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{
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"Viole d'Orchestre":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an organ flue stop of string tone and incisive quality":[]
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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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"French, orchestra viol":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-t(r\u0259)",
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"v\u0113\u02c8\u014dld\u022f(r)\u02c8kestr(\u1d4a)"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235714",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"violate":{
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"antonyms":[
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"comply (with)",
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"conform (to)",
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"follow",
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"mind",
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"obey",
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"observe"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": break , disregard":[
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"violate the law"
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],
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": interrupt , disturb":[
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"violate the peace of a spring evening",
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"\u2014 Nancy Larter"
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],
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": subjected to violation":[],
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": to fail to show proper respect for : profane":[
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"violate a shrine"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"He was arrested for violating his parole.",
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"The company violated its customers' privacy.",
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"She was attacked and violated by an unknown intruder.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"The fish commission said that the state\u2019s openers violate the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. \u2014 Olivia Ebertz, Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
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"Conservationists say a timber sale the Forest Service is planning in Oregon would violate Biden\u2019s pledge, as Anna Phillips writes for the Washington Post. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
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"Eastman argued that releasing them to the committee would violate participants\u2019 First Amendment rights. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
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"Tobacco companies have already indicated that any plan with significant reductions in nicotine would violate the law. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
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"The rules were written before people paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a JPEG of an ape, but such investments certainly would violate the spirit of the rule too. \u2014 Spencer Jakab, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
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"What\u2019s the point of Cleveland Police agreeing to professional policing if little, private police departments operating in the city can violate the rules that Cleveland officers adhere to",
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"Committee investigators asked if Eastman ever acknowledged in front of Trump that his proposal would violate the law. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
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"Some Republicans have long struggled with red flag programs out of concern that these provisions violate the due process rights of those accused of being a threat. \u2014 Byallison Pecorin, ABC News , 16 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"Videos that do not clearly violate YouTube's polices -- that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content -- will appear with a warning and will not be able to gain revenue with ads. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 19 June 2017",
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"Monday, May 22 Victim of violate domestic relations court order, 1500 block Montecito Road. Sunday, May 21 Female, 38, \u2014 Ramona Sentinel , 30 May 2017",
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"On Friday, two government watchdog groups called for investigations into the payroll requests and stipend payments, which seemed to potentially violate state law related to knowingly offering false documents to government officials or agencies. \u2014 Jesse Mckinley, New York Times , 12 May 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Latin violatus , past participle of violare , from viol- (as in violentus violent)":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t",
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-l\u0259t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"breach",
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"break",
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"contravene",
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"fracture",
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"infringe (on ",
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"offend",
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"traduce",
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"transgress"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223708",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"violation":{
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"antonyms":[
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"noncrime"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an act of irreverence or desecration : profanation":[],
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": disturbance , interruption":[],
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": rape entry 1 sense 1 , ravishment":[],
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": the act of violating : the state of being violated : such as":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a serious violation of the law",
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"A second violation was called on the basketball player.",
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"He was arrested for violation of his parole.",
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"The group monitors human rights violations .",
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"They protested the government's violation of human rights.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"He also was cited for having high-capacity magazines and metal-piercing bullets, a violation of city code. \u2014 Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune , 24 June 2022",
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"After his arrest, he was taken to the Deschutes County Jail on charges of coercion, menacing, fourth-degree assault and harassment, as well as two Deschutes County warrants, a California warrant and a violation of his release agreement. \u2014 Fox News , 22 June 2022",
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"Kerry Endsley, 73, was arrested Friday, charged with second-degree kidnapping, felony menacing and violation of a restraining order, the Jefferson County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a news release. \u2014 Marlene Lenthang, NBC News , 21 June 2022",
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"According to legal documents cited by the Blast, H.E.R. is suing for declaratory relief and violation of the business and professions code and seeking to be released from her contract with MBK. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 20 June 2022",
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"The man, 32, was found to be wanted on two Cleveland Heights police warrants for obstructing official business and violation of a protection order. \u2014 cleveland , 17 June 2022",
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"When audience members start slicing away the fabric around her breasts or near her crotch, there is a real sense of danger and violation . \u2014 Louis Menand, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
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"The proposal has brought an outcry from Bronson\u2019s supporters, who see it as a threat to the mayor and a violation of the separation of powers, and the mayor has issued calls for residents to attend meetings in a show of opposition. \u2014 Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News , 8 June 2022",
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"Then another board member received an email alleging that Gadson had taken a trip paid for by Grand Canyon University \u2014 a violation of the district\u2019s ethics policies, if true. \u2014 Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 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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"\u02ccv\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"breach",
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"crime",
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"debt",
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"error",
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"lawbreaking",
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"malefaction",
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"misdeed",
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"misdoing",
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"offense",
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"offence",
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"sin",
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"transgression",
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"trespass",
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"wrongdoing"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172456",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"violational":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": of or relating to violation":[]
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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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"-shn\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181721",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"violaxanthin":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an orange to red crystalline carotenoid pigment C 40 H 56 O 4 obtained from yellow pansies and many other plants : zeaxanthin di-epoxide":[]
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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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"New Latin Viola + English xanthin":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00a6v\u012b\u0259l\u0259+",
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"v\u012b\u00a6\u014dl\u0259"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072620",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"violence":{
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"antonyms":[
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"nonviolence"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a clashing or jarring quality : discordance":[],
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": an instance of violent treatment or procedure":[],
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": injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation : outrage":[],
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": intense, turbulent, or furious and often destructive action or force":[
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"the violence of the storm"
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],
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": the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy":[],
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": undue alteration (as of wording or sense in editing a text)":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"They need to learn how to settle their arguments without resorting to violence .",
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"movies filled with sex and violence",
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"The violence of the storm caused great fear.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Human rights observers and immigrant advocacy organizations said the policy contravened international law, putting vulnerable people at risk of higher documented rates of kidnapping, extortion and violence in the areas they were forced to wait. \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 30 June 2022",
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"But the source said there was a history of violence between the victim and the father of the child, a girl, before she was born in March. \u2014 Ed Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
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"America\u2019s Hidden War demonstrates the lasting impact of violence on the daily fabric of school children\u2019s lives. \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
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"Political violence , while rare, has recently occurred in New Zealand. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
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"Even if Alabama\u2019s prisons and jails are especially overrun by drugs, death and violence , their problems are not unique in the U.S. \u2014 al , 29 June 2022",
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"The latter, long-term and continual care, is critical for those experiencing intimate partner violence , defined by exerting perennial control. \u2014 Katie Herchenroeder, The New Republic , 29 June 2022",
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"Some alleged they were ordered to sign nondisclosure forms, and were subjected to threats and violence . \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022",
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"White said investigators have yet to determine if the woman was the intended target of Tuesday's violence or an innocent who was cut down in the crossfire. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-",
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-l\u0259ns",
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"\u02c8v\u012b-l\u0259n(t)s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"force",
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"foul play"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042216",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"violent":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": marked by the use of usually harmful or destructive physical force":[
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"a violent attack",
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"violent crime",
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"The peaceful demonstration turned violent ."
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],
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": showing or including violence":[
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"violent movies"
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],
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": extremely powerful or forceful and capable of causing damage":[
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"violent storms",
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"violent coughing"
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],
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": caused by physical force or violence : not natural":[
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"a violent death"
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],
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": emotionally agitated to the point of using harmful physical force":[
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"became violent after an insult"
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],
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": prone to commit acts of violence":[
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"violent prison inmates"
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],
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": notably forceful, furious, or vehement":[
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"a violent argument",
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"a violent denunciation"
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],
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": extreme , intense":[
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"violent pain",
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"violent colors"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-l\u0259nt"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bang-bang",
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"blood-and-guts",
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"convulsive",
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"cyclonic",
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"explosive",
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"ferocious",
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"fierce",
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"furious",
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"hammer-and-tongs",
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"hot",
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"knock-down, drag-out",
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"knock-down-and-drag-out",
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"paroxysmal",
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"rabid",
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"rough",
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"stormy",
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"tempestuous",
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"tumultuous",
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"turbulent",
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"volcanic"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"nonviolent",
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"peaceable",
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"peaceful"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"They witnessed a violent struggle between police and protesters.",
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"The peaceful protest suddenly turned violent .",
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"The city has experienced an increase in violent crime in the past year.",
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"The final scene was extremely violent .",
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"She suffered a violent death in a car accident.",
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"The patient suddenly became violent and had to be restrained.",
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"He's not a particularly violent person.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Witnessing the death of fellow students while surrounded by violent crime is a constant stressor for children. \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
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"Yes, Democrats twist themselves into knots when the subject is crime, violent crime, or criminals. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 30 June 2022",
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"Across a nation that is already in the grips of a rise in violent crime, murders are going unsolved at a historic pace, a CBS News investigation has found. \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022",
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"Other experts say the lack of both action and transparency was undermining the principal goal of the task force \u2014 to stop the epidemic of violent threats. \u2014 Michael Wines, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
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"The Post has reported an uptick in the number of violent threats against lawmakers serving on that panel, with three people involved in the Jan. 6 legislative probe saying committee members are all likely to receive a security detail. \u2014 Spencer S. Hsu, Josh Dawsey And Devlin Barrett, Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
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"The Washington Post reported Wednesday that members of the select committee saw an increase in violent threats over a period of 24 hours, and that all members of the group are likely to receive a security detail. \u2014 Ella Lee, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
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"The mother and daughter, in particular, revealed in searing detail the cost of Trump\u2019s lies about the 2020 contest on the lives of rank-and-file election workers, many of whom have described violent threats. \u2014 Amy Gardner, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
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"An Educator\u2019s School Safety Network analysis of violent threats at U.S. schools between 2018 and 2019 showed 6% involved an active shooter. \u2014 Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 June 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin violentus ; akin to Latin vis strength \u2014 more at vim":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162627"
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},
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"violently ill":{
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"type":[
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"idiom"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": so nauseated so as to cause one to vomit":[
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"He became violently ill ."
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180536"
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},
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"violentness":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the quality or state of being violent":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-192426"
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},
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"viola da gamba":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a bass member of the viol family having a range approximating the cello":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8gam-",
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"v\u0113-\u02cc\u014d-l\u0259-d\u0259-\u02c8g\u00e4m-b\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"A few years later, a high school-aged Hargis sat in on a concert by the same Collegium, not knowing her future husband, now a viola da gamba major, was playing in the group. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
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"Its roots go back to a Renaissance instrument called a viola da gamba . \u2014 Jessi Virtusio, chicagotribune.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
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"The ensemble consists of music students from Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire who play on baroque-era style instruments including harpsichord, theorbo (a type of lute), baroque violin and viola da gamba . \u2014 Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com , 23 Nov. 2021",
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"The Incarnation concert featured viola da gamba sonatas by J.S. Bach (in D major, BWV 1028) and his son Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (in C major, H. 558). \u2014 Scott Cantrell, Dallas News , 15 Sep. 2021",
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"Period instruments supplied lovely sonorities: silvery violins and viola da gamba , a wonderfully dense-toned wooden flute, mellow oboes, and trumpets that brightened the ensemble without dominating it. \u2014 Scott Cantrell, Dallas News , 19 Apr. 2021",
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"Privately, however, the artist much preferred painting bucolic landscapes\u2014a penchant reflected in his letter about the viola da gamba . \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Apr. 2021",
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"So Howard wrote music for old, hard-to-tune instruments such as the viola da gamba and cello d\u2019amore and gut-string violin. \u2014 Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times , 25 Jan. 2021",
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"They are set to music which is haunting but simple, driven by a cello and a viola da gamba . \u2014 R.l., The Economist , 27 Sep. 2019"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Italian, leg viol":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1597, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080910"
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},
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"violin":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a bowed stringed instrument having four strings tuned at intervals of a fifth and a usual range from G below middle C upward for more than 4\u00b9/\u2082 octaves and having a shallow body, shoulders at right angles to the neck, a fingerboard without frets, and a curved bridge":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccv\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8lin"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Clara taught piano, and her husband was a member of the violin section of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for 46 years. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
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"The quartet consists of Amina Knapp & Caroline Cornell, violin ; Izzi Aronin, viola; Aaron Lieberman, cello and featuring Aaron McDonald, clarinet. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 18 Apr. 2022",
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"Jonathon Heyward, guest conductor; Benjamin Beilman, violin . \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 1 Apr. 2022",
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"Kurosawa, who performs on a 20-string instrument called the koto, is joined by Emil Israel Chudnovsky ( violin ) and Yimin Miao (Chinese flute) for a program featuring classical Japanese and Chinese music. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Mar. 2022",
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"During a break in the dress rehearsal, Blomstedt had remained on the podium for several minutes, conversing with Haldan Martinson and Julianne Lee, two principals from the second- violin section. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 23 Aug. 2021",
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"On violin there\u2019s Fabienne Jean, 25, from Dorchester, and Agrippa, 22, from Brooklyn, who also sings. \u2014 Sam Trottenberg, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
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"Alongside the road near one of the many ad hoc memorials, an elderly man sat in the open hatchback of his car for hours, playing soothing music on his violin . \u2014 Elizabeth Williamson, The Atlantic , 2 June 2022",
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"Now, nearly 100 years later, the famed Le Violon d'Ingres photograph\u2014which shows Kiki\u2019s nude back overlaid with the f-holes found on a violin \u2014has sold at auction for a record-breaking $12.4 million. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 May 2022"
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from Italian violino, from viola \"viola, viol \" + -ino, diminutive suffix, going back to Latin -\u012bnus -ine entry 1":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1576, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-093157"
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"violent storm":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": storm sense 1c(1) \u2014 see Beaufort Scale Table":[]
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"pronounciation":[],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Recent hurricane seasons have produced some of the most violent storm surge in the United States with waters reaching more than 20 feet along the Gulf Coast, said NHC storm surge scientist, Cody Fritz. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 29 May 2022",
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"In Seminole, Oklahoma, the second violent storm in a week tore through the town. \u2014 Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY , 5 May 2022",
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"On May 22, 21 ultrarunners perished in the Gansu province of China during a violent storm of rain, hail, and freezing temperatures. \u2014 Will Ford, Outside Online , 4 June 2021",
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"Kentucky and Indiana residents were recovering Thursday after a violent storm ripped through the area one day earlier, part of a severe weather pattern that raged through the nation's midsection this week. \u2014 Christine Fernando, USA TODAY , 14 Apr. 2022",
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"The film centers on a young female doctor and her 6-year-old daughter, who board an overnight flight in a violent storm . \u2014 Christopher Vourlias, Variety , 4 Oct. 2021",
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"What looks at first like a Rectify-style ex-con narrative transforms into something much stranger and, as promised, spookier by the end of the premiere, when the violent storm that the islanders have been preparing for finally hits. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 20 Sep. 2021",
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"Jacob Blake was shot in the back by a white police officer on Aug. 23, 2020, setting off a deadly and violent storm of protests in Kenosha, and adding fuel to a nationwide summer of unrest over police treatment of Blacks and other people of color. \u2014 Kelli Arseneau, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Aug. 2021",
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"Dozens more were injured by the violent storm , which brought torrential rains, reports of funnel clouds and the loss of power for more than 210,000 Commonwealth Edison customers. \u2014 Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com , 28 July 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1881, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-101348"
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},
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"violescent":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": tending to a violet color":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00a6v\u012b\u0259\u00a6les\u1d4ant"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin viola violet + English -escent":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133128"
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},
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"viol":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a bowed stringed instrument chiefly of the 16th and 17th centuries made in treble, alto, tenor, and bass sizes and distinguished from members of the violin family especially in having a deep body, a flat back, sloping shoulders, usually six strings, a fretted fingerboard, and a low-arched bridge":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8v\u012b-(\u02cc)\u014dl",
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"\u02c8v\u012b(-\u0259)l"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Most of the pieces sung by Davies were arranged for viol consort by Richard Boothby, co-founder of Fretwork and one of its bass viol players. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Oct. 2019",
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"The instrumental selections were actually composed for viol consort. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Oct. 2019",
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"FRETWORK The English viol consort stops in Boston on its American tour, joined by countertenor Iestyn Davies. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Madonna, BostonGlobe.com , 5 Sep. 2019",
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"With Amelie Chemin, viol ; Thomas Boysen, theorbo; Markus Hunninger, harpsichord. \u2014 Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Mar. 2018",
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"In addition to his wife and son Laurence, a viol player and musicologist, Mr. Dreyfus is survived by a daughter, violist Karen Dreyfus; son Daniel Dreyfus; five grandchildren; and sister Ethel Tumim. \u2014 Peter Dobrin, Philly.com , 4 Aug. 2017",
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"The intimate Sunday concert at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington would have benefited from a brief introduction to the recorders and viols that played in J.S. Bach\u2019s Cantata No. \u2014 Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com , 21 June 2017"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English vial, borrowed from Anglo-French viel, viele, viole, corresponding to continental Old French viele (by suffix substitution vielle ) and viole, from a Gallo-Romance base vi-, attested earliest in Old Occitan viola, viula \"viol,\" of uncertain origin":""
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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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-160744"
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},
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"violet":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of several plants of genera other than that of the violet \u2014 compare dogtooth violet":[],
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": any of a group of colors of reddish-blue hue, low lightness, and medium saturation":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-l\u0259t",
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"\u02c8v\u012b-(\u0259-)l\u0259t"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"On the flip side, Paris was all about super saturated jewel tones, like the fuchsia winged eyes at Valentino and the shocks of violet and Yves Klein Blue at Saint Laurent. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 14 Mar. 2022",
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"Colorful facades front the streets in the capital, Angra do Heroismo, and shockingly painted -- even violet -hued -- imperios (chapels), sprinkle the verdant landscape. \u2014 Jeanine Barone, CNN , 26 May 2022",
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"On the drydown, these give way to reveal deeper notes of mint, violet , aqua, sage, tea, oakmoss, and amber. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 May 2022",
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"How about 100 feet of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet books to make your shelves look like a rainbow flag",
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"Swirling with the patchouli is a mix of mate, a bitter tea scent, clary sage, offering a softness and a lavender nuance, pink pepper for a fresh rosy spice, and the power duo of violet lead of bergamot. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022",
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"In 1949, tan replaced violet \u2013 only to be replaced by blue in 1995. \u2014 Peter Suciu, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
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"The moment called for a high drama look, and Becky found it in Raisa Vanessa\u2019s violet draped mini dress. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 24 Nov. 2021",
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"No one likes heading to the salon every few weeks, so this violet shampoo can make the time between visits last longer. \u2014 ELLE , 17 May 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, from viole \"the violet flower\" (going back to Latin viola \"any of various spring flowers, as Viola odorata, \" derivative of a base vi- of Mediterranean substratal origin, as also Greek \u00edon \"the color violet\") + -et -et entry 1":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-175809"
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},
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"violety":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": resembling or suggesting a violet color or violets":[
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"a violety odor",
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"a violety color",
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"a violety sky"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8v\u012b\u0259l\u0259\u0307t\u0113"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181724"
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},
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"violent profits":{
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": rents or profits of an estate in Scots law obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning and recoverable in process of removing at double the actual rate for urban land and at the highest possible yield for rural land":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-214739"
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},
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"violas":{
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a musical instrument of the violin family that is intermediate in size and compass between the violin and cello and is tuned a fifth below the violin":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-",
|
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"v\u0113-",
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"v\u0113-\u02c8\u014d-l\u0259",
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"v\u012b-\u02c8\u014d-l\u0259"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English, borrowed from Latin, \"violet\" \u2014 more at violet":"Noun",
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"borrowed from Italian, \"viola, viol,\" borrowed from Old Occitan viola, viula \"viol\" \u2014 more at viol":"Noun"
|
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},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1786, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-214803"
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},
|
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"viola da braccio":{
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": any bowed stringed instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries played on the shoulder: such as":[],
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": violin":[],
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": viola":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"v\u0113\u02cc\u014dl\u0259d\u0259\u02c8br\u00e4(\u02cc)ch\u014d"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Italian, arm viol":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1864, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224603"
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},
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"Viole Sordine":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a soft-toned organ stop consisting of small conical pipes that imitates a muted viol":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"v\u0113\u02c8\u014dls\u022fr\u02c8d\u0113n"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"probably modification of French viole sourdine muted viol":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235617"
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}
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