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 5 July 2022",
"My husband grew up in a family that took part in all of this, so not participating is not an option. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 5 July 2022",
"World Games 2022 will feature 3,600 athletes taking part in events at 24 venues in the metro area through July 17. \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 4 July 2022",
"Mohamed Diam\u00e9, who made 31 appearances for Senegal and played for West Ham and Newcastle in the English Premier League, former Mali and Paris Saint-Germain defender Sammy Traor\u00e9 and Senegal manager Aliou Ciss\u00e9 all took part . \u2014 The Christian Science Monitor , 4 July 2022",
"Although there are always loads of activities to take part in, a good ol\u2019 4th of July party is always a nice go-to for spending time with friends and family. \u2014 Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping , 4 July 2022",
"That\u2019s when dignitaries such as Rep. Mike Levin, D-San Juan Capistrano, Mayor Esther Sanchez and other City Council and local school board members are scheduled to take part . \u2014 Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"After saving a wartorn planet, Thor and the Guardians decide to part ways. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 5 July 2022",
"Despite being ordered by their parents not to see each other again, Calliope and Juliette \u2014 in the style of Romeo and Juliet \u2014 are unable to part ways. \u2014 Max Gao, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
"But over the weekend, a wide range of offerings convinced people to part with their TV remotes. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 27 June 2022",
"In January, Louisville reached a separation agreement to part ways with head coach Chris Mack. \u2014 Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal , 3 June 2022",
"The team\u2019s willingness to part with some of the money, though, removed what the federation and the players alike had long agreed was the one seemingly insurmountable obstacle to a deal. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"Consider this a sign to finally part ways with your uncomfortable sandals and upgrade to the Plaka Relief Flip Flops. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 7 May 2022",
"In the same year Disney was looking to part ways with the Angels, the team put up its most memorable season, defeating the Giants in the 2002 World Series. \u2014 Elvia Lim\u00f3n, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
"That lack of March success was a driving force in the program\u2019s decision to part ways with Smart after six seasons and hire Beard away from Texas Tech. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Fran\u00e7ois Girard\u2019s take \u2014 part mysterious, part mystifying \u2014 on Wagner\u2019s last opera is one of the Met\u2019s most interesting productions of the last decade or so, and returns for the first time since its premiere in 2013. \u2014 David Allen, New York Times , 1 Feb. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Brian Galvin, who serves as Chief Academic Officer for Varsity Tutors, says that students who want to avoid or minimize debt should treat their scholarship search like a part -time job. \u2014 Robert Farrington, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Mangan, who is a licensed EMT paramedic in Massachusetts, worked part -time as an EMT for an ambulance service company. \u2014 Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"The city hopes to create one part -time job, according to its records. \u2014 Anita Lee, ProPublica , 24 June 2022",
"However, there is a small possibility that a new job would work out for my husband, which would give me the opportunity to not return from leave and instead pursue a part -time opportunity. \u2014 Roxane Gay, New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"With no other family, her part -time job as a cashier was her main source of human interactions, and these weren\u2019t satisfying. \u2014 T. Salewa Oseni, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"The festivals surveyed, on average, boasted 8.2 full-time employees, 3.1 part -time employees, 10.4 seasonal employees and 7.9 independent contractors, with about 1.4 positions currently open. \u2014 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"White began his career of more than two decades in 1985, working with Andre the Giant on a part -time basis. \u2014 Steve Gardner, USA TODAY , 20 June 2022",
"Flandro, who was working part -time at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., had been tasked with finding the most efficient way to send a space probe to Jupiter or perhaps even out to Saturn, Uranus or Neptune. \u2014 Tim Folger, Scientific American , 18 June 2022"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French & Old English, both from Latin part-, pars ; perhaps akin to Latin parare to prepare \u2014 more at pare":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Anglo-French partir , from Latin partire to divide, from part-, pars":"Verb"
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"noun"
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": partial or complete excision of the parathyroid glands":[]
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"-\u02ccr\u022fid-\u02c8ek-t\u0259-m\u0113",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02ccth\u012b-\u02ccr\u022fi-\u02c8dek-t\u0259-m\u0113"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The left-hander\u2019s season began with a parathyroidectomy during spring training to alleviate hyperparathyroidism. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 15 May 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1899, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"\u02ccp\u00e4r-th\u0259-n\u014d-\u02c8je-n\u0259-s\u0259s",
"\u02ccp\u00e4r-th\u0259-n\u014d-\u02c8jen-\u0259-s\u0259s"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Prior research to force mammals to reproduce via parthenogenesis have failed because of genomic imprinting, per a statement. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 14 Mar. 2022",
"For vertebrates, asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis , is rare but hardly novel. \u2014 Jason Hanna And Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 30 Oct. 2021",
"For parthenogenesis to happen, a chain of cellular events must successfully unfold. \u2014 Mercedes Burns, CNN , 27 Dec. 2021",
"For most animals, broods resulting from parthenogenesis are entirely female. \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"The scientific name for asexual reproduction is parthenogenesis . \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"It\u2019s the first report of asexual reproduction in California condors, although parthenogenesis can occur in other species ranging from sharks to honey bees to Komodo dragons. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Theoretically speaking, parthenogenesis is not out of the question for humans. \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Nevertheless, Ryder said the discovery raised the question of whether parthenogenesis occurred because the condor population had dwindled to such low numbers. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Nov. 2021"
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"New Latin, from Greek parthenos + Latin genesis genesis":""
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"definitions":{
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"noun"
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"noun"
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"\u02c8p\u00e4rv\u0259"
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": a chronic progressive neurological disease chiefly of later life that is linked to decreased dopamine production in the substantia nigra and is marked especially by tremor of resting muscles, rigidity, slowness of movement, impaired balance, and a shuffling gait":[]
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"James Parkinson \u20201824 English physician":""
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"noun"
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": a large family of passerine birds (suborder Oscines) consisting of the titmice, chickadees, and tits":[]
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"noun"
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": any of several paramyxoviruses (genera Respirovirus and Rubulavirus ) that are a frequent cause of infections (such as croup) of the lower respiratory tract especially in infants and children":[]
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"\u02c8par-\u0259-\u02ccin-fl\u00fc-\u02ccen-z\u0259-"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And that will be the same whether the virus being kept at bay is Covid-19, or RSV, or rhinovirus or parainfluenza virus . \u2014 Maggie Fox, CNN , 26 Aug. 2021",
"Croup is usually caused by a viral infection, like parainfluenza virus , which can also cause laryngitis in adults, Gina Posner, M.D., a pediatrician at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, Calif., tells SELF. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 16 Oct. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1959, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082237"
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"parameterize":{
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"noun",
"verb"
],
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"p\u0259-\u02c8ra-m\u0259-t\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz",
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"first_known_use":{
"1935, in the meaning defined above":""
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"adjective",
"noun"
],
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-v\u0259-\u02ccn\u00fc"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from parvenue , feminine of parvenum , past participle":""
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"1826, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083923"
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"adjective"
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"a partite leaf"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The global interest in mitigating and adapting, to power humankind with the knowledge of what is in store, has grown manifold in the recent decades, with several multi- partite international agreements looking to lower emissions. \u2014 Sulagna Chattopadhyay, Quartz , 15 Dec. 2021",
"The principal one as noted is the fiduciary duty one whereby PBCs need to engage in a tri- partite balancing of the interests of the shareholders, the public benefit mission in the charter and the stakeholders most impacted by that public mission. \u2014 Christopher Marquis, Forbes , 14 June 2021"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin partitus , from past participle of partire":""
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"circa 1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-085331"
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"noun"
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"noun"
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"-s\u0259-\u02c8t\u014d-s\u0259s",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-s\u0259-\u02c8t\u014d-s\u0259s",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"-\u02ccs\u012bt-\u02c8\u014d-",
"-\u02ccs\u012b-"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The misguided belief that one\u2019s body is being overrun by worms also has a name: delusional parasitosis . \u2014 NBC News , 14 Nov. 2019",
"Still others may work with people who suffer from delusions involving the skin \u2014 like delusional parasitosis , in which patients vehemently insist that their skin is infected with mites or fleas or other organisms, when in reality none are present. \u2014 Melissa Dahl, The Cut , 21 Aug. 2017"
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"circa 1899, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"\u2014 Emily Eden"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"During a typical experiment in the particle accelerator , twin beams of protons travel at close to the speed of light in opposite directions through the collider. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Heat things up\u2014in a big bang or particle accelerator \u2014and massive force-carriers might become massless. \u2014 Andrew Crumey, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"Luminaries of the particle physics community are haunted by the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider, a multibillion-dollar particle accelerator , in the early 1990s. \u2014 Thomas Lewton, Scientific American , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The Large Hadron Collider, Earth's most powerful particle accelerator , was restarted on Friday morning after a three-year hiatus for upgrades. \u2014 Sara Spary, CNN , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The world\u2019s largest, most powerful particle accelerator is revving up to resume scientific research after work on a series of upgrades and the Covid-19 pandemic led to a roughly three-year shutdown. \u2014 Aylin Woodward And Janet Babin, WSJ , 9 Apr. 2022",
"In October 1993, President Bill Clinton signed a bill killing the Superconducting Super Collider, which would have been the world\u2019s most powerful particle accelerator . \u2014 Richard Panek, Scientific American , 25 Dec. 2021",
"The catch is that no particle accelerator to date, including the LHC, has yet uncovered any hint of SUSY particles in the data. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 7 Apr. 2022",
"No large-scale particle accelerator or particle collider is needed, Vopson says. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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"\u2014 David Jones",
"The fungus is an obligate parasite , that is, it must have a living host (tobacco) on which to grow and complete its life cycle.",
"\u2014 G. B. Lucas",
"The blood schizogonic cycle of human malaria parasites has thus far been the most exhaustively studied phase of parasite development.",
"\u2014 Dominique Mazier et al.",
"Sadly, the vireo is vulnerable to a nest parasite , the brown-headed cowbird \u2026 . The cowbird lays its much-larger eggs in the vireo's nest, which hatch first and place such a high food demand on its tiny \"parents\" that the vireo young go unfed.",
"\u2014 Karen D. Fishler",
"Unlike bacteria or viruses, parasites undergo a metamorphosis during their life cycles that presents the human immune system with a moving target.",
"\u2014 Lawrence M. Fisher",
"Like all viruses, the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) is an intracellular parasite : the virus particle itself is inert and cannot propagate or do any damage until it enters a host cell.",
"\u2014 Jonathan N. Weber and Robin A. Weiss",
"Salmonella species are intracellular parasites , and it is thought that these bacteria gain access to their host by penetrating through intestinal epithelial cells.",
"\u2014 B. Brett Finlay et al."
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"Now the death of its host is certainly a setback to any parasite . To some (like the tapeworm) it is fatal; but smarter ones (like the louse) simply go off in search of a new host.",
"\u2014 David Jones",
"The fungus is an obligate parasite , that is, it must have a living host (tobacco) on which to grow and complete its life cycle.",
"\u2014 G. B. Lucas",
"The blood schizogonic cycle of human malaria parasites has thus far been the most exhaustively studied phase of parasite development.",
"\u2014 Dominique Mazier et al.",
"Sadly, the vireo is vulnerable to a nest parasite , the brown-headed cowbird \u2026 . The cowbird lays its much-larger eggs in the vireo's nest, which hatch first and place such a high food demand on its tiny \"parents\" that the vireo young go unfed.",
"\u2014 Karen D. Fishler",
"Unlike bacteria or viruses, parasites undergo a metamorphosis during their life cycles that presents the human immune system with a moving target.",
"\u2014 Lawrence M. Fisher",
"Like all viruses, the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) is an intracellular parasite : the virus particle itself is inert and cannot propagate or do any damage until it enters a host cell.",
"\u2014 Jonathan N. Weber and Robin A. Weiss",
"Salmonella species are intracellular parasites , and it is thought that these bacteria gain access to their host by penetrating through intestinal epithelial cells.",
"\u2014 B. Brett Finlay et al."
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"But the frequent and familiar companions of the great, are those parasites , who practise the most useful of all arts, the art of flattery \u2026",
"\u2014 Edward Gibbon",
"Their lyrics \u2026 convey a bilious contempt for the city's wealthy parasites \u2026",
"\u2014 Philip Montoro",
"In their view, the country is afflicted with a class of parasites \u2014\"Career politicians,\" who devote their lives to perpetuating themselves in office by spending the people's money.",
"\u2014 Hendrick Hertzberg",
"Regulatory agencies have stripped Holyfield of his boxing license now, protecting him from his pride and from the parasites who can still squeeze money out of the faded neon in his name.",
"\u2014 Dan Le Batard"
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"She's a parasite who only stays with him for the money.",
"These new companies are parasites feeding off the success of those who spent the last decade establishing the industry.",
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"Another focus was on some relatively new food borne illnesses caused by a virus and an unusual parasite called Cyclospora cayetanesis. \u2014 Steven Savage, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"The silver lining, again, is that this talented parasite has not made its way into Georgia\u2019s state lines. \u2014 Hunter Boyce, ajc , 9 June 2022",
"That could be a sign of an atypical infection (such as from a parasite ), depending on your activities while traveling. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"As science journalist Rachel Nuwer writes, as many as 40 to 50 percent of all animal species are parasites, and almost every other species has at least one parasite that has evolved to parasitize it. \u2014 Laura Helmuth, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"So in 2017, when Reclamation was looking to launch a project to find a naturally occurring lethal parasite , the agency reached out to him with a proposal. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Four of these dogs tested positive for Giardia, a parasite that is spread through contact with contaminated feces or soil, according to the Centers for Disease Control. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Apr. 2022",
"But the raging population of crazy ants may have finally met their match: a deadly fungal parasite . \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 Apr. 2022",
"As a young curator, Kurant dreamed up experimental projects: an exhibition inside a film, an exhibition as parasite that would take over its host museum. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Nov. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ordinarily, sussing out the who-knows-what-and-when of damaging revelations is a Beltway parlor game . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Some readers \u2014 especially the few who have read the authors\u2019 other work closely enough to recognize their voices \u2014 will experience this challenge as a two-fer: a parlor game within a sizzling assemblage of top-notch literary fiction. \u2014 Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Trying to read between the lines of CEO departure statements is a longstanding parlor game for investors, journalists and academics who study succession, and this time is no different. \u2014 Jena Mcgregor, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"More than an endless parlor game for amateur philosophers, this debate is central to the forthcoming Artificial Intelligence Regulation for the 447 million citizens of the European Union. \u2014 Joanna J. Bryson, Wired , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Guessing the identity of the unnamed author became a parlor game that extended well beyond Washington. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Feb. 2022",
"It\u2019s a common parlor game to bemoan our perilous state of local media in the States. \u2014 Howard Homonoff, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Playing fantasy politics -- candidates swapping offices to create new openings -- is a favorite parlor game of Washington's permanent political class. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 26 Jan. 2022",
"For the next few days, expect the new Washington parlor game to be identifying the Democratic Party operative who was allegedly a source for Igor Danchenko\u2019s dossier claims. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 4 Nov. 2021"
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"Not a single Democratic candidate has expressed reservations about abortions, and a number of them have fought proposed restrictions on partial-birth abortions . \u2014 Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News , 5 July 2019",
"More than policy shapes senators\u2019 confirmation votes Collins was one of only three Republican senators who voted against the ban on partial-birth abortions , a 2003 law that prohibited certain late-term abortions. \u2014 Michele L. Swers, Washington Post , 6 July 2018"
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"This is just a paraphrase of what he said, not an exact quote.",
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"I'm paraphrasing , but he did say something like that.",
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"That\u2019s a paraphrase of a Jeff Goldblum line from the original Jurassic Park, as his Malcolm lectures Sir Richard Attenborough\u2019s John Hammond on the ethics of spawning dinosaurs in a modern world. \u2014 Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"Goldman\u2019s three-word distillation turned out to be perhaps the greatest paraphrase in Hollywood history. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"The third section is a paraphrase of archaeologist Howard Carter describing his experience in 1922 of peering through an opening to discover King Tut\u2019s tomb. \u2014 A.j. Jacobs, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2022",
"That's a paraphrase of a line usually attributed to military strategist Sun-Tzu. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 1 Mar. 2022",
"In paraphrase , analysts at the firm reasoned that neither Covid-19, nor the ruinous 9.9% contraction experienced by the United Kingdom, were necessarily the actual problem. \u2014 Will Nicoll, Forbes , 22 Jan. 2022",
"To share another paraphrase of Marous, data and how it is used creates the foundation of a strong financial relationship in today\u2019s world. \u2014 Monica Hovsepian, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"If, as Flannery O\u2019Connor once said, a good story resists paraphrase , then The Chair is well on its way to earning such a distinction. \u2014 Roxanne Fequiere, Vulture , 1 Sep. 2021",
"That heading is a paraphrase of something Gertrude Stein said about the difference between poetry and prose. \u2014 New York Times , 15 July 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There are those who take photos and those who make photos, to paraphrase the legendary photographer Ansel Adams. \u2014 CNN , 7 June 2022",
"To paraphrase Katy Waldman\u2019s critique of self-awareness in contemporary fiction, awareness doesn\u2019t equal atonement. \u2014 Ben Sandman, The New Republic , 26 Apr. 2022",
"To paraphrase JP Morgan banker Jamie Dimon\u2019s advice to investors and analysts this week, everything looks pretty good except the possibility that something really bad could happen. \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 15 Apr. 2022",
"To paraphrase Han Solo cruising in the Millennium Falcon, never tell Wisconsin Lutheran jumper and two-time state triple jump champion Jaiah Hopf the odds. \u2014 Michael Whitlow, Journal Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
"To paraphrase the late Senator Everett Dirksen, that could add up to a lot of money. \u2014 Martin F. Shapiro And Sidney M. Wolfe, STAT , 24 May 2022",
"To paraphrase Shakespeare, this is the summer of new-car shoppers\u2019 discontent. \u2014 Jim Gorzelany, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"And to paraphrase a quote, mycelium is a way of life that challenges the animal imagination, and that's because mycelium has no central organization. \u2014 Extra Spicy Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 May 2022",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162440"
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"particular tenant":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a tenant holding a particular estate":[]
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162550"
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"parti":{
"type":[
"combining form",
"noun"
],
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": match entry 1 sense 4b":[
"the Englishman whom she naively assumes to be an excellent parti",
"\u2014 Times Literary Supplement"
],
": a good or desirable match":[
"you don't realize what a parti he is",
"\u2014 Mary Manning"
],
": the basic general scheme of an architectural design":[],
": various : variegated":[
"parti -striped"
],
": part":[
"parti -mortgage"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)p\u00e4r\u00a6t\u0113",
"\""
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Middle French, match, party, decision, from parti , past participle of partir to divide, go away":"Noun",
"French, from Middle French, match, party, decision":"Noun",
"obsolete English party , adjective, parti-colored, from Middle English party, parti , from Middle French parti striped, party per pale, from Old French, from parti , past participle of partir to divide, go away":"Combining form",
"Latin, from part-, pars":"Combining form"
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-163720"
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"parachute spinnaker":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an exceptionally large spinnaker used especially on racing yachts":[]
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-163948"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": excreting pigment that is insoluble in water and does not diffuse away from a cell wall or capsule \u2014 compare chromoparous , chromophorous":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
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"examples":[],
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"para- entry 1 + chromophorous":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-164934"
},
"parasitology":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a branch of biology dealing with parasites and parasitism especially among animals":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccs\u012b-",
"-\u02ccs\u012bt-\u02c8\u00e4l-",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-s\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113",
"\u02ccpar-\u0259-s\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4l-\u0259-j\u0113"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Adler Dillman, chief researcher and an associate professor of parasitology at UCR, was initially contacted by a wholesale tarantula breeder in September 2019, who told him that several tarantulas had died with white masses around their mouths. \u2014 Jeevan Ravindran, CNN , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Their endowment will support a medical school professor who will also hold a joint appointment in another school or unit and will focus on areas such as public health, immunology, parasitology or anthropology, the university said. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 28 June 2016",
"Manning ran samples from the patient through a genetic sequencer, a device that reads the letters that make up an organism's genome; the sequencer was a recent addition to her lab at the Cambodian government's parasitology department in Phnom Penh. \u2014 Amos Zeeberg New York Times, Star Tribune , 4 Mar. 2021",
"Though the field of deep-sea parasitology is small, its defenders are passionate. \u2014 Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic , 16 Feb. 2021",
"Mackenzie Kwak, professor of parasitology at the National University of Singapore, is a big proponent of the beneficial uses of parasites and the need to protect them. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 13 Aug. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin parasitus + International Scientific Vocabulary -logy":""
},
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"1870, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171918"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a relation existing between various insect larvae and their hosts in which the larva feeds upon the living host tissues in an orderly sequence such that the host is not killed until the larval development is complete":[]
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"pronunciation at 1 parasitoid +\u02cciz\u0259m"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172445"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, being, or characteristic of a force formed on a military pattern especially as a potential auxiliary military force":[
"a paramilitary border patrol",
"paramilitary training"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8mi-l\u0259-\u02ccter-\u0113",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Government forces have been attacked by heavily armed paramilitary groups in several villages.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Two paramilitary soldiers stand guard at the entrance of Press Colony in the city. \u2014 Nusrat Sidiq, NBC News , 26 June 2022",
"Like Ukrainian forces who rely on a medley of different units to wage war, the Russians have committed Chechen forces and Wagner paramilitary units alongside the separatists and other uniformed troops. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"In 2020, the paramilitary Assam Rifles have posted women along India\u2019s contentious Line of Control with Pakistan. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 21 June 2022",
"The foreigners, according to diplomats, officials and human rights groups, belonged to the Russian paramilitary group known as Wagner. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine shared a video on Saturday of Ukrainian forces, including members of the Azov Battalion, a far-right paramilitary group with distinct insignia on their arms, retaking Vilkhivka, a village neighboring Kharkiv. \u2014 Joyce Sohyun Lee, Jon Swaine And Miriam Berger, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Rhodes, 56, of Granbury Texas, was charged with 10 other members of the paramilitary group in the alleged attempt to overthrow the government. \u2014 Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022",
"On the predominantly Protestant side of the city, on Bonds Street, a Technicolor depiction of a Black woman by south London artist Mr Cenz pops out among the surrounding murals of loyalist paramilitary leaders. \u2014 James Hookway, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"Whites took back control, often through violent coups led by white supremacist paramilitary organizations. \u2014 Kermit Roosevelt Iii, Time , 16 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1935, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172823"
},
"Parapaguridae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of crustaceans (suborder Macrura) comprising typical hermit crabs \u2014 compare paguridae":[]
},
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"\u00a6par\u0259+"
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from para- entry 1 + Paguridae":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173048"
},
"partial cleavage":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": embryonic cleavage in which the division into blastomeres involves only a part of the egg with the rest remaining undivided for a longer or shorter time":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173620"
},
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"type":[
"combining form"
],
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": small":[
"parv animity",
"parvi folious",
"Parvo bacteriaceae"
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"Latin parv-, parvi- , from parvus ; akin to Greek pauros small, slight":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174758"
},
"parka":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a hooded fur pullover garment for arctic wear":[],
": a usually lined fabric outerwear pullover or jacket":[]
},
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"\u02c8p\u00e4r-k\u0259"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At a tower near the garage, by a sedan pancaked by a chunk of facade, a man huddled in a hooded sweatshirt and a red parka , smoking a cigarette. \u2014 James Verini, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"Jeff pulled his head and hands inside his parka to send and receive text messages, using a satellite device, with race marshal Mark Nordman. \u2014 Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Welstead typically is at the scene well before students begin arriving, and during cold weather can be seen waiting in either his green SUV or his red Cadillac, before emerging in his parka and neon yellow vest ready to begin his shift. \u2014 Karen Ann Cullotta, chicagotribune.com , 25 Mar. 2022",
"For Gomez\u2019s Coney Island scene, her winter parka , long black scarf, and gray beanie render the pairing decidedly more casual. \u2014 ELLE , 7 Mar. 2022",
"My son immediately tore off his down parka , kicked off his winter boots, and began running up and down our block of Garber Street in his shirtsleeves, hands spread like wings, celebrating the golden climate of California. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Maybe wear a parka , but with only a T-shirt underneath",
"The jacket has a trim cut and a bulk-defying design that engenders cozy, parka -like characteristics. \u2014 Adam Chase, Outside Online , 17 Nov. 2020",
"The bearded young Orthodox priest was bundled in a parka . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Aleut, from Russian dialect, ultimately from Nenets (Samoyedic language of northern Russia)":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1625, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-175606"
},
"parking lot":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an area used for the parking of motor vehicles":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The city will also have live music and food trucks in the Jenks Junior High School parking lot . \u2014 Dan Mcgowan, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"Officials said that a school district police drove past Ramos without seeing him in the school parking lot . \u2014 CBS News , 20 June 2022",
"Khosroabadi, 33, was taken into custody by Los Angeles police about 12 hours after the CHP officer was shot multiple times during a traffic stop in the Campbell Hall Episcopal School parking lot shortly before 8 p.m. Monday. \u2014 Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"The US Marshals announced the arrest of three men in connection with the death of 17-year-old Ethan Liming at an Akron school parking lot on June 2. \u2014 Fox News , 12 June 2022",
"But the birds have gotten used to being around people and everything that goes with them, and can have babies in high traffic areas like the one near the high school parking lot . \u2014 Bill Jones, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"The group of teens pulled into the school parking lot and drove directly at the basketball court. \u2014 Kaylee Remington, cleveland , 8 June 2022",
"The shooting suspect reaches the last row of cars in the school parking lot and shooting begins outside of the school. \u2014 Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"The next minute, the gunman reached the last row of vehicles in the school parking lot and began shooting into at least three classrooms, just as law enforcement vehicles arrived at the funeral home. \u2014 Grace Hauck, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1924, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180029"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": to ward off a weapon or blow":[
"parried forcefully and knocked his opponent's sword out of his hand"
],
": to evade or turn aside something":[
"can parry and thrust \u2026 without losing the thread of his argument",
"\u2014 Stewart Cockburn"
],
": to ward off (something, such as a blow)":[
"parried the thrust of his opponent's sword"
],
": to evade especially by an adroit answer":[
"parried the question"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8per-\u0113",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0113"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"He parried the thrust of his opponent's sword.",
"He parried and then threw a punch.",
"She cleverly parried the reporters' questions.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"First up: parry the pawns to knock their little heads off. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 30 June 2022",
"The scherzo is an essay in syncopation and section work; strings and winds parry through fleeting arpeggios and transitions in and out of the lilting trio test an orchestra\u2019s ability with unison ritardandi. \u2014 Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"His comments came as the president and his aides are struggling to parry Republican attacks linking his economic agenda to rising inflation, including higher gasoline prices, which are helping to drive down his approval ratings. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Clark had to deny Paulo\u2019s power again in the 61st minute, lunging to parry away a similar blast. \u2014 Caitlin Murray, oregonlive , 29 Aug. 2021",
"Its answer to the challenge was both predictable and fresh, using its titular format to parry with its rivals\u2019 familiar bun-patty-pickles offerings. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Sep. 2021",
"Timbers goalkeeper Steve Clark was called upon to make his first big save at the tail end of the first half when Tim Parker fired from the far corner inside the box, but Clark did well to track it through traffic and parry it away. \u2014 Caitlin Murray, oregonlive , 3 Sep. 2021",
"His opponents, put simply, didn\u2019t know how to parry . \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 28 June 2021",
"The win also helped the Stars parry a pair of boogeymen: overtimes and the Hurricanes. \u2014 Matthew Defranks, Dallas News , 26 Apr. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French parer \"to ward off, avert\" (perhaps directly from the plural imperative parez ), going back to Middle French, probably borrowed from Italian parare \"to prepare, adorn, avert, shield, keep out,\" going back to Latin par\u0101re \"to supply, provide, make ready\" \u2014 more at pare":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1671, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180129"
},
"Park":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": an enclosed piece of ground stocked with game and held by royal prescription or grant":[],
": a tract of land that often includes lawns, woodland, and pasture attached to a country house and is used as a game preserve and for recreation":[],
": a piece of ground in or near a city or town kept for ornament and recreation":[],
": an area maintained in its natural state as a public property":[],
": a space occupied by military vehicles, materials, or animals":[],
": parking lot":[],
": an enclosed arena or stadium used especially for ball games":[],
": an area designed for a specified type of use (such as industrial, commercial, or residential use)":[
"amusement parks"
],
": over the fence for a home run":[
"swung at a fastball and hit/knocked it out of the park",
"\u2014 often used figuratively",
"You're about to start a race or step onstage, and you want to knock it out of the park . [=to excel; to perform extremely well]",
"\u2014 Jeanine Detz",
"Pepi is doing a great job lately making inexpensive white wines, and with this Sauvignon Blanc, the winery really knocks it out of the park .",
"\u2014 Steve Heimoff"
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"Mungo 1771\u20131806 Scottish explorer":[],
": to enclose in a park":[],
": to bring (a vehicle) to a stop and keep standing at the edge of a public way":[],
": to leave temporarily on a public way or in a parking lot or garage":[],
": to land and leave (an aircraft) in an assigned or accessible location":[],
": to establish (something, such as a satellite) in orbit":[],
": to set and leave temporarily":[
"parked his book on the chair"
],
": to place, settle, or establish especially for a considerable time":[
"kids parked in front of the TV"
],
": to park a vehicle":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4rk"
],
"synonyms":[
"demesne",
"ground",
"premises",
"premisses",
"yard"
],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We went for a walk in the park .",
"New York City's Central Park .",
"The nation's parks are a popular destination for tourists.",
"He hit the ball out of the park .",
"a rugby game in Eden Park",
"Verb",
"I couldn't find anywhere to park .",
"I parked on the street.",
"I parked the car on the street.",
"Cars are only allowed to park on the right side of this street.",
"The bus parked behind the museum.",
"Park your bags in the hallway.",
"She parked the money in a savings account and forgot about it for several years.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Bison are huge animals that can weigh up to 2,000 pounds and run up to 30 miles per hour, according to the park . \u2014 al , 29 June 2022",
"The woman had puncture wound and other injuries, according to the park . \u2014 Claire Cardona, NBC News , 29 June 2022",
"The draconian response is likely to be repeated should a positive result be traced to the park again. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
"Larry Langford, chief spokesman for the Fire Department, said the agency initiated an EMS Plan 1 \u2014 which automatically sends at least five ambulances to a scene, in this case to the park near Irving Park Road at Cumberland Avenue \u2014 at 6:55 p.m. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Select a spot along US 60 or bring a blanket/chair to the park . \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 27 June 2022",
"Vendors hawking chicken on a stick and other San Antonio delicacies were on hand to sate appetites of those who couldn\u2019t wait until they were admitted to the park . \u2014 Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News , 25 June 2022",
"Access to the park is $30 for vehicles and $15 per person, according to NPS.gov. \u2014 Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Local dancers, youth groups, cheerleaders, high school athletes, classic cars and the Footwork roller skating dancers entertained residents down South Hawkins Avenue to the park . \u2014 John Kuntz, cleveland , 19 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In case of inclement weather, food trucks will park near the front doors of the Dwyer Senior Center, 300 Bryson Lane in Bay Village. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"Oakridge Dairy will park its largest farm tractor right in the middle of the market. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 27 May 2022",
"Unlike the McDonald\u2019s drive-through proposal, no motorized vehicles will be allowed on the property of Westside Square except the food trucks, which will not park there overnight. \u2014 Susan Dunne, courant.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"There will be 310 parking spaces in an inside parking garage that will be planned so people will park on the same level as their apartment unit. \u2014 Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Employees and visitors to that building will now park at the North Side Employee Lot located at the corner of Washington Street and Pacific Highway. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Furthermore, Shoup intended to level the open field so everyone could park safely. \u2014 Donna Reiner, The Arizona Republic , 17 June 2022",
"A week ago Thursday night, witnesses saw Sparks park the Audi in the lot of the Denny\u2019s at Southeast 105th Avenue and Stark Street. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 June 2022",
"The Public Works Department handles everything from street paving, to park maintenance, waste collection, recreation centers, special event permitting, traffic engineering and other tasks. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 1 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin parricus , from pre-Latin *parra pole, trellis":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1526, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180245"
},
"Pareiasaurus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the type genus of the family Pareiasauridae comprising heavily built reptiles from the Karroo formations of southern Africa":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek pareia cheek + New Latin -saurus":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181716"
},
"parsley haw":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a hawthorn ( Crataegus marshallii ) of the southern U.S. having pinnately lobed leaves":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183331"
},
"parroty":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": like or of the nature of a parrot":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8par\u0259t\u0113 also \u02c8per-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183627"
},
"paragraphist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": paragrapher":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-raif-",
"-r\u0227f-",
"-raaf-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184143"
},
"parish":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor":[],
": the residents of such an area":[],
": a subdivision of a county often coinciding with an original ecclesiastical parish and constituting the unit of local government":[],
": a local church community composed of the members or constituents of a Protestant church":[],
": a civil division of the state of Louisiana corresponding to a county in other states":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8per-ish",
"\u02c8pa-rish",
"\u02c8par-ish"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"The parish will be getting a new priest soon.",
"The parish has grown significantly in the last three years.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Anything more serious requires referral to the district hospital, which in Hoja Blanca\u2019s case means a 300-mile round trip to the parish of Borbn. \u2014 Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American , 10 June 2022",
"Parishioners rolled out the red carpet last weekend, welcoming Bishop Edward Malesic to the parish . \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Known as the first Catholic parish and oldest standing church in Scottsdale, the Old Adobe Mission is a staple in Old Town. \u2014 Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic , 6 June 2022",
"The parish \u2014 and the city \u2014 must try to heal as one. \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"The earthquake that killed hundreds of people in Haiti on Saturday has had an unforeseen emotional effect on a local parish and the Rev. Dukens Boliere. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Former Tribune reporter Evan Osnos chronicled Pfleger\u2019s work, his place as a white clergyman in a predominantly Black parish and his political connections in this New Yorker piece. \u2014 Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com , 24 May 2021",
"That is a particularly sensitive command in Uvalde, where some parents of victims have expressed outrage at the slow response during the shooting by law enforcement officers \u2014 some of whom are also members of the parish . \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"Four of the children and one teacher killed were members of the parish . \u2014 Nicole Chavez, CNN , 28 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English parisshe , from Anglo-French paroche, parosse , from Late Latin parochia , from Late Greek paroikia , from paroikos Christian, from Greek, stranger, from para- + oikos house \u2014 more at vicinity":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184500"
},
"partita":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": variation sense 4":[],
": suite sense 2b(1)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8t\u0113-t\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On hearing the first notes of Chalifour playing the solo Bach partita that night, the goose bumps came, as Gehry has recalled, then the tears. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Bach\u2019s second violin partita closes with a massive ciaccona \u2014 a set of variations on a chord progression \u2014 singular among Bach\u2019s works. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Enjoy Argentine lutist Evangelina Mascardi's incredible (and incredibly dextrous) performance of Bach's lute partita in C minor. \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 19 Aug. 2021",
"His jubilant take on the Capriccio of the second partita captures the maniacal quality in much of Bach\u2019s most virtuosic writing. \u2014 Barbara Jepson, WSJ , 7 June 2021",
"An example is the concluding Giga of the popular first partita . \u2014 Barbara Jepson, WSJ , 7 June 2021",
"In the opening Toccata of the sixth partita , his tempo is slower than most, but the momentum never sags, and his playing is expressive. \u2014 Barbara Jepson, WSJ , 7 June 2021",
"Folksy melodies exchanged between the violin and piano in the second movement recall Bartok, while the violin\u2019s contrapuntal lines in the opening of the third movement were reminiscent of a Bach partita . \u2014 Tim Diovanni, Dallas News , 20 Oct. 2020",
"One thing that really confused me about listening to modern players approach the solo partita was that often it was played so freely and with so much rubato. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Oct. 2020"
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"In the end, Flurrie told me the bottom line is disability is part and parcel of the human experience. \u2014 Steven Aquino, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
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"The reaction to Marsh\u2019s video is part and parcel with a larger trend on the right. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 21 Apr. 2022",
"This give and take is more than personal, it\u2019s part and parcel of street art, which is essentially an interactive game of hide and seek played by the artist and viewer. \u2014 Vogue , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Many researchers consider the energy restoration theory to be part and parcel of the inactivity theory. \u2014 Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Fraud prevention will need to become part and parcel with excellent customer experience to achieve loyalty for the next twenty. \u2014 Rene Hendrikse, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"But Mark says Mercedes was largely unbothered by trolling comments and harassment on social media, seeing it as part and parcel with her life as a public figure. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 23 Sep. 2021"
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"The carriage in question here is Cygnus, which debuted in 1951 as a First Class parlor car for the Golden Arrow; later, it was also used as part of Sir Winston Churchill\u2019s funeral train. \u2014 Sandra Ramani, Robb Report , 11 Oct. 2021",
"The train portion of the set includes four cars to build: the engine, passenger car, the tender and a parlor car . \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com , 12 Aug. 2019",
"Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, 901 W. Pratt St., 752-2490; borail.org: Marvel at magnificent 19th-century steam locomotives, original tracks, and elegant parlor cars . \u2014 Jill Gerston, ELLE Decor , 19 Feb. 2010"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like many parasitoid species, the emerald jewel wasp is a specialist with only one option for a host\u2014in this case, the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana. \u2014 Kenneth C. Catania, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2021",
"Technically speaking, the alien is a parasitoid , an organism that, unlike most parasites, ultimately kills its host. \u2014 Kenneth C. Catania, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2021",
"Similarly, female parasitoid wasps will compete over the most desirable hosts in which to lay their eggs. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 29 Oct. 2020",
"Researchers including Hoddle are evaluating the parasitoid for possible release in California. \u2014 Marc Mcandrews, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 Sep. 2020",
"Condos is also encouraged by the potential for parasitoid introduction. \u2014 Marc Mcandrews, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 Sep. 2020",
"Shockley\u2019s favorite parasitoid might be the emerald wasp. \u2014 Lela Nargi, Washington Post , 28 Oct. 2019",
"Most efforts to control invasive insects have relied on parasites and parasitoids , which lay eggs and complete their life cycles in or on the target species. \u2014 Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS , 15 Jan. 2020",
"Shockley says other parasitoids use their hosts\u2019 existing behaviors. \u2014 Lela Nargi, Washington Post , 28 Oct. 2019"
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"The second experiment was similar, except both real faces and pareidolia images were randomly combined in the trials. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Wired , 14 July 2021",
"Because of its trademark kidney grille, BMW's cars always suffer from pareidolia . \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 7 Sep. 2017",
"This photo is just the latest in a long list of odd objects that have caused excited viewers to fall foul of the phenomenon of pareidolia . \u2014 Fox News , 30 June 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That is, to become a parador in Puerto Rico, a property must adhere to four main requirements. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 May 2022",
"Also known as Hostal dos Reis Cat\u00f3licos, this famous Spanish parador began as a hospital in 1499 to give refuge to the many pilgrims coming into Santiago \u2014 Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 20 Oct. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"By the end of his career, Svendsen had logged 6,000 flying hours, most of them in fighter aircraft, and was a parachutist as well. \u2014 Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Given the alarming declines in the river\u2019s reservoirs, the flaw with the parachute analogy is that the end of the story would put the parachutist safely on the ground, Udall said. \u2014 Ian James, Los Angeles Times , 17 Nov. 2021",
"The first wingsuit was created in 1930 by a Los Angeles parachutist who wanted to achieve more horizontal flight during his vertical skydiving. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Sep. 2021",
"In his three decades in uniform, Peabody picked up a graduate degree in public administration from Harvard, studied as an Olmsted Scholar in Mexico City and earned his master parachutist badge. \u2014 jsonline.com , 30 Aug. 2021",
"Several neighbors saw the parachutist spiraling out of control before crashing into the residence, KSBY-TV reported. \u2014 Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times , 13 July 2021",
"Tree Service answered the call to help get the unnamed parachutist out of the tree where her parachute had snagged. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 13 July 2021",
"The Atascadero Police Department received reports around 4:55 p.m. July 6 that a parachutist had fallen through the roof of a residence in the 9500 block of Via Cielo. \u2014 Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times , 13 July 2021",
"Debris fell on the field and main grandstand, narrowly missing France coach Didier Deschamps, when the parachutist struck wires for an overhead camera attached to the stadium roof. \u2014 Ciar\u00c1n Fahey, Star Tribune , 15 June 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The families that welcomed his own \u2014 one of the first Black families in the Keystone-Monon neighborhood on the city's north side \u2014 were part of a community that participated in block parties and parent-teacher association meetings. \u2014 Amelia Pak-harvey, The Indianapolis Star , 9 Dec. 2021",
"The purifiers -- provided by the school's parent-teacher association -- and portable microphone systems, provided by the district to compensate for the voice-muffling masks, are the latest in classroom furnishings. \u2014 Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online , 1 June 2021",
"Relying in part on school funding and in part on money raised by the parent-teacher association , Douds purchased two pop-up tents to supplement the permanent ones, to be erected in case of bad weather. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2021",
"The visit was arranged by Principal Frank Kuzniewski and Assistant Principal Alexandra Oreluk, with help from the school\u2019s parent-teacher association and staff members, who helped coordinate the visits with Santa. \u2014 Anna Kim, chicagotribune.com , 22 Dec. 2020",
"Parents like Rosa Mar, the parent-teacher association president at P.S. 92 in the Queens neighborhood of Corona, have raised money for the program for students at different schools. \u2014 Katie Honan, WSJ , 12 Dec. 2020",
"McIntosh, a former JCPS teacher who continues to volunteer with the parent-teacher association at her daughter's elementary school, had received 63% of the vote, according to preliminary results. \u2014 Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal , 4 Nov. 2020",
"Contreras said her prize at the end was a pumpkin, and a decorating kit provided by the parent-teacher association of Franklin Park School District 84. \u2014 Anna Kim, chicagotribune.com , 20 Oct. 2020",
"Tabitha Persaud, mom of three Aikahi students, remembers Fraser coming to the parent-teacher association with the idea of approaching big names. \u2014 Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Star Tribune , 12 Oct. 2020"
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"noun",
"noun,"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In early July this year, Fogo\u2019s du jour menu offered a fresh meringue with cream and toasted meringue highlighted by partridgeberries with rhubarb. \u2014 Rebecca Powers, Washington Post , 13 Aug. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fossil fuel executives have their party line : use the state to guarantee our profits indefinitely, or take a hike. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 17 June 2022",
"Hopefully, there was nobody else already using your party line . \u2014 Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun , 7 May 2022",
"The nine-member Jan. 6 committee was created last year in a largely party line vote, after Mr. McConnell and Senate Republicans blocked the creation of an independent commission. \u2014 Lindsay Wise, WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Not that this is any different from before\u2014RT and Sputnik have long offered audiences a skewed, if not outright false, view of world events, one that hews to Putin\u2019s party line . \u2014 Tim De Chant, Ars Technica , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Lead by not just toeing the party line but by also being unafraid to engage in deep conversations about how the pandemic may have affected you personally. \u2014 Curtis Odom, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Cheney has committed what is considered to be a mortal sin by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Trump by not toeing the party line . \u2014 Star Tribune , 11 May 2021",
"His breaks from the party line have only grown more pronounced. \u2014 Eric Cortellessa, Time , 13 Apr. 2022",
"There have been a number of 3-2 party line votes at FTC in the months since Biden appointee Lina Khan took over as chairwoman. \u2014 Andrew Ackerman, WSJ , 30 Sep. 2021"
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"The first and most well-known parameter , charge-parity (CP) violation, dictates whether neutrinos and their antiparticle counterparts oscillate in the same way, and could help explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe. \u2014 Thomas Lewton, Scientific American , 13 Apr. 2022",
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"The original strain of SARS-CoV-2 was estimated to have a dispersion parameter , k, of around 0.1, meaning that fewer than 20% of people infected passed on the virus to someone else. \u2014 Megan Molteni, STAT , 4 May 2022",
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"The ability to improve the performance of the device so significantly by boosting a single parameter is part of what has driven Microsoft's interest in topological qubits. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 15 Mar. 2022",
"An attacker can inject arbitrary commands into the mtu or the data parameter . \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 12 May 2022",
"If having been occupied by another foreign nation for long periods is his parameter for losing sovereignty, then the rest of the Eastern European nations, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, India and Israel don\u2019t qualify either. \u2014 WSJ , 8 Apr. 2022"
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": a jaeger ( Stercorarius parasiticus ) having moderately long, narrow, and pointed middle tail feathers":[]
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": an Australian bronzewing ( Geophaps scripta ) formerly abundant in dry inland parts of western Australia":[]
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": spherical sailing in which the course is along a parallel and departure is the product of cosine latitude times the difference of longitude":[
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"They went parasailing while they were on vacation.",
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"The Florida state legislature passed new laws in 2014 after several fatal parasailing accidents. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 1 June 2022",
"Water sports are a breeze as the island is located close to rental shops for surfboards, stand-up paddle boards, kayaks, parasailing and jet skis. \u2014 Gabi De La Rosa, Chron , 6 May 2022",
"The island seems perfect: The hotel staff throws a welcome party, complimentary cocktails are offered, and the calendar is stuffed with events like parasailing , dance classes, etc. \u2014 Robert Daniels, Vulture , 24 July 2021",
"Water activities that are either available on site or that can be arranged through the concierge include scuba diving and snorkeling the world famous undersea life, jet skiing, parasailing or swimming with sharks and manta rays. \u2014 Laurie Werner, Forbes , 11 June 2021",
"Beyond fishing, there's swimming, kayaking, parasailing , golfing, dolphin spotting, and birding to enjoy. \u2014 Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure , 25 Apr. 2021",
"In the clip, they can be seen hiking through jungles, parasailing , horseback riding and canoeing. \u2014 PEOPLE.com , 9 July 2020",
"The rest went parasailing and a day later swam with dolphins. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Oct. 2019",
"Despite heavy quarantines across 14 Pennsylvania counties, the insect is on the move, hitchhiking on vehicles and luggage, and parasailing by swarm on breezes, sometimes showing up in vineyards by the thousands. \u2014 Claire Marie Porter, WIRED , 2 Aug. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"1965, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225655"
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"Rectangles, squares, and rhombuses are all parallelograms .",
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"The terminal is shaped like an extruded parallelogram that seemingly floats above the service road. \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Viewed on a map of the development, the five-story structure looks something like a tilted parallelogram , a design that creates triangular units on the corners. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Lyra Vega is the brightest star in the tiny and parallelogram -shaped constellation of Lyra, the Harp. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 5 Sep. 2021",
"The original home was 1,800 square feet and designed as a parallelogram , incorporating angles throughout the home. \u2014 Abigail Rosenthal, Chron , 29 July 2021",
"My door is a parallelogram , because of the slope, and so far it's worked fine. \u2014 Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics , 6 Mar. 2021",
"His greatest mark on Boston is the Hancock building, an 800-foot-tall glass parallelogram that towers over Trinity Church, a beloved Romanesque edifice by the 19th-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson. \u2014 Fred A. Bernstein, New York Times , 4 Mar. 2020",
"Until 2018 there was never a doubt that the boundaries, a jagged parallelogram over North Texas\u2019 two largest counties, would hold steady. \u2014 Nic Garcia, Dallas News , 1 Mar. 2020",
"The tower would gradually widen at the northeast and southwest corners, transitioning from an efficient rectangle at the base to an expansive parallelogram at the top. \u2014 Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com , 16 Oct. 2019"
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"Late Latin or Greek; Late Latin parallelogrammum , from Greek parall\u0113logrammon , from neuter of parall\u0113logrammos bounded by parallel lines, from parall\u0113los + gramm\u0113 line, from graphein to write \u2014 more at carve":""
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": a family of passerine birds comprising the birds of paradise and often also the bowerbirds":[]
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": a diffuse image of the sun appearing at the same altitude as the sun and 120 degrees distant on the parhelic circle and caused by reflection from atmospheric ice spicules":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233027"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a very poisonous green copper and arsenic compound C 4 H 6 As 6 Cu 4 O 16 used especially formerly as an insecticide and pigment":[],
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": periodontal sense 2":[
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"adjective",
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"definitions":{
": a luminous appearance seen in connection with lunar halos \u2014 compare parhelion":[]
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": an amplifier in which by means of a phase inverter the ordinary output of a single amplifier tube is given push-pull characteristics":[]
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"type":[
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": a law in physics: the resultant of two vector quantities represented in magnitude, direction, and sense by two adjacent sides of a parallelogram both of which are directed toward or away from their point of intersection is the diagonal of the parallelogram through that point":[]
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"definitions":{
": a self-inflating fabric device that resembles a parachute , behaves in flight like an airplane wing, is maneuverable, is capable of landing a payload at slow speed, and can be launched from the ground in a high wind like a kite":[]
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"para- (as in parachute entry 1 ) + -foil (as in airfoil )":""
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"1967, in the meaning defined above":""
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": any of a family (Scaridae) of usually brightly colored chiefly tropical marine fishes that have the teeth in each jaw fused into a cutting plate resembling a beak":[]
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"parenthood is a difficult task requiring great commitment",
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"Pregnancy and new parenthood are portals to another life. \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 6 July 2022",
"Better yet, hear Brown discuss her novel \u2014 which explores themes of family and parenthood through the lives of three women \u2014 over tea and desserts. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"Gabriele Goulet and her family started both parenthood and the pandemic in a terrifying way. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"The comedian hosts a showcase of fellow stand-ups including Ron Funches and Lil Rel Howery to joke about their family lives and parenthood . \u2014 Hau Chu, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"Unconventional Mother's Day stories: Thoughts about life, death, parenthood and more. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 8 May 2022",
"Changing gender norms around parenthood and work have allowed women to become breadwinners for their families. \u2014 Emma Hinchliffe And Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The actress is often getting candid about parenthood and her life at home with Wade and the kids. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Along with chronicling her pregnancy online, Rihanna has been vocal about her plans for parenthood and her new baby. \u2014 Jasmine Washington, Seventeen , 21 Mar. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1853, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004931"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to infest or live on or with as a parasite":[]
},
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"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-s\u0259-\u02cctiz",
"-\u02ccs\u012b-"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As science journalist Rachel Nuwer writes, as many as 40 to 50 percent of all animal species are parasites, and almost every other species has at least one parasite that has evolved to parasitize it. \u2014 Laura Helmuth, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"But humans moved in and cut forests, essentially creating more plains, allowing cowbirds to move into more areas to parasitize more species. \u2014 Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 6 July 2021",
"These almost microscopic wasps emerge from the sandpaper-looking material and fly off to parasitize and destroy pest moth eggs. \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 8 Mar. 2021",
"Follow-up studies have shown the wasps can find beetles, parasitize them, and reproduce; in some trees, up to 80% of ash borer larvae have wasps living inside them. \u2014 Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS , 12 Nov. 2020",
"All of the 50 or so species in the genus have larvae that are dependent on birds for their nutrition; to date they are known to parasitize over 150 birds, from hawks to hummingbirds. \u2014 Popular Science , 20 Oct. 2020",
"The latest organisms that researchers have looked to are bacteria in the microbiomes of roundworms that parasitize insects (technically termed enteropathogenic nematodes). \u2014 Diana Gitig, Ars Technica , 20 Nov. 2019",
"The cage must provide protection against some predators but probably not against the wasps that parasitize it. \u2014 Johnny Simon, Quartz , 8 Sep. 2019",
"The wasps parasitize the borers\u2019 eggs to reduce the borer population, Teerling said. \u2014 Alyssa Lukpat, BostonGlobe.com , 17 July 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1872, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005105"
},
"particulate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to minute separate particles":[],
": a particulate substance":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8ti-ky\u0259-l\u0259t",
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8tik-y\u0259-l\u0259t",
"also -\u02ccl\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Of particular concern is how to limit diesel particulate matter from drifting into nearby neighborhoods as diesel trucks drove other routes \u2013 such as neighborhood streets -- to avoid the freeway during construction. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 June 2020",
"Already, data has shown that cities are recording much lower levels of harmful microscopic particulate matter known as PM 2.5, and of nitrogen dioxide, which is released by vehicles and power plants. \u2014 Amy Woodyatt, CNN , 12 May 2020",
"The American Lung Association ranks the Indianapolis, Carmel and Muncie metropolitan area as the 19th worst for year-round particulate pollution. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star , 12 Apr. 2020",
"There\u2019s some friction, in that the particulate pollution and carbon dioxide emissions of prescribed burns are counted as human-caused, while emissions from wildfires go in a separate category. \u2014 Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica , 21 Jan. 2020",
"Boland is a project system engineer developing the MAIA instrument, the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols that will characterize particulate matter in air pollution. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 1 May 2020",
"Another air pollutant of concern is particulate matter, microscopic airborne particles of dust or soot that linger in the air, often from burning fossil fuels. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 26 Apr. 2020",
"Boland is a project system engineer developing the MAIA instrument, the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols that will characterize particulate matter in air pollution. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 24 Apr. 2020",
"The researchers found that on a long term basis, an increase in the average concentration of particulate matter of one microgram per cubic meter led to a 15 percent higher death rate from the new coronavirus. \u2014 Ula Chrobak, Popular Science , 22 Apr. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas harms human health directly through the inhalation of microscopic particulate matter into the lungs and indirectly through climate change. \u2014 Matthew Meyer, Scientific American , 1 July 2022",
"Although carbon dioxide is not a health hazard, many other pollutants that are harmful to the respiratory system, like particulate matter and nitrogen oxides, are typically emitted along with them. \u2014 Drew Costley, ajc , 1 July 2022",
"The air pollution resulting from firework smoke causes fine particulate matter level to exceed federal air quality standards, Bird said, which can harm public health. \u2014 Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 July 2022",
"Diesel particulate filters capture and store exhaust soot, in order to reduce emissions and have been fitted to cars for almost 20 years. \u2014 Jamie Hailstone, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"The air toxics cancer risk is higher than 99 percent of the SCAQMD population, and diesel particulate matter made up 67.4 percent of the pollutants contributing to cancer risk in that area. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Fine particulate matter has been viewed as one of the preeminent threats to public health. \u2014 Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"Among those over 65, in particular, Black people experience a death rate of 670 per 100,000 from exposure to fine particulate matter \u2014 tiny bits of pollution just 2.5 micrometers in size. \u2014 Zachary Schermele, NBC News , 16 June 2022",
"Because fossil-fuel-burning cars, factories, and power plants also produce conventionally toxic forms of pollution, America\u2019s air will carry more particulate matter, tiny shards of ash that can poison the heart, lungs, and brain. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin particula":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1870, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1942, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005703"
},
"paranuclear":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to a paranucleus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6par\u0259+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"para- entry 1 + nuclear":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005907"
},
"paramyxovirus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a family ( Paramyxoviridae ) of single-stranded RNA viruses that include the parainfluenza viruses and the causative agents of canine distemper, measles, mumps, Newcastle disease, and rinderpest":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02c8mik-s\u0259-\u02ccv\u012b-r\u0259s",
"\u02ccpar-\u0259-\u02c8mik-s\u0259-\u02ccv\u012b-r\u0259s",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bay Area residents should keep their pets away from wildlife, officials said, as the disease can spread through dogs unvaccinated against the paramyxovirus that causes it. \u2014 Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 Mar. 2022",
"But tests for everything from adenoviruses to paramyxoviruses came back negative. \u2014 Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS , 28 Apr. 2020",
"In one such study, his team discovered that mumps, which like measles is caused by a paramyxovirus , had jumped to humans from bats. \u2014 Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS , 28 Apr. 2020",
"Wild animals could be used as bioterrorist weapons to spread infectious diseases such as monkeypox, which can be fatal for humans, or avian paramyxovirus , a disease carried by exotic birds that can spread to poultry. \u2014 National Geographic , 26 Feb. 2016"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1962, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013245"
},
"parachutes":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": a device for slowing the descent of a person or object through the air that consists of a fabric canopy beneath which the person or object is suspended":[],
": patagium":[],
": a device or structure suggestive of a parachute in form, use, or operation":[],
": to convey by means of a parachute":[],
": to descend by means of a parachute":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccsh\u00fct"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The pilot was wearing a parachute .",
"The supplies were dropped by parachute .",
"Verb",
"The soldiers parachuted in and quickly hid their gear.",
"New troops parachuted into enemy territory.",
"We will parachute supplies in after you arrive.",
"New troops were parachuted into enemy territory.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Her great-grandfather, in this predawn moment, came out and stood over my grandpa, who was frantically curling up his parachute . \u2014 Julie Beck, The Atlantic , 10 June 2022",
"Conables waited 3 seconds \u2014 about half the distance to the ground \u2014 before opening his parachute . \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Once his demands were met hours later, the man strapped on a parachute , opened the rear aircraft door, and disappeared into the night, never to be found. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 16 June 2022",
"Methods included being rotated underwater in an ejection seat and being dragged across the pool attached to a parachute , from which students had to disentangle themselves. \u2014 Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health , 17 May 2022",
"When a larger parachute deployed, Beck said the rocket slowed to just 22 miles per hour, or 10 meters per second, allowing the helicopter pilots to match its speed. \u2014 Jackie Wattles, CNN , 3 May 2022",
"About two minutes after takeoff, having expended its fuel, the Electron\u2019s stage-one booster detached and fell back toward Earth, slowing its 5,150-mile-per-hour descent with a parachute . \u2014 Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"One of the pilots was able to get into the other plane and land successfully, but the other was not and had to deploy a parachute . \u2014 Lorraine Taylor, Fox News , 25 Apr. 2022",
"According to the letter sent by the FAA in early April, Jacob attached multiple cameras to the inside and outside of the plane and was wearing a sports parachute in a backpack during the flight. \u2014 Michelle Stoddart, ABC News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Former diplomats say the effort was part of a troubling pattern where American officials parachute into complex situations equipped with little more than talking points. \u2014 Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica , 30 May 2022",
"Transition coaches parachute into the post-layoff void\u2014a place where no one else ventures\u2014and help individuals move forward. \u2014 Darren Kimball, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"In the game, up to 100 players parachute onto a remote island to battle in a winner-take-all showdown. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"But one of the planes spiraled out of control and crashed in Eloy, Arizona, leading to only Aikins\u2019 getting in the other craft while Farrington was forced to parachute . \u2014 Jay Blackman, NBC News , 12 May 2022",
"The 48-year-old man was attempting to parachute from the 23-story Palisade UTC luxury apartment complex, near the UTC mall, police said. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The retail giant is teaming up with the drone delivery company Zipline to parachute packages of goods to shoppers. \u2014 Errol Barnett, CBS News , 25 Nov. 2021",
"The study showed that the creatures who live in canopies are able to parachute consistently, slowing their speed and controlling their movements. \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"He was struck by the speed with which Andr\u00e9s and his collaborators could parachute into a place after a flood or an earthquake and start serving hot meals. \u2014 Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, from para- (as in parasol parasol ) + chute \"fall\" \u2014 more at chute":"Noun",
"derivative of parachute entry 1":"Verb"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1784, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1809, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013304"
},
"paramyosin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a fibrous protein that is found in molluscan muscle":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6par\u0259+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"para- entry 1 + myosin":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013345"
},
"paronym":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a paronymous word":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8per-\u0259-\u02ccnim",
"\u02c8pa-r\u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin paronymon , from Greek par\u014dnymon , neuter of par\u014dnymos":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1846, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020237"
},
"Parafossarulus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of East Asian freshwater snails (family Bulimidae) including important intermediate hosts of the Chinese liver fluke":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6par\u0259\u02ccf\u00e4\u00a6sar(y)\u0259l\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from para- entry 1 + Fossarulus genus of snails, diminutive of Late Latin fossarius fossor":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021445"
},
"parous":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adjective combining form"
],
"definitions":{
": having produced offspring":[],
": giving birth to : producing":[
"multi parous"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8par-\u0259s",
"\u02c8per-\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"generalized from -parous in compounds, as an antonym of nulliparous":"Adjective",
"borrowed from Latin -parus, adjective derivative of parere \"to give birth to, bring into being\" \u2014 more at parturient entry 1":"Adjective combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1889, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021709"
},
"parve":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": made without milk, meat, or their derivatives":[
"pareve margarine"
],
"\u2014 compare fleishig , milchig":[
"pareve margarine"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4r-v\u0259"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-022305"
},
"parthenopid":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the Parthenopidae":[],
": a spider crab of the family Parthenopidae":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"",
"-p\u0259\u0307d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Parthenopidae , from Parthenope , type genus + -idae":"Adjective",
"New Latin Parthenopidae":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-023118"
},
"paronomasia":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a play on words : pun":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpa-\u02ccr\u00e4-n\u0259-\u02c8m\u0101-",
"\u02ccper-\u0259-n\u014d-\u02c8m\u0101-zh(\u0113-)\u0259",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek, from paronomazein to call with a slight change of name, from para- + onoma name \u2014 more at name":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1577, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024947"
},
"parallel vise":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025226"
},
"parure":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a matched set of ornaments (such as jewelry)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8ru\u0307r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The parure originally included a matching tiara, known as the Rundell Tiara, which is unfortunately no longer in existence. \u2014 Jennifer Newman, Town & Country , 17 May 2022",
"Princess Grace of Monaco attended as the guest of the Rothschilds, in a white Dior gown and red Madame Gr\u00e8s cape that complemented her ruby and diamond parure . \u2014 Vogue , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The only piece in the collection to feature any colored gems is an extravagant parure set with 9 Colombian emeralds totaling 40 carats which can transform into a collar necklace lined with baguette-cut emeralds or be worn as a brooch. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Each is part of a parure , or a set of matching jewelry. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Each tiara in the auction is part of a parure , or matching set of jewelry. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 Nov. 2021",
"She is then seen swimming in a pool filled with lotus flowers wearing a precious diamond and emerald parure by MUS.za. \u2014 Jim Dobson, Forbes , 2 Nov. 2021",
"The full parure was gifted to Alexandra by Angus Ogilvy. \u2014 Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country , 10 Sep. 2021",
"The sapphire and diamond parure includes a tiara, earrings, a ring, bracelet and pendants. \u2014 CNN , 6 May 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, \"adornment, ornament, matched set of jewelry,\" going back to Old French pareure \"ornament,\" from parer \"to prepare, adorn\" + -ure -ure \u2014 more at pare":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1818, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044019"
},
"parallel perspective":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": linear perspective in which parallel lines of the object that are perpendicular to the drawing surface are represented as meeting at a point on the horizon in line with the common point of intersection of the lines of projection":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044924"
},
"parterre":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an ornamental garden with paths between the beds":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00e4r-\u02c8ter"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"About 900 bitter orange trees, planted in square metal boxes faced with oak, are sheltered in winter under its vaulted ceiling and used in summer to decorate its parterre as well as the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace, the French president\u2019s residence in Paris. \u2014 Kathleen Beckett, New York Times , 6 Apr. 2020",
"Set on over 4 acres, this three-story, spacious English manor, located in a secluded, gated setting in prestigious close-in Memorial, is surrounded by park-like grounds and parterre gardens. \u2014 Valerie Sweeten, Houston Chronicle , 15 Feb. 2020",
"The grounds offer a little bit of everything, including expansive lawns, a formal garden, a vegetable parterre , as well as natural forests and a fishing pond. \u2014 Megan Barber, Curbed , 20 Dec. 2018",
"True to the period of the house, this one encloses a parterre garden accented by crape myrtle, camellia, sago palm, and banana. \u2014 Lindsay Bierman, Southern Living , 20 Aug. 2012",
"Room furnishings in the main house are classical, with four-poster beds, but are updated with light, subtle fabrics and have hypnotic views of woods and parterres . \u2014 Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 20 Oct. 2017",
"There are no richer parterres to my eyes than the dense beds of dwarf andromeda (Cassandra calyculata) which cover these tender places on the earth\u2019s surface. \u2014 Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic , 6 Oct. 2017",
"OUTDOOR SPACE: The area around the house is landscaped, with brick patios and more than 2,600 azaleas, as well as a fenced parterre with roses and vegetable beds. \u2014 Mike Powell, New York Times , 14 Dec. 2016",
"True to the period of the house, this one encloses a parterre garden accented by crape myrtle, camellia, sago palm, and banana. \u2014 Lindsay Bierman, Southern Living , 11 July 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Middle French, from par terre on the ground":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1625, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050223"
},
"paradisaical":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": paradisiacal":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccper-\u0259-\u02ccd\u012b-\u02c8s\u0101-\u0259-k\u0259l",
"\u02ccpa-r\u0259-",
"-\u02c8z\u0101-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In recent years, however, this symbiosis in paradisaical Arosa has become burdened by tension and resentment. \u2014 Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com , 2 July 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"paradisaical from paradise + -aical (as in judaical ); paradisaic from paradise + -aic (as in hebraic , judaic )":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1754, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050438"
}
}
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