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"Upper Sonoran":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": of, relating to, being, or native to the cooler part of the Sonoran life zone that adjoins the Transition zone \u2014 compare lower sonoran":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131509",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"Upper Voltan":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a native or inhabitant of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso )":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1961, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8v\u00e4l-t\u1d4an",
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"-\u02c8v\u022fl-",
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"-\u02c8v\u014dl-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103450",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"upper":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an upper berth":[],
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": an upper tooth or denture":[],
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": being a later epoch or series of the period or system named":[
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"Upper Cretaceous",
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"Upper Paleolithic"
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],
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": constituting a stratum relatively near the earth's surface":[],
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": constituting the branch of a bicameral legislature that is usually smaller and more restricted in membership and possesses greater traditional prestige than the lower house":[],
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": farther inland":[
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"the upper Mississippi"
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],
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": higher in physical position, rank, or order":[
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"the upper lip",
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"upper management"
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],
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": in straitened circumstances : destitute":[],
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": northern":[
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"upper Manhattan"
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],
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": one that is upper: such as":[],
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": something that induces a state of good feeling or exhilaration":[],
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": the parts of a shoe or boot above the sole":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"upper and lower front teeth",
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"the wing's upper and lower surfaces",
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"the ship's upper and lower decks",
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"Who will sleep on the upper berth",
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"The upper stories are occupied by offices.",
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"the upper layer of the Earth's crust",
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"temperatures in the mid to upper 20s",
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"Write your name on the upper left-hand corner of the page.",
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"relief of upper back pain",
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"the mountain's upper and lower slopes"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
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"1789, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"circa 1968, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, comparative of up entry 2":"Adjective",
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"up + -er entry 2":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u0259-p\u0259r",
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"\u02c8\u0259p-\u0259r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012135",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"upper class":{
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"antonyms":[
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"aristocracy",
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"elite",
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"gentility",
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"gentlefolk",
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"gentlefolks",
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"gentry",
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"nobility",
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"patriciate",
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"quality",
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"upper crust"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a social class occupying a position above the middle class and having the highest status in a society":[],
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": of, relating to, or characteristic of the upper class":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"a popular pastime among the upper classes",
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"a member of the upper class",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Add to that the fact that large-scale entrepreneurship tends to expand wealth among those who are already in the upper class . \u2014 Malaika Jabali, Essence , 19 June 2022",
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"Carlile\u2019s husband had close ties to the monarchy, including serving as Gentleman of the Bows to Charles I, which gave his wife an access to the upper class that other female artists may not have had. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 May 2022",
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"The upper class menu on Virgin\u2019s other international flights are impressive. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Jan. 2022",
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"During an era that experienced record rates of inequality and modernization, Black Americans of the upper class carved a place for themselves in a world that worked to cage them in and paint them as inferior. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"Some neighborhoods in Brooklyn are now home to the upper class . \u2014 Fran\u00e7oise Mouly, The New Yorker , 11 Apr. 2022",
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"Today, according to a recent Deutsche Welle documentary on America\u2019s Black upper class , only 2 percent of Black families are millionaires. \u2014 Tanisha C. Ford, The Atlantic , 19 Apr. 2022",
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"In an era of stupefying inequality, one of the most famous members of the upper class is a former drug dealer from a notorious public-housing project. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"Who, after all, wants to deal with reality and all its complexities, formalities and paperwork, especially when the upper class views an increasingly uninhabitable Earth as a playground"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1814, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1837, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8kl\u00e4s",
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"\u02cc\u0259-p\u0259r-\u02c8klas"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"aristocratic",
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"blue-blooded",
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"genteel",
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"gentle",
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"grand",
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"great",
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"highborn",
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"highbred",
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"noble",
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"patrician",
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"silk-stocking",
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"upper-crust",
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"wellborn"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052336",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"upper crust":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[
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"the conference was a gathering of the upper crust of the computer programming industry",
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"a specialty clothing store for the upper crust",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"As the manager of this cultural outpost of empire, Esmond is soon hobnobbing with the upper crust of King Farouk\u2019s Egypt, playing golf at the Gezira Sporting Club and sipping pink gins at Shepheard\u2019s Hotel. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
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"But for another subset of the Russian upper crust , around a dozen bank owners living abroad, sanctions could end up freeing their homes and cars, and repairing their reputations. \u2014 Patricia Kowsmann And Margot Patrick, WSJ , 12 June 2022",
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"Chris Evans is as good as he's ever been as rebel leader Curtis, but Tilda Swinton steals the show as a toothy, grotesque spokesman for the upper crust . \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
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"There are damning revelations about the ways in which that upper crust reacted to his relentless campaign for Johannessen. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 May 2022",
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"Early attempts at integration met with stiff resistance from Harvard leaders, who prized being a school for the white upper crust , including wealthy white sons of the South, the report recounted. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
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"The Chartists, a radical movement uniting middle-class reformers with the artisanal upper crust of the workers, threatened French-style revolution. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"Probably the upper crust of England will appreciate them as patriotic ball gear. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 11 Mar. 2022",
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"The evening's dress code was inspired by the Gilded Age, the 30-year period at the end of the 19th-century that saw skyrocketing wealth for industrialist families in the US and over-the-top fashion for New York City's upper crust . \u2014 CNN , 2 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1836, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"A-list",
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"aristocracy",
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"best",
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"choice",
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"corps d'elite",
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"cream",
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"cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me",
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"elect",
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"elite",
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"fat",
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"flower",
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"illuminati",
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"pick",
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"pink",
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"pride",
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"priesthood",
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"prime",
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"royalty"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084642",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"upper hand":{
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"antonyms":[
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"disadvantage",
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"drawback",
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"handicap",
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"liability",
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"minus",
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"penalty",
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"strike"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": mastery , advantage , control":[
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"was determined not to let the opposition get the upper hand"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"finally gained the upper hand in the argument",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"But mid-level workers, on the hunt for flexibility and fed up with their workload, seem to have the upper hand . \u2014 Jane Thier, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
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"And with today\u2019s tight labor market, workers continue to have the upper hand \u2014 there are almost two jobopenings for every unemployed person \u2014 creating an environment that\u2019s even more favorable to labor union activity. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 14 June 2022",
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"As is often the case, the defenders have the upper hand . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
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"Assemblyman Robert Rivas seems to have the upper hand , but Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon still has the office, writes columnist George Skelton. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
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"Whoever shoots more, farther and faster should have the upper hand . \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
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"For now the dollar clearly has the upper hand , trading higher against the euro, British pound, and yen even as US inflation soars. \u2014 Nate Dicamillo, Quartz , 13 May 2022",
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"Some experts say that mutual abuse is a myth and that Depp and Heard's dynamic was one of reactive abuse, with power imbalances in which Depp had the upper hand . \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 10 May 2022",
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"Good morning, In this ongoing war for talent, one thing is clear\u2014employees have the upper hand . \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 6 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"advantage",
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"better",
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"bulge",
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"catbird seat",
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"drop",
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"edge",
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"high ground",
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"inside track",
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"jump",
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"pull",
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"stead",
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"vantage",
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"whip hand"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174857",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"upper story":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a story (as of a house) that is above the ground floor":[],
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": brain":[
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"a little off in the upper story",
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"\u2014 Erle Stanley Gardner"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174034",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"upper ten":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the members of the highest social class : upper class":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182739",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"upper transit":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080620",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"upper-class":{
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"antonyms":[
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"aristocracy",
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"elite",
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"gentility",
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"gentlefolk",
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"gentlefolks",
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"gentry",
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"nobility",
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"patriciate",
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"quality",
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"upper crust"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a social class occupying a position above the middle class and having the highest status in a society":[],
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": of, relating to, or characteristic of the upper class":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"a popular pastime among the upper classes",
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"a member of the upper class",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Add to that the fact that large-scale entrepreneurship tends to expand wealth among those who are already in the upper class . \u2014 Malaika Jabali, Essence , 19 June 2022",
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"Carlile\u2019s husband had close ties to the monarchy, including serving as Gentleman of the Bows to Charles I, which gave his wife an access to the upper class that other female artists may not have had. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 May 2022",
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"The upper class menu on Virgin\u2019s other international flights are impressive. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Jan. 2022",
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"During an era that experienced record rates of inequality and modernization, Black Americans of the upper class carved a place for themselves in a world that worked to cage them in and paint them as inferior. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"Some neighborhoods in Brooklyn are now home to the upper class . \u2014 Fran\u00e7oise Mouly, The New Yorker , 11 Apr. 2022",
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"Today, according to a recent Deutsche Welle documentary on America\u2019s Black upper class , only 2 percent of Black families are millionaires. \u2014 Tanisha C. Ford, The Atlantic , 19 Apr. 2022",
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"In an era of stupefying inequality, one of the most famous members of the upper class is a former drug dealer from a notorious public-housing project. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"Who, after all, wants to deal with reality and all its complexities, formalities and paperwork, especially when the upper class views an increasingly uninhabitable Earth as a playground"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1814, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1837, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8kl\u00e4s",
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"\u02cc\u0259-p\u0259r-\u02c8klas"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"aristocratic",
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"blue-blooded",
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"genteel",
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"gentle",
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"grand",
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"great",
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"highborn",
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"highbred",
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"noble",
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"patrician",
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"silk-stocking",
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"upper-crust",
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"wellborn"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005203",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"upper-crust":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[
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"the conference was a gathering of the upper crust of the computer programming industry",
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"a specialty clothing store for the upper crust",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"As the manager of this cultural outpost of empire, Esmond is soon hobnobbing with the upper crust of King Farouk\u2019s Egypt, playing golf at the Gezira Sporting Club and sipping pink gins at Shepheard\u2019s Hotel. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
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"But for another subset of the Russian upper crust , around a dozen bank owners living abroad, sanctions could end up freeing their homes and cars, and repairing their reputations. \u2014 Patricia Kowsmann And Margot Patrick, WSJ , 12 June 2022",
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"Chris Evans is as good as he's ever been as rebel leader Curtis, but Tilda Swinton steals the show as a toothy, grotesque spokesman for the upper crust . \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
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"There are damning revelations about the ways in which that upper crust reacted to his relentless campaign for Johannessen. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 May 2022",
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"Early attempts at integration met with stiff resistance from Harvard leaders, who prized being a school for the white upper crust , including wealthy white sons of the South, the report recounted. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
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"The Chartists, a radical movement uniting middle-class reformers with the artisanal upper crust of the workers, threatened French-style revolution. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"Probably the upper crust of England will appreciate them as patriotic ball gear. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 11 Mar. 2022",
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"The evening's dress code was inspired by the Gilded Age, the 30-year period at the end of the 19th-century that saw skyrocketing wealth for industrialist families in the US and over-the-top fashion for New York City's upper crust . \u2014 CNN , 2 May 2022"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"A-list",
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"aristocracy",
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"best",
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"choice",
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"corps d'elite",
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"cream",
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"cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me",
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"elect",
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"elite",
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"fat",
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"flower",
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"illuminati",
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"pick",
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"pink",
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"pride",
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"priesthood",
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"prime",
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"royalty"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223536",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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},
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"uppermost":{
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"antonyms":[
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"bottommost",
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"lowermost",
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"lowest",
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"nethermost",
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"rock-bottom",
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"undermost"
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"definitions":{
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": situated in the highest or most prominent position":[
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"the uppermost layer",
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"safety was uppermost in their minds"
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"examples":[
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"the uppermost floor of the house gets very hot in the summer",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Chapek\u2019s decision to fire a long-standing and well-respected executive in the most unceremonious possible manner set off waves of bafflement and, for many, outrage \u2014 from the uppermost circles of Hollywood power to lower-echelon players. \u2014 Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 June 2022",
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"As a general rule of thumb, the uppermost positions are used for broiling, while the middle are used for toasting bread and baking, and the bottom is used for cooking large roasts or pizzas. \u2014 Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping , 22 May 2022",
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"Access to rare, often imported ingredients like artichokes and pineapples\u2014along with a gaggle of talented chefs\u2014allowed the uppermost echelons to flex their wealth and cement their status while also providing entertainment for guests. \u2014 Maggie Hennessy, Bon App\u00e9tit , 16 May 2022",
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"Drought has dropped the water level of Lake Mead on the Colorado River in southern Nevada and northern Arizona so much that Las Vegas\u2019 uppermost water intake became visible last week. \u2014 Fox News , 4 May 2022",
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"Lake Mead has dropped more than 170 feet since 1983, and the uppermost water intake became visible last week. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 10 May 2022",
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"Drought has dropped the water level of Lake Mead on the Colorado River in southern Nevada and northern Arizona so much that Las Vegas' uppermost water intake became visible last week. \u2014 CBS News , 9 May 2022",
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"But in the end Rees-Mogg\u2019s worry about buildings being under-utilized is unlikely to be uppermost among them. \u2014 Roger Trapp, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
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"To whit: Multiple wood layers are pressed onto the interior component substrates, using black Bolivar veneer for the uppermost base layer. \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"\u2014 Marion E. Gold",
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"We talked as long as I dared. She told me to reverse the charges. It was my call, I said. She laughed and said I was getting uppity . I described Mrs. Burgess, how working for her was hardly like being a servant.",
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"\u2014 Paula Fox",
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"There were some in the UK, and even on this side of the pond, who wanted the queen to assert her authority and slap down her presumptuous grandson and his uppity wife. \u2014 Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com , 13 Jan. 2020",
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"So was the mayor of Tomsk, his fate a warning to uppity regional politicians. \u2014 The Economist , 21 Dec. 2019",
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"King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand stripped his official mistress of all her titles and honours for being too uppity . \u2014 The Economist , 24 Oct. 2019",
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"The John Wayne machismo attitude of Cliff (Brad Pitt), an aging stuntman who defeats the arrogant, uppity Chinese guy harks back to the very stereotypes Bruce was trying to dismantle. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 17 Aug. 2019",
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"But for a kid in Kentucky, Stonewall\u2014even as recounted by White and others who were there\u2014represented, at best, a kind of aspirational gay life, a bevy of uppity queers fighting for their decidedly unrespectable libidinal community. \u2014 Michelle Tea, Harper's magazine , 22 June 2019"
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